Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book  (English, Paperback, Adobe Creative Team)

The 14 project-based lessons in this book show students step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS6 and how to manipulate images, edit motion-based content, and create image composites.

In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop interface, this completely revised CS6 edition covers new features, including precise cropping with multiple overlays, expanded content-aware toolkit with skin tone-aware selections and masking, three new blur effects, re-engineered design tools, adaptive Wide Angle adjustments, improved Camera Raw engine, improved auto corrections, Background Save and Auto-recovery, modernized user interface, intuitive video enhancements, simplified 3D interface, improved editing speed with real-time results, and more.

Salient Features

• Comprehensive, project-based lessons teach key concepts in Photoshop CS6
• All-updated lessons cover new features, including precise cropping with multiple overlays, expanded content-aware toolkit with skin tone selections, three new blur effects, intuitive video enhancements, and more
• Official training series from Adobe Systems Inc., developed with the support of Adobe product experts

About the Author
The Adobe Creative Team of designers, writers, and editors has extensive, real world knowledge of Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe’s Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Table of Contents
Getting Started
Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area
Chapter 2: Basic Photo Corrections
Chapter 3: Working with Selections
Chapter 4: Layer Basics
Chapter 5: Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs
Chapter 6: Masks and Channels
Chapter 7: Typographic Design
Chapter 8: Vector Drawing Techniques
Chapter 9: Advanced Compositing
Chapter 10: Editing Video
Chapter 11: Painting
Chapter 12: Working with 3D Images
Chapter 13: Preparing Files for the Web
Chapter 14: Producing and Printing Consistent Color