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Photoshop CS6: Essential Skills

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Photoshop CS6: Essential Skills by Philip Andrews and Mark Galer offers a comprehensive learning experience with real-world examples, step-by-step projects, and expert advice. The book covers foundational skills, advanced image editing, and photomontage techniques, complemented by 12+ hours of video tutorials and downloadable resources to help you master Photoshop CS6.
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Combining real world examples, step-by-step projects, and professional advice, Photoshop CS6: Essential Skills provides you with the ultimate learning experience. Written by two internationally recognised authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors, this book and downloadable resource package gives you a guided tour of everything you need to know to master image editing and achieve stunning results.

Broken into three parts, this self-study guide to Photoshop covers all the foundational skills to get you started, before moving on to more advanced image editing and photomontage techniques to develop your skills even further. A complete section of step-by-step imaging projects and the 12+ hours of video tutorials on downloadable resources will hone your image editing skills to give you professional quality results.

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ISBN: 9780240522685

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Focal Press

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1338g

Pages: 536

About the Author

Mark Galer is the Program Director and Senior lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication, Australia. He is also co-writer of their popular online photography courses. He has lectured in photography in the UK and Australia and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial assignments. He has written numerous top-selling photography books, including Photography Foundations for Art & Design, the Popular Photoshop Elements; Maximum Performance and Photoshop; Essential Skills series. He is an Official Adobe Ambassador for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Philip Andrews is Adobe Australia's official Photoshop and Elements Ambassador. He is an experienced photographer, author, magazine editor and online course creator. He was previously a lecturer at the Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australia and Nescot, England. He is a beta tester for Photoshop, an alpha tester for Photoshop Elements and a Photoshop specialist demonstrator for Adobe Australia. Contributing numerous articles and videos to AdobeTV and the inspirational browser, Philip is a leading source in adobe information and instruction. Philip is also co-founder of photo-college.com an online photography training college. He's a regular contributor to several magazines including Shutterbug, Amateur Photographer, Australian Photography and Better Photography, he is senior contributing editor for Better Digital, columnist for What Digital Camera and Co-editor and publisher of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.

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