Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard tool for image editing, and with good reason. It is powerful, flexible, and has evolved over many years to include all of the features that you need to edit images for both print and the web. Photoshop is easily extensible, with a huge number of filters, effects and plugins available to help to speed up common tasks.
Adobe is vast: Adobe InDesign, Adobe illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photo Downloader, and at times you would need a separate book for each of their major features. However, this book covers everything to start you off in this powerful photo editor and gives you enough information to make a good use of Adobe Photoshop elements.
The Photoshop interface can be confusing at first, but it is very flexible and you can configure it to suit your needs. You can break the interface up into panels and show only the panels that you need. You can even pre-define different layouts for different tasks and switch between them at will.
Panels are the elements that make up the broader Photoshop interface. Most of the work that you do inside Photoshop will involve panels. There are panels for layers, adjustments, colors and textures, channels and even your edit history. There are a lot of panels to choose from:
•3D
•Character Styles
•Info
•Layer Comps
•Notes
•Paragraph
•Paragraph Styles
•Timeline
•Tool Presents
This manual will teach you what to do with these panels and many others…
Re-arranging the panels every time you start a new project would be incredibly time consuming and inconvenient. For this reason, Photoshop offers the option to define Workspaces. You can set up your working environment the way that you like it and then save it with a clearly named Workspace so that you can select that workspace when you need it.
Photoshop offers a selection of pre-defined workspaces for simple tasks. These Workspaces are a great starting point for beginners and with the help of this guide you can customize them as you gain confidence in the software.
Also, among important topics covered in this manual are:
•Setting the Default in Windows 7
•Setting Photoshop as the Default in Windows 8
•Making Photoshop The Default Mac OS X Image Editor
•Working With Layers
Layers are one of the single most useful features of Photoshop. The Layers feature was introduced as a part of Photoshop 3 many years ago and they revolutionized image editing. Layers could be credited as being one of the reasons that Photoshop became the industry standard image editing application because they make complex image editing tasks so much easier.
This book will give you a basic understanding of layers, image manipulation and color management, as well as how to use the file management and batch processing options in Photoshop. This is more than enough to get you started with editing your digital photographs. There are also many other things that you can do with Photoshop, including text and vector image management – something you will be able to move on to once you get a good grasp on the basics covered in this manual.
Adobe is vast: Adobe InDesign, Adobe illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photo Downloader, and at times you would need a separate book for each of their major features. However, this book covers everything to start you off in this powerful photo editor and gives you enough information to make a good use of Adobe Photoshop elements.
The Photoshop interface can be confusing at first, but it is very flexible and you can configure it to suit your needs. You can break the interface up into panels and show only the panels that you need. You can even pre-define different layouts for different tasks and switch between them at will.
Panels are the elements that make up the broader Photoshop interface. Most of the work that you do inside Photoshop will involve panels. There are panels for layers, adjustments, colors and textures, channels and even your edit history. There are a lot of panels to choose from:
•3D
•Character Styles
•Info
•Layer Comps
•Notes
•Paragraph
•Paragraph Styles
•Timeline
•Tool Presents
This manual will teach you what to do with these panels and many others…
Re-arranging the panels every time you start a new project would be incredibly time consuming and inconvenient. For this reason, Photoshop offers the option to define Workspaces. You can set up your working environment the way that you like it and then save it with a clearly named Workspace so that you can select that workspace when you need it.
Photoshop offers a selection of pre-defined workspaces for simple tasks. These Workspaces are a great starting point for beginners and with the help of this guide you can customize them as you gain confidence in the software.
Also, among important topics covered in this manual are:
•Setting the Default in Windows 7
•Setting Photoshop as the Default in Windows 8
•Making Photoshop The Default Mac OS X Image Editor
•Working With Layers
Layers are one of the single most useful features of Photoshop. The Layers feature was introduced as a part of Photoshop 3 many years ago and they revolutionized image editing. Layers could be credited as being one of the reasons that Photoshop became the industry standard image editing application because they make complex image editing tasks so much easier.
This book will give you a basic understanding of layers, image manipulation and color management, as well as how to use the file management and batch processing options in Photoshop. This is more than enough to get you started with editing your digital photographs. There are also many other things that you can do with Photoshop, including text and vector image management – something you will be able to move on to once you get a good grasp on the basics covered in this manual.
