Now fully updated to the new release of Adobe's Creative Suite, Exploring Photoshop CS2 shows how to turn a great software tool into great designs. Written by an experienced designer and computer graphics instructor, Exploring Photoshop CS2 is a designer-driven resource that examines the tools and features of Adobe® Photoshop® while showing how to maximize the potential of desktop digital imaging for graphics, illustration, composition, and special effects.

Features

• A just-the-essentials introduction to the must-know features of Adobe's industry-standard digital imaging program.
• A visual examination of how designers use Photoshop to create exceptional design-including a full color chapter on using color in Photoshop.
• Client projects show readers how to take a practical, tools and techniques approach to putting what they've learned to work.
• Contributions from leading designers show why Photoshop is essential to the successful graphic designer, how to avoid common software mistakes, and how to prepare Photoshop files for production.
• A full-color insert provides inspiring examples of digital images that can be created using Photoshop.
• A back-of-book CD features digital exercises files, tutorials, and other valuable learning tools

• A Discovery Tour
• The Staging Area
• Image Essentials
• Selecting and Transforming
• Working with Color
• Image Correction
• Drawing and Painting
• Adventures in Design: Dodge and Burn
• Masking
• Compositing and the Design Process
• Adventures in Design: From the Imagination
• Print Publishing
• Adventures in Design: Wine Box Composition
• Web Publishing