Overview
Photoshop 6 is Adobe's well-received, highly acclaimed update to its most popular product. Adobe Photoshop 6 Digital Darkroom is a full-color tutorial-based book that shows you how to work step by step with digital pictures. Learn how to use the newest features in Photoshop, as well as more traditional tasks such as correcting colors, applying effects, and working with layers, channels, and masks. This is a cross-platform guide that shows you how to use Photoshop to create great-looking digital pictures for your Web site. Intermediate to advanced Photoshop users will benefit most from this book.ItemID: 0761531637Editorials
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Our ReviewTake digital photographs? Want them look as great as they possibly can? Photoshop 6 is your tool, and Adobe Photoshop 6 Digital Darkroom by Lisa Lee is your book.
Lee starts with a handy overview of Photoshop's basic tools and preferences, perfect for photographers who haven't used the program much. But she gets that stuff out of the way in a hurry. By page 60, you're correcting images: replacing and balancing colors, adjusting contrast and tonal range, and getting to know your friend, the Channel Mixer. Lee presents start-to-finish coverage of enhancing digital images with filters and effects. She demystifies layers, masks, and channels -- and, having done so, shows you exactly how to make the most of them. For example, you'll find chapter-length explanations of creating custom masks and experimenting with channel operations (for instance, to create composite images).
There's a full chapter on combining images to create animations, another on adding text to your images, and three chapters on web-related topics (from file-size optimization to creating web photo galleries). A digital camera, a copy of Photoshop 6, and Adobe Photoshop 6 Digital Darkroom: together, they're everything the serious digital photography hobbyist could ever want.