Adobe Photoshop Visual QuickStart Guide, 1st edition

Published by Peachpit Press (December 7, 2022) © 2023

  • Nigel French
  • Mike Rankin
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Title overview

Learn Adobe Photoshop with the Visual QuickStart Guide

Visual QuickStart Guide is an easy, visual approach to learning. Concise steps and explanations, using pictures to guide you through Adobe Photoshop get you up and running in no time. Whether you're an experienced designer or an enthusiastic newcomer, Photoshop gives you all the tools you need to create almost any photographic image you can imagine, using a vast array of powerful tools and options. Learn best practices for flexible, collaborative workflows. Employ efficient production techniques to select, size, crop, mask, composite, color correct, and retouch. Enhance your images with editable type, vector artwork, and creative special effects.

This book provides you with:

  • An easy visual approach that uses pictures to guide you through Adobe Photoshop features and show you what to do
  • Concise steps and explanations that help you get up and running in no time
  • The best content and value around, page for page
  • Access to the Web Edition, a free online version of the book with embedded video

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Getting Started
  • Chapter 2 Documents and Navigation
  • Chapter 3 Digital Imaging Essentials
  • Chapter 4 Crop and Straighten Images
  • Chapter 5 Selections
  • Chapter 6 Layers
  • Chapter 7 Layer Masks and Vector Masks
  • Chapter 8 Further Selection Techniques
  • Chapter 9 Adjustment Layers and Image Adjustments
  • Chapter 10 Blending Modes
  • Chapter 11 Color
  • Chapter 12 Painting
  • Chapter 13 Retouching
  • Chapter 14 Smart Objects
  • Chapter 15 Essential Transformations
  • Chapter 16 Filters
  • Chapter 17 Shape Layers and Paths
  • Chapter 18 Working with Type
  • Chapter 19 Printing and Exporting
  • Online Chapters
  • Chapter 20 Adobe Camera Raw
  • Chapter 21 Adobe Bridge
  • Chapter 22 Layer Effects and Layer Styles
  • Appendix A Image Basics

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