An inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, this book provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the 'digital darkroom.' Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills offers a progressive curriculum to guide you through Photoshop with a series of clear, step-by-step projects designed to place knowledge into a practical context.
You will build a useful and essential set of skills for creative and professional image editing and, whether you simply want to retouch an image, create a glamor makeover or create a highly sophisticated montage, this book will give you the essential skills to complete the work to a professional standard.
- The digital darkroom
- Digital basics
- Capture and enhance
- Digital negatives
- Digital printing
- Layers and channels
- Selections
- Layer blends
- Filters
- Retouching projects
- Toning projects
- Montage projects
- Special effects