Product Description

The ultimate comprehensive reference to Adobe now updated and revised to cover the CS4 release!

• As the industry-standard image-editing software for print and digital media, Photoshop has a phenomenally broad reach and, if you’re a user, then you’re anxious to get started with CS4!
• This authoritative guide to Photoshop CS4 shows you how to retouch, color correct, manipulate, and combine images
• Sheds light on optimal ways to create cutting-edge special effects for digital or film-based images, and then use them on the Web or in print
• More than 1,200 pages are packed with advice that demystifies even the most complex Photoshop tasks
• Covers everything from image-editing basics to techniques for working with camera raw images
• Also discusses the file browser, histogram palette, lens blur, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and more

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13380 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1096 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470345177
• Condition: USED - GOOD
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From the Back Cover
Master the powerhouse of image-editing software

Photoshop is the industry leader in image editing software and this bestselling Photoshop reference shows you why in spades. Packed with over a thousand pages of step-by-step instructions, techniques, and tricks, this essential book covers everything — from the basics to using effects to building spectacular composites to creating projects for the Web or video. Start creating your best work with Photoshop CS4 and the only Photoshop book you need to succeed.

• Find out the latest on Photoshop CS4

• Master image editing for Web, video, and technical images

• Bring out your subjects' best with lighting, color, and retouching tools

• Take control with layers, channels, smart objects, and selections

• Add effects, paint with "brushes," and boldly enter the world of 3-D

About the Author
Stacy Cates has been in the graphic design and printing industry for more than 20 years. She has been teaching Adobe Photoshop since 2001 and holds Adobe Certified Instructor and Comptia Certified Technical Trainer certifications, as well as a Georgia Institute of Technology Certificate in Web design. Her teaching experience ranges from one-on-one training to teaching college-level computer art courses. Stacy is experienced in a wide variety of practical applications for Photoshop and specializes in preparing images for printing, color correction, and retouching images. Stacy has earned numerous awards for publication design and an award for Web design from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Contact Stacey at stacy@stacycates.com

Simon Abrams was smitten with computers ever since the day his dad gave him his first Commodore 64 back in the late ’80s. It wasn’t until he took a class called Intro to Microcomputer Graphics in college that he discovered that the intersection of computers and art was where his true love was to be found. He later attended the Savannah College of Art & Design, where he studied 3D Modeling and Animation. Upon graduating with a BFA in Computer Art, Simon moved to New York City. After a brief stint at Tekserve (New York’s premier Mac repair shop), he got a job working as a designer at an interactive advertising agency during the heady dot-com boom of the late ’90s. Along the way, he discovered his second love: photography, which he pursues vigorously as a serious amateur around the streets and subways of New York. His photography has been featured on various sites, including Yahoo! News, Gothamist, and Panasonic’s Digital Photo Academy. Simon is an Adobe Certified Photoshop Professional and regularly appears as a guest lecturer teaching Photoshop at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has also led workshops in the theater at Apple’s flagship retail location in SoHo, New York. Simon currently lives in Brooklyn, with his wife Stephanie. He recently became a student of karate and works as a Flash developer at an advertising agency in New York City.

Dan Moughamian began exploring Adobe Photoshop in 1993 and never looked back. His passion for digital imaging ultimately led to a career in fine art photography, which continues to present day and has evolved to encompass not only still photography, but video and motion graphics as well. Dan is an accomplished instructor, teaching digital photography and Photoshop classes for Chicago-based venues such as Mac Specialist. Dan is also an Adobe trainer for designProVideo.com, authoring titles such as Photoshop CS4: Digital Photography Workflows. Dan lives outside of Chicago with his wife Kathy.

Customer Reviews

Nearly 5 stars
At my local Barnes and Noble there are more than a dozen guides to Photoshop CS4, each claiming to be indispensable. All the books have some reasons for existing and some potential audience. The trick is to know what you need and how you like to approach learning this fabulous software which has a learning curve about a steep as Mount Everest.
The "Bible" is as perfect a resource as I have found. First I should tell you why it does not warrant the full 5 stars:
* While there is an insert with full color pictures, they are meant to demonstrate potential uses for Photoshop and are more illustrative than demonstrative.
* The illustrations and photos included with the text are Black and White. When showing a screen shot of a menu, or adjustment panel, color adds virtually no benefit. When intended to demonstrate work done on a color photo, they are sadly lacking.
* The included CD contains practice photos from several chapters, but the text does not bother to refer to them or mention that a tutorial should be applied.
So why is this book very close to perfect:
+ It is intelligently and logically written and organized.
+ It includes virtually every feature and sub-menu in the software. The first thing I do after I install a new program is to search around and see what seems to be intuitive and what I cannot fathom. The book does a great job of helping out with the latter.
+ The text includes very helpful "Cross-Ref(erences)", "Tips" and "Warnings"
+ It is not purely a technical guide, it offers many specific tips and instructions on how to achieve outstanding,results; and why it is advantageous to use them.
+ Photoshop is an evolutionary product. Like most software that has gone through numerous versions, there are retained and redundant methods of achieving a result. The Bible does a great job of explaining, for example, how a "Curves" adjustment can be used to do the same thing (and more) than a "Contrast" modification. If what I have just written makes no sense to you, you should look elsewhere than the Bible for instruction.
+ It explains technical terms and concepts clearly and succinctly.
WARNING: This is not a book for those who like to follow a recipe of steps to success. I find that my mind cannot retain the sequence, and I am far better off understanding the concepts. The Bible does this perfectly. Nor is this a guide for beginners. I started on Photoshop CS2, skipped CS3, and have a good working knowledge of Photoshop fundamentals and do not need to be lead through procedures. Essentially, the Bible is a reference resource rather than a "how to". I've yet to find anything I wanted to know or do that is not in the book. Used as intended, it a tremendous addition to a photographers arsenal.

Excellent review rool!
As Always the Bible series offers the most complete resource I've been able to find on the Adobe Products - Its what I always get to prep for my ACI re-certification.

Info Great, But Printing Worthy of Illegal Copy
I purchased the Photoshop CS4 Bible, since I've been overwhelmed by the depth of information offered by the "Bible" series in the past. This new edition for Photoshop CS4 lives up to that wealth of information. So why the 1 star? How about the fact that it isn't even worthy of a bootleg edition! Typographical errors abound (I even spotted 2 on 1 page) and the printing looks like it was done on a copier in the back of a moving van. Doesn't Wiley employ proofreaders or, if they've cut corners that much, how about spellchecking sofware? I always go the legal route, versus copying or downloading someone else's text, but why bother when you get LESS FOR YOUR MONEY. Sure, it comes with a DVD (woopie!), but I could have copied the pages better myself. Was this really printed on a press? The dark title bars are faded (like a 5th generation copy), and except for the "breathtaking color photos" jammed into an insert in the center of the text, the rest is conspicuous for its utter lack of a splash of color anywhere. And I really don't think the sheer number of pages is worth almost 30 bucks. C'mon Wiley, make your books worthwhile, or suffer the exodus of the masses to illicit copies at your peril...