Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual

Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual
Publisher: Pogue Press 2011| ISBN: 1449398502
PDF | 64 Mb | 656 Pages

 Elements 10 offers much of Photoshop's power without the huge price tag. It's a great tool  for most image-editing buffswhether youre a photographer, scrapbooker, or aspiring graphic artist. But Elements still doesn't come with a useful manual. This bestselling book helps you get the most out of the program, from the basics to advanced tips for both Windows and Mac users.

The important stuff you need to know:

Quickly learn your way around. Customize Elements to suit your working style.
Get to work right away. Import, organize, and make quick image fixes with ease.
Retouch any image. Learn how to repair and restore old and damaged photos.
 Add pizzazz. Give images more zip with dozens of filters, layer styles, and special effects.
Design with words. Make text flow along a curved path or around an object or shape.
Find your creative flair. Create scrapbooks, greeting cards, photo books, and more.
Try out advanced techniques. Work with layers, blend modes, and other tools.

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Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques

Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques
for Photographers Using Photoshop (Voices That Matter)
by: Scott Kelby | 1 edition (April 3, 2011) | ISBN: 0321725549
538 pages | PDF | 84 MB

 Each year, Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine and the #1 best-selling  Photoshop author, trains literally thousands of photographers on how to retouch portraits  using Photoshop through his live seminars, online classes, DVDs, and standing-room only  workshops at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. Now you can learn the same techniques he uses in his own retouching workflow, in the only book of its kind–one written expressly for photographers who do their own retouching.

 As a pro photographer himself, Scott understands that photographers make their living  shooting, not retouching. But, delivering fully retouched images is now expected by clients. That’s why Scott put together this amazing resource for teaching photographers the quickest, easiest, and most effective ways to create professional-looking, retouched final images without spending hours grinding away at painstaking, detailed techniques.

LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT

 It’s all here–the step-by-step methods for fixing, enhancing, and finishing your portraits  in Photoshop. Using the techniques in this book, you’ll create images that will absolutely wow your clients.

You’ll learn:
 • How to soften skin and still retain detail and texture
 • The best tricks for beautifully enhancing eyes, eyebrows, and eyelashes
 • How to selectively sharpen portraits without complicated masking
 • How to create gorgeous-looking lips
 • How to remove blemishes fast and keep the most detail
 • The pros’ tricks for body sculpting
 • How to make your subject’s hair look fabulous
 • How to give your retouches that natural look that sets them apart
 • Plus, you get Scott’s complete 5-minute, 15-minute, and 30-minute start-to-finish
workflows

 If you’re ready to learn the “tricks of the trade”–the same ones that today’s leading pro  photographers use to retouch, tuck, tighten, and tone their images for that pro-retouched look–you’re holding the book that will do exactly that. It will radically change the way you retouch your portraits from here on out, and give you the best-looking, most natural retouches you’ve ever done.

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Focus On Adobe Photoshop

Focus On Adobe Photoshop
Focus on the Fundamentals (Focus On Series)
Publisher: Focal Press | 2011 | ISBN: 0240812204
Pages: 232 | PDF | 74,45 MB

 This no-nonsense, highly affordable, and inspiring guide walks photographers new to  Photoshop through the end to end Photoshop workflow. Starting from the moment you download  your images off your memory card, photographer Corey Hilz guides you through importing and  organizing your photos in Bridge, demonstrating how to give each photo ratings and keywords  to make searching through your photos a snap. He then details the basics of editing photos in both Camera Raw and Photoshop, including how to correct exposure, make color and tonal adjustments, retouch flaws and imperfections, and much more. He finishes the book with next steps: how to print that prized final image, upload it to social networking sites, and create a slideshow or web gallery.

 Packed with gorgeous images, helpful screenshots, and quality advice to teach the new or  beginning user the fundamentals of the software, this guide is compatible with any version  of Photoshop.

 * No-nonsense end-to-end professional Photoshop workflow for photographers who want to  spend more time behind the lens, and less in front of a screen
 * Unique approach tailored specifically for traditional 'realistic' photography in the  digital age, tells the working photographer exactly what they need to know to get the best from their photos
 * Clear format with emphasis on the visual aspect throughout, in a handy, affordable,  pocket-sized guide

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Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
Publisher: Pogue Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0596527284 

 Pages: 576 | CHM | 12,91 MB

Anyone still think that Adobe Photoshop Elements is a toy version of the real thing? As the most popular photo-editing program on the market, Photoshop Elements not only has Photoshop's marvelous powers, but also has capabilities the mothership lacks. Each new version includes more tools designed specifically for today's consumer digital photo enthusiasts. The latest edition, Photoshop Elements 5, solidifies the reputation of this superb and inexpensive product with new scrapbook features, a link to online photo services, and many other improvements.

In fact, there's so much to Photoshop Elements that it can be quite confusing at times. That's precisely why our Missing Manuals are the bestselling books on the topic. Adobe provides a pamphlet and some help files; our book, now in its fifth edition, carefully explains every feature the program has to offer (something no other book has done) by putting each one into a clear, easy-to-understand context. Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual covers the Windows version of Adobe's workhorse and gives you the low down on a host of new features:
Learn to create multiple page documents, custom photo layouts with frames, and highly customized layouts for scrapbook projects
Master the new editor for Layer Styles, which lets you customize individual layers in a photo
"Attach" your photos to areas of a Yahoo! Map so your friends and family can see the pictures you took in specific places

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Adobe® Photoshop CS3: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

Adobe® Photoshop CS3: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks 
256 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Photoshop® CS3: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks includes 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach time saving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Photoshop CS3. The easy-to-use layout lets you work through all the tasks from beginning to end or jump in at random.

Who is this book for?

You already know Photoshop basics. Now you would like to go beyond, with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you.

This book uses step-by-step instructions to guide you easily through each task. Numbered callouts on every screenshot show
you exactly how to perform each task, step by step.

Practical tips provide insights to save you time and trouble, caution you about hazards to avoid, and reveal how to do things with Photoshop CS3 that you never thought possible!


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Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours

Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours
PDF | 551 Pages | 23.43 MB

The big surprise for first-time users is that it’s really not as difficult to work with as it looks. If you have used any other Adobe software, the Photoshop interface will be immediately familiar to you. If this is your first step into creating digital graphics, you’ll find the going easier if you work on the hours of this book one at a time and don’t skip the activities or exercises.

In this book, we’ll look primarily at what Photoshop Standard CS3 has to offer. If you’ve used an earlier version of Photoshop, you’ll be amazed at how much more powerful this one is. If this is your first experience with Photoshop, you’ll be blown away. It’s that good!

There’s honestly no way to become an overnight expert, be it in Photoshop or anything else, but Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours will get you up and running in 24 hours or less. It’s divided into 24 one-hour lessons, rather than chapters. Each lesson should take you about an hour to complete.


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