Teach Yourself Visually Photoshop CS4 (Paperback)

From the Publisher: Are you anxious to get started with the new release of Photoshop?  If you learn best visually, then you’ll love the updated and expanded coverage found in this tutorial. Full-color throughout, this book offers newly revised design features that allow for larger screen shots for better navigation and a more detailed look at each tasks’ step-by-step instructions Packed with additional pages and expanded coverage of cool new tasks for you to accomplish An approachable teaching style makes Photoshop CS4 accessible for beginners and instructs visual learners of how to put this application to work for them Covers the most important features of Photoshop, including importing photos from a digital camera, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, adding custom 3D effects, and editing images for posting on the Web Walks you through creating a Web photo gallery, incorporating graphics into desktop publishing programs, using palettes and layers, compositing, applying gradients, and setting type and filters