Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2020 release)

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2020 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons show key step-by-step techniques for working in Photoshop, including how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composites, and prepare images for print and the web. In addition to learning the essential elements of the Photoshop interface, this revised edition for the 2020 release covers features like the new Object Selection tool, saving Cloud Documents for easy access from Photoshop on other devices such as the Apple iPad, removing objects with upgraded Content-Aware Fill, applying styles and objects such as gradients and shapes, instantly using redesigned Presets panels, and much more! The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: A Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes

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Andrew Faulkner is the founder and creative guru at Afstudio Design, with 25+ years in providing design and photo-illustration services to a long list of corporate clients. His work with Adobe Systems started in 1994, when they invited him to help develop the first Adobe Classroom in a Book. Andrew has co-authored numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash.

In addition to his graphic design work, he is a veteran Photoshop-jockey, and his digital collage illustration work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The LA Times, and The Washington Post. His recent digital painting work can be seen online at andrew-faulkner.com. When Andrew's not at the studio, you can probably find him hunting down rare vinyl at one of the Bay Area's vintage record stores.

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GETTING STARTED

1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORK AREA

2 BASIC PHOTO CORRECTIONS

3 WORKING WITH SELECTIONS

4 LAYER BASICS

5 QUICK FIXES

6 MASKS AND CHANNELS

7 TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN

8 VECTOR DRAWING TECHNIQUES

9 ADVANCED COMPOSITING

10 PAINTING WITH THE MIXER BRUSH

11 EDITING VIDEO

12 WORKING WITH CAMERA RAW

13 PREPARING FILES FOR THE WEB

14 PRODUCING AND PRINTING CONSISTENT COLOR

15 PRINTING 3D FILES

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