Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques For Dummies

This guide will probably change your image of Photoshop. Many userstend to use it to do certain things in certain ways and don'teven explore additional features and capabilities. Photoshop csTimesaving Techniques For Dummies gives you more than 60timesaving techniques that will speed up the way you do the thingsyou do now and inspire you to do lots more. You'll discoverhow to:

* Install and use peripheral devices such as digital cameras, scanners, tablets, and printers * Customize Photoshop to fit your needs with custom keyboardshortcuts, a color management system, presets, and more * Create custom palette groups and workspaces * Use a drawing tablet and stylus to easily double youroutput * Create sketches, water colors, and silkscreens and paint withoils * Create professional-quality separations for high-quality offsetprinting, including using the CMYK prepress settings, softproofing, adding printer's marks and more * Create action sets so you can perform repetitive tasks thatwould take an hour in seconds * Organize, color code, and lock layers and create layersets * Use Blending Modes (there are more than 20 to choose from) toenhance images
Written by Phyllis Davis, a writer, graphics and Web designer, teacher, and graphics software expert, this guide features a ColorInsert so you can see the results of many of the techniquesexplained, and a companion Web site(www. dummies. com/go/photoshopcstt) where you can downloadmany of the images and follow along and experiment. You'lldiscover how to get results like a pro as you experiment with:

* Creating great effects with layer styles, using the five typesof bevel and emboss, inner and outer glows, blending, and more * Using the Brush and Pencil painting tools and the Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Burn, and Sponge editing tools * Enhancing photos, creating montages and panoramas, recoloring, retouching, and more * Creating shadow type, knock-out type, liquid type, metal type, and more * Creating GIF animations, hotspots, and rollovers for theWeb
You'll save steps and discover exciting new possibilitieswith these 60-plus timesaving, image-saving techniques.