Photoshop in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

Photoshop in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

by Donnie O ' Quinn (Author)

Synopsis

This concise reference text details Photoshop 5's powerful features and describes every tool, command, palette, and sub-menu. Each item is accompanied by a list of its most common uses and misues. The book also incloudes step-by-step techniques for common uses and experience-based advice and solutions for common misuses. The information is organized in an encyclopaedic format, following the structure of Photoshop iteslf. The text also includes the following: an intensive study of Photoshop's new ability to handle and create colour profiles, including real-world examples and troubleshooting techniques; information on colour-correcting tools that include more cause-and-effect descriptions of image adjusting versus the final on-screen or printed piece; an updated techniques appendix that still contains nearly 200 step-by-step items; and an updated list of every Photoshop keyboard shortcut.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 658
Edition: 2
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 01 Apr 1999

ISBN 10: 1565925653
ISBN 13: 9781565925656

Author Bio
Donnie O'Quinn is an author, consultant, and onsite trainer based in Portland, Maine. Classroom-based programs under his direction were once described as hands down, the best prepress training in the Northeast by Printing Industries of New England organization. Past clients include Apple Computer, MetaCreations, and MacUser Magazine, as well as service bureaus, designers, and printers from Philadelphia to Nova Scotia. His other books include Digital Prepress Complete (Hayden Books) and QuarkXPress in a Nutshell (O'Reilly), and he's not about to stop. When not working, he restores his overpowered '74 Chevy, tries to find time to form another maladjusted punk band, and writes of his family's vast experiences in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.