Photoshop 7 For Windows And Macintosh

A visual guide to the features and functions of Adobe Photoshop explains how to alter or manipulate images with color, layers, text, light, filters, and masks.

Fast Answers—Whatever You Do, However You Work Jason Cranford Teague and Sybex specially designed Photoshop 7 at Your Fingertips to bring to light the capabilities of this complex, powerful program and to show you the best and fastest ways to get your work done. Inside you'll find: A visual reference to the Photoshop interface A complete task-oriented reference to Photoshop, with specific sections for print designers, web designers, and photographers Clear, step-by-step instruction and time-saving tips Multiple techniques for each task, to let you work the way that works for you Every page of this innovative book is focused on getting you the information you need. Its intuitive task-based organization lets you search for what you want to do. Hundreds of cross-references guide you to related topics, and at-a-glance shortcuts and tips provide options and alternatives. And it's all written by an expert author who shares inside knowledge accumulated over years of intensive Photoshop use. Whatever your field or level of experience, you've found the Photoshop reference you've been waiting for.

This guide gives users an accessible, how-to reference guide to basic photo editing, manipulation, optimization, and correction techniques, all updated for version 7. Extensive pictures and captions reassure them that they are in the correct dialog box, popup menu, or entry field as they do their work.

CD-ROM contains: "many useful third party tools and utilities plus the samples from the book."

How do you get the best out of Photoshop? It's a combination of knowing what you want and knowing how to do it properly: a mixture of creativity and acumen. As you learn more, you make fewer mistakes, your workflow becomes faster, and you have more time to explore creative possibilities. This book is dedicated to showing you the tricks of the trade, to sharing the insider's knowledge which will speed up your work, and to improving your understanding of Photoshop as a tool. The book is divided into eight chapters, in the first three we look at ways of improving your efficiency, good selection techniques, and how to use layers effectively. In the next three chapters we look at practical applications of Photoshop for retouching and correction, Web graphics and special effects. The final two chapters look at the practicalities of Photoshop's configuration and hardware. Throughout the book, we cover the new features of Photoshop 7, so if you're not yet up to speed with the latest version, we'll show you the way. You've mastered the basics of Photoshop and you're ready to move on to the next level - this book is jam-packed with the hints, tips, and advice from four Photoshop experts that you need to take you there. To get the most information out of each of the authors that we possibly could, we used a collaborative method of writing. Each of the four authors chose two subject areas to be the main writer on, and once they had finished writing the sections, they were passed on to the other three authors for them to add their own tips and tricks to. All these parts then went out to review, and the reviewers (themselves Photoshop users) added their tips to the tip-tank. All of these tips then came together in editorial, where they were ordered and polished. In this way, we hoped to maximize the amount of insightful and essential information, and to give you the greatest benefit.

From Photoshop 7 beginner to master, this book is designed to get you up to speed in the blink of an eye. Chapter Zero gets you acclimated with a quick tour of the basics—everything else is up to you. If you've got particular projects in mind, you can skip ahead and shortcut to fast solutions and instant results. If you want to know the whole story, you can work through the plain-speaking, comprehensively-illustrated chapters one by one and find out everything you need to know. Photoshop 7 Zero to Hero also includes a 96-page full color section featuring three complete Hero projects, wherein professional users of Photoshop take you through their workflow, from source image to the final work, packed with the insight only pros can give. This book will give you the knowledge, and the inspiration, to be a Photoshop 7 Hero.

300+ Immediate Solutions from the Pros Improve your use of Photoshop in Web and print design. Prepare and plan for Web page development and print output, then skillfully apply the latest design and production techniques. Perform simple adjustments as well as complex tasks--optimize photographic imagery, build animation, add rollovers, adjust images to achieve perfect skin tones and transparent drop shadows, make appropriate color adjustments, create duotones, and more. Geared toward designers of all levels looking for exciting visual solutions, Photoshop 7 Tips & Techniques demystifies the complicated but enormously powerful features of Photoshop. Inside: Precise, proven techniques--professional-level advice from industry experts Chapter-by-chapter subject indexes--make critical information easier to access Focused information--straightforward explanations for experienced programmers "Use-It" icons--each tip includes instructions for immediate implementation Must-have information--quick and concise solutions that work

This is an accessible, how-to reference guide to Photoshop CS, using task-based, step-by-step instructions to guide users through the software features.