Photoshop Essentials

Master the world’s favourite and most powerful design, illustration and image-editing tool.

The 2011 edition Photoshop Essentials is fully updated with new tutorials from Computer Arts magazine – each written by a Photoshop professional – it will help you master the world’s favourite and most powerful design, illustration and image-editing tool.

The guide brings you an exhaustive guide to Photoshop’s tools, with every tool in the Tool Panel explored. You’ll discover how to use the tools, access them quickly and how to customise them to exactly how you want them.

Following this you’ll find over 40 tutorials revealing the secrets of illustration, compositing, digital painting, mixed-media collage and much more.

At the back of this edition – to inspire and entertain you – the guide includes a showcase section packed with the very best Photoshop art created by some of the world’s most exciting new digital artists and designers.

On the free disc you get all the starter files required for following each artist’s tutorial, plus a vast array of resources to help you create stunning artwork.

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