Photoshop CS4 Essential Training

Teaches a broad spectrum of core skills that are common to many creative fields.Photoshop has become an indispensible tool for photographers, designers, and all other creative professionals, as well as students. Photoshop CS4 Essential Training teaches a broad spectrum of core skills that are common to many creative fields: working with layers and selections; adjusting, manipulating, and retouching photos; painting; adding text; automating; preparing files for output; and more. Instructor Jan Kabili demonstrates established techniques as well as those made possible by some of the new features unique to Photoshop CS4. This course is indispensable to those who are new to the application, just learning this version, or expanding their skills. Example files accompany the course. Topics include: Learning and customizing the interface and workspace Utilizing various manual and guided selection techniques Working with Adobe Camera Raw Adding special effects with layer styles and Smart Filters Creating Photomerge panoramas Optimizing photos for the web and creating web galleries