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132 PAGES! Master every tool in the Photoshop toolbar

AdobePhotosh Every tool op explained! Unleash the full power behind every icon in the Photoshop toolbar

132 pages of easy-to-follow tutorials and expert advice to help develop your Adobe Photoshop skills

Welcome

Polish up your knowledge… Unravel the mysteries of the Photoshop Toolbar and its resident icons.They’re not as scary as they look! tart up Photoshop and what do you see? Well, besides the menu options along the top of the screen, you’ll see a Toolbar that’s chock-a-block with icons. You’ll probably recognise some of these, such as the ‘T’ that designates the Type tool and the paintbrush icon that unlocks the various Brush tools. But do you really know what the rest of these icons mean? … Honestly? The chances are that – like many Photoshop users across the world – you’re only using a fraction of the program’s full potential, but this second issue in the Photoshop Focus Guide series will change all that, helping you make the most of all the tools at your disposal. Even professional designers often admit to being hopeless with the Healing Brush and dodgy with the Dodge tool, but there’s really no reason for any of the tools to be a mystery. This issue will help you get more from the Clone, Gradient, Paths and Effects tools, to name but a few. You’ll find expert tips and advice for working more efficiently with each of the tools, as well as tutorials to demonstrate exactly how to carry out useful image-editing tasks. In the final section you’ll find a step-by-step guide that brings together all the skills you’ve learnt, showing how to create a striking Photoshop image. And let’s not forget the CD that accompanies your Focus Guide. On here you’ll find a library of stock images (worth £1,990), plug-ins and video training tutorials to enhance your enjoyment of Photoshop further still! Have fun!

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FOCUS GUIDE – ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TOOL TECHNIQUES

Icons explained

Finding your way Read this Guide from beginning to end or dip in and out as you please. Either way, our icons will prove indispensable…

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ith so much to say about icon categories, see below. These Adobe Photoshop it’s been handy hints, tips and shortcuts are difficult to cram all the information always relevant to the topic that’s that we wanted to include into this being discussed, and will help you Focus Guide. That’s why you’ll find develop your Photoshop skills that the special icons that occupy the little bit faster. margins so very useful. Our writers are always experienced As you leaf through the pages, Photoshop experts who regularly you’ll find a range of attractive contribute to our sister magazines, symbols, each of which denotes an such as Computer Arts and Digital extra nugget of knowledge. The Camera Magazine. So you can rest icons enable you to identify exactly assured that all the information what kind of information you’re they provide is both authoritative dealing with – for a full guide to and thoroughly tried-and-tested.

On your CD-ROM

Take note

Some of the software that we refer to may be included on your bonus CD. Every now and then we remind you of this by flagging up the disc icon and listing what’s on it. Handy, eh?

You’ll find a number of these nuggets of knowledge scattered throughout the Guide.They’re crammed with useful information that complements the main text perfectly.

Top tips

Watch out!

This indicates an expert tip. Anything sheltered beneath this icon is guaranteed to reveal a useful hint about using Photoshop’s extensive range of tools, palettes and features.

The skull and crossbones sign means proceed with caution.You’ll find some important points outlined below this icon, which you should certainly take seriously.

Further information

Links

We’d like to tell you absolutely everything, but there’s just not enough space. Instead we refer you to other useful resources, such as websites and specialist books for further reading.

When we refer to a website, we may pull out the web address in the sidebar to make it easier for you to read and remember.

Shortcuts Carrying out common tasks again and again can get a little tedious. Our handy shortcuts show you how to carry out these tasks with a few deft key-presses, saving you lots of time and effort.

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