From the Publisher
This full-color Visual QuickStart Guide is a more advanced
companion volume to the best-selling Photoshop CS4 Visual
QuickStart Guide from the same authors. This book takes designers
and photographers beyond the basics with more focused tasks that
are written in greater depth. For instructors this Visual
QuickStart guide provides more advanced tutorials for students who
need to master Photoshop, and can be a real time-saver for
developing curriculum.
Best-selling authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas cover many
key areas in Photoshop, including: 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.
About the Author
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.