Product Description
Are you anxious to get started with the new release of Photoshop? If you learn best visually, then you’ll love the updated and expanded coverage found in this tutorial.

* Full-color throughout, this book offers newly revised design features that allow for larger screen shots for better navigation and a more detailed look at each tasks’ step-by-step instructions
* Packed with additional pages and expanded coverage of cool new tasks for you to accomplish
* An approachable teaching style makes Photoshop CS4 accessible for beginners and instructs visual learners of how to put this application to work for them
* Covers the most important features of Photoshop, including importing photos from a digital camera, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, adding custom 3D effects, and editing images for posting on the Web
* Walks you through creating a Web photo gallery, incorporating graphics into desktop publishing programs, using palettes and layers, compositing, applying gradients, and setting type and filters

From the Back Cover

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 145 PhotoshopCS4 tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Photoshop CS4 in no time.

You'll learn to:

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Browse, sort, and filter in Bridge
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Use all the Photoshop tools
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Slice, scale, or rotate selections
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Adjust colors and work with layers
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Add and manipulate type
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Save images as GIF, PNG, or JPEG
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Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
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Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
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Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
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Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

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Product Details

* Paperback: 336 pages
* Publisher: Visual; illustrated edition edition (December 22, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0470339470
* ISBN-13: 978-0470339473
* Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches