Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. Coverage includes information on Adobe Bridge, Camera RAW, masks and layers, painting and retouching, and selections and layers. Jam-packed with information, this book and DVD takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner.

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5 Stars Practical Introduction to PS
If you’re new to Photoshop, this book gives you the essentials of the program. It then goes beyond the basics and shows you handy techniques in this very robust program. The exercises are step by step, and even in the early chapters experienced users can pick up handy tips for routine processes. The integration of the text and the disk is well done, but you can learn from the book even without the computer explanations. A particularly handy quick overview is the video summary of each chapter. Worth the money because it allows the user to get the most out of his or her investment in the Photoshop program.

5 Stars A Great Introduction
I purchased this book in order to get more insight on all the features of Photoshop. I wasn’t disappointed. I thought the chapters were well organized. And everything worked that way the book said it would. Just follow the directions and you should do well.

Once you finish this book, get a copy of Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One by Deke McClelland.

5 Stars Very Helpful
As I have mentioned in most of my photography reviews I’m a 60’s something dinosaur who has a 1970’s Master’s Degree in Photography. I understand photography but I’m learning digital. This book is very helpful. It is not the “Be All End All” for Photoshop but then I don’t think there is one. I subscribe to [...], am a member of NAPP, and attend every seminar that gets within 200 miles of my southern Arizona home. I find that everyone thinks something else is the “Most Important” part of Photoshop. This is one of the blocks in my education. It is very well done and I appreciate the lesson files.

5 Stars Excellent
I’ve gotten through the first nine chapters and find this book has an excellent way of teaching. In only two cases have I looked at the videos for help. I like the way they use pictures to help you see exactly what you are going to do. I just checked the errata on their website because I was having problems with the “reset Adobe Photoshop CS4 Preferences” on page 3. I found on Adobe that you should press Ctrl+Alt+Shift immediately AFTER launching Photoshop. I highly recommend this book. I had been dabbling in Photoshop for about a month before receiving the book. The book helped me explore some amazingly powerful aspects of Photoshop.

5 Stars Mystery solved
I used to wonder what was so great about Photoshop. I had often heard of it’s use by photographers and how it could be used to falsify photographs of real world objects. Then, as an artist, I learned that it could be useful from a illustrator’s point of view. This book opens up all the aspects of photoshop that are not apparent from the many menu and dialog items available in the application itself. It provides examples of how to use Photoshop to its fullest. Now I think I have an idea why it is so expensive! It is just an excellent piece of software! I can only say that because of this book. It has opened up possibilities that I have not even dreamed of before, and has widened my artistic horizons.

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How to Enhance Your Web Site with Header Graphics

This short article will teach you how to create attractive title graphics for your web page. It’s aimed at beginner to intermediate level web design hobbyists and/or entrepreneurs who want to build their own web site. You don’t need to have any prior knowledge about the subject matter to read this article, but you should be at least reasonably computer literate. The following subjects are covered:

1. What is a header graphic and why you should use one
2. Where to get good header graphics for little or no cost
3. How to make your own header graphics using Adobe Photoshop

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In this intermediate-level graphic design tutorial, you’ll learn how to realistically superimpose a beautiful three-dimensional text object onto a living room scene with the help of Illustrator and Photoshop. Final result Below, you’ll see the preview of the photo manipulation scene that we’ll be creating together – you can click on it to see the full-scale version . Let’s get this thing rolling, shall we? Opening the stock photo in Illustrator 1 We are going to use a

In this step-by-step web design tutorial, you will learn how to craft a beautiful and eye-grabbing grunge-themed web layout using Photoshop. This tutorial is geared for beginners and intermediate-level Photoshop users. This is a two-part tutorial series that will show you how to create a grunge web design using Photoshop, with the second part as a follow-up web development tutorial providing you instructions on how to convert the design mockup to a fully-functioning web page using

Today we will create this amazing layout and along the way we will learn some simple but exciting effects….This tutorial requires an intermediate level for Photoshop and some basic knowledge of Illustrator.

This beginner to intermediate level tutorial will show you how to create some basic retro graphic elements. More than that the techniques used here are very useful for other illustrator projects such as snowflakes, wheels, clock faces, and more.