Photoshop Finishing Touches

Photoshop Finishing Touches, 9780321441669 (0321441664), Peachpit Press, 2006

If you're primarily interested in finishing touches--the million creative ways you can use your favorite software to improve, polish, and add pizzazz to your images--this is the book for you! The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Finishing Touches for Photoshop CS2 offers a treasure chest of creative finishing techniques. With chapters on frames and border effects, color and artistic effects, presentation, sharpening, and printing, this full-color guide covers everything from creative cropping to dramatic lighting, stock photos, collage ideas, combining black-and-white and color, selective blurring, storybook layouts, PDF presentation, and more. Each technique is a stand-alone tutorial, so you can jump in at any point without weeding through a lot of info that's not relevant to the task at hand. Even better, author Dave Cross' two-column format--with simple instructions in one column and lavish, full-color photos and artwork running alongside--makes the techniques instantly accessible. You'll also find several variations for most techniques as well as instructions for creating reusable templates.

About the Author

Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education and Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). He also creates the popular weekly QuickTime-based tutorials that appear on the members' Web site. Dave is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS2 and a Certified Technical Trainer as well as the author or co-author of numerous Photoshop and Illustrator books, including Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips and Photoshop CS2 Help Desk.

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