EXPAND YOUR IMAGINATION Smashing Photoshop CS5 is loaded with 100 creative and innovative techniques to help jump–start your creativity and inspire you to do more with your designs and photographs. This book is aimed at designers, artists and photographers who want to become proficient in Photoshop CS5, getting you quickly up to speed with many of the fantastic new tools and features. Author Sue Jenkins is a photographer and web and graphic designer, author, software instructor and Adobe Certified Expert. Using her knowledge and years of expertise in the field she provides 100 hints, special effects, and techniques that will enable you to extend your existing skills and to develop and execute new ideas and trends. Smashing Photoshop CS5 is the ideal guide to help you to get the best out of Photoshop CS5. This book will teach you how to perform specific tasks using a variety of tools, filters, styles, adjustment layers, and more. With Smashing Photoshop CS5 you will learn how to: • MAKE 3D TEXT WITH REPOUSSÉ • CREATE ENGRAVED TYPE • DESIGN A BLOG HEADER • STIMULATE HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES • MAKE RETRO HALFTONES • WORK WITH CUSTOM BRUSHES • USE CONTENT–AWARE SCALING • TRANSFORM WITH PUPPET WARP • TRACE PHOTOS • MAKE SCALE MODELS • MIMIC CROSS–PROCESSING (XPRO) • EDIT WITH LAYER MASKS • CORRECT IMAGE DISTORTION • RETOUCH AND RESTORE IMAGES • EDIT WITH THE VANISHING POINT • CREATE PANORAMAS Key Topics Covered: Part I: Web Layout And Optimization Part II: Photoshop CS4 And CS5 Techniques Part III: Text Effects Part IV: Studio And Commercial Effects Part V: Special Effects Part VI: Image Distressing Part VII: Image Retouching And Restoration Smashing Photoshop CS5 is the perfect springboard for sparking new ideas and gaining inspiration for all your projects. Smashing Magazine (smashingmagazine.com) is one of the world′s most popular web design sites. True to the Smashing mission, the Smashing Magazine book series delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers.
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‘Suitable for anyone fairly new to Photoshop…great for learning lots of relevant techniques quickly.’ (.net, January 2011).
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Sue Jenkins is a web designer, graphic designer, illustrator, fi ne art photographer (www.suejenkinsphotography.com), soft ware instructor, writer, and the owner of the Luckychair (www.luckychair.com), a professional design studio serving companies across the U.S.A. since 1997. Sue is the author of several books on Adobe soft ware and design including Dreamweaver All–in–One For Dummies, Web Design All–in–One For Dummies, Web Design: The L–Line, Th e Express Line to Learning, and How To Do Everything Illustrator . She is also the award–winning soft ware instructor in six of ClassOnDemand′s (www.classondemand.com) Adobe Training DVDs: Dreamweaver for Designers (winner of a 2007 Bronze Telly Award), Designer′s Guide to Photoshop, Designer′s Guide to Illustrator (winner of a 2009 Annual Communicator Award of Distinction), Fundamentals of Photoshop Elements (winner of a 2009 DV Magazine Award of Excellence), Complete Training for Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, and Complete Training for Adobe Photoshop CS5 . In addition, Sue is an Adobe Certifi ed Expert/Adobe Certifi ed Instructor teaching three–day courses in Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop at Noble Desktop (www.nobledesktop.com) in New York City, and is currently working toward her MFA in Photography. Sue lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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This is the second book I've used from the excellent 'Smashing' series, and they really can't be beaten in terms of easy, no-nonsense practical advice - it's straight down to brass tacks with short chapters packed with useful examples to get you learning and trying new techniques straight away. If, like me, you haven't got the time to learn every tool in Photoshop 'properly' before using them on a day-to-day basis in your work, then this kind of guide is perfect - it's a dip-in type of book, excellently sectioned and indexed, so you can identify the bits you need straight away. Then it's just a case of reading the short, clear explanations, then applying them straight away to your own creations. Couldn't be simpler, and it saves a load of time flicking through more complicated 'from scratch' tutorials if you're pushed for results quickly!
I found the section on web layout techniques absolute gold dust - clear, useful advice on techniques such as grid layouts and slicing. Great stuff if your strengths are in HTML / development and you find yourself having to (or forced to!) cover the graphical side of things too. But there's equally useful material in the book on creating composites, retouching images and creating special effects - something for everyone, in other words, even those who are more familiar with Photoshop.
Highly recommended as a desktop reference for Photoshop - another golden title in the Smashing series, and a great compendium of bite-sized 'wow' techniques.
I found the section on web layout techniques absolute gold dust - clear, useful advice on techniques such as grid layouts and slicing. Great stuff if your strengths are in HTML / development and you find yourself having to (or forced to!) cover the graphical side of things too. But there's equally useful material in the book on creating composites, retouching images and creating special effects - something for everyone, in other words, even those who are more familiar with Photoshop.
Highly recommended as a desktop reference for Photoshop - another golden title in the Smashing series, and a great compendium of bite-sized 'wow' techniques.
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Smashing Magazine is an online presence, where you can pick up some great ideas and techniques to fuel your creativity. Aimed mainly at web designers, there are also plenty of things of interest for general computer / Photoshop users.
This book is a collection of interesting design ideas, with recipes for users to try at home. It is based on Photoshop CS5, so is dealing with the very latest iteration of a very well known image editing package.
If you have been using almost any version of Photoshop for more than 4 or 5 years, then you will probably find quite a lot of this book familiar to you. An awful lot of this stuff is freely available on the 'net already (and a fair bit of it in the 'Help' files that come built in to your software - but who reads the 'Help' files, right?), so you might be forgiven for wondering why you should actually pay for a collection of such stuff.
Well, despite all I have said above, I personally own a huge number of books about Photoshop, and even find new stuff in them after working with this package since the early 1990s. It is good to have a reference to hand that you can draw and write on - and most of my books are now covered with 'notes to self' about the new features (and sometimes failings) of the program, 'how to' instructions, etc.
So, overall I would recommend that you buy a book like this one, or one of the 'How to Wow' series, and work your way through it and learn some impressive techniques and use the book as a 'workbook' rather than a bible.
Not a book for the complete beginner, but an interesting addition to the library of Photoshop reference out there.
This book is a collection of interesting design ideas, with recipes for users to try at home. It is based on Photoshop CS5, so is dealing with the very latest iteration of a very well known image editing package.
If you have been using almost any version of Photoshop for more than 4 or 5 years, then you will probably find quite a lot of this book familiar to you. An awful lot of this stuff is freely available on the 'net already (and a fair bit of it in the 'Help' files that come built in to your software - but who reads the 'Help' files, right?), so you might be forgiven for wondering why you should actually pay for a collection of such stuff.
Well, despite all I have said above, I personally own a huge number of books about Photoshop, and even find new stuff in them after working with this package since the early 1990s. It is good to have a reference to hand that you can draw and write on - and most of my books are now covered with 'notes to self' about the new features (and sometimes failings) of the program, 'how to' instructions, etc.
So, overall I would recommend that you buy a book like this one, or one of the 'How to Wow' series, and work your way through it and learn some impressive techniques and use the book as a 'workbook' rather than a bible.
Not a book for the complete beginner, but an interesting addition to the library of Photoshop reference out there.
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I am a graphic designer and this book helped me to learn techniques that i didn't knew and always envy on other designer's works ;) (or knew how to do in a lot more stages)
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Love this book- I am not an advanced user, but it shows you every step of the stages; I have found that it helps me explore what could be done, which is helpful, just in my way of... Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2011 by Mr. Simon Paddon
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Plenty of basics to learn
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