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Adobe Photoshop Cs4 One-On-One |  | Author: Deke McClelland
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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ISBN: 0596521898
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Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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How can you master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS4, with all of its incredible features? Deke McClelland's proven One-on-One learning system offers step-by-step tutorials, five hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Read about features such as Photoshop's new Adjustments panels in the book, and see how they're used first-hand in the video.
Author Deke McClelland's Photoshop CS4 One-on-One Top Ten New Features Roundup
10) Spring-loaded tools. Temporarily select a tool by pressing and holding its shortcut key. For example, when retouching an image with the healing brush: Press and hold Y to temporarily get the history brush, erase part of your modification, and then release Y to return to the healing brush.
9) The Adjustments palette. Nondestructive adjustment layers (which are independent layers of editable color adjustment) are now handled in a palette. Some folks will love the convenience, others will lament the many changes that were required to accommodate this feature. Mostly, though, the palette aggregates stuff that’s been there for ages. One new item, Vibrance, enhances color intensity without exaggerating noise.
8) The Masks palette. CS4’s other new palette is largely another aggregator, providing convenient access to old features. Three new items: The wonderful Color Range command can now directly generate masks. Color Range can see base colors based on proximity. And you can blur edges parametrically (meaning non-permanently, by the numbers).
7) The enhanced Bridge 3.0. The Bridge is CS4’s asset manager, permitting you to preview and organize your images. Auto-updating workspaces, a review mode complete with image carousel, full-screen preview, folder-independent image collections, and search-based smart collections are just a few improvements. Oh, and you can assemble multipage PDF contact sheets from the Output panel.
6) Improved toning tools. Paint with the dodge tool to lighten an image; paint with the burn tool to darken. Only thing, the tools used to suck. Now they’re so good, I actually use them on a regular basis. They’re still destructive (meaning they permanently change pixels), but in a good way!
5) Camera Raw 5. Essentially a logically organized and altogether independent color adjustment application, Camera Raw continues to be that top-secret tool that makes every version of Photoshop worth buying. This time, it offers the equivalent of nondestructive and highly customizable dodge and burn. Which you can apply as brushstrokes or gradients. Plus you can add vignettes inside crop boundaries. It’s like a free copy of Lightroom bundled inside every version of Photoshop. Which given that Lightroom costs more than a Photoshop upgrade, and this is just feature 5 of 10, is fairly significant.
4) Target adjustment tool. Associated with three color adjustments—Hue/Saturation, Black & White, and Curves—the target adjustment tool lets you selectively modify colors and luminance levels by dragging in an image. For example, drag on a model’s lips to boost their saturation. No need to isolate a hue range. Just drag. Honestly, if you aren’t loving this tool within a week, check to make sure you have a pulse.
3) The tabbed-window interface. This feature has already proved controversial, with a few noisy Macintosh users in particular voicing disapproval. But speaking as a cross-platform guy with a decidedly Mac bias, it’s a net-sum gain. You now have the option of docking every image in a tabbed window. Click a tab to switch documents. Drag a tab to reassign priority. Plus, you can drag-and-drop a layer onto a tab to move that layer from one image to another. The tabbed window interface is a masterpiece of design and a thing of beauty.
2) Content-aware scaling. Part of Adobe’s advance compositing suite, the Content Aware Scale command lets you stretch or squish low-contrast “background” elements independently of high-contrast “foreground” ones. Which means you can bring people together, turn horizontal images into vertical ones, and otherwise transform photographs intelligently. My guess: five years from now we’ll all be mocking this feature for what it got wrong. (The degree to which it can mess up certain images is fantastic!) But in the moment, you’re going to be singing its praises. This is Photoshop’s first truly magical feature since the magic wand. And that was 18 years ago, babies. (Okay, the healing brush was also magical. And that was, what, seven years ago? So we’re talking three magical features in two decades. Got to admit, magic is rare.)
1) OpenGL navigation. Forget all that other stuff. Seriously, content-aware scaling? As if. So far as I’m concerned, Photoshop CS4 offers one and only one new feature: OpenGL navigation. Assuming you have a video card that supports OpenGL (most do), then here’s what you get: Slow continuous zooms. Rotate the view. Get the hand tool, toss the image, and watch it sail across the screen. Hold down H and click and hold for bird’s eye. And by God if every zoom level isn’t a thing of bicubically rendered beauty. (No idea what I’m talking about? Trust me, huge.) OpenGL navigation is so good it makes me hate CS3. Some nights, OpenGL navigation and I open a bottle of wine and just talk about how lucky we are just to have met each other. It’s that good.
Product Description
Master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS4 and then some with One-on-One, Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One includes step-by-step tutorials, more than five hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first-hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective.
Whether you're new to Photoshop or a creative professional interested in the groundbreaking features of CS4, Deke's conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you easily through the program's fundamental and advanced concepts and techniques. More than 850 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots illustrate every key step. With this book, you will: - Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorials
- Master Photoshop's workflow and file handling features
- Try out techniques and best practices with engaging real-world projects
- Discover how Bridge and Camera Raw can help you optimize digital photos
- Create beautiful multilayered documents, including posters and flyers
- Test your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapter
And more. Written and produced by a Photoshop expert with well over 20 years of experience, Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One simulates a classroom environment that provides one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. You'll learn to use Photoshop faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.
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 Excellent Book on Getting to know Photoshop July 26, 2010
Mike Baker
As web developer since the early Macromedia days I have always used Fireworks as my tool of choice for image editing.
Photoshop was one of those applications I had always wanted to get to know how to make greater use of and to be able to access some to the wonderful capabilities it has to offer.
It is always very difficult to get a book that is equally appealing to beginners as well as more experienced users. This book does that and more. It successfully combines aspects of tutor led training with the very useful and easy to follow details in the book. In my opinion the hands on approach is the only way you can truly grasp the way in which a powerful tool like Photoshop truly works, the book provides step-by-step instructions, tips & techniques, great examples, interesting exercises & quizzes. The DVD provides high quality instructor led training again with easy to follow step by step instructions.
Being able to view the tutorials and follow the instructions through out the book brings the whole experience to life. The training can be done at your own pace and feels very personalized. The topics in the book are covered in great detail with a great emphasis on explaining the techniques used in a manner that that is very informative.
Overall I was very impressed with this book and continue to keep it close when I am using Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 May 6, 2010
W. Williams
I am always flipping through text books as I am a student. For those of you who have been and are we have learned that not all of them are created equal. I found this one to be easy to read and it had a consistent flow to it. The intructios where not bombarded with heavey jargen which can lead to confusion at least in my case. The assignments where simple and informative. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a hands on step by step guide. Just to play it safe not all of us have the same perspective so I recommend going to a local bookstore and thumbing through it to make sure it is what your after. Of course you will want to head back to Amazon. They're so much easier on the wallet.
Photoshop Training April 25, 2010
Robert G. Jones (Sulphur Springs, TX USA)
The book is awesome. Teaches from the ground up. If you are an advanced photoshop user you will still learn a lot. If you are new to photoshop or a casual user you can be an expert user within a short time. Excellent book and I would recommend this book to anyone.
Outstanding tutorial April 15, 2010
TCH (Cromwell, CT USA)
Photoshop has a rather steep learning curve - with processes that are not always intuitive. Deke McClelland demystifies Photoshop with Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One, a hands-on tutorial that teaches you not only how to do processes, but, in understandable, witty language, describes how and why things work the way they do in Photoshop. The accompanying DVD has all the items needed to complete the tutorials as well as teaching videos. As you complete the tutorials, you truly feel as though you are increasingly proficient with Photoshop. There are a number of 'how to' books for Photoshop in print - this is the best I've seen and used.
EXCELLENT BUY HIGHLY RECOMEND March 30, 2010
A. Dealba
I HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS FOR ANYBODY WHO IS NEW TO PHOTOSHOP WELL WORTH THE MONEY
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