Get the book you need to succeed in any Photoshop endeavor -- Photoshop CS3 Bible. In this totally updated edition to the international bestseller, the authors show you how to master every aspect of Photoshop -- from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with camera raw images. You'll learn how to retouch, color correct, manipulate, and combine images using Photoshop. You'll discover how to create cutting-edge special effects for digital or film-based images, and use them on the Web or in print. And you'll find out how to use the File Browser, histogram palette, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and more. The authors' easy and approachable writing style demystifies even the most complex Photoshop tasks. Order today and master Photoshop CS3.
"This book makes using Photoshop easy. I can enhance old scans and new digital images without losing their authenticity. For that, I am grateful."
— Peter Simon, photojournalist (www.petersimon.com)
The bestselling Photoshop guide just got better
Photoshop CS3 has lots of new features, and this practical guide can help. You'll learn to work with the CS3 interface and many new and improved commands — including enhanced selection tools, a more powerful Clone Stamp, new Vanishing Point capabilities, and added Animation and Timeline features. You'll also discover how to create super special effects, build great composite images, and perform true miracles with your digital and 3D images, whether they're bound for print, the Web, or handheld devices.
- Master the new workspace, from the toolbox to the palettes to the Bridge
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Correct color and lighting, restore damaged images of all kinds
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Take control of your images with selections, masks, and filters
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Bring words into your pictures and make text flow along a path
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Explore advanced topics, tricks, and specialized techniques
What's on the CD-ROM?
System Requirements: See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.
16-page color insert
Filled with breathtaking, full-color images, this special section illustrates what you can achieve with Photoshop!
Express yourself with text
Achieve special effects with Smart Filters
Import and edit 3D images
About the Author
Laurie Ulrich Fuller. Drawing and writing since she could pick up a crayon, and telling people what to do (and how to do it) since she was able to speak, Laurie Ulrich Fuller is a graphic artist, computer trainer, and the author and co-author of more than 25 books on computers, software, and the Web. Laurie has written hundreds of training manuals for universities and corporate training centers, and in the past 16 years, she’s personally trained thousands of people to make more creative and effective use of their computers. Her classroom has expanded in recent years to include total strangers around the world — through CD-based training products and online courses.
In the early 1990s, after spending way too many years working for other people, Laurie started her own firm, Limehat & Company. This venture allowed her to put her experience, ideas, and contacts to good use, providing consulting, training, Web development, and Web hosting services with a focus on the special needs of growing companies and non-profit organizations. If you’re wondering where the name “Limehat” came from, it’s a long story, but suffice to say it goes back to a childhood taunt, regarding a plaid hat she involuntarily wore to school. She still gets flashbacks.
Robert C. Fuller. Another year, another Photoshop update. True to form, Mr. Fuller still shuns the daylight, but just like the last time around, it took only a shiny new iMac to bring him up from the basement. While the rejuvenating effects of last year’s run-in with the eMac did not have longstanding positive effects on his mental health, at least this year he’s been speaking in complete sentences. “I really like this iMac” is all we’ve heard out of him, but at least he’s smiling and the faceless apparitions don’t seem to plague him as much.