Scott Kelby, the world's #1 best-selling photography technique books author, is here with an entirely new concept in Photoshop books--one that's designed from the ground up to get you straight to whatever it is you need to do in Photoshop right now, get your answer fast, and get you back to editing your images in Photoshop.
Thanks to Adobe's incredibly popular Creative Cloud Photography plan, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom, photographers are extending the depth and power of Lightroom by jumping over to Photoshop to do all those things Lightroom just can't do (or Lightroom can do, but in Photoshop, it's faster and easier, or the results are just better). Because Photoshop has so much power and depth, sometimes the things you need are...well...kinda hidden or not really obvious. There will be a lot of times when you need to get something done in Photoshop, and you know Photoshop can do it (because Photoshop can do just about anything), but you have no idea where Adobe hid that feature, or what the "secret handshake" is to do that thing you need now so you can get back to working on your images. That's why this book was created: to quickly get you to the technique, the shortcut, the setting, or exactly the right thing you need to do right now.
Here's how it works: When you need to know how to do a particular thing, you turn to the chapter where it would be found (Layers, Printing, Fixing Problems, Special Effects, etc.), find the thing you need to do (it's easy, each page covers just one single topic), and Scott tells you exactly how to do it just like he was sitting there beside you, using the same casual style as if he were telling a friend. That way, you get back to editing your images fast.
This isn't a book of theory, full of confusing jargon and detailed multi-step concepts. This is a book on which button to click, which setting to use, and exactly how and when to use it, so you're never "stuck" in Photoshop again. This will be your "go to" book that sits within reach any time you're working in Photoshop, and you are going to love having this type of help right at your fingertips.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: How to Get Around Like a Pro
Chapter 2: How to Use Photoshop's Tools
Chapter 3: How to Use Camera Raw Like a Boss
Chapter 4: How to Use Camera Raw's Adjustment Brush
Chapter 5: How to Crop, Resize & Stuff Like That
Chapter 6: How to Work with Layers
Chapter 7: How to Adjust Your Images
Chapter 8: How to Fix Problems
Chapter 9: How to Make Beautiful Prints
Chapter 10: How to Edit Video
Chapter 11: How to Do the Most Popular Special Effects
Chapter 12: How to Sharpen Your Images
Chapter 13: Other Stuff You'll Want to Know
Kelby, Scott: - Scott Kelby is the world's #1 best-selling author of photography technique books, as well as Editor and Publisher of the highly acclaimed Photoshop User magazine. He is co-host of the influential weekly photography talk show The Grid and he teaches digital photography workshops and seminars around the world. Scott is an award-winning author of over 60 books, including The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, The Digital Photography Book series, Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers, and Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It. For more on Scott, visit his daily blog at scottkelby.com.
