Photoshop CS4: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

Photoshop CS4: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks | Pdf | 35 Mb

You already know Photoshop CS4 basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Photoshop CS4.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 A-Z

Adobe Photoshop CS3 A-Z: Tools and Features Illustrated Ready Reference by Philip Andrews

Photoshop users of all levels need access to the crucial information in a flash. Techniques books provide the step-by-step instructions and how-to advice but this easy to navigate, dip-into guide provides quick answers to the inevitable 'what does that do?' questions that all too often bring progress to a grinding halt. The full colour A to Z format covers hundreds of tools, features and menu options clearly and succinctly, with cross-references to related topics, screen shots and illustrative examples to help things fall into place. A new techniques section delves deeper into key areas, providing more instruction on essential tasks in an easy, step-by-step format. Fully updated with new CS3 features throughout, this is the Photoshop desk reference to adorn every digital image-maker's shelf.
* Intuitive A to Z format and clear, concise definitions make this the ideal desk reference guide to Photoshop's multitude of tools, options and features.
* Find the explanations, answers and practical advice you need to quickly get on with the task in hand - don't waste time looking anywhere else!
* Fully updated for CS3, with source images from the book and supporting tutorials provided on the accompanying website: www.photoshop-a-z.com.

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The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book

Richard Lynch "The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book: Harnessing Photoshop’s most powerful tool" Feb 2009 English ISBN-13: 978-0-240-52155-8 320 Pages PDF 15.6 MB

MasterPhotoshop CS4 with this visual, hands-on guide to using layers, under the expert guidance of digital imaging specialist Richard Lynch. Layers, Photoshop's most powerful feature, is the core of a nondestructive image-editing workflow.
Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to.

• Polish: correct and enhance color, fix composition problems, and repair damage or flaws
• Manipulate: isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts
• Understand: use all forms of layer blending, including transparency, clipping masks, opacity/fill, layer masks, layer modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and Effects/Styles
  This focused, highly accurate, comprehensive, and practical guide offers invaluable advice for all users of Adobe Photoshop CS4.
• Unleash the full power of Layers in Photoshop for limitless non-destructive creative image editing* Step-by-step real-life projects take you through every aspect of the layers tool, including masking, blending, and modes, all in the context of a practical photoshop workflow.
  

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Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers

Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers | Pdf in Rar file | 18,6 Mb

Product Description
Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers details the features of Photoshop CS3 and explains how to utilize the software in print facilities. This book takes you through the process step-by-step with a number of projects relating specifically to the needs of screen printers that range from configuring settings and creating custom background colors to building images with layers and colorizing images.

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Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks

Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks
New Riders Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0321563174 | 360 pages | PDF | 64,2 MB

Product Description
UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE HOTTEST TRICKS, AND MOST REQUESTED PHOTOSHOP EFFECTS IN ONE AMAZING BOOK!

Scott Kelby, co-host of Photoshop User TV and the world’s #1 bestselling Photoshop author, is back to unlock the secrets of an amazing new collection of the latest eye-popping, jaw-dropping, Photoshop special effects—the same kind that made Scott’s previous editions of this book one of the top selling Photoshop books in history.

You’ll learn some of the most closely guarded Photoshop CS4 special effects—the same ones you see on TV, in magazines, and on the Web. Using Scott’s simple step-by-step method, with hundreds of full-color images, you’ll see exactly how it’s all done. The book is written so clearly, and it is so easy to follow, you’ll immediately be able to create all of these effects yourself. You’ll learn:

• The latest photographic special effects
• How to fake studio shots (you’ll be amazed at how it’s done)
• The latest cutting-edge type effects
• The most popular effects used by big movie studios
• The most-requested advertising effects
• Commercial effects that clients go crazy over!
• The most asked-for current Web effects
• Amazing 3D effects using Photoshop Extended
• Plus loads of effects that look hard, but are easy once you know the secrets

And not only that, but the whole book is packed with creative ideas, layouts, and design techniques that will help you unleash your own creativity. It’s all here, in the only Photoshop book of its kind. You're gonna love it!

About the Author
Scott Kelby is president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), the trade organization for Adobe Photoshop users, which has 70,000 members worldwide. Scott is also Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine. He's the co-host of the highly acclaimed Photoshop User TV, and teaches photography and imaging workshops around the world. Scott serves as training director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and is the technical chair of the largest Photoshop gathering, Photoshop World.

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Gnomon Workshop: Photo Retouching in Adobe Photoshop

Gnomon Workshop: Photo Retouching in Adobe Photoshop [Tutorial] | 570 MB |

Trainer: Meghan FARRELL | Product Code: MFA01 | 157 Minutes of Lecture | For Windows and Mac

With this DVD you will learn the step-by-step process of using Adobe Photoshop® retouching techniques to transform and prepare images for production level commercial photography. Meghan Farrell will walk you through the steps of retouching a fashion shoot as a basis for learning the primary skill sets to make skin and hair look flawless without looking artificial. You will learn how to retouch and maintain natural skin, hair and hands and reshape the body. You’ll be introduced to indispensable methods of using adjustment layers, layer masks and color correction. The techniques demonstrated in this DVD will help you retouch like a professional, whether working on your own images or for those of a client. The cutting edge techniques demonstrated in this DVD will help you stand out when seeking work in this fast-paced industry.
1. SETTING PREFERENCES
We begin by establishing some basic Photoshop® settings to allow us to work more fluently once we get started.
2. COLOR CORRECTING
Working with adjustment layers and masks is really the only way to color correct images in the professional setting. Having a st rong knowledge of how to use masks quickly will be one of your strongest assets when working in the world of photographic retouching.
3. SKIN RETOUCHING
Using the healing brush and the clone stamp set at various dark/light settings is your best bet for fast touch ups. We are going to be focusing a lot on skin. Remove any large blemishes first and then focus on balancing tone.
4. KEEPING SKIN NATURAL
For a flawless yet naturally textured look, the burn and dodge tool is the only way to go. Star t by burning in the areas that are too light and dodging out the areas that are too dark unt il the skin is a balanced neutral tone. This goes for zoomed in as well as zoomed out.
5. EYES AND SURROUNDING AREA
Use the dodge and burn, clone and healing brush tool to clean up, reshape and sculpt the eye area. Emphasizing the iris and pupil will create a more dramatic look. Always remove the red from the eye whites, but don’t “white-out” the whites, keep the ball of the eye looking spherical.
6. HAIR AND MORE
Using the brush tool set to a low opacity is great for painting in hair strands. Use the clone stamp or copy and paste method for larger areas of hair. Be sure to match the surrounding areas of hair for color, density and sharpness so nothing stands out as unnatural.
7. REVIEWING SKIN TECHNIQUES
On our second image we will review some of the basics learned in the previous chapters for natural skin clean up.
8. SKIN FOLDS
Skin folds include anything from armpits to hand creases. In this chapter I’ll go over how to smooth and refine the armpit area to create a very natural subtle armpit line. Remember to keep your lines straight and apply the basic skin techniques to the surrounding armpit area.
9. REMOVING OBJECTS FROM THE BACKGROUND
Once you have removed the object from the background, focus on rebuilding that background so it blends in with the rest of the image. Keep your lines straight. Pay special attention to where tones change and fade into each other. Using the clone tool set to a medium opacity will help you achieve natural looking results.
10. HANDS AND HAIR REVIEW
Even well manicured hands can look rough once photographed, so pay special attention to fingernails, cuticles, knuckles and veins. Clone stamp set to lighten will give you natural looking knuckles.
11. BODY MORPHING
Using the Liquify filter opens up a new world of possibilities. Learn here how to gently reshape a figure for natural results. Liquify is also a great asset for smoothing lines close-up and can be used on the image as a whole or on selected areas.
12. INTENSIFYING OBJECTS AND SHAPES
Using special techniques to intensify objects gives directors that “POP!” they are looking for.
13. CHANGING COLORS OF SELECTED AREAS
Sometimes you may need to change the color of an object in an advertisement, especially if the ad is for something that comes in more than one color. Having a good understanding of adjustment layers is essential.

About the Instructor:
Meghan Paddock Farrell received a BFA in Photography from Rhode Island College. Her understanding of the color darkroom process as well as her background in fine art informs her ability to accurately manipulate color, capture the 3D human form and translate these through lighting effects into the 2D space. As the Senior Retoucher at the publishing house of Weider Publications, she oversaw, enhanced and brought tens of thousands of images to a production level, print-ready, status. Her work has been published in hundreds of magazines including Glamour, Allure, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Shape Magazine as well as many more domestic and international titles and advertisements. She has also worked as retoucher at Getty Images, SuperColor Hollywood, and for notable fashion photographers Guilano Bekor, Norman Jean Roy and Ondrea Barbe. Currently she works as an independent contractor for several advertisers and publications including OPI, VIV and others.

The Minimum System Requirements are:
1GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
5 GB of hard disk space
1280 x 1024 display

The Minimum Operating System Requirements are:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2

This DVD-ROM also requires the Quicktime Movie Player (Version 5.0.5 or higher), and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents.

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