Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2054 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
"...one of the quickest ways you can get to know its [CS4's] intricacies." (Mac User, January 16th 2009)

From the Back Cover

You have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom

If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, Digital Classroom delivers. Adobe Certified Experts guide you through 13 lessons, helping you learn essential Photoshop CS4 skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are enhanced with video tutorials on the DVD. With Digital Classroom, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Photoshop CS4.

• Edit images exactly where you want using selections, layers, and masking features

• Use Adobe Bridge to work faster and keep your images organized

• Make an image look great using expert color correction and retouching tips

• Explore improved nondestructive editing capabilities

• Learn to prepare images for print, Web, and video

• Combine images, adjust image sizes, add text, use layers, and create effects using filters

About the Author

Jennifer Smith is Executive Vice President for Aquent Graphics Institute as well as an Adobe Certified Instructor. She is a member of the AGI Creative Team, which develops and delivers training programs for creative, marketing, and communications professionals through the Aquent Graphics Institute.

Customer Reviews

I know what good is and this book is it.
I am a designer and design educator from the NYC area. I have worked with Photoshop for quite a while (well over a decade) and have had many Photoshop books in my personal library over the years. The books that Jennifer Smith and her team produce on the subject have consistently been among the best in my collection.
I really found the sections on Camera Raw and Image Correction to be among the best on the subject.

Photoshop CS4 in a Snap!
The Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom tutorial taught me Photoshop in a Snap! This book helped me enjoy learning the basics of Photoshop, and will remain a valued guide as I continue to learn and master CS4. The lessons are paced well, and the DVD helped me re-learn and enhance topics like Adobe Bridge, Layers, and Camera RAW. Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is Excellent and Informative.

Excellent book, but the videos are even better!
Ever since I got stung by the Photoshop bug several years ago, I've kept up with Adobe's new releases for this particular software and I always like to get a good instructional book to show me its new features. Usually the books published by Peachpit Press are the ones I find very informative and well-written. This time Peachpit Press was late in getting out the book by Scott Kelby, which I've always like, so I decided to try my luck with this book. I was in for a very pleasant surprise for the simple reason that this book includes a DVD with videos for every lesson, and those videos are well-made, informative, and have good production quality. The videos make it a lot easier to understand what it is expected from the lessons in the book, and they alone are worth the price of the book. I'm still giving it a 5-stars rating even though the last three lessons are dedicated to features which are not included in my version of the software, they're part of the Extended version only.
I definitely recommend this book to those who, like me, are newbies and advanced amateur users of Adobe Photoshop CS4.