Adobe Photoshop Cs3 Classroom in a Book

by Adobe Creative Team (Contributor)

This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Photoshop CS3--written by the experts at Adobe Systems' is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Photoshop concepts and techniques, while readers who already have some experience with Photoshop can use this book to learn Photoshop CS3's more advanced features and newest tools. Using clear, step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a specific project, with each chapter building on the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills learned in each lesson. Photoshop CS3, long the industry standard for digital imaging software, offers plenty of new features and enhancements for creative professionals and digital photographers alike. Users can enjoy unrivaled editing with non-destructive Smart Filters, improved curves, and adjustable cloning and healing with Preview Overlay. Increase productivity with Photoshop CS3's streamlined interface and new Photoshop Lightroom " integration. Anyone who wants to create a composite will benefit from the revamped Photomerge(R) tool, which lets you apply automatic layer alignment and blending to your images, while the new Quick Selection tool lets you select pixels not just by color, but by texture and shape as well. And digital photographers will be pleased to know that they can now process multiple Camera Raw images in a fraction of the time it used to take.

Educational instructor notes--created to help teachers plan, organize, and time their lessons--are available for this book (and for other Classroom in a Book titles) at www.peachpit.com/instructorresources.

Genres: Photography, Reference, Technology, Art, Nonfiction, Education, Computers

Paperback

Published April 16, 2007

About the author

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Reviews

[Tara]

This book is informative if you can stay awake long enough to go through it.

[D.w. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a utilitarian tutorial. And it is good, as far as it goes.

You learn the tools and more than enough to take you from beginner to intermediate, but that is probably as far as you can get with this.

Will that be enough? Maybe.

There are certainly amazing things that can be done with photoshop but this won't take you to a level where you can do those great things. You can certainly make better every photo you have ever taken after reading the book, but there is another level of teaching that this book is missing. How to really understand what sliding one way, or the other with the various levers the software has will do to a photo and why you would.

Too often the book just tells you to experiment. Not what the experiment will pay off. Or further, there are many other filters in the software that the book does not discuss why you would use them. I gather experiment again.

A chance to make you the best intermediate user of Photoshop and we are let down that the book does not even get us to the red zone on that. It does it's job narrowly defined, but no more. Buy and use knowing this going in.

[Tyshawn Knight · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love to read techie books even though I am technically illiterate. You definitely have to be a computer nerd to enjoy this book because it is written in technical language. And please don't lose the CD like I did or you will not know what is going on and the book will be rendered useless.

[Rich V · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best book on the subject, it seems. Clear tutorials.

[Ziggno · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good supplement to what I learned in class.

[Tinmgmg]

learning book the best

[Bryan]

I am reading this while my wife learns photoshop.

[Hoangtu7910]

i like it