Complete Photoshop CSX for Digital Photographers is a completely updated edition of this insightful and practical guide to using Photoshop as your photographic editing tool. All of the new featurees of CSX related to photography are thoroughly covered and wide variety of new photos and tutorials are used to teach you how to organize, enhance, correct, and retouch images; how to do creative things with those images; and how to output them. As with the previous editions, the book is designed and written especially for digital photographers: it teaches them how to use the tools and features of Photoshop, while explaining why and how Photoshop functions the way it does. Using Photoshop CSX is essentially like having your own desktop digital darkroom, and with the help of tutorials in this book, you'll learn how to master this powerful tool. By working through the various projects, you'll explore the new and enhanced areas of Photoshop, including more in depth coverage of each of these features and how they are improved from the previous version. And to help you master these tools, the book teaches professional techniques for overcoming the many challenges you'll face. After working through the book, you'll be able to bring out the best from any photo, while establishing an efficient workflow. If you truly want to understand and master Photoshop CSX for digital photography, this is the resource you need.
Chapter 1 Getting Started Using Bridge
Chapter 2 From Bridge to Photoshop: The Adobe Raw Converter
Chapter 3 Cropping and Perspective
Chapter 4 Tonal Correction and Enhancement
Chapter 5 Color Correction and Enhancement
Chapter 6 Local Enhancements: Selections and Masks
Chapter 7 Sharpening and Noise Reduction
Chapter 8 Sizing and Printing Your Images
Chapter 9 Image Retouching
Chapter 10 Frame and Color Effects
Chapter 11 Special Effects
Chapter 12 Combining Images for Creative Results