Introduction to Photoshop
eBook - ePub

Introduction to Photoshop

An Essential Guide for Absolute Beginners

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Introduction to Photoshop

An Essential Guide for Absolute Beginners

About this book

This full-color book is an essential guide to getting started with Adobe Photoshop. It's packed with tutorials, illustrations, and practical exercises to help you make sense of this complex and powerful software.

You'll start with the basics of Photoshop, including an overview of its myriad tools and other options. Next, you will learn about some of the common tasks that can be performed in Photoshop, such as how to touch up images and basic applications in photography. You'll also be walked through how to leverage Photoshop for special and 3D effects. Each and every technique author Kevin Wilson presents is illustrated step-by-step using screenshots with concise, easy to follow text. Downloadable sample photoshop files and images are also provided, to help you work your way through the book.

Whether you are a graphic design student, a photographer, or just a keen computer user, this book will provide you with a firm grasp of the underpinningfoundations of Photoshop and equip you with the skills needed to unleash its full power.

What You Will Learn
  • Understand Photoshop's many tools
  • Use Photoshop to execute common image manipulation tasks 
  • Touch up photographs and other images in Photoshop
  • Remove lens distortion and make photos look more professional
Who This Book Is For

Students, those interested in starting graphic design, and photographers looking to enhance, clean up and manipulate their photos. No experience with image-manipulation software is needed.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Getting Started with Photoshop
  4. 2. Getting around Photoshop
  5. 3. Basic Skills
  6. 4. Retouching Images
  7. 5. Layers
  8. 6. Special Effects
  9. 7. 3D Effects
  10. 8. Introduction to Lightroom Classic
  11. 9. Digital Images, Resolution, and Color Models
  12. Back Matter