How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS2 (How to Do Everything)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Edition: 2nd Edition May 12, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0072261609
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072261608
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Description
In this full-color, easy-to-use book, award-winning designer and best-selling author Colin Smith teaches the basics of Photoshop then covers the more advanced features the software has to offer. Learn to use traditional drawing and painting tools ranging from pencils to airbrushes, then discover how to add and manipulate text, retouch photos, create special effects, and more. The techniques professional artists apply to their work are revealed in a special "Behind the Scenes" section.

Back Cover Copy


Maximize all the features Photoshop has to offer with help from this full-color guide. Award-winning designer Colin Smith shows you how to create, edit, and enhance sophisticated images and feature-rich web pages using this powerful graphics tool. You’ll learn to use all of Photoshop’s painting and drawing tools, fix and retouch photos, add special effects, print high-quality images, and much more. A bonus “Behind the Scenes” gallery demonstrates the Photoshop techniques used by professional artists.

• Manage the interface, toolbar, palettes, options, and preferences
• Import, place, organize, and size images and adjust resolution
• Edit, repair, retouch, and organize digital photographs
• Draw and paint with the built-in tools
• Create and manipulate text
• Use and manage multiple layers
• Create a variety of colors using channels
• Automate tasks using tool presets, actions, droplets, and other methods
• Create bevels, sheens, shadows, and other special effects
• Use ImageReady to create Web graphics
• Set up your Photoshop file for high quality printing

About the author: Colin Smith is an award-winning graphic designer and author or co-author of 11 graphic design books including Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration. He is also founder and publisher of the #1 resource site for Photoshop users, photoshopcafe.com.

Reader Reviews
How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS2 is an excellent resource book for users of all levels ranging from the beginner to the advanced. It covers not only the new features of Photoshop but everything before CS2. If you're new to Photoshop this will be the perfect bible for your learning and if you're an advanced user I guarantee that you will find things that you did not know or have forgotten. The hands on, project oriented approach is engaging and allows the reader to turn out pro level projects of their own. The content is visually appealing, well organized and easy to read. As a web designer/developer and educator, I highly recommend this book.