Publisher: Visual, 2010 | ISBN: 0470612630 | 356pages | PDF | 91.6MB

Gets visual learners up to speed quickly on the newest Photoshop release

Photoshop is the gold standard for image-editing programs and is used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists. Designed for those who learn best visually, this full-color guide has been completely updated to cover the newest release of Photoshop. Previous editions have sold more than 150,000 copies.

* Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software used in both print and digital media, with more than four million users worldwide; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced tools
* People who learn more easily when they can see how something is done will quickly grasp essential Photoshop concepts and procedures in this visual, step-by-step format
* Covers importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing, enhancing digital images, adding custom 3D effects, editing images for the Web, creating a Web photo gallery, incorporating graphics into desktop publishing programs, color management, using layers and filters, compositing, and more

With step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots to demonstrate each task, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop makes learning easy.

Lynda.com – Photoshop Lightroom 3 Essential Training (Exercise files included)
English | AVC1 960×600 | MP3 128 Kbps | 2.21 GB
Genre: eLearning
In Photoshop Lightroom 3 Essential Training, author Chris Orwig provides a comprehensive look at Ad0be Photoshop Lightroom 3, the popular photo-asset management, enhancement, and publishing program. The course covers indispensable techniques such as importing, processing, and organizing images in the Library, correcting and adjusting images in the Develop module, and creating slideshows, web galleries, and print picture packages. In addition to exploring all of Lightroom 3′s capabilities, this course is rich with creative tips and expert advice on photographic workflow. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

* Understanding the difference between Lightroom and Photoshop
* Using interface shortcuts to navigate the workspace quickly
* Working with catalogs
* Making incremental adjustments
* Grouping images with collections and smart collections
* Creating virtual copies of adjusted images
* Correcting white balances
* Adjusting color with Vibrance and Saturation
* Cropping images and changing aspect ratios
* Using the Adjustment Brush
* Toning with the HSL controls
* Outputting images to slideshows and web galleries
* Printing photos

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop. Every lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions.

Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Flash experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. Coverage includes information on Adobe Bridge, Camera RAW, masks and layers, painting and retouching, and selections and layers. Jam-packed with information, this book and DVD takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that’s long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day.
They’ll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop’s essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations. Streamlined for this new edition, the book will distill Photoshop’s vast capabilities down to what you need to know for a full understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for the photographer. Beginning with a quick “refresher course” on the working foundations of Photoshop, you’ll move on to real-world production techniques. Finally, you’ll get to fully explore Photoshop’s creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you’ll feel like you finally “get” Photoshop.

To quickly and safely organize your images and edit, you have taken with your DSLR camera? How can that shows you this video training. From Import to development, post-production and film output, you can track it for film, how do you get your pictures quickly and safely under control. Clearly, your coach says in the video lessons, what to do if something went wrong when you shoot and how you can improve your images significantly. Special tips can be found in special sections for impressive portraits and nature images, RAW and HDR, photo montages and photo effects. Enjoy the recipes a photo professionals, and have your pictures look even better.

Contents
1st Your start with Photoshop Elements [12:22 hrs]
1.1 … Introduction [0:19 min]
1.2 … The modules at a glance [04:14 min]
1.3 … The user interface [03:21 min]
1.4 … The main rules [5:18 min]
1.5 … JPEG, RAW & Co [5:14 min]
1.6 … Powerful Wizard [3:39 min]

2nd Photos in the Organizer read [00:29 hrs]
2.1 … Introduction [0:20 min]
2.2 … What is an album? [6:28 min]
2.3 … Import from disk [07:33 min]
2.4 … Import from the camera [07:58 min]
2.5 … Photo prints scanned [3:34 min]
6.2 … USB Sticks & Photo DVDs [02:39 min]

3rd Bring order to the photos [12:57 hrs]
3.1 … Introduction [0:33 min]
3.2 … The organizer for Windows [04:21 min]
3.3 … Getting organized properly [06:27 min]
3.4 … Photo albums in Windows [05:45 min]
3.5 … Metadata in the Organizer [2:24 min]
3.6 … Keyword Tags in Windows [08:16 min]
3.7 … Search images in the Organizer [7:29 min]
3.8 … The Bridge for Mac OS X [10:27 min]
3.9 … Collections in Bridge [3:49 min]
3:10 … Tags on Mac [03:20 min]
3:11 … Photos Search on Mac [4:13 min]

4th Corrections on the fly [12:25 hrs]
4.1 … Introduction [0:22 min]
4.2 … AutoCorrect in Organizer [6:31 min]
4.3 … Quick Fix in the editor [04:14 min]
4.4 … The corrections set [7:11 min]
4.5 … Correction tools to use [06:50 min]

5th Failed to save photos [00:19 hrs]
5.1 … Introduction [0:17 min]
5.2 … Red eye recolor [2:29 min]
5.3 … Remove dust particles [04:15 min]
4.5 … Remove image noise [3:41 min]
5.5 … Old prints error [04:46 min]
5.6 … Hopeless [03:38 Min]

6th Edit photos like a pro [01:11 hrs]
1.6 … Introduction [0:18 min]
6.2 … Overview of the Editor [6:23 min]
3.6 … The most important tools [5:48 min]
6.4 … Corrections Brush [11:46 min]
6.5 … Brilliance for Dull Pictures [7:39 min]
6.6 … Over-and underexposure [6:00 min]
7.6 … First aid for back-light [02:41 min]
6.8 … sharpen to the point [05:52 min]
9.6 … Depth of field decrease [4:05 min]
6:10 … Camera position change [04:20 min]
6:11 … Edit sections [03:55 min]
6:12 … The color of influence [04:29 min]
6:13 … Use adjustment layers [8:01 min]

7th Portraits, such as from the professional studio [01:51 hrs]
7.1 … Introduction [0:12 min]
7.2 … A face model [5:08 min]
7.3 … Streamline the body [6:09 min]
4.7 … Improve skin tones [8:28 min]
7.5 … Remove impurities [10:07 min]
7.6 … Remove dark circles [5:59 min]
7.7 … Teeth nachweißen [8:24 min]
7.8 … Make eyes shine [11:29 min]
9.7 … The face powdering [9:41 min]
7:10 … A Glamour retouching [15:10 min]
7:11 … Character work out [13:18 min]
7:12 … A high-key portrait [10:54 min]
7:13 … “Dodge and Burn”-Trick [6:05 min]

8th Impressive images of nature [12:56 hrs]
8.1 … Introduction [0:15 min]
8.2 … Perfectly blue sky [6:14 min]
8.3 … Lush green landscapes [2:45 min]
8.4 … Dramatic contrasts [7:03 min]
5.8 … Convert to black and white [08:54 min]
6.8 … Drama with black and white [06:57 min]
7.8 … Perfect Sunsets [03:56 min]
8.8 … Remove Unwanted [8:55 min]
9.8 … Single-line Panoramic [4:36 min]
8:10 … Panoramic multiline [6:28 min]

9th Self-made photo montages [12:58 hrs]
1.9 … Introduction [0:19 min]
9.2 … The Layers Principle [8:44 min]
9.3 … My first photo montage [5:32 min]
9.4 … Levels for photographers [9:08 min]
9.5 … Motive exempt correctly [09:22 min]
9.6 … Motifs integrate optimal [7:37 min]
9.7 … Replace the sky [4:02 min]
9.8 … A fine-art photomontage [13:26 min]

10th Photos are staged [00:32 hrs]
1.10 … Introduction [0:27 min]
2.10 … Artistically distort [4:30 min]
3.10 … Elegant photo frame [12:16 min]
4.10 … Photos can be digital age [04:57 min]
10.5 … Photos with text ennoble [4:50 min]
6.10 … Photo Filter simulate [5:25 min]

11th RAW images themselves develop [00:59 hrs]
1.11 … Introduction [0:21 min]
2.11 … What exactly is RAW? [6:15 min]
11.3 … RAW image files open [03:02 min]
4.11 … Camera Raw Overview [7:46 min]
5.11 … RAW photos develop [7:55 min]
6.11 … Sharpening in Camera Raw [7:15 min]
7.11 … HDR-images create [10:34 min]
8.11 … DRI and pseudo-HDR [06:50 min]
9.11 … HDR with Photomatix [8:45 min]

12th Print Photos and present [00:40 hrs]
1.12 … Introduction [0:20 min]
2.12 … Images for the Web store [06:50 min]
3.12 … A slide show [10:38 min]
4.12 … Photos print correctly [05:13 min]
12.5 … Create contact sheets [03:09 min]
6.12 … Print picture packages [01:59 min]
7.12 … Photo Greeting Cards [3:09 min]
8.12 … Self-made photo albums [8:53 min]

Release Info:
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ELEASE-DATE : April 2010
LANGUAGE : German
DiSCs : DVD9

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Kelby Online Training Customizing Photoshop | 65 MB

In this short course you’ll earn how to customize Photoshop to your liking, and to work more efficiently. You’ll find out about setting preferences, altering menus, using Tool Presets and Workspaces, and more.

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Kelby Online Training Fixing Photographic Problems With Adobe Photoshop | 107 MB

Ideally, every photo we take would be perfect: perfect exposure, perfect white balance, no backlighting, no harsh shadows. Of course the reality is that some images need to be fixed, and in this course we will look at ways to deal with common problems. In each lesson Dave will fix a problem image, real-time, step-by-step.

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A complete book-and-DVD training package covering Photoshop Elements 8.Photoshop Elements combines an easy-to-use set of features and enhancements combined with image editing power in an affordable program. The newest version—Photoshop Elements 8—features more online integration with products like the new Flash-based Web galleries. This unique full-color book and instructional DVD provides you with an exciting learning tool that will help you get working with Elements 8 quickly and easily.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Digital Classroom is like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace.

Thirteen self-paced lessons encourage you to discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.

A team of Adobe Certified Instructors escort you through the in and outs of working with Photoshop Elements 8, the user-friendly image-editing program.

This full-color book and instructional DVD package includes step-by-step instructions, lesson files, and video tutorials that complement the topics covered in each lesson.

Discusses the most important features of Photoshop Elements 8 including: importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, and perfecting group shots with Photomerge.

Addresses editing images for posting on the Web, using the sharpness interface to correct blurry images, exploring the Curves tool to adjust contract and brightness, and organizing images with auto-stacking.

The DVD demonstrates how to edit and apply effects for stellar digital images, painting and retouching, and exploring the different filters and techniques that tap into your creative side to produce great images.

Get in the digital classroom and get started using Photoshop Elements 8 today!

In Photoshop CS5 New Features, author Jan Kabili introduces new features and productivity enhancements that include reshaping images with Puppet Warp, turning photographs into paintings, and Content-Aware Fill options. The course examines CS5 enhancements to existing features include significant improvements to High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo processing, selection and mask edge refinement, and lens-related photo corrections. A brief overview of companion applications, Adobe Bridge CS5 and Adobe Camera Raw 6, is included.

Author: Jan Kabili
Duration (hr:min): 02:46
Released on: 4/12/2010

Topics include:

* Performing Content-Aware Fill and spot healing
* Painting realistic brush strokes with bristle brush tips
* Blending paint with canvas colors with the Mixer Brush tool
* Selecting hair and other soft edges with fine detail or edges with sharp contrast
* Extruding 2D objects in 3D space
* Creating surrealistic and photorealistic HDR images in Merge to HDR Pro
* Simulating HDR imaging in a single photo with the HDR Toning adjustment
* Working with Mini Bridge

Link for more information: http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=59971