Smashing Photoshop CS5

Smashing Photoshop CS5 is packed with 100 creative techniques designed to enhance your designs and photography skills. Aimed at designers, artists, and photographers, this guide helps you quickly master Photoshop CS5's new tools and features. Author Sue Jenkins, a seasoned photographer and Adobe Certified Expert, shares her expertise through practical hints and special effects that expand your skill set and inspire new ideas. The book covers a variety of tasks using tools, filters, styles, and adjustment layers, teaching you to create 3D text, engraved type, blog headers, and high dynamic range images. You'll also learn to work with custom brushes, use content-aware scaling, transform images with puppet warp, trace photos, and mimic cross-processing effects. Key topics include web layout and optimization, Photoshop techniques, text effects, studio and commercial effects, special effects, image distressing, and retouching. Smashing Photoshop CS5 serves as an ideal resource for sparking creativity and gaining inspiration for your projects, aligning with the mission of Smashing Magazine to provide valuable information to web designers and developers.