Photoshop CS4, Volume 2 Visual QuickStart Guide

This intermediate to advanced level guide takes up where the Photoshop CS4: Visual QuickStart leaves off.- Clear and succinct text, copious screen shots (in full color), and step-by-step instructions allow readers to get up and running fast.- Loaded with tips and techniques gleaned from noted authors real-world Photoshop experience.- Streamlined to focus on features of most interest to intermediate to advanced level Photoshop users. This full-color Visual QuickPro Guide is a more advanced companion volume to the best-selling Photoshop CS4 Visual QuickStart Guide, from the same authors. This book takes the reader beyond the general and broad over view of Photoshop provided by the Visual QuickStart Guide, offering more focused tasks written in greater depth to help the reader master intermediate skills. The Visual QuickPro Guide provides instructors with the more advanced tutorials that students need in order to master Photoshop, and which can prove to be a real time-saver for any teacher. In the Visual QuickPro Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas cover many key areas in Photoshop that an intermediate user needs to know: a variety of methods for creating complex selections; specific steps to improve tone and color; in-depth tasks for retouching portraits; a closer look at combining images into composites; thorough coverage of Camera Raw 5.2; detailed steps for improving sharpening; creative use of tinting; applying fine art touches to an image; and steps for creative type treatments. Also included are sections on paths and shapes as well as actions, material best geared to intermediate readers

Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas have also written, designed, and illustrated Visual QuickStart Guides to Adobe Illustrator and QuarkXPress. Their books have been translated into 24 languages and have sold more than 2.25 million copies worldwide. They have also taught at Pratt Manhattan, the Cooper Union School of Art, the New School Computer Instruction Center, and the Parsons School of Design.

1. Color Management
2. Using Bridge
3. Camera Raw
4. Using Photoshop
5. Selecting & Masking
6. Color & Tonal Corrections
7. Retouching Portraits
8. Combining Images
9. Sharpening
10. Tinting & Blending
11. Fine Art Media
12. Creative Type
13. Actions
14. Output for Print & Web