Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual |  | Author: Lesa Snider
Publisher: Pogue Press
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a published image that hasn't spent some quality time in Adobe Photoshop. With new features such as Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp, Photoshop CS5 is more amazing -- and perhaps more bewildering -- than ever. That's where this full-color Missing Manual comes in. It covers Photoshop from a practical standpoint, with tips, tricks, and practical advice you can use every day to edit photos and create beautiful documents. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced pixel pusher ready to try advanced techniques, author and graphics pro Lesa Snider offers crystal-clear, jargon-free instructions to help you take advantage of these powerful tools -- not only how they work, but when you should use them. Describing the CS4 edition, bestselling Photoshop author Scott Kelby wrote, "Lesa did a great job on the book, and in my mind, it is the new Photoshop Bible." - Learn your way around Photoshop's revamped workspace
- Get up to speed on essential features such as layers and channels
- Edit images by cropping, resizing, retouching, working with color, and more
- Create paintings and illustrations, work with text, and explore filters
- Prepare images for printing or the Web, and learn how to protect your images online
- Work smarter and faster by automating tasks and installing plug-ins
Written with the clarity, humor, and objective scrutiny, Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual is the friendly, thorough resource you need.
Using Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5
By Lesa Snider
In Photoshop CS5, you have another option for filling selections called Content-Aware Fill. It works with the Fill command and the Spot Healing brush by comparing your selection or brushstroke to nearby pixels. Photoshop then fills the area so it blends seamlessly with the background. For example, you can follow these steps to break up a perfectly good boy band:
1. Open your image and duplicate the Background layer by pressing Ctrl+J. Since there’s no way to tell the Fill command to sample all layers (bummer!), it won’t work on an empty layer. 2. Use the selection tool of your choice to select the band member on the left. Because there’s a decent amount of contrast between the boy and the grassy meadow, the Magnetic Lasso tool does a great job. Grab it from the Tools panel by pressing Shift-L repeatedly until you see it appear. Mouse over to your image and click once to set a starting point, and then drag around the boy, clicking to add anchor points here and there. 3. Choose Edit > Fill and, from the Use pop-up menu, choose Content Aware. As soon as you press OK, Photoshop fills your selection with pixels from the surrounding area. To fix the remaining outline of the deleted bandmate, just switch back to the Spot Healing Brush by pressing K (in the Options bar, make sure Content Aware is turned on). With a quick brushstroke here and there, you can clean up the final image quite nicely and it won’t take hours like it did in previous versions of the program. Until you can actually wish an object out of a photo, this new tool ought to suit you just fine.
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 Buy this book first and you will refer to it the most often June 16, 2010
Hartley J. Jackson (Lyndonville, VT United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Photoshop CS5 The Missing Manual is the book you should buy first and will refer to most often.
It is well and clearly written so that you don't need to read some other book to understand this one. Excellent and complete tutorials teach you how to use the most important tools. It is well organized and referenced so you can find what you need to know when you need it, It is also interesting and pleasant reading.
You will refer to Photoshop CS5 The Missing Manual the most because it covers all the Photoshop concepts and information you need, and because it is so well organized. There is a special listing for photographers of the material they will need.
Part one, The Basics, begins with the information you need for working with workspaces, panels, and documents, and then moves into the basic photoshop concepts of layers, selections, and color channels. All are covered simply and clearly.
The chapter on Selections begins with selection by color using the Quick Selection Tool with a tutorial including the new Refine Edge so that you not only understand it, you can do it. Then it describes how you can use selections by shape and add and subtract selected areas.
Part two, Editing Images, covers editing images; cropping, combining, changing color, Photoshopping people, and sharpening. Part three, The Artistic Side of Photoshop, covers painting, drawing, typography, and filters. Part four is Printing and the Web. Part five, Photoshop Power, covers working with actions and plug-ins. There is is a five part appendix and the usual fine Missing Manual index.
Should Come With Every Purchase Of Photoshop June 18, 2010
Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
'Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual' is a 750+ page book that will show you ALL the ins and outs of using Photoshop CS5. Tailored towards the newbie Photoshop user, the content here is anything but newbie! With 19 chapters of content and in FULL FULL FULL color, this is a great learning tool to getting through all the ABCs of Photoshop!
McKinnon Overview
01. The Basics
02. Opening, Viewing, Saving Files
03. Layers
04. Selections
05. Channels
06. Cropping, Resizing, Rotating
07. Joining Images
08. Draining, Changing, Adding Color
09. Correcting Color and Lighting
10. Photoshopping People
11. Sharpening Images
12. Painting in Photshop
13. Drawing with Vector tools
14. Creating Artistic Text
15. Filters
16. Photoshop and Print
17. Photoshop and the Web
18. Actions
19. Plug-Ins
This is an easy book to put a stamp of approval on and it's another gem in the Missing Manual line of books, one of the greatest technical publishing lines out there today!!
***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Finally, the Photoshop bible June 12, 2010
R. Baker (Albuquerque, NM)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
I have been teaching Photoshop for five years. I've read over 5000 pages of various manuals and books and finally there is a clear, comprehensive, and, most of all, complete book for Photoshop CS5. It's all there: how to do it, where to find it, and why to use it. There are more than enough clear color illustrations and links to additional on-line information. Ms. Snider presents it all with a sense of comfortable knowledge and a sense of humor. All the information is thoughtfully laid out with step-by-step instructions on how to use each command. This Missing Manual goes beyond just photography and clearly presents Photoshop CS5's illustration and web applications. This is the new "buy-this-one-book" for all my students. Roger Baker, Albuquerque, NM, USA
The manual aerobe should have included June 26, 2010
John Buono (Sierra Vista, AZ)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The first thing I noticed that about lesa's book on "photoshop cs5 the missing manual" is that in the very beginning she talks about it being dedicated to the god of wine bacchus, which kind of sets the whole tone for the book. She has a very light style, but the book is extremely informative and for those of you more familiar with Photoshop CS4 already the first chapter talks about the differences between the two versions and is must start place. This section is very concise and well written. It guides you to exactly where you need to go and hyperlinks take you right there. This feature along almost makes price-to-book worthwhile.
One of the pleasurable aspects of this book is watching the document names used throughout the examples. I won't spoil the surprise but make sure when you read the book you watch for them. They really show off leas's sense of humor and her Texas twang comes throughout even in her writing.
From the technical point she is right now. Adding on to her already excellent missing manual cs4 book cs5 is well integrated and the differences are highlighted so that the experienced user transitioning to cs5 can quickly find the differences, but the new user to photoshop is given very easy to follow instructions. There are more Then an ample number of examples with the files readily available for you to follow along.
My only real criticism of this book and it really is not a criticism but more of a wish, is that the book is designed as a reference manual and as that it is wonderful. What lesa needs to develop is a companion book that is tutorial in nature so that it could be used in the classroom, or for home training. While there are excellent example photos provided on the web site, i think that formal lessons with this as the reference manual would make this a killer combination.
If you only can have one photoshop book in your electronic library or even the hard back edition, this is the one to get.
Best Manual for CS5 July 7, 2010
Rivington
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is exceptionally well done. Virtually every feature and tool of CS5 is clearly explained. The index is excellent which makes it easy to use the book as reference when you have a question or a problem to solve. I have numerous Photoshop books and this is clearly the best. I had the CS4 version and was so pleased with it that I purchased the CS5 edition as soon as it was available.
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