Photoshop? 4 for Macs? For Dummies? - Softcover

McClelland, Deke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764500392 ISBN 13: 9780764500398

Publisher: For Dummies, 1997

Synopsis

Free 16-Page Full-Color Photoshop Gallery Inside!

Explore the Endless Possibilities of Manipulating Photos with Photoshop — Find Out How to Bend the Golden Gate Bridge, Put a Smile on Mona Lisa, and More! With Adobe Photoshop's electronic image editing abilities, gone are the days of the tacky cut and paste photo collage! Photoshop® 4 For Macs® For Dummies®, 2nd Edition, takes you through the fundamentals with easy-to-follow explanations in a minimal amount of time! You'll find tons of helpful hints to guide you effortlessly through Photoshop 4. Ask for IDG Books' ...For Dummies® Books, the Fun and Easy Way to Find Out About Computers. Also look for IDG Books' Macs® For Dummies®, 5th Edition, the fun and easy way to get started, and QuarkXpress® 4 For Dummies®, the fast and friendly way to explore desktop publishing!

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

• Twist, melt, and manipulate digitized photos into works of art with Photoshop's special effects
• Make features like resolution, image size, and file format work for you — not against you
• Retouch and rescue bad scans and poor pictures using filters and tools
• Save time and sanity with effective and efficient Photoshop shortcuts
• Explore the new features of Version 4, including the Navigator palette, grids and guides, and expanded layering capabilities
• Prepare color, black and white, and grayscale images for professional printing and publishing
• Explore Photoshop's creative possibilities in the 16-page full-color example gallery

About this title

Review:

If you're brand new to image editing and you've got a copy of Photoshop that you're trying desperately to understand, you should check out this book. It introduces you to the basic concepts of editing and acquiring images; understanding and navigating the Photoshop interface; and learning about resolution, sizing, and printing issues. Various file formats, including JPEG and GIF, the standards for Web images, are also discussed. Photoshop 4 for Macs for Dummies teaches you how to use Photoshop's paint, drawing, and selection tools, and the last section features an introduction to layers, color options, and text effects. Several four-color pages show Photoshop images and tell a bit about the editing techniques the artists used. It's hard to write an introductory book for such complex software, but these writers have done it. They're funny too, which helps if you're particularly daunted by the prospect of learning Photoshop. If you're using a Windows operating system, check out Photoshop 4 for Windows for Dummies.

From the Back Cover:

With the Adobe Photoshop program's electronic image editing abilities, gone are the days of the tacky cut-and-paste photo collage! Photoshop 4 For Macs For Dummies, 2nd Edition, takes you through the fundamentals with easy-to-follow explanations in a minimal amount of time! You'll find tons of helpful hints to guide you effortlessly through Photoshop 4.

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

• Twist, melt, and manipulate digitized photos into works of art with the Photoshop program's special effects
• Make features like resolution, image size, and file format work for you -- not against you
• Retouch and rescue bad scans and poor pictures by using filters and tools
• Save time and sanity with effective and efficient Photoshop shortcuts
• Explore the new features of Version 4, including the Navigator palette, grids and guides, and expanded layering capabilities
• Prepare color, black and white, and grayscale images for professional printing and publishing
• Explore Photoshop's creative possibilities in the 16-page full-color example gallery

About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0764500392
• ISBN 13: 9780764500398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384