By Bront Davis, Carla Rose and Steve Mulder
Adobe Photoshop is without a doubt one of the most powerful image editors on the market today, if not the most powerful. It offers professional-level capabilities in print and electronic media. The trick is to learn how to put it to use, maximizing its power and capabilities, yet minimize the time it takes to accomplish what you need to do. And that's just what you are going to learn in this book.
Teach Yourself Photoshop in 14 Days is going to be your help and your guide--at least to start. The stated goal is to make you not only proficient in the basics of Photoshop, but to create a learning environment in which you feel comfortable enough to experiment, test, and develop your own tips, tricks, and ultimately, skills.
This book will show you everything from the basics of opening files, manipulating selections, and working with layers all the way to creating images for publishing on the World Wide Web.
The skills build from chapter to chapter, starting at the basics and moving on to more complex techniques, but I have tried to make each day modular enough so that you can dive in and pick up a skill or technique no matter what day you are currently working on. And if you are having problems, consult the index for an answer.
The CD-ROM that accompanies this book contains all the files used in the tutorials. The files are at all stages of completion so that you might get a better sense of what is really happening as we examine different processes.
Notes are scattered throughout the chapters. These focus on higher-level techniques, tricks, and information that is not essential but useful. Use them to supplement your understanding of Photoshop.
Without further discussion, let's begin our 14-day journey through the basics of this fascinating and incredibly powerful software.
Teach Yourself Photoshop in 14 Days is going to be your help and your guide--at least to start. The stated goal is to make you not only proficient in the basics of Photoshop, but to create a learning environment in which you feel comfortable enough to experiment, test, and develop your own tips, tricks, and ultimately, skills.
This book will show you everything from the basics of opening files, manipulating selections, and working with layers all the way to creating images for publishing on the World Wide Web.
The skills build from chapter to chapter, starting at the basics and moving on to more complex techniques, but I have tried to make each day modular enough so that you can dive in and pick up a skill or technique no matter what day you are currently working on. And if you are having problems, consult the index for an answer.
The CD-ROM that accompanies this book contains all the files used in the tutorials. The files are at all stages of completion so that you might get a better sense of what is really happening as we examine different processes.
Notes are scattered throughout the chapters. These focus on higher-level techniques, tricks, and information that is not essential but useful. Use them to supplement your understanding of Photoshop.
Without further discussion, let's begin our 14-day journey through the basics of this fascinating and incredibly powerful software.