Photoshop CS5 For Dummies 1st Edition by Peter Bauer (PDF)

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The bestselling guide to the leading image-editing software, fully updatedPrevious editions of this For Dummies guide have sold more 650,000 copies. Richly illustrated in full color, this edition covers all the updates Photoshop CS5, the gold standard for image-editing programs. Used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and web designers as well as hobbyists, Photoshop has more than four million users worldwide.Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; Photoshop CS5 is packed with new functionality and enhanced toolsTeaches all the basics for first-time users, including how to work with the menus, panels, tools, options, and essential shortcutsCovers how to fix red-eye, remove blemishes and wrinkles, remove people or objects from a photo, adjust brightness, improve color, add shadows and highlights, work with Camera Raw, decrease digital noise, create composite images, use channels and masks, optimize images for the Web, and much morePhotoshop CS5 For Dummies helps both amateur and professional Photoshop users take advantage of all the program has to offer.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Learn the ins and outs of Photoshop — the fast and easy way!Whether you’re just learning Photoshop or want to take your skills up a notch, you’ve come to the right place. Photoshop expert Pete Bauer shows you how, using the latest features of Photoshop CS5. Whether you want to remove a background from a photo, adjust brightness, improve color, or fix flaws — just for starters — this book gives you the tools.Breeze through the basics — if you’re a beginner, check this section for details on how to get started, get around, and get comfortableEnhancements made easy — learn about Levels and Curves, make color look natural, work with Camera Raw, create selections, and moreWalk on the creative side — learn how to build composite images and add layer styles to turn your photo into a work of artMake your images pop — use Photoshop’s tools to adjust the tonality and create sharper, more colorful imagesPower Photoshop — unleash the capabilities of Photoshop’s advanced featuresOpen the book and find:How to get images into Photoshop and keep them organizedWhat you can do to take advantage of Camera RawTips for designing composite images by using layers and blending modesTechniques for curing red-eye, wrinkles, and moreHow to use vector paths and layer stylesSteps for automating tasks by using the Adobe Bridge Tools menuAdvice on what you need to know about HDR (High Dynamic Range) images From the Back Cover Learn the ins and outs of Photoshop — the fast and easy way!Whether you’re just learning Photoshop or want to take your skills up a notch, you’ve come to the right place. Photoshop expert Pete Bauer shows you how, using the latest features of Photoshop CS5. Whether you want to remove a background from a photo, adjust brightness, improve color, or fix flaws — just for starters — this book gives you the tools.Breeze through the basics — if you’re a beginner, check this section for details on how to get started, get around, and get comfortableEnhancements made easy — learn about Levels and Curves, make color look natural, work with Camera Raw, create selections, and moreWalk on the creative side — learn how to build composite images and add layer styles to turn your photo into a work of artMake your images pop — use Photoshop’s tools to adjust the tonality and create sharper, more colorful imagesPower Photoshop — unleash the capabilities of Photoshop’s advanced featuresOpen the book and find:How to get images into Photoshop and keep them organizedWhat you can do to take advantage of Camera RawTips for designing composite images by using layers and blending modesTechniques for curing red-eye, wrinkles, and moreHow to use vector paths and layer stylesSteps for automating tasks by using the Adobe Bridge Tools menuAdvice on what you need to know about HDR (High Dynamic Range) images About the Author Peter Bauer is an award-winning photographer and contributing writer for Photoshop User and Layers magazines. He is best known as the Help Desk Director for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and has authored or coauthored a dozen books on Photoshop, Illustrator, and photography. Read more

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

⭐This book is a very good introductory overview of the CS5 version of Photoshop. It is a wide overview of the program, aimed at a wide audience of users who are familiar with the program (or not); users who are photographers of different levels and/or designers (professional or otherwise). With a spectrum such as this, there is little choice but to only touch the surface of each program tool, feature, menu item, filter, procedure, technique, and so on. This book does so admirably.It touches on almost every subject you might like to get an introductory explanation about, gives you the basic guidelines for use, what to do (and not), options, applicable settings and choices, and helpful illustrations or screen shots on every single page. It is a manual, not a review. It doesn’t evaluate the features, only tells you how to use them.The book probably assumes this is the first time you use Photoshop and that CS 5 is your first version. It doesn’t treat “new CS 5” features separately, it simply takes you on a thorough and detailed tour of the current incarnation of Photoshop and, where something is new or changed, a yellow “new in CS 5” icon appears on the margin of the general narrative. This icon, is in addition to the usual iconography of the “for dummies” book like “warning,” “tips,” etc.As a fairly competent Photoshop user for just over ten years but a first-time owner of the “Extended” version, I found his introduction to the features and capabilities of this version to be very helpful. The book is well indexed, so I had no difficulty in locating the particular new features I wanted to learn more about. In the process, I ended up reading and learning new things about old features. I found his method of turning a photo into a line drawing much better than the one I’d been using and his sections on using tablets and his top ten tips & tricks very interesting.There is something for everyone here, which is both a plus and a minus. Whether you want to use Photoshop to make your photos the best they can be; or you want to work with text; or create special effects; or turn your photos into art or create art from scratch; start working with HDR or shooting in RAW; or perform any of the myriad functions of which Photoshop is capable this book will help you get started. It won’t go into depth into any of them. Once you know what your needs are or what you want to learn more about, you should get a book which covers your particular needs in depth and detail.Which brings me back to the first line of my review: This book is a very good introductory overview of the CS5 version of Photoshop.

⭐This book covers a considerable array of topics, perhaps too many given the size of the book. It never really seems to go into enough depth to be useful for me. Perhaps I need the “Total Dummies” version. I am completely new to using Photoshop and assumed this would be a good place to start. Unfortunately for me, I feel like I’m being left to jump the chasm between what information is presented and how much one needs to know in order for this stuff to make sense. I’ve read, re-read, and read again the parts on alpha channels and masks, and for the life of me still can’t figure it out. I’ve managed to make a few masks, but can’t understand how they work in PS and the book fails to explain this very necessary info. Masking and alphas are pretty straightforward in other compositing software I’ve used (Shake, Motion), but seem to require an inordinate amount of hoops be jumped through in a very specific order in PS and this book doesn’t even give a decent step-by-step to help one along. It gives several paragraphs to masks and alphas, but doesn’t go about explaining the procedure for using them in PS. Very frustrating.This might be a useful reference book to explain concepts, but as a learning guide it comes up short. Quite disappointed.

⭐I am a fan of the “For Dummies” books. I like how this book gives the “recipes” and explains the processes for various PS projects. The pictures are in color, which is something I appreciate. I don’t get it when photography instruction books illustrate or use black and white, coped photos. The layout and progression of subjects makes sense in this book. I would recommend it.

⭐Poorly written and skips many steps when describing how to do various things. You will quickly get lost trying to do what the book suggests. The author is apparently tired and did not take the time to actually work through each step. This book IS NOT FOR ANYONE WHO IS A NOVICE OR BEGINNER. In fact it is so poorly written I would not recommend it to anyone. A MUCH BETTER book is by Jennifer Smith and the AGI Creative Team Adobe Photoshop CS5 Digital Classroom. That may one of the best books written on this issue as you can watch the video for each chapter and then go through the chapter trying everything. In the end you will completely understand each thing that she is teaching you. Turned out to be a good review and I learned a few better workflow steps. For more advanced issues I utilize Martin Evening Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers. Don’t waste your money on this Dummies book or you will be one.

⭐Would not recommend as the Adobe book is just as detailed. If I wanted an easy book to understand Photoshop, this was not it. There is not way to easily learn Photoshop, but I do recommend taking a class.

⭐Starts with the basics, builds up.

⭐This book is not for beginners, (like me!) it doesn’t explain in detail a lot of tools and how to use them.

⭐The book was in new condition, price was great…

⭐Although these books say “for dummies” they are pretty intense! This book was rammed with information that can easily be overwhelming for someone with no experience. Am still struggling with photoshop if I’m honest lol.

⭐Excellent Book Simply Describes Using Photoshop

⭐I would highly recommend this book for anybody interested in photography.This book is for all levels not just amateurs

⭐very good read, easy to follow and learn from. this series of books are very handy and would highly recommend to anyone.

⭐I am sure it is easy to understand but has become one for the bookshelf and notes opened

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