Inside Adobe Photoshop 6
New Riders, December, 2000.
Trade Paperback, 964 pages.
ISBN: 0789724251
Adobe Photoshop has become the
undisputed standard in graphics software
tools. This extensive reference covers the
tools, tricks and the many uses of
Photoshop 6. The reference provides detailed
coverage of each Photoshop feature, including
palettes, shape tools, tool bars, layers, filters,
color management, optimizing Photoshop, image
formats, acquiring Photoshop images,
outputting your work and other Photoshop tools.
Once you are more familiar with Photoshop,
you can then move onto the
other chapters which cover selection tools, layering
images, pen and path painting tools, creating
shapes, custom shapes, text effects, improving
images, restoring photographs, the clone
stamp tool, scanners, 3D graphics, filters,
typefaces, type design and web images.
A CD-ROM is also provided which includes
examples from each chapter in the book, fonts,
clip art and third-party software tools.
Gary David Bouton, an author and graphics expert, has written more than 16 books on computer graphics for New Riders. Inside Photoshop 6 is his 13th book on Photoshop. Gary and his wife, co-author Barbara, hold four international awards in desktop publishing and design. The Boutons' book is very well-organized, and provides detailed instructions for each Photoshop task making it easy for the readers to follow along while trying out the examples themselves. Especially helpful are the many well explained step-by-step procedures, accompanied by screen shots and diagrams, which walk readers through different Photoshop uses. Graphics industry professionals, website owners and people interested in digital photography should not be without this handy reference.
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This review was published in the March, 2001 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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