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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques View Larger Image | Ben Willmore
Adobe Press, Paperback, Bk&CD edition, Published December 2007, 512 pages, ISBN 0321510461 | List Price: $55.00
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover
the new features in CS3. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information
and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore guides you
through the concepts, features that will truly make a difference in how you
use Photoshop every day. He takes you from blindly following step-by-step instructions
to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat
to focus on what he considers to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color
book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations,
Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations, and includes a companion CD
with bonus chapters and practice images so you can quickly and easily apply
the techniques covered throughout. Beginning with the working foundations of
Photoshop--the basic tools, palettes, layers, and masks, you'll quickly move
on to real-world production techniques, such as how to sharpen scans, correct
and optimize images, and use the powerful Curves and Channels features to your
advantage. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential
by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs,
colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish
this book, your creativity and efficiency levels should soar and you'll start
to feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.
Table of Contents
Part I: Working Foundations
Chapter 1-Tool & Palette Primer
Chapter 2-Selection Primer
Chapter 3-Layers Primer
Part II: Production Essentials
Chapter 4-Camera Raw
Chapter 5-Color Correction
Chapter 6-Adjusting Tonality
Chapter 7-Adjusting Color
Chapter 8-Adjustment Layers
Chapter 9-Sharpening
Part III: Creative Explorations
Chapter 10-Enhancement
Chapter 11-Advanced Masking
Chapter 12-Collage
Chapter 13-Retouching
Bonus Chapters to the CD:
CH04-Resolution Solutions
CH05-Grayscale
CH04-Color Management
CH17-Workflow
About the Author
A senior engineer from NASA once said that this man gave the best technical
seminar he ever attended. That same year a computer-phobic person who had been
struggling with Photoshop for years proclaimed that “He takes the Boogie
Man out of Photoshop!” This seems to be Ben Willmore's special gift; he
has an uncanny ability to connect with users of every level and mindset; whether
it’s first-timers taking their first sniff of Photoshop, or razor-sharp
nerds and nerdettes who are on the fast track to technical illumination. The
common echo that Ben leaves in his wake seems to be “Aha! I finally GET
Photoshop!”
To date, Ben has personally taught over 45,000 Photoshop users on three continents.
His descriptions of Curves and Channels are thought to be the best in the industry
and his breakthrough teaching style of “not-just-how-but-why,” has
made him the in-house instructor of choice for companies such as Mercedes Benz,
Adobe Systems, America Online, the U.S. Air Force, Lexis Nexis and Fisher-Price
Toys. His award-winning, best-selling book, Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques
is said to be “Arguably, one of the best Photoshop books ever written.”
by Photoshop User’s publisher, Jim Workman.
He continues to be a featured speaker at publishing conferences and events
worldwide, including Photoshop World, American Society of Media Photographers
(ASMP), Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the Royal Photographic
Society of England. He's a member of the Dream Team for NAPP and writes for
numerous digital imaging and photography publications, including a monthly column
for Photoshop User magazine. In 2004 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall
of Fame. His reputation as the “expert's expert” prompted NAPP's president,
Scott Kelby, to say, “When we get stuck, we call Ben!”
Ben sold his house in the mountains of Colorado in early 2006 and started to
live a mobile lifestyle. His home is a 1997 40' Prevost bus (often referred
to as a Rock Star Bus) that was converted by Liberty coach into a motorhome.
The bus is pretty much a one bedroom apartment on wheels. Ben spends his time
driving to speaking events and photographing National Parks and small town America.
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