Adobe Photoshop: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to creating, editing, and enhancing images and designs in Adobe Photoshop. Whether you’re retouching a photograph, generating designs for social media, or combining images into composite creations, Photoshop is the tool for you—and this book will teach you what you need to know. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to cover the newest features of Photoshop.
First, in a complete Course that includes a new set of projects and lessons from the curriculum of Adobe Certified Instructor Steve Laskevitch, you’ll learn the procedures needed to use Photoshop effectively and professionally. As you work your way through dozens of step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to Photoshop’s rich feature set in practical contexts and learn best practices for optimal workflows. We’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download, and you can use your course creations as starting points for your own projects.
The updated Compendium provides even greater depth of knowledge and serves as an in-depth reference you can rely on long after the course is done. Its eight easy-to-access sections help you uncover more of the “how” and “why” of Photoshop. With extensive cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly.
Learn step by step how to:
• Set up an ideal workspace
• Leverage artificial intelligence (AI) features
• Know what to do when AI fails
• Master selections and masks
• Work with design features and presets like gradients, patterns, brushes, and text
• Combine images seamlessly
• Use Smart Objects for powerful workflows
• Become more efficient and effective with actions and scripts
• And much more!
From the Publisher
ASIN : B0BLYBGD5G
Publisher : Rocky Nook
Publication date : August 15, 2023
Edition : 2nd
Language : English
Print length : 416 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8888140178
Item Weight : 2.65 pounds
Dimensions : 8 x 1 x 9.75 inches
Part of series : Course and Compendium
Best Sellers Rank: #1,292,371 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #78 in Adobe Photoshop #715 in Photography Reference (Books) #1,214 in Digital Photography (Books)
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Muchecki, M –
Learn advanced skills in Photoshop as of October 2023
The last version of Photoshop 6, I was familiar with, then I stopped my interests in Photography. I have bought Nikon Z8 camera recently but I knew that even pro-level camera as Z8 is, it will not help to create spectacular landscape Photography. For Semi-pro or Pro, you have to be 60% in right place/right time, another 40% is skillful work in Photoshop. Photoshop make huge advancements since PS6.For those who wants to advance to Pro level, they need to understand Layers and Masks in PS. Layers and Masks are the heart of contemporary Photography. Without knowledge of PS your pictures may look average among other millions of similar looking pictures on the internet.That is why, I want to thank author S. Laskevitch for providing such valuable and detailed lessons in his book, particularly about all kind of photoshop tricks in application of Layers and Masks. I am only on page 100 of his book, now and I’ve learnt so many interesting things which I had no idea that existed in present Photoshop.The author is great instructor with great knowledge of PS. It is written in form of dialog, where instructor is over your shoulder in a classroom and explains to you in clear, concise manner an inner workings of Photoshop.I need to add, I tried three different books before this one, and none of them were even close to the level of quality informations as I have found in Compendium.Luckily for me, author is on my radar now, and definitely, if I need any help in different software or follow up updates on PS, definitely I will check his books.
Kathy –
It answered a question I couldn’t find anywhere!
Layers are so confusing, but this book lays them out very clearly! The directions are easy to follow. Thank you!
Randi Bowman –
Disappointed
I am very disappointed, not with the book, but I put in the search criteria photoshop 6.0 how to book and this one came up. It said second edition photos hope a complete course and compendium of feature (6). This made me believe it was for photoshop 6.0. A bit of false advertisement
Gloria Z. Nagler –
Great guide for beginning and advanced users of Photoshop.
The table of contents of this book I have eagerly anticipated reading makes clear that the author will talk about everything imaginable you might want to know about Photoshop. This will be a valuable source down the road. He begins by telling us that he will give us a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts, in the appendix of the book. That’s something of value! I note shortcuts on sticky notes stuck to my computer. This will be better:)His writing style is quite approachable, even friendly. That is great for a book that has so much information on offer. It will be a pleasure to read, as well as useful. He starts out telling us how to configure the workspace and has clearly understandable illustrations showing you where things are and where you might want to put them.In his section and curves, the author says that this is probably the most powerful adjustment. That certainly pulls you in to want to read the section. Although I have used curves before, reading this section added much to my repertoire in editing pix.The author covers the usual subjects on masking and layers, but also talks about software-aided photography. For example, panorama shots and HDR. I like that he goes beyond the basics. That’s not to say that he gives short shrift to things like layers. He has several sections on the subject and goes into much detail, explaining to us how best to use layers.I have not much played with color in my photographs, but now I may give it a shot. The author gives a succinct, useful several sections on choosing and working with colors. He even tells us which tools to ignore because they have little relevance anymore. I had no idea, until I read this book, of the extent to which I can use color tools to improve my photos.Towards the conclusion, the author tells me something I did not know: there is an Adobe‘s Plugin Marketplace which sits at the top of the creative cloud app. I already use a few plug-ins, and now know where to look for others!This is a book for beginning and advanced users of Photoshop because, in my estimation, it covers just about everything one needs to know. Moreover, the author thankfully writes in a style easy to read. This will go on a shelf close to my computer 🙂
Jeff Ornstein –
The Best Book on this Subject
PHOTOSHOP A COMPLETE COURSE and COMPEDIUM by Steve LaskevitchI have been using Photoshop for thirty years and without a doubt can say it is the best book I have ever read to learn and advance you Photoshop abilities.It is beautifully written and produced with the best explanations and imagery!Even if you use other photographic software this is a must read and belongs in every photographer’s library!Enough said!
Audra Meyer –
Missing content
I’m missing chapters 4 and 5 for the course section, not helpful since my homework required those chapters 🙁