The Photoshop WOW Book, now in its eight edition, has been around since Adobe Photoshop 2.5. It has enlightened and inspired graphics designers, illustrators, and photographers for many years. This latest edition, the first in 4 years, updates to the latest functionality of CS4, but these will also work with work with CS5 as well.
The Photoshop WOW Book contains step-by-step tutorials for creating both commercial as well as fine-art images. This book has been used in classrooms all over the world and has been published in several languages. This book is 800 pages in length and is divided into 11 chapters.
Chapter 1, "Fundamentals of Photoshop," begins with an overview of how Photoshop works. That is, how it organizes information when you create or edit an image, how you interact with the program, and what it takes to keep things working smoothly.
Chapter 2, "Essential Photoshop Skills," are at the core of Photoshop operations. These include working with brush-based tools, selections, masking and blending, as well as transforming and resizing images. These along with working with Smart Objects, Smart Filters, and applying Layer styles are introduced in this chapter.
Chapter 3, "Getting In, Going Fast & Getting Out," now covers the best way to get images into and out of Photoshop. It also provides hints as to how best to organize your files so as to find them more easily as well as how to shift some of your workflow to Photoshop Actions and automation skills.
Chapter 4, "Color in Photography," shows that color is a vital component to the way that we express ourselves in images and graphics. In Photoshop there are a powerful set of features that are dedicated to supporting your needs as you choose, apply, and change colors. These concepts are introduced in this chapter and carried throughout the book.
Chapter 5, "Enhancing Photos," is a fundamental part of what Photoshop is all about. It has a lot of tools for accomplishing the task of getting the best possible reproduction of a photo, including the fullest possible range of accurate tones and color. In this chapter you will learn a wide number of enhancements that you can do to a photo.
Chapter 6, "Painting," is not something that Photoshop is always considered for, but it does have a wide range of tools that will allow you to stroke paint onto the canvas. This chapter introduces the painting and cloning tools and how they can be used effectively.
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