Brace yourselfโthis 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 youโve experimented with some photos and spent hours tweaking them. Maybe youโre a veteran and used Photoshop CS2 to turn the gray sky to blue in a resort photo or to brighten the CEOโs smile. Maybe youโre 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 havenโt 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 youโll know exactly what to look for on your screen
- Provides a tear out Cheat Sheet thatโs 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 Eraserโฆ the Spot Healing Brush to the Burnโฆthe Clone Stamp to the Red Eye
- Explains how to work with Vanishing Pointโthe 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 bookโs companion Web site let you follow along