This inspirational guide to creative image editing will help you master the essential features and tools of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Broken into three parts to form a structured, self-study guide, Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills covers the foundation skills and more advanced techniques you need to enhance photographs creatively and professionally. Practical, step-by-step imaging projects then give you the chance to practice your skills and see what you can achieve with the right tools and knowledge.
Written by two internationally recognised authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors, this established book and DVD package cuts through the complexities of Photoshop to deliver essential, clear guidance on how to get the best results. Fully updated with the latest CS4 features, it also contains vital information on how to optimize your photography and digital imaging workflow.
Now includes a free DVD, packed with more than 10 hours of detailed video tutorials to accompany the projects in the book, royalty-free hi-resolution images, indispensable RAW files for editing practice and much more.
* Learn to retouch and enhance your photographs, produce sophisticated montages and create special effects with clear instruction and step-by-step practice projects that show the why and the how-to
* Develop an efficient workflow from capture to print, saving time and hassle, and helping you to achieve professional-looking results in Photoshop CS4.
* Watch and learn, with more than 10 hours of movie tutorials on the accompanying DVD to support the practical projects – worth the cover price alone!
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Photoshop CS4 Bible
Author: Stacy Cates, Simon Abrams, Dan Moughamian
Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Cdr edition
Publication Date: 2009-01-14
ISBN-10: 0470345179
ISBN-13: 9780470345177
Paperback: 1048 Pages
The ultimate comprehensive reference to Adobe now updated and revised to cover the CS4 release!
As the industry-standard image-editing software for print ... Download
Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens
Author: Marc Campbell
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition
Publication Date: 2007-05-10
ISBN-10: 1598633791
ISBN-13: 9781598633795
Paperback: 304 Pages
You see them in magazines, pass them around in emails, and run across them everywhere on the web - ... Download
Essential Silverlight 3
Author: Ashraf Michail
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
ISBN-10: 0321554167
ISBN-13: 9780321554161
Paperback: 336 Pages
“The book you are holding contains the keys to writing great Silverlight 3 applications. Use them well!”
–From the Foreword by Scott Guthrie, corporate ... Download
Photoshop CS4 For Dummies
Author: Peter Bauer
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2008-10-06
ISBN-10: 0470327251
ISBN-13: 9780470327258
Paperback: 416 Pages
This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use ... Download
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques
Author: Ben Willmore, Dan Ablan
Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition
Publication Date: 2009-03-20
ISBN-10: 0321613104
ISBN-13: 9780321613103
Paperback: 480 Pages
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, ... Download
Photoshop CS4 All-in-One For Dummies
Author: Barbara Obermeier
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2008-12-03
ISBN-10: 047032726X
ISBN-13: 9780470327265
Paperback: 720 Pages
Your one-stop Photoshop reference, filled with the latest tips and techniques
There’s a reason why Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software. But it’s ... Download
The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing
Author: Harold Davis, Phyllis Davis
Publisher: Focal Press
Publication Date: 2009-10-08
ISBN-10: 024081259X
ISBN-13: 9780240812595
Paperback: 208 Pages
The Photoshop Darkroom offers limitless possibilities for photographers looking for jaw-dropping results, using powerful and innovative creative post-processing techniques. If ... Download
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Photographers Guide
by David D. Busch
Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (June 28, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598634003
ISBN-13: 978-1598634006
Description of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Photographers Guide
Photography and Photoshop go hand in hand. Whether you're using a ... Download
A solid reference for stepping into the world of Photoshop. While I don’t have CS4 (I have CS3) it was still easy to follow along and perform the majority of the examples. Great instructions with detailed images of your task.
The internet has so much to offer, a single google search on a particular photoshop question will return you thousands of results and for the most part for free. Given this, a book needs to really stand out and this one does as a great reference and works well for those looking for “at your pace” tutorials.
Rating: 3 / 5
I had a older version of this book from some years ago. This is pretty much the same book up updated for CS4, and nicely done. It’s a great reference of techniques and how-to’s for common tasks and work-flow.
The adobe books such as this provide a very nice tactile experience. It is very enjoyable to hold, the printing excellent, and the texture of the heavy paper used for the pages a delight. As Photoshop CS4 is about the experience so is this book.
The book comes with a DVD promising tutorials and lots of really great content and example files from from projects in the book. I was greatly disappointed the DVD would not read in my player and had a easily visible defect on the surface. Perhaps this is a rare thing, but I’d recommend trying the DVD before reading the book so you can return it if there is a problem. Obviously I can’t offer an opinion on the DVD content, but if it’s nice as the book, I’m really sad it’s not available to me.
If you have even modest experience with Photoshop CS or Photoshop Elements, then this book will probably be a disappointment. Good breadth of coverage, poor depth of coverage. (Note: I have not tried the tutorial DVD; I am speaking only about the book itself.)
This book is a treasure trove of information, but digging it out is a chore. There is way too much information on some subjects for instance, did you know that people have historically used Macintoshes but many people now choose Windows-based PC’s? Also, of course you need to know that due to the large file sizes involved with digital images you should have a high capacity, removable storage device such as a CD or DVD writer attached to your computer. I’m not sure if the information is dated, just being added to from version to version of Photoshop, or is just plain filler. I would think that someone that just plunked down more money for Photoshop than a lot of people spend on a computer would have a working knowledge of these and many, many other tidbits of knowledge. I just caught another one, “If you have a plentiful supply of RAM ( 1 GB RAM or greater) you have to give permission for Photoshop to tap into these RAM reserves…….)
The book almost immediately (by page 17) throws out some terms such as `alpha channel’, `smart object’, `old skool’ (sic) features, but then, almost immediately afterward in the middle of nowhere starts a new section `New and Revised for CS4.’ Then we go through a brief discussion of Bridge, then incredibly how to take a picture with such advice as to use a remote shutter release and a tripod.
Unexplainably, we go from such simple advice to incredibly complex operations. While the new Merge to HDR command is easy to use, and the Merge to HDR section is 9 pages long, the actual CS4 command is only briefly mentioned on the first page, and is followed by an incredibly detailed method of manual merging photos using masks, layers, etc. The part lacking here is that the reader is led along through each step with a `press this button’, `move slider to 50′, `.08 pixels’ and more of the same. Very few reasons or explanations are given as to why you’re doing what, so you don’t really learn anything. It very much reminds me of the current popular style of one author, with a one page per project theme of what you really need to know and a `move this to this’ instruction set. It makes something easy to do if you are going to duplicate the same steps with every picture you take, otherwise no real foundation of learning has been established for doing things and learning more on your own. Using this method, and given enough time and patience, you could teach a Chimpanzee to hit the right buttons in the right order to edit and print a photograph! (But only that 1 photograph).
The enclosed DVD is used as a major point in selling this book. In fact, the royalty free images (which they make a REALLY big issue of) would not be worth stealing anyway, and the movies are very amateurish and so blurry you really can’t see what is being done, and that is such a distraction that the material presented becomes useless.
I think the whole book can be summed up by a quote from the book: “we have been busy advocating alternative non-destructive ways of adjusting your images rather than encouraging readers to employ these tools, but it seems that there are still users who prefer their `simplicity’.”.
I hope that the authors and publisher decide to put out a book for the next version of PS (CS5?), but next time they really look at what they have, and what PS has, and get organized and update the material to match the software. And shoot new films.
This is a pretty good book, but there are a lot of PS books out there, and many are better.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is called Photoshop CS4 essential skills. Wrong. It should be called essential skills for users of RAW only. All the videos/tutorials we watched on the DVD were for users of RAW only so we took it out. Wasted $40 and we will not buy this guy’s books online again. Wish we had bought a different CS4 book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Word 2007 For Dummies
Author: Dan Gookin
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2006-12-26
ISBN-10: 0470036583
ISBN-13: 9780470036587
Paperback: 432 Pages
Dan Gookin's For Dummies guides to Word have consistently ...
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Author: Donald Olson
Publisher: For Dummies; 4 edition
Publication Date: 2009-07-27
ISBN-10: 0470474025
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Paperback: 480 Pages
From the Bavarian Alps to the Rhine, from ...
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Author: Candace Leiden, Marshall Wilensky
Publisher: For Dummies; 6 edition
Publication Date: 2009-08-11
ISBN-10: 0470450606
ISBN-13: 9780470450604
Paperback: 456 Pages
Packed with the latest information on ...
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Author: Joel McNamara
Publisher: For Dummies; illustrated edition edition
Publication Date: 2008-12-10
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Paperback: 384 Pages
What can you do with ...
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Author: John Paul Mueller, Debbie Walkowski
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2006-12-18
ISBN-10: 0470089830
ISBN-13: 9780470089835
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Reveal your inner business artist with ...
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Author: Bill Dyszel
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2006-12-26
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Excel 2007 For Dummies
Author: Greg Harvey
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2006-12-26
ISBN-10: 0470037377
ISBN-13: 9780470037379
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One look at Excel 2007, with its new Office ...
A solid reference for stepping into the world of Photoshop. While I don’t have CS4 (I have CS3) it was still easy to follow along and perform the majority of the examples. Great instructions with detailed images of your task.
The internet has so much to offer, a single google search on a particular photoshop question will return you thousands of results and for the most part for free. Given this, a book needs to really stand out and this one does as a great reference and works well for those looking for “at your pace” tutorials.
Rating: 3 / 5
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I had a older version of this book from some years ago. This is pretty much the same book up updated for CS4, and nicely done. It’s a great reference of techniques and how-to’s for common tasks and work-flow.
The adobe books such as this provide a very nice tactile experience. It is very enjoyable to hold, the printing excellent, and the texture of the heavy paper used for the pages a delight. As Photoshop CS4 is about the experience so is this book.
The book comes with a DVD promising tutorials and lots of really great content and example files from from projects in the book. I was greatly disappointed the DVD would not read in my player and had a easily visible defect on the surface. Perhaps this is a rare thing, but I’d recommend trying the DVD before reading the book so you can return it if there is a problem. Obviously I can’t offer an opinion on the DVD content, but if it’s nice as the book, I’m really sad it’s not available to me.
Rating: 3 / 5
[Reply]
If you have even modest experience with Photoshop CS or Photoshop Elements, then this book will probably be a disappointment. Good breadth of coverage, poor depth of coverage. (Note: I have not tried the tutorial DVD; I am speaking only about the book itself.)
Rating: 2 / 5
[Reply]
This book is a treasure trove of information, but digging it out is a chore. There is way too much information on some subjects for instance, did you know that people have historically used Macintoshes but many people now choose Windows-based PC’s? Also, of course you need to know that due to the large file sizes involved with digital images you should have a high capacity, removable storage device such as a CD or DVD writer attached to your computer. I’m not sure if the information is dated, just being added to from version to version of Photoshop, or is just plain filler. I would think that someone that just plunked down more money for Photoshop than a lot of people spend on a computer would have a working knowledge of these and many, many other tidbits of knowledge. I just caught another one, “If you have a plentiful supply of RAM ( 1 GB RAM or greater) you have to give permission for Photoshop to tap into these RAM reserves…….)
The book almost immediately (by page 17) throws out some terms such as `alpha channel’, `smart object’, `old skool’ (sic) features, but then, almost immediately afterward in the middle of nowhere starts a new section `New and Revised for CS4.’ Then we go through a brief discussion of Bridge, then incredibly how to take a picture with such advice as to use a remote shutter release and a tripod.
Unexplainably, we go from such simple advice to incredibly complex operations. While the new Merge to HDR command is easy to use, and the Merge to HDR section is 9 pages long, the actual CS4 command is only briefly mentioned on the first page, and is followed by an incredibly detailed method of manual merging photos using masks, layers, etc. The part lacking here is that the reader is led along through each step with a `press this button’, `move slider to 50′, `.08 pixels’ and more of the same. Very few reasons or explanations are given as to why you’re doing what, so you don’t really learn anything. It very much reminds me of the current popular style of one author, with a one page per project theme of what you really need to know and a `move this to this’ instruction set. It makes something easy to do if you are going to duplicate the same steps with every picture you take, otherwise no real foundation of learning has been established for doing things and learning more on your own. Using this method, and given enough time and patience, you could teach a Chimpanzee to hit the right buttons in the right order to edit and print a photograph! (But only that 1 photograph).
The enclosed DVD is used as a major point in selling this book. In fact, the royalty free images (which they make a REALLY big issue of) would not be worth stealing anyway, and the movies are very amateurish and so blurry you really can’t see what is being done, and that is such a distraction that the material presented becomes useless.
I think the whole book can be summed up by a quote from the book: “we have been busy advocating alternative non-destructive ways of adjusting your images rather than encouraging readers to employ these tools, but it seems that there are still users who prefer their `simplicity’.”.
I hope that the authors and publisher decide to put out a book for the next version of PS (CS5?), but next time they really look at what they have, and what PS has, and get organized and update the material to match the software. And shoot new films.
This is a pretty good book, but there are a lot of PS books out there, and many are better.
Rating: 3 / 5
[Reply]
This book is called Photoshop CS4 essential skills. Wrong. It should be called essential skills for users of RAW only. All the videos/tutorials we watched on the DVD were for users of RAW only so we took it out. Wasted $40 and we will not buy this guy’s books online again. Wish we had bought a different CS4 book.
Rating: 1 / 5
[Reply]