Books on Learning Photoshop (including Photoshop CS3)

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book Our Pick: Adobe CS3 Classroom in a Book
 

By the Adobe Creative Team, this book covers the new features of CS3 that some older books may not cover. This includes the new smart filters, zoomify, quick selection, align content, clone source and more.

There are 14 lessons with step-by-step tutorials and review questions and 16 video tutorials.

This is a good general book that covers the basics and fundamentals of Photoshop. Perfect if you are a beginner to Photoshop. As you progress futher or have specialized use of Photoshop, see more books in the Photoshop section.


Photoshop Type Effects Gone Wild Photoshop Type Effects Gone Wild
 

When creating web sites, you often need to apply type effects to the website title in the masthead. Instead of using the same techniques over and over, you can try out different type effects found in this book -- all 49 of them.

It will walk you though each one in a step-by-step manner with lots of screen shots (sometimes as many as 3 pictures on a single page).

Bonus CD includes all the starting files for each tutorial.


  Photoshop Masking & Compositing

Create interesting compositions by using masking and compositing techniques.

Step-by-step examples by photoshop artist and lecturer Katrin Eismann.

Over 50 customers gave this book a five-star rating on amazon

 

 

 

 

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