Photoshop 7

When scanning the bookstore for Photoshop titles, it may seem like there are as many books on how to use Photoshop 7 as there are people to use it. The trick is to find that one book that addresses your specific needs. For example, if you want to learn how to use Photoshop 7 with ImageReady 7 to create high-quality images for the Web, you can bypass all of the more general titles in favor ofPhotoshop 7/ImageReady Hands-On Training. The update to this best-selling book focuses specifically on using Photoshop 7 and ImageReady 7 for the Web with guided, tutorial-based lessons and exercises that have been developed and tested in Lynda Weinman's lynda.com digital arts training center. Each lesson contains extensive background information designed to help you understand the process as well as the particular exercise. You'll also learn how to create Photoshop rollovers, animations, image maps, transparency, layer styles, automation techniques, and more. If you're a beginning to intermediate Web designer, or a Photoshop user who is looking for a great tool to create graphics for the Web, this book has exactly what you've been looking for!

"In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Adobe Photoshop 7. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of creating and editing images with Photoshop from the ground up." -- Back cover.

A visual guide to the features and functions of Adobe Photoshop explains how to alter or manipulate images with color, layers, text, light, filters, and masks.

"How to Use Adobe Photoshop" visually steps the reader through everything he or she needs to know in order to create and manipulate images for print and the Web.

This book describes step-by-step everything you need to know about four-color seperations, using specialty films and vellums, and printing with Post-Script printers.

Annotation. Speed up your Photoshop 7 productivity with this book of keyboard, command-control shortcuts. Finally, theyre ALL in one place! Full of undocumented material, these secrets and shortcuts come straight from the Adobe Photoshop development crew. No other Photoshop resource is organized in such an easy-to-access way. Michael Ninness is the former Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, making him a Voice That Matters. Photoshops complexity grows with its popularity. Knowing and using keyboard and quick-click shortcuts can make a huge difference in your productivity. This book documents all of the shortcuts officially included (but not found in one spot) in the Photoshop documentation and organizes them so theyre easy to find. The book shows how each shortcut works in the current AND previous versions of Photoshop, invaluable info for upgraders. Most significantly, the book contains dozens of shortcuts and workarounds undocumented anywhere else. A book like this belongs in every serious Photoshop users work environment Michael Ninnessis the former product manager for Photoshop; he most recently was the Propduct Manager for Adobe LiveMotion, and is now a product director for Microsoft. Mike has written or contributed to several Photoshop books, and is a popular speaker and technology evangelist.

CD-ROM contains: "many useful third party tools and utilities plus the samples from the book."

Just because a program is one-size-fits-all doesn't mean that a book about it has to be. Take the case ofAdobe Photoshop 7.0 Web Design: Even though the popular digital imaging program is geared toward designers of all types (graphics, print, Web), this book that covers it isn't. Instead, it's written just for you--the Web site designer who wants to get answers to Web-related Photoshop questions without wading through a lot of explanations that simply don't apply.Through clear, direct text and a gorgeous four-color layout, this volume both instructs and inspires-Qin the process delivering all of the information you need to produce better-organized, faster-loading Web sites. As you follow along with best-selling authorMichael Baumgardt, you'll learn how to create and optimize Web graphics, produce GIF animations, manage Web colors, and more. You'll also learn about all that's new in Photoshop 7: an enhanced Rollover palette to manage Web page rollovers, animations, and image maps more easily; Web output enhancements to easily apply transparency to Web page elements; and the new "selected" rollover state for creating more sophisticated Web site navigation bars without hand-coding--and these are just the tip of the iceberg. Whatever your level of experience, if you're ready to take on Web design with Photoshop 7, this is the book for you. '

The hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the pro that needs results FAST. Professional-level material, with content that appeals to multiple-book-buying professionals. Photoshop 7 Killer Tips is a HUGE bang in a small, accessible package. When it comes to Photoshop, time is money. This book is all about speed; showing the Photoshop professional how to get more work done faster, while actually increasing quality. The whole concept is to help make the reader faster and more productive than ever in Photoshop 7. In an ever-tightening and competitive marketplace, this kind of book is sorely needed.

Updated for the latest version of Photoshop, Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks is packed cover to cover with step-by-step tutorials on the coolest Photoshop 7 effects. The book is not another rehash of masking, pixels, and file formats or resolution--it's nothing but the cool stuff that will make your client's (or boss's) jaw drop.