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We are excited to introduce our latest book, Practical Photoshop CS5, Level 1, designed to guide you through the basic skills you need to become Photoshop CS5 proficient.
Our authors are all Adobe Certified Instructors in Adobe Photoshop and current or former community college instructors. Together, we have taught Photoshop to thousands of students, both in traditional classrooms and online.
In our 16+ years teaching Photoshop, we have learned firsthand from students of all ages which Photoshop skills they feel are the most essential, and also which Photoshop techniques they find the most difficult to master. We have used our students’ feedback to determine both the topics and the approach to the step by step tutorials in Practical Photoshop CS5: Level 1.
These tutorials do not cover all of Photoshop—instead we have tried to distill the important terms, skills, and techniques you will need to open, edit, create, save, and print Photoshop documents.Topics include:
- The Photoshop workspace and image navigation
- Preparing files for print and web
- Selection and Refine Edge
- Working with standard, type, and fill layers
- Painting and filling layers and selections, including the new Content-Aware Fill
- Image management and Adobe® Bridge®
- Design principles
- Simple automations in Adobe Bridge
- Correcting image tonality
- Adjusting image colors
- Painting with special tools
- Image restoration
- Fun with filters
As we present topics, we have used the Adobe Certified Associate criteria to cover the entry-level skills needed to "plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications" in using Adobe Photoshop and its sister appliction, Adobe Bridge.
The DVD that accompanies each book contains all the tutorial files, and more than 60 videos that demonstrate key topics and techniques covered in the book. These videos are primarily recorded in Photoshop CS4, and most are closed captioned.
We will record CS5 videos as appropriate, and post them on this site in the Videos link.
To learn more about the Adobe Certified Associate program, see:
www.adobe.com/education/instruction/ace.
Please email info@practical-photoshop.com for more information on the Practical Photoshop books.