Download or read book Photoshop CS2 All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by Barbara Obermeier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Photoshop CS All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by Barbara Obermeier and published by For Dummies. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete For Dummies Photoshop resource-ten minibooks with more than 800 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations Covers Photoshop fundamentals, image essentials, selections, painting, drawing and typing, working with layers, channels and masks, filters and distortions, retouching and restoration, Photoshop and the Web, and Photoshop and print Explains how to create and manage layers, use channels and masks, make corrections with filters, fix flaws and imperfections, and much more Updated and revised throughout for Photoshop "X," which Adobe expects to release in Fall 2003 Features sixteen pages of full-color examples Written by veteran For Dummies author Barbara Obermeier, a leading design and graphics author

Download or read book Office 2007 All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by Peter Weverka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated to cover changes to all of Office's applications and productivity tools Offers beyond-the-basics coverage of Office word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, databases, and desktop publishing Covers Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, productivity tools such as Microsoft OneNote, and SharePoint Thoroughly updated to cover the new Office interface as well as new features in each application

Download or read book Digital Photography All in One Desk Reference For Dummies written by David D. Busch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 books in 1 - your key to terrific digital photos! Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow" From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here's what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more. Discover how to Choose the right camera and software Compose and shoot great pictures Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Scan old prints and repair them Print your photos or share them online

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