Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

the Scope of this Book

No one book, including this one, can teach you everything there is

to know about Photoshop. Here’s a quick list of the topics and fea-

tures discussed in this book and in the videos, as well as a visual

preview (in Figure 11) of what you’ll encounter in the integrated

videos that accompany each lesson.

• Lesson 1: Opening and organizing files, including the Adobe
  Bridge, ratings, workspaces, stacks, metadata, keywords, and
  the Batch Rename command


• Lesson 2: Navigation and cropping, including moving around
  with OpenGL, the crop and rotate tools, and the Image Size
  and Canvas Size commands

• (^) Lesson 3: Selection tools, including the lasso, magic wand, and
quick selection tools, as well as the Select menu and the Refine
Edge command

• Lesson 4: Painting and retouching, including the paintbrush,
  dodge, burn, sponge, healing brush, and red eye tools, as well
  as the new bristle brushes and the History panel


• Lesson 5: Layer functions, including the Layers and Layer
  Comps panel, scaling and repositioning, blending options,
  and knockouts

Video Lesson 1: Browsing in the Bridge

Video Lesson 7: Introducing FiltersVideo Lesson 8: Liquify in MotionVideo Lesson 9: Exploring Camera Raw

Video Lesson 2: NavigationVideo Lesson 3: The Selection Tools

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