Sholik - Photoshop CC: top 100 simplified tips & tricks

Photoshop CC: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks Published by
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Jennifer Mayberry Quality Control Technician Lindsay Amones Proofreader Indianapolis Composition Services Indexer Potomac Indexing, LLC Vertical Websites Associate Producer Rich Graves ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stan Sholik has spent over three decades as a commercial, advertising, and illustrative photographer in Orange County, California.

During that time he has developed a national reputation in a wide range of technology-oriented specialties for his clients in the computer, electronics, medical device, and food industries. Early in his career he began specializing in close-up/macro photography, motion-simulation, and in-camera photocomposition to enhance the images created with his large-format cameras. He is now working extensively with both 4 5 film and high-resolution digital capture. He has also gained a reputation as a writer on both conventional and digital imaging topics with articles in View Camera , Shutterbug , Professional Photographer , Rangefinder , and other magazines. He has written books about photographic filters, digital SLRs, and macro photography. This is Stans third book for Wiley.

He has previously written HDR Efex Pro After the Shoot and Photoshop Lightroom 4 FAQs . Self-taught as a photographer, Stan holds a BS degree in physics and an MA in English from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Sarah Hellert, my project editor at Wiley, for her attention to detail and successful efforts to keep my style consistent and readable. I would especially like to thank Stephanie McComb, acquisitions editor at Wiley, for giving me the opportunity to write this book, and for doing her best to keep me on schedule with humor and good will. And finally, thanks to my wife Linda and daughter Amelia and her family for their patience and understanding as I buried myself in this project. Sincere thanks to son-in-law/sound designer/composer/videographer Garrett Montgomery for providing video footage and a royalty-free music track.

How to Use This Book Who This Book Is For This book is for readers who know the basics and want to expand their knowledge of this particular technology or software application. The Conventions in This Book Steps This book uses a step-by-step format to guide you easily through each task. Numbered steps are actions you must do; bulleted steps clarify a point, step, or optional feature; and indented steps give you the result. Notes Notes give additional information special conditions that may occur during an operation, a situation that you want to avoid, or a cross reference to a related area of the book. Icons and Buttons Icons and buttons show you exactly what you need to click to perform a step. Bold Bold type shows text or numbers you must type. Italics Italic type introduces and defines a new term.