Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 is impressive, both for its new creative resources and its new tools for streamlining design and production. Nowﾽs a great time to upgrade, if you havenﾽt already -- especially if youﾽve skipped a revision or two. When itﾽs time to learn Photoshop 7, one package gives you training created by Adobe and proven in Adobe classrooms and labs: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book.
Like every book in Adobe Pressﾽs Classroom in a Book series, this one organizes its subject into a series of modular, hands-on lessons -- each one using images from the accompanying CD-ROM, and concluding with review questions to make sure youﾽre comfortable with what youﾽve learned.
The authors begin with the updated Photoshop interface and work area, then present a completely new lesson on the new File Browser, one of Photoshopﾽs niftiest improvements. (Suddenly, you can rotate, rank, and sort thumbnails, easily create proofsheets, avoid opening digital images that arenﾽt worth your time; even read and use the XIF image data stored by your digital camera. Goodbye, ﾽOpenﾽ dialog box -- and good riddance.)
Youﾽll also find an entirely new lesson on basic photo correction with Photoshopﾽs suite of automatic color correction tools -- including the new AutoColor tool, far better than AutoLevel for removing unwanted color cast.
Next, the authors cover selections using the marquee, lasso, magic wand, and move tools; and layers for isolating different elements of images for independent editing. Sounds like stuff you might know already, but -- especially in the case of layers -- even experienced users are likely to find some extremely useful nuggets here. After that, youﾽll gain a solid understanding of masks and channels, features that many Photoshop users have never fully grasped.
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book includes updated coverage of painting that reflects Photoshopﾽs powerful new painting engine; a complete overview of color management; and a lesson on prepping images for two-color printing. It also contains extensive hands-on coverage of photo retouching, especially Photoshop 7ﾽs new Healing Brush and Patch Tool -- way quicker than the old Clone Stamp.
Last but not least, youﾽll find practical, step-by-step web graphics projects -- including walkthroughs of creating image maps and animations, optimizing images, and managing them with Photoshop 7ﾽs unified Rollover palette.
Simply put, this Classroom in a Book is superior training for superior software.
Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
When it comes to digital imaging software, Adobe Photoshop has long set the standard. Thus, when a new version of the popular program appears, designers tend to stand up and take notice--hen get down to the serious business of learning about it! And for that, there's no better place to turn than the book from the people behind the product: Adobe Press' Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book.
Using the same style of self-paced instruction employed in the best-selling previous edition, this comprehensive set of Photoshop lessons provides everything you need to dive into the world of print, Web, and graphic design with Photoshop 7. Completely revised to cover all of Photoshop 7's new features (including the new Healing Brush, color correction commands, and file management tools), the book starts with an introductory tour of the software and then progresses on through 16 lessons, covering everything from Photoshop's interface to more complex topics like color management, Web graphics, and photo retouching. You'll find step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects (from beginning to advanced) and review questions at the end of each chapter to reinforce what you've learned. Easy-to-use project files on the accompanying CD-ROM complete the package.
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