Photoshop CC For Dummies

Stretch your creativity beyond the cloud with this fully-updated Photoshop guide!

Photoshop puts amazing design and photo-editing tools in the hands of creative professionals and hobbyists everywhere, and the latest version - Photoshop CC - is packed with even more powerful tools to help you manage and enhance your images. This friendly, full-color guide introduces you to the basics of Photoshop CC and provides clear explanations of the menus, panels, tools, options, and shortcuts you'll use the most. Plus, you'll learn valuable tips for fixing common photo flaws, improving color quality, adjusting brightness, removing unwanted background elements, and more.
* Covers the new Photoshop CC release which brings even more features to over four million photographers, graphic designers, web developers, and other Photoshop professionals
* Teaches the essentials for first-time users before moving on to more advanced techniques like removing blemishes and wrinkles, creating composite images, and working with layers, filters, levels, and curves
* Walks you through adjusting brightness, enhancing color, adding shadows and highlights, decreasing digital noise, taking advantage of Camera Raw, and optimizing your images for print and the web

The sky's the limit for stunning photos and innovative images with Photoshop CC For Dummies in your design toolbox.

What the book covers: Photoshop basics including explanations of the menus, panels, tools, options, and shortcuts users need most; tips for fixing common problems such as red-eye, wrinkles, blemishes, and removing people or objects from photos; information on adjusting brightness, improving color, and fixing flaws; adding shadows and highlights; working with Levels and Curves, making color look natural; taking advantage of Camera Raw; decreasing digital noise in your images; creating composite images with layers and blending modes; using vector paths and layer styles; working with channels and masks; adding text and special effects; painting in Photoshop; getting creative with filters, streamlining your work in Photoshop; optimizing images for the Web; ten things to know about HDR; and more. Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than twenty years.

Stretch your creativity beyond the cloud with this fully-updated Photoshop guide!Photoshop puts amazing design and photo-editing tools in the hands of creative professionals and hobbyists everywhere, and the latest version - Photoshop CC - is packed with even more powerful tools to help you manage and enhance your images. This friendly, full-color guide introduces you to the basics of Photoshop CC and provides clear explanations of the menus, panels, tools, options, and shortcuts you'll use the most. Plus, you'll learn valuable tips for fixing common photo flaws, improving color quality, adjusting brightness, removing unwanted background elements, and more. Covers the new Photoshop CC release which brings even more features to over four million photographers, graphic designers, web developers, and other Photoshop professionals Teaches the essentials for first-time users before moving on to more advanced techniques like removing blemishes and wrinkles, creating composite images, and working with layers, filters, levels, and curves Walks you through adjusting brightness, enhancing color, adding shadows and highlights, decreasing digital noise, taking advantage of Camera Raw, and optimizing your images for print and the web The sky's the limit for stunning photos and innovative images with Photoshop CC For Dummies in your design toolbox.

In full Color!