Includes FREE DVD with:

• QuickTime movie tutorials for MAC and PC
• Searchable tips on tools, palettes layer styles, and shortcuts
• Includes images selected for you to experiment with to get you up to speed with everything in the book, including the new Photoshop CS3 features, fast

New tutorials focus on the key features introduced in CS3, including:

• Adobes Camera Raw 4 plug-in that can now also process TIFFs and JPEGs
• New Align controls for combining HDR images; Photomerge; new Clone Stamp; Curves dialog that now incorporates Levels functionality; and improved controls for Brightness/Contrast to match raw image processing controls
• The latest on Black and White adjustment for optimum monochrome conversions
• Tips on Bridge 2.0 and Lightroom — when you should use each

Real-life examples, diagrams, illustrations, and step-by-step explanations ensure that you're up to speed in no time. With a foreword by Adobe Systems key Director of Engineering, Digital Imaging, Marc Pawliger
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Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills
Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills
by Mark Galer, Philip Andrews

Brimming with beautiful pictures, this book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography, digital imaging, art and design, or design graphics, you'll be amazed at the stunning results you can achieve. A DVD is included free. Additional learning materials include:

• full-resolution, royalty-free images to download for trying-out your new techniques
• 5 hours of QuickTime movie tutorials to support the practical projects
• Presets from layer styles to curves, shapes, and gradients
• indispensable RAW files for editing practice

You'll also find resources at the companion website with updates, practice material, and more at www.photoshopessentialskills.com.

• An affordable resource that distills the complexity of Photoshop CS3 to the essentials
• Retouch photographs, create makeovers, produce sophisticated montages, and create special effects with clear, step-by-step projects
• Practice with activities that show the 'why', along with the 'how-to'
• Follow a structured learning approach to gain fundamental skillsand more

The Essential Skills Photography Series from Focal Press uniquely offers a structured learning experience for photographers of all ages, with both the underlying theory and loads of invaluable 'how to' and real-life practice projects - all from the most talented photography practitioners/educators in the world.
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Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers
Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers
by Colin Smith, Tim Cooper

Complete Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers is a completely updated edition of this insightful and practical guide to using Photoshop as your photographic editing tool. All of the new featurees of CS3 related to photography are thoroughly covered and a wide variety of new photos and tutorials are used to teach you how to organize, enhance, correct, and retouch images; how to do creative things with those images; and how to output them.

As with the previous editions, the book is designed and written especially for digital photographers: it teaches them how to use the tools and features of Photoshop, while explaining why and how Photoshop functions the way it does. Using Photoshop CS3 is essentially like having your own desktop digital darkroom, and with the help of tutorials in this book, you'll learn how to master this powerful tool.

By working through the various projects, you'll explore the new and enhanced areas of Photoshop, including more in depth coverage of each of these features and how they are improved from the previous version. And to help you master these tools, the book teaches professional techniques for overcoming the many challenges you'll face. After working through the book, you'll be able to bring out the best from any photo, while establishing an efficient workflow. If you truly want to understand and master Photoshop CS3 for digital photography, this is the resource you need.About the Author
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Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, covering Photoshop CS3
Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, covering Photoshop CS3
by Derek Lea

Welcome to the world of art and imagination. Derek Lea, one of the worlds top 100 digital artists, shows how to use Photoshop in extraordinary ways to transform the mundane into incredible images. His work is a unique combination of original photography, traditional illustration, and digital art.

If you are a digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist or designer who is familiar with Photoshop, but want to push the program to the limit, this book is for you. Lea combines the inspirational with the practical, showcasing a wide range of artistic styles from graffiti and pop art, to Bosch and Art Nouveau.

Discover how to get professional results from the paint features within Photoshop and try features such as sculpting and layering. Explore texture, with spray paint effects and scanned elements or age faces and objects. Use stencil tags and comic book coloring techniques. Bring 3D art to life by using Photoshop and Poser together. Also maximize your creativity AND efficiency with invaluable information on working between Photoshop and Illustrator.

• Learn from an award winning digital illustrator how to think outside the box and create stunning art with Photoshop
• Be inspired by the wide range of artistic styles including real world, more unorthodox techniques, which you can easily adapt to your own work
• Clear and easy to follow step-by-step tutorials explain how to make the most of Photoshop and digital image software

This book/CD package provides clear, step-by-step tutorials that break away from the standard instruction book mould and make it easy to emulate Lea's techniques in your own work. With all the images from the book to play with, you can start creating stunning artwork immediately.
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How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3: The art of creating photorealistic montages
How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3: The art of creating photorealistic montages (Paperback)
by Steve Caplin

When you're short on time with crunching deadlines, but there's no way you can sacrifice quality, this book/DVD comes to the rescue. Nobody knows more about how to work fast under pressure and still produce top-notch photographic images than hands-on graphic artist and journalist, Steve Caplin.

Steve cuts through the grind with on-the-job, do-it-now skills, techniques, and shortcuts guaranteed to show you how to work faster, smarter, and better to produce the best work of your life. With a lifetime of practical experience in photo-montage, Steve is the go-to person for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, photographic retouchers, and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop.

'How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3' helps you "cheat in" (or take advantage of) Photoshop in two important ways. You learn how to make images look like photographs, when they're not so that you can create photographic work without a studio. And you find useful shortcuts to work more efficiently, economically, and with quick solutions to achieve the same superb results that come from long, complex operations that take forever.

Whether you're working for print or the web, dip into this book and extract the info you need fast. Icons mark where Photoshop files or movie tutorials are available for you to open immediately to try for yourself. Stuck? Visit the Reader Forum on the web and question the author directly (and expect other readers to weigh in, too!) at www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com.

The book's step-by-step tutorials alongside the DVD packed with hundreds of images, project files, and live tutorials show you how to:

• Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions the simple way
• Take years off someones appearance
• Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes)
• Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface
• Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CS3s new Quick Selection tool... and more
• A host of timesaving techniques and insider secrets teach you to work faster and more adeptly moving from the problem to the solution to get fantastic results

This fully updated new edition shows you how to get the most out of Photoshop CS3, including the Quick Selection and Cloning tools, and more. Yet it's backwards compatible with previous releases of Photoshop.
Available for Pre-order

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Photoshop CS4 Essential Skills - By Mark Galer And Philip Andrews

Brimming with beautiful pictures, Photoshop CS4 Essential Skills guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS4. If you are an aspiring professional or a student learning photography, digital imaging, or design graphics, you'll be amazed at the stunning results you can achieve. A DVD is included free.

The Essential Skills Photography Series from Focal Press uniquely offers a structured learning experience for photographers of all ages, with both the underlying theory and loads of invaluable 'how to' and real-life practice projects - all from the most talented photography practitioners/educators in the world.

Read 2 free sample chapters:
Skin Retouching Tips In Photoshop CS4
Transforming Smart Objects In Photoshop CS4
Find more Photoshop CS4 tutorials on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page.

Read 2 free sample chapters from the Adobe Photoshop CS3 version:
Adjusting Exposure in Adobe Camera Raw CS3
Photoshop CS3 Tutorial High Dynamic Range

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