Using professionally designed projects (and a DVD crammed with project files), the latest edition of this bestselling encyclopedia of Photoshop explores all of the application's most important features, including those new to both Photoshop and Photoshop Extended CS3 and CS4.
A worldwide bestseller! Full color throughout, this book shows exactly how professional artists employ Photoshop 3 to manipulate scanned images and create an astonishing array of special effects. Each chapter deconstructs an actual piece of art, showing step by step how it was created. Most examples were created for real-world commercial uses. There's also a section showing the effect of scores of filters from Adobe, Aldus, HSC, and other vendors. The companion CD contains Photo CD images and a variety of filters and utilities.
Learn creative, practical, timesaving techniques for Web graphics, illustration, photo manipulation, and special effects with The Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book. This updated edition of the award-winning bestseller features real-world examples from artists and designers of the kind of stunning, professional, full-color artwork you want to produce, and provides clear, step-by-step instructions for applying these techniques to your own projects. The Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book covers the new Extract command for difficult-to-select subjects and shows you how to use ImageReady 2 to create rollovers, animated GIFs, and sliced images for speedy, high-quality Web graphics. You'll also learn how to apply Layer Effects and get the most from "live" type. The book thoroughly explains the History palette and how to use it to perform multiple undos, new painting techniques with the Impressionist History and Art History brushes, and fast and flexible image-editing. The CD-ROM contains "before and after" tutorial files for the techniques in the book, with all layers and channels intact, as well as copy-and-paste Wow! Layer Effects, custom Actions, filters, and demos.
„Übersichtlich, verständlich und treffend übersetzt, zweckmäßig aber schön gestaltet, gut gegliedert, durchgängig farbig, das sind nur einige der Vorzüge dieser herausragenden Publikation.“
