Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2021 release)
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Book description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does -- an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:
- Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
- Web Edition containing the complete text of the book
What you need to use this book: Adobe Photoshop (2021 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Photoshop software.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the Lesson Files?
- Contents
- Getting Started
- About Classroom in a Book
- What’s new in this edition
- Prerequisites
- Installing Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Camera Raw
- Installing fonts
- Starting Adobe Photoshop
- Online content
- Restoring default preferences
- Additional resources
- Adobe Authorized Training Centers
- Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop
- Using the tools
- Sampling a color
- Working with tools and tool properties
- Undoing actions in Photoshop
- More about panels and panel locations
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Strategy for retouching
- Resolution and image size
- Opening a file with Adobe Bridge
- Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
- Adjusting the color and tone
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Applying a content-aware patch
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Sharpening the image
- Review questions
- Review answers
- About selecting and selection tools
- Getting started
- Using Cloud Documents
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Moving a selected area
- Using the Object Selection tool
- Manipulating selections
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Rotating a selection
- Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Selecting from a center point
- Resizing and copying a selection
- Cropping an image
- Review questions
- Review answers
- About layers
- Getting started
- Using the Layers panel
- Rearranging layers
- Applying a gradient to a layer
- Applying a layer style
- Adding an adjustment layer
- Updating layer effects
- Adding a border
- Flattening and saving files
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Getting started
- Improving a snapshot
- Adjusting facial features with Liquify
- Blurring a background
- Creating a panorama
- Filling empty areas when cropping
- Correcting image distortion
- Extending depth of field
- Removing objects using Content-Aware Fill
- Adjusting perspective in an image
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Working with masks and channels
- Getting started
- Using Select And Mask and Select Subject
- Creating a quick mask
- Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
- Using an alpha channel to create a shadow
- Review questions
- Review answers
- About type
- Getting started
- Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating type on a path
- Warping point type
- Designing paragraphs of type
- Adding a rounded rectangle
- Adding vertical text
- Review questions
- Review answers
- About bitmap images and vector graphics
- About paths and the Pen tool
- Getting started
- Drawing a shape with the Pen tool
- Drawing a path traced from a photo
- Converting a path to a selection and a layer mask
- Creating a logo with text and a custom shape
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Getting started
- Arranging layers
- Using Smart Filters
- Painting a layer
- Adding a background
- Using the History panel to undo edits
- Upscaling a low-resolution image
- Review questions
- Review answers
- About the Mixer Brush
- Getting started
- Selecting brush settings
- Mixing colors
- Mixing colors with a photograph
- Painting and mixing colors with brush presets
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Getting started
- About the Timeline panel
- Creating a new video project
- Animating text with keyframes
- Creating effects
- Adding transitions
- Adding audio
- Muting unwanted audio
- Rendering video
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Getting started
- About camera raw files
- Processing files in Camera Raw
- Applying advanced color correction
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Getting started
- Creating placeholders with the Frame tool
- Using layer groups to create button graphics
- Automating a multistep task
- Designing with artboards
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Preparing files for printing
- Getting started
- Performing a “zoom test”
- About color management
- Specifying color-management settings
- Identifying out-of-gamut colors
- Proofing document colors on a monitor
- Bringing colors into the output gamut
- Converting an image to CMYK
- Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
- Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Understanding Neural Filters
- Getting started
- Exploring the Neural Filters workspace
- Improving complexion with Skin Smoothing
- Combining Neural Filters
- Review questions
- Review answers
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Product information
- Title: Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2021 release)
- Author(s): Conrad Chavez, Andrew Faulkner
- Release date: December 2020
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780136904670