Photoshop 6 Shop Manual

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 1070 pages
• Published by: New Riders Publishing
• Edition: 1st Edition August 3, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0735711305
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735711303
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Weighs: 2.9 pounds

Book Description
Designed to be a complete guide to the tools and techniques of Photoshop up through Photoshop 6, Photoshop 6 Shop Manual: Tools and Techniques will help you make the most of your strengths and overcome your weaknesses, within the context of an actual, field tested manual. Written from the trenches, it covers hundreds of tools, techniques and best practices, even experts will be surprised by the breadth and attention to detail. In addition to outlining the correct use of a particular tool, each element focuses on when and why readers need to use the tool, its common problems and how to avoid them.

About The Author


Donnie O'Quinn wears the hard-won badge of honor of someone from the trenches who knows how graphics programs really work. He has worked in almost every capacity in the graphics industry and is a recognized graphics consultant. In addition, he is an outstanding author and trainer. He began on-site training which is described as "hands-down the best pre-press training in the Northeast," by Printing Industries of New England. He has a top-notch reputation in the digital art field with a client-list that includes Apple Computer, MetaCreations, and MacUser magazine. He has worked with designers, printers and service providers and has worked the field as a consultant, color specialist, output technician, Web developer, trainer, and art director. He has hard-earned experience in almost every aspect of the graphics field and knows the requirements of graphics professionals inside and out.

Reader Reviews
Do you know the meaning of every one of the zillion commands found in Photoshop? No, I thought not. When you want to find out the difference between random or level-based methods in the Extrude Dialog Box, can you immediately turn to that topic in one of your Photoshop Books? The Photoshop 6 Shop Manual is an astounding and necessary volume for a Photoshop library. This encyclopedia lists every command, tool, dialog box, and option found in Photoshop. It lists them, and then describes their usage along with issues to consider in their use and mistakes to avoid. This material uses up the first 700 pages of the book. Next we come upon 230 pages containing 170 techniques which include such things as: correcting fleshtones; colorizing with duotone mode; and evaluating shadows and highlights. Wait, we're not finished yet. The next section contains 23 pages of keyboard shortcuts. I'm used to some small two-sided cardboard list of the shortcuts. I never dreamed there were this many. Next there are 15 pages of color plate, followed by an immense index of topics, and an issue index. A couple of years ago I purchase a book for Photoshop 5 titled "Photoshop in a Nutshell" which pretty much followed the same format. I was disappointed that a version for version 6 never appeared. When I got the Photoshop 6 Shop Manual home I noted that it is by the same author as the Nutshell book. It?s essentially the same book only updated, and with a new title and publisher. Its size is also bigger, going from 632 pages to 1074 pages. If you use Photoshop you simply must have this book...