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Photoshop CC: Essential Skills

A guide to creative image editing
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Photoshop CC: Essential Skills is a comprehensive guide designed for beginners and intermediate users eager to master image editing with Photoshop CC. Authored by industry professionals Philip Andrews and Mark Galer, it combines practical real-world examples with step-by-step projects to build foundational skills and advance to complex techniques like photomontage. The book is complemented by a companion website featuring over 10 hours of video tutorials, providing a rich self-study experience for photographers and image editors aiming for professional-quality results.
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New to Photoshop? Looking to unlock the impressive power of Photoshop CC? Want to master image editing techniques and achieve professional-level results?

Then Photoshop CC: Essential Skills is the resource you need. This book and companion website’s proven combination of real-world image editing examples, step-by-step projects, and professional advice from two internationally recognised authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors delivers an essential learning experience for beginner to intermediate Photoshop users.

This self-study guide to Photoshop CC covers the foundational skills for photographers and image editors to get started before moving on to more advanced image editing and photomontage techniques. A complete section of step-by-step imaging projects and 10+ hours of video tutorials on the companion website hone image editing skills to yield expert-quality results.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415715713

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 October 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1332g

Pages: 530

About the Author

Mark Galer is a Senior Lecturer in photography. 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. He is an official Adobe Ambassador for Photoshop.

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. Philip is a regular contributor to several magazines including Shutterbug, Amateur Photographer, Australian Photography, and Better Photography, and 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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