This book was required for one of my Art Institute classes, so I didn’t know what to expect. As soon as I started reading this, I couldn’t put it down.

Filled with over 450 pages, and with illustrations in color, this book has everything you need to become a professional in Adobe Photoshop.

The book has you follow along with samples, and the CD that it comes with has the samples on it. Most of the chapters you’re editing images taken off the CD. On the CD, you can view the before image (the image that you’re going to edit) and you can see what it’s suppose to look like when your done. Additionally, the CD comes with a few video tutorials on the CD, which is really fun to follow.

Before going through this book, I had hardly any experience with Photoshop, now I’m capable of creating unique graphics completely from scratch and am capable of digitally manipulating any photograph to look exactly how I want.
(view some of my work at my portfolio at https://www.vizzed.com)

The chapters in this book include:
1 – Getting to Know the Work Area
2 – Using Adobe Bridge
3 – Basic Photo Corrections
4 – Retouching and Repairing
5 – Working with Selections
6 – Layer Basics
7 – Mask and Channels
8 – Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs
9 – Typographic Design
10 – Vector Drawing Techniques
11 – Advanced Layer Techniques
12 – Advanced Compositing
13 – Creating Links within an Image
14 – Creating Rollover Web Visuals
15 – Animating GIF Images for the Web
16 – Producing and Printing Consistent Color

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