Photoshop CS2 Visual Encyclopedia

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
• Published by: Visual January 18, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764598600
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764598609
• Book Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 3.2 pounds

Product Review
"…if you want a wide-ranging overview of what Photoshop offer, this is the ideal read." (Photoshop Creative, September 2006)

Product Description
If you prefer to see what things look like and how to perform a task, instead of just being told, this is your ideal A to Z reference. Part I shows every Photoshop CS2 tool and how to use it. Part II provides step-by-step instructions for more than 130 key tasks and techniques. Both are arranged alphabetically and illustrated in full color. It's the ultimate Visual resource - you'll see!
* Each tool and technique illustrated in color
* Alphabetical listings for easy reference
* Step-by-step instructions for performing dozens of tasks
* A comprehensive guide for visual learners

A Visual guide to
* Identifying and using each Photoshop CS2 tool
* Fine-tuning color, brightness, contrast, and exposure
* Automating various image adjustments
* Converting bitmaps to halftones or RBGs to CMYKs
* Applying more than 15 different filters
* Working with type in illustration

Reader Reviews
Most computer books are either a reference guide in a dictionary like alphabetical format, or else they are a tutorial where they start with a blank screen and tell you to do this, do that until you have used most of the functions avaiable in the software package. This book is different, an interesting and useful combination of the reference format and the tutorial format. Basically it is a reference book, but then each subject is treated in tutorial format. The book is broken into two major parts: tools (about one third of the book) and techniques. Within each part it is arranged alphabetically: A - Annotations: Attach a Note B - Background Color - Blur Tool - Burn Tool and so on. Reading the table of contents will give you a pretty good idea of what's included in the book, and then you can go to the particular entry as you need to do something. This is a format that works for me. As the Visual Books tag line says: 'Read Less - Learn More.' Sooner or later you will have read about and used all the tools and techniques, and it's almost painless to learn what you need as you need it.