Photoshop CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies 1st Edition by Barbara Obermeier (PDF)

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Brace yourself—this For Dummies guide is in full, dazzling color! That way you can see how you can lighten, brighten, blur, sharpen, or even age your digital images with Photoshop CS2. Chances are you have Photoshop CS2 and have explored it enough to know that you need a good guide to make the most of all its capabilities and get up to speed fast. Odds are you’ve experimented with some photos and spent hours tweaking them. Maybe you’re a veteran and used Photoshop CS2 to turn the gray sky to blue in a resort photo or to brighten the CEO’s smile. Maybe you’re a novice and gleefully extracted your ex from old photos and gave yourself a flattering mini-makeover at the same time. Maybe you used it to remove a scratch from a treasured family photo. Regardless, you probably haven’t scratched the surface. Photoshop CS2 gives you so many options and tools for digital image creation, correction, and enhancement that even experienced pros can discover new techniques and shortcuts. With explanations for working on a PC or a Mac, Photoshop CS2 All-In-One desk Reference For Dummies is your complete resource that: Combines nine minibooks: (1) Photoshop Fundamentals (2) Image Essentials (3) Selections (4) Painting, Drawing, and Typing (5) Working with Layers (6) Channels and Masks (7) Filters and Distortions (8) Retouching and Restoration (9) Photoshop and Print Has more than 650 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations Is in glorious, full color, with all kinds of photographs and examples Has tons of screen shots so you’ll know exactly what to look for on your screen Provides a tear out Cheat Sheet that’s your instant reference for finding your way around Photoshop CS2, accessing the tools palette through shortcuts, and making selections Gets you up to speed on the new Adobe Bridge that lets you view, search, and organize your files, edit Camera Raw files, search for and purchase royalty-free stock photography, synchronize color settings, and more Introduces you to the 58 tools in the Tools palette, from the Pen to the Eraser… the Spot Healing Brush to the Burn…the Clone Stamp to the Red Eye Explains how to work with Vanishing Point—the new feature that lets you edit three dimensionally on a two-dimension image Features special Putting-It-Together exercises that walk you through numbered steps to show you how to do various tasks such as getting the red out of eyes, making and fine-tuning a collage, and more; images on the book’s companion Web site let you follow along

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover 9 books in 1 — your key to fantastic Photoshop results! Your one-stop, full-color guide to image editing successPhotoshop has become the industry standard because it’s really that good. But it’s also that big. Dividing all that information into nine handy minibooks lets you find what you want when you want it — whether it’s choosing resolution and file format; using the new Spot Healing Brush; working with layers, channels, and masks; or preparing images for print.Discover how toOrganize files with Adobe BridgeSave time with presetsNeutralize red eyes with the one-click red eye correction toolSelect complex shapes easilyRepair flaws and imperfectionsCreate collages with text and pictures About the Author Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She’s the author of Photoshop Album For Dummies, coauthor of Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated, Photoshop 7 For Dummies, and Illustrator 10 For Dummies. She has contributed as coauthor, technical editor, or layout designer for numerous books. Barb also teaches computer graphics at Brooks Institute; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Ventura College.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This Photoshop book claims to be 9 books in 1. That may be, but they should have added a tenth to this compilation. There is absolutely nothing in the book about one of Photoshop’s most powerful programs: Camera Raw.I consider this to be a major flaw for this book. There is even a 300 page book on the market that deals just with Camera Raw (Real World Camera Raw with Photoshop CS2 by Bruce Fraser). If you are just using an inexpensive camera that only uses jpeg or perhaps tiff files then you can’t use the Raw program. I would assume, however, that if you are shelling out $500+ for Photoshop you are probably using a decent camera that utilizes Raw files. The Raw program is an amazing program within Photoshop that lets you make numerous adjustments and corrections to your pictures before they are opened into the basic Photoshop program. It’s a fascinating program, and you are missing an awful lot if you are not incorporating it into your photograph work flow.So for many enthusiasts this definitely cannot be the only book you buy, unless, of course, you find the Adobe manual a sufficient resource for you.As other reviewers have indicated the tutorials in the book are generally well written, and the author usually tells you the purpose of each step in a process.I find one other weakness in the book, and that is a lack of an accompanying CD of pictures used in the text. There are about 5 pictures that can be downloaded from the website, but this is a minimal amount. It has always been most useful to me to learn by working on the exact pictures used in the text instructions. This would seem especially useful to those who are new to photoshop. There are several excellent books on the market that include a CD or have downloadable pics – for example, Katrin Eisman’s book Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, 3rd edition, has over 100 megabytes of downloadable pics that are used in the text

⭐Great helper

⭐Product was excellent and the seller was prompt.

⭐for the wife

⭐Excellent book, great detail with tons of pictures. So much information to take in, I did small lessons with the projects. Amazing what the book reveals about what this program can do. Not difficult to read or follow. After a few hours I was making amazing edits with my pictures.

⭐GREAT

⭐I’m pleased with my book and would recommend to anyone interested in photography, I’ve wanted this book for quite sometime now I have

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⭐For the technically challenged me who is not ready or willing to pay for a photoshop subscription, I am perfectly to happy to use the free CS2 to learn on so when I saw this, I just had to have it.

⭐Good

⭐this book does explain methods of using Photoshop for those with limited knowledge – I love the Dummies series and would recommend

⭐Easier to use the internet, the book had its day

⭐Exactly what i needed. It gotme off to a good start

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