Preface

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS2

Welcome to Adobe Photoshop CS2—Revealed. This book offers creative projects, concise instructions, and complete coverage of basic to advanced Photoshop skills, helping you create dynamic Photoshop art! Use this book as you learn Photoshop, and then use it later as your own reference guide.

This text is organized into 16 chapters plus additional online bonus content. In these chapters, you will learn many skills including how to work with layers, make selections, adjust color techniques, use paint tools, work with filters, transform type, liquify an image, annotate and automate a Photoshop document, and create Photoshop images for the Web! The online appendices provide additional coverage on Adobe Bridge and offer extra practice in creating eye-catching projects and effects. The online content is available for downloading from www.course.com/Revealed/photoshopcs2.

What You’ll Do

A What You’ll Do figure begins every lesson. This figure gives you an at-a-glance look at the skills covered in the chapter and shows you the completed Data File for the lesson. Before you start the lesson, you will know—both on a technical and artistic level—what you will be creating.

Comprehensive Conceptual Lessons

Before jumping into instructions, in-depth conceptual information tells you “why” skills are applied. This book provides the “how” and “why” through the use of professional examples. Also included in the text are helpful tips and sidebars to help you work more efficiently and creatively, or to teach you a bit about the history behind the skill you are using.

Step-by-Step Instructions

This book combines in-depth conceptual information with concise steps to help you learn Photoshop. Each set of steps guides you through a lesson where you will apply Photoshop tasks to a dynamic and professional project file. References to large colorful images and quick step summaries round out the lessons. You can download the Data Files for the steps at the following URL: www.course.com/Revealed/photoshopcs2.

The figures in this book are provided to help you follow the steps, and the callouts should help you locate icons, buttons, and commands on the screen. When a figure points out a color or color change, you should use it to guide your eye to the relevant location on your monitor screen.

Chapter Summaries

This book contains chapter summaries that highlight the key tasks and terms you learn in each chapter. You can use these summaries as a quick refresher should you find you need to review information you learned earlier in the book.