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The best-selling Photoshop tutorial: freshened and reorganized for easier learning, and fully updated for Photoshop CS4 Stock available November 2008- Aust RRP $34.95 bull; An easy-to-read, well-organized introduction to Photoshop development for Photoshop beginners and upgraders alike: no programming experience needed bull; New full-color, wide-trim design makes this book exceptionally accessible and visually appealing. bull; A complete tutorial package: step-by-step instructions, Q and As, quizzes, exercises, tips, shortcuts, and much more. In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS4 in 24 Hours will show Photoshop beginners and upgraders how to create, edit, and manipulate images with Adobe Photoshop CS4. In this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones -- helping readers master all the essentials of Adobe's newest version of Photoshop from the ground up. Friendly, accessible, and conversational, this book gives Photoshop beginners a practical grounding in the entire package, without ever becoming overwhelming or intimidating. Coverage includes: getting started, selections, color, painting, transformations, layers, masks, paths, filters, type, composites, B and W and color image repair, printing and publishing images, and much more. Throughout, step-by-step instructions carefully walk readers through the most common Photoshop questions, issues, and tasks... Q and As, Quizzes, and Exercises help them build and test their knowledge... 'Did You Know?' tips offer them insider advice and shortcuts... and 'Watch Out!' alerts help them avoid problems. By the time they're finished with these lessons, readers won't just understand Photoshop CS4: they'll be comfortable using it in real-world projects.

Kate Binder is a graphics expert who works from her home in New Hampshire, doing design and production for books, magazines, e-books, and websites. She is the author of several books, including iMac Portable Genius (Wiley, 2008), Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 Hours (Sams, 2008), Easy Mac OS X Leopard (Que, 2007), and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mac OS X (Alpha, 2001). She is the coauthor of several more books, including Microsoft Office: Mac v.X Inside Out (Microsoft Press, 2002), SVG for Designers (McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, 2002), and Get Creative: The Digital Photo Idea Book (McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, 2003). To those interested in a successful career as a designer, photographer, or computer book writer, Kate recommends acquiring several retired racing greyhounds (find out more at www.adopt-a-greyhound.org); she finds her own pack of greyhounds extraordinarily inspirational. Kate can be reached via her website at www.prospecthillpub.com.

Introduction
Downloading the Bookrsquo;s Source Images
Conventions Used in This Book
Getting Started
Exploring Photoshop Basics
Finding Your Way Around
Whatrsquo;s on the Menus?
Setting Preferences
Opening and Saving Files
Working with Files
Saving Your Work
Undoing and Redoing
Using Version Cue
Making Selections
The Selection Tools
The Select Menu Selecting Large Areas
Advanced Selection Techniques
Cutting and Copying
Cropping
Specifying Color Modes andColor Models
Color Models
From Models to Modes
Color Bit Depth and Why It Matters
Adjusting Brightness and Color
Evaluating Your Color Adjustment Needs
Adjusting by Eye with Variations
Making Other Adjustments
Preserving the Original with Adjustment Layers
Understanding Color Channels
Making Spot Fixes
Converting Color to Black and White
Choosing and Blending Colors
Foreground and Background Colors
Specifying Colors
Blending Modes
Painting with Pixels
Drawing and Combining Shapes
Drawing and Editing Shapes
Combining and Editing Shapes
Creating Your Own Shapes
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Introduction IntroductionPhotoshop CS4 is the latest and greatest version of a program that has set the standard for image manipulation since 1987. Photoshop CS4 comes in two versions: Standard and Extended. Photoshop CS4 Standard is the image-editing powerhouse photographers and artists have always loved, with new features such as previews that show how your images will look to people who are color-blind, auto-alignment and auto-blending of image content on separate layers, a new Masks panel that puts sophisticated controls for both pixel and vector masks in a single location, an Adjustments panel for applying and managing editable image corrections, and more. Meanwhile, for users in specialized industries such as research science, Photoshop CS4 Extended has complex features that most people don't need, including 3D image creation, video layers, tools for image analysis, measurement and counting abilities, rotoscoping (painting on film or video), 32-bit painting, and database connectivity. If you're interested in learning more about the powerful capabilities in Photoshop CS4 Extended, turn to Appendix B, "A Quick Walk on the Extended Side," for a rundown on its features.In this book, we look primarily at what Photoshop CS4 Standard has to offer. If you've used an earlier version of Photoshop, you'll be amazed by the new features you'll find in this version. On the other hand, if this is your first experience with Photoshop, you'll be amazed to find that it's really not as difficult to work with as it looks. The Photoshop interface will be immediately familiar if you've used other Adobe software.This book was written using beta versions of the software, so some of the figures might be slightly different from what you see on your screen when you're using the final release version of Photoshop CS4. We've done our best to keep the book as accurate as possible, and my editors and I hope that any differences you do run across will be minor.If this is your first foray into working with digital images, I recommend that you work on the hours of this book one at a time, without skipping the activities or exercises. There's really no way to become an overnight expert, in Photoshop or in anything else, butSams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS4 in 24 Hourswill definitely get you up and running in 24 hours or less. The book is divided into 24 one-hour lessons, rather than chapters, and each lesson should take you about an hour to complete. Some lessons might take more time, some less. Just don't try to work through all 24 lessons in one 24-hour day, even if you can manage to stay awake that long. The best way to retain what you've learned is to take a little time between the lesson sessions to try things out. Be sure to spend time simply messing around in Photoshop, learning what's on the menus and what happens when you click here and there.Here's one for you to start with: At the far right end of Photoshop CS4's new Application bar, you'll see a pop-up menu of workspaces--different combinations of visible panels, keyboard shortcuts, and selected menu commands designed for working in particular ways. From the pop-up menu, choose What's New in CS4, and then click Yes in the resulting dialog. Now each menu command that's new or modified in Photoshop CS4 appears highlighted in blue so you can pick it out. Take some time to check out what's new before you switch back to the Essentials workspace, where you started. Now you're ready to get started--let's go! Downloading the Book's Source ImagesI've provided a few of the source images for the book's exercises on the publisher's website. To d

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