Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills

Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography, digital imaging, art and design, or design graphics, you'll be amazed at the stunning results you can achieve!

New! DVD is included FREE. Additional learning materials include
- full-resolution, royalty-free images to download for trying-out your new techniques
- over 8 hours of QuickTime movie tutorials to support the practical projects
- Presets from layer styles to curves, shapes, and gradients
- indispensable RAW files for editing practice

The 'Essential Skills Photography 'Series from Focal Press uniquely offers a structured learning experience for photographers of all ages, with both the underlying theory and loads of invaluable 'how to' and real-life practice projects - all from the most talented photography practitioners/educators in the world.

Each subject includes:
- learning objectives for each section - for class use or self-study
- color images of student and teacher/author work
- activities to check learning outcomes
- assignments to put theories into creative practice
- full glossary of terms

Features & Benefits:
- An affordable resource that distils the complexity of Photoshop CS3 to the essentials
- Retouch photographs, create makeovers, produce sophisticated montages, and create special effects with clear, step-by-step projects
- Practice with activities that show the 'why', along with the 'how-to'
- Follow a structured learning approach to gain fundamental skills...and more