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| Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 456
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0321473795
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321473790
ASIN: 0321473795
Publication Date: July 2, 2007
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Product Description
This Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create great-looking images with Photoshop. Best-selling authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas take readers step by step through all of today's Photoshop essentials: from importing digital photos through basic color manipulation and image correction to painting, masking, using filters, and more. Hot topics like working with Camera Raw, using the improved Photomerge command (that aligns and blends layers automatically) to stitch together images, making selections using the new Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge feature, and Smart Filters are all covered.
Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the topic, and more advanced users, who are looking for a handy reference, will find what they need here. In this edition, using a fresh new design and now illustrated in full color, the authors have streamlined the text by focusing on the most efficient means of accomplishing a task, rather than explaining all possible methods. By the end of the book, users will have a solid foundation for working in Photoshop CS3. Additional intermediate topics can be found in the author's follow-on book: Photoshop CS3: Visual QuickPro Guide.
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Great for intro to Photoshop CS3 September 5, 2007
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
I have never had a decent intro to PS - the powerful, tool laden software can be intimidating. I am also trying to come to terms with the entire CS3 suite - which can be overwhelming if you have no CS or CS2 background. I stopped by the local bookstore and read this for about an hour. This is the first time I was able to go home and use some skills from memory.
I read through the introduction, interface intro and the first chapter on layers. I was able to follow the author's step by step instructions for each feature coordinated with color screen shots and put most of it to memory.
I am very happy with the book and highly recommend it.
Good book to get started September 22, 2007
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I use this book in class and it is fairly easy to find information. Sometimes it misses good info on the actual command.
 Great Intro to photoshop September 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The goal of Photoshop CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide is to get you started down the road in using Photoshop for Editing and manipulating pictures . in this book you will learn the essentials of Photoshop and explain not just how features work but also why and what context they are most useful .
Photoshop CS3 Visual QuickStart Guide is 439 pages long divided into 27 chapters.
Chapter 1, "Photoshop interface" starts off by looking at Photoshop's UI in windows and Macintosh , covering all tools and palettes in Photoshop UI.
Chapter 2, "Color Management" Covering all about colors in this chapter starting by Displays, modes and channels , Color management basics.
Chapter 3, "Acquire, Create, Save " Talking about how to use digital cameras, Downloading photos , Using Scanner , Creating new , blank documents and Saving files .
Chapter 4, "Bridge" Covers all about Bridge Application and how to use efficiently to speed your working in your projects .
Chapter 5, "Workspaces" shows you how to change the zoom level of an image, move a magnified image in its windows, switch screen modes, hide/show the palettes, and assign color labels to menu and palette menu commands and create and save custom workspaces.
Chapter 6, "Pixel Basics" in this chapter you will learn how to change the resolution and dimensions of an image, change its canvas size and crop, flip, rotate it .
Chapter 7, "Layer Basics" shows how to create, select and restacking layers , Working with layer groups , deleting individual layers ,Merging and Flattening Layers.
Chapter 8, "Select" you will learn in this chapter , how to create selections using the Marquee, Lasso, Quick selection and magic wand tools and you'll also learn how to refine selection edges modify ,move, hide and transform selection marquee .
Chapter 9, "Combine Images" Here you'll learn how to copy selections and layers within the same document and between documents and use layer mask to blend images together .
Chapter 10, "History" in this chapter you'll learn how to restore, delete , and clear previous states and restore area of an image to a prior state by using the History brush .
Chapter 11, "Tonal Adjustment" shows how to use adjustment commands , and after that you will learn how to use threshold and posterize commands , the histogram palette , the level commands .
Chapter 12, "Colors & Blending Modes" This chapter is reference guide to the blending modes which are available for tools , layers and commands.
Chapter 13, "Color Adjustments" in this chapter you'll learn how to adjust image's colors , you will learn how to creating fill layers , converting layers to grayscale , apllying Auto Color Correction and Using the curve command.
Chapter 14, "Brushes" in this chapter you will learn all about brushes in Photoshop , Brush tool , smudge colors with smudge tool and ease parts of a layer with Eraser and magic Eraser tools .
Chapter 15, "Camera Raw" in this chapter you'll learn how to open digital photos via the camera raw plug-in and you will also use the many tabs in camera raw to correct photos for exposure, color and lighting deficiencies.
Chapter 16, "Exposure" in this chapter you'll perform shadow and highlight correction , adjust the color temperature to compensate for improper lighting.
Chapter 17, "Refocus" in this chapter you'll apply the lens blur filter and use vignettes to create a focal point in your photo, apply motion blur filter to simulate motion .
Chapter 18, "Retouch" shows you how you will perform color changes such as changing product colors using Match Color command , the Replace color command and the color replacement .
Chapter 19, "More Layers" Shows you how to blend pixels between layers, create and use layer masks, create and use clipping masks, create and edit Smart Object layers .
Chapter 20, "Layer Effects" in this chapter you'll get instruction for applying, copying , moving , and removing layer effects.
Chapter 21, "Filters" You'll learn techniques for applying filters, learn how to create and use smart filters, combine filters to change character of any image .
Chapter 22, "Type" You'll learn how to create and select editable type and apply a host of character and paragraph attributes .
Chapter 23, "Gradients" in this chapter you'll how to create Gradients by Gradient editor and apply Gradients via a Gradients fill adjustment layer .
Chapter 24, "Presentation" You'll learn various ways to finish and present your photos to any one , both in print and on screen .
Chapter 25, "Preferences & Presets" In this chapter you'll get to know all about in the Preferences dialog box and how to save and load brush too and other preset .
Chapter 26, "Print" you will learn how to choose print options in Photoshop , print to inkjet printer, create and print spot color channels .
Chapter 27 , "Export" You'll learn how to save and preparing your files for other applications for print output and for viewing online
The authors writes clearly and the easy to follow tutorials are great to learn from. , and recommend for beginners to get started into Photoshop CS3
 A lot of info I never seem to use March 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Conceptually I really like the idea behind these books. You want to find a technique and boom there it is laid out on one or two pages step by step. The problem is it seems I never use them very much. I don't know if the indexing is better in other books or the way it's presented is a little more engaging but I've noticed that after a few years they are always my choice of last resort. Like I said they have a wealth of info packed into them but you should look at how you work and how they're laid out before you buy.
 Tons of Info Missing March 8, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was a big dissapointment...there is a ton of important stuff missing...Info on 'actions' ...its not even listed in the index...better off to stick with the CS2 edition.
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