Every Tool Explained. There are 130 pages which are full of knowhow, projects and tips on how to use Photoshop easily and how to get the best out of one of the best photo imaging programs out there.
Subjects covered in the book include:
Selection Tools in Photoshop:
Navigating and Editing Your Images
Using the Brushes and Pencil Tools
Using the Cloning and Healing Tools
The Gradient, Eraser and Fill Tools
Getting to Know the Effects Tools
Working with the Type Tool
Working with Paths, Vectors and Masks
Annotations, Notes and the Measure Tool
Creating Top Quality Artwork
Table of Contents: I. Working Fundamentals of Premiere Pro
1. New Workspaces + Setting Up
2. Digitizing your Media
3. Organizing your Project
4. Playing Back and Viewing your Media
5. The Timeline Window
6. The Editing Workflow
7. Transition Basics
8. Effect Basics
9. Audio Basics
10. Titling Basics
11. DVD Basics
12. Using Bridge in the Production Studio
II. Advanced Graphics and Titling
13. Working with Layered PSDs: Nesting & Animating
14. Working with Stills: Motion and Advanced Keyframing
15. Advanced Titles and Styles and Templates
16. Custom DVD Design
III. Advanced Audio Techniques
17. Using your Audio Hardware
18. Recording and Editing a Voiceover
19. Audio Clip and Track Effects
20. Mixing and Exporting your Audio
21. Advanced Audio Cleaning
V. Advanced Effect Techniques
22. New Color Correction Tools
23. Advanced Color Correction: Matching & Secondary
24. Track Mattes + PiPs
25. New Photoshop Filters
IV. Advanced Editing + Professional Workflows
26. Advanced Editing: Creating your Cut
27. Advanced Editing: The New Multi-Cam Workflow
28. Advanced Editing: Exporting Clip Notes, EDLs and Using the Project Manager
29. Professional Workflows: Editing HDV and Desktop DI
30. Professional Workflows: Editing HD
By: Chris Tull Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Price in Stores: $29.95
Book Description:
Web Designer’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop covers these topics and more. A
one-stop source of web-specific production methods necessary to create
well-designed, functional, and aesthetically pleasing web pages, this
book provides readers with real how-to information on web design. You’ll
learn to build buttons, logos, web headers, and other web graphics, pull
them into a web editing program, and even go live with your masterpiece.
Whether you goal is to expand your professional skills or simply handle
your local club’s web site, Web Designer’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop will
help you create web pages and get them working properly.
Synopsis:
A one-stop source of production methods necessary to create well-designed,
functional, and aesthetically pleasing Web pages, this book provides users
with how-to information to expand their skills and ensure that viewers can
load the Web page easily, regardless of computer, operating system, or
connectivity speed.
Product Details:
ISBN: 1598220012
Author: Tull, Chris
Publisher: Wordware Publishing
Author: Tull, Chris
Subject: Computer Graphics - Photoshop, Internet - Web Site Design, Computer graphics, Design
Series: Wordware Applications Library
Publication Date: January 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrations: Y
Dimensions: 9.06×6.12x.56 in. .81 lbs.
If you just stumbled into design, maybe via a hobby that grew into a career, and you want to improve your work without having to enroll in a degreeprogram, this book can bridge some of the gaps in your acumen. Not really a primer on basic facts, Design Workshop is more like a guide to style.
The first chapter quizzes readers on mostly technical, basic details of design (like dpi), all of which can be found in Williams"s previous publications (for example, The Non-Designer"s Design Book). Readers will be dismayed, possibly annoyed, that the quiz answers are not provided. Even if not knowing the answers means that you need remedial help, it feels like a bit of a tease.
The next chapters show how to use stock images, or your own images, to increase the visual impact of your piece (basically through an increase in contrast). The best part of this section, and the book as a whole, is the "before-and-after" approach in the examples; they"re like a series of makeovers. The captions effectively describe what was changed in the image, and how it improved the design.
The book applies a similar set of makeovers to various types of design projects: logos, forms, newsletters, tables of contents, etc. In the final section, seven designers, including coauthor Tollett, break down the process that they went through on a job of their own.
Self-taught graphic designers probably would make the best audience for this book, but designers who are of their own "school of thought" might find fault with some of the tenets that are put forth. Graphic design by nature is a subjective enterprise–at the mercy of "styles." What you get in this book is more of a "desktop-publisher style" (many of the drawings are clip art, for example).
There"s a lack of sophistication in the design of the book, as well as in the illustrations of posters, letterheads, advertisements, and other applications that are used as examples. On the other hand, this same open, naive look gives the book an inviting appeal, and makes it perhaps a bit less daunting than style guides, such as Robert Bringhurst"s The Elements of Typographic Style, that are intended for die-hard professionals.
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* Manage your work more efficiently with Actions, Batch processing, and the new Adobe Bridge
* Master complex filter techniques and create your own custom filter
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Logos are among designers? most highly sought-after projects, but they are often one of the most difficult projects for a designer to nail. This book takes a look at those challenges?the logos that have truly pushed a designer?s creativity and forced him or her to reach inside. The authors examine 180 logos, making it easy for designers to take away insightful tips they can put to work immediately. The author tracks the lifecycle of each logo from its challenge through the process to the final result. Scattered throughout the book are sidebars featuring 15 logos that were made over. The author talks about why the makeover was needed and, with the before and after logos side by side, discusses if the re-do was successful. Color images throughout that show the logos from conceptual stages to final art make this book an at-a-glance reference for anyone?designer or entrepreneur?who wants to take an active role in the creation of his or her brand mark.
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If you just stumbled into design, maybe via a hobby that grew into a career, and you want to improve your work without having to enroll in a degreeprogram, this book can bridge some of the gaps in your acumen. Not really a primer on basic facts, Design Workshop is more like a guide to style. 
This Creative Suite Premium Bundle will enable you to fully utilize the ultimate tool for creative and rint professionals, offering a complete design and publishing solution for both print and the Web. This workflowtraining series in conjunction with Adobe® creative software expert and professional designer, Steve Holmes, will help you take advantage of all the synergies in this incredible offering. It combines the latest full versions of some of the industry"s most advanced software (Adobe® Photoshop® CS, Illustrator® CS, InDesign® CS, GoLive® CS, and Acrobat® 6.0). This series is a necessity for anyone who wants to create and publish professional-level work with unprecedented efficiency.
You already know your way around Photoshop. You want to focus on creative expression, and that’s what you’ll find in this streamlined, lavishly illustrated volume. A Photoshop Hall of Fame inductee, a master trainer, and a Webgraphics expert have collected the most important Photoshop CS2 techniques, tips, and twists to share with you-along with their enthusiasm and experience. Completely and painstakingly updated for CS2, this is truly the ultimate professional guide. 
Logos are among designers? most highly sought-after projects, but they are often one of the most difficult projects for a designer to nail. This book takes a look at those challenges?the logos that have truly pushed a designer?s creativity and forced him or her to reach inside. The authors examine 180 logos, making it easy for designers to take away insightful tips they can put to work immediately. The author tracks the lifecycle of each logo from its challenge through the process to the final result. Scattered throughout the book are sidebars featuring 15 logos that were made over. The author talks about why the makeover was needed and, with the before and after logos side by side, discusses if the re-do was successful. Color images throughout that show the logos from conceptual stages to final art make this book an at-a-glance reference for anyone?designer or entrepreneur?who wants to take an active role in the creation of his or her brand mark.
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