Photoshop CS4 Channels and Masks One-on-One

Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One: Read the lesson. Watch the video. Do the exercises.

Coming to terms with alpha channels (or masks) is the most sure-fire way to boost the quality of your work in Photoshop. But masking isn't easy--in fact, the elusive alpha channel has been described as the least understood feature in Photoshop's enormous arsenal.

Now, you can master masking with Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system--Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One (O'Reilly Media, $49.99 USD). Joined by Tim Grey, regarded as one of the top educators in digital photography and imaging, Deke leads you through step-by-step text lessons, DVD-video demonstrations, and real-world projects. You'll learn how to select and composite highlights, shadows, clouds, fabric, feathers, glass, flame, lightning, eyes, all varieties of hair, and then some. Deke's expert advice and guidance is like working with a personal coach. With this book, you will:

• Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorials
• Try out techniques and best practices with engaging real-world projects
• Get more than 850 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots that illustrate every key step
• See exactly how it's done in real time with five hours of all-new video instruction
• Test your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapter

Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One simulates a classroom environment that provides one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. You'll learn to use Photoshop faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.

Tim Grey is the author of a dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles on digital imaging for photographers. He also publishes the Digital Darkroom Quarterly print newsletter and Digital Darkroom Questions email newsletter. He speaks at a variety of events, including Photoshop World as a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors. Tim takes advantage of every opportunity to photograph near his home in Bellevue, Washington.

Deke McClelland is an electronic publishing pioneer and a popular lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and the larger realm of computer graphics and design. He has hosted Adobe's official "Video Workshop" DVDs that shipped with many versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for industry leader lynda.com, with whom his work has won a record-setting eight international awards in the last 12 months. In addition to his video work, Deke has written over 80 books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print. In 2004, Deke created the bestselling One-on-One book series. Published with O'Reilly Media, One-on-One uses video, step-by-step exercises, and hundreds of full-color illustrations to provide readers with the closest thing possible to private instruction from a recognized expert.

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index, author bios and samples, see: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516154

Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One

Deke McClelland and Tim Grey

January 2009, $49.99 USD

O'Reilly Media: http://www.oreilly.com/

Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed

BEN WILLMORE, Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed

Peachpit Press, November 2008, 144 p. $25 (Paperback)

Long established as a must-have guide for Photoshop users upgrading to the newest version, Up to Speed goes right to the heart of Photoshop CS4 what has changed, what is new, and how you can get the most out of the features as quickly as possible. Rather than sift through hundreds of pages detailing every last Photoshop feature and function (both old and new), you can go directly to the new features that interest you the most and get the explanations you desire. By focusing on a single topic -what's new in this version- the award-winning author provides precisely what experienced Photoshop users have been clamoring for, in exactly the depth they demand. After reading this book even if you've been using CS4 for awhile don't be surprised to hear yourself say, "I didn't know CS4 did that!" In addition to learning the new features in no time flat, a welcome side effect of learning from Ben Willmore is that you can expect to become a better, faster and more efficient Photoshop user.

Ben Willmore is the author of Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques, and a columnist for Photoshop User magazine. His hit seminar, Photoshop for Photographers, combined with his standing-room only sessions at PhotoshopWorld, and appearances at major publishing and photography conferences in the U.S. and abroad have established Ben Willmore as one of the world's most respected and sought after Photoshop instructors.

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PictoColor Releases ImageTitler 3.0 for Adding Titles and Text to Digital Photos

Add titles and text to digital photos for slideshows or posting on social networking and photo sharing sites like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and SmugMug

PictoColor announces the release of ImageTitler™ 3.0, a simple and effective way to add descriptive titles and text to any image. It features a straightforward, easy-to-use interface for adding text in various sizes, colors, and fonts with excellent sharpness and clarity.

“ImageTitler is an extremely easy-to-use Windows XP and Vista program that really simplifies adding a title or text to a digital photo. It does not require any other digital photo editor. Now you don’t need a complicated image editing program to simply add a title to a digital photo,” said Craig Huelskoetter, president. “You will be amazed at the quality and crispness of the text. ImageTitler offers five fonts in standard, bold or italics with twelve colors options.”

ImageTitler is ideal for adding a title or caption to any photo before posting to social networking or photo sharing sites like, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, or SmugMug. It is also is a fast and easy way to add text to product photos for eBay auctions and online stores.

ImageTitler™ is bundled free with PictoColor’s CorrectPhoto Digital Photo Editor, or it may be purchased separately for $19.95.

CorrectPhoto and ImageTitler can be easily customized for private label use by photo retailers, online photo services, web galleries and other interactive digital photo applications including direct web links for express uploads and other brand building services.

www.correctphoto.com

Apple iPhoto The Missing Manual

Bringing Digital Photography into the Light: O'Reilly and Pogue Press Release a Missing Manual for Apple's iPhoto

iPhoto, Apple's wildly popular application for organizing, retrieving, and sharing digital images, has finally given people who own digital cameras something to do with all the pictures they take. "Until now, you almost needed a degree in computer science to process your digital photos," says David Pogue, coauthor, with Joseph Schorr and Derrick Story, of iPhoto: The Missing Manual (Pogue Press/O'Reilly, US $24.95). "Sure, you could take the pictures easily enough, but then what? The entire process was so complicated that the old-fashioned way of shooting prints and stuffing them in a shoe box didn't seem so bad." With Pogue's latest book, iPhoto users can quickly learn how to take their digital photos to the screen, to the Web, to printouts, to hardbound photo books, even to DVDs.

iPhoto: The Missing Manual takes readers far beyond iPhoto's seemingly simple feature list. And the software application is just the beginning. The book also covers choosing and mastering a digital camera, the basics of good photocomposition, and tips for shooting special subjects like kids, sports, nighttime shots, portraits, and more.

"iPhoto has done for digital photography what the microwave did to cooking," Pogue proclaims. "And 'iPhoto: The Missing Manual' gives you everything you need to know, from selecting the right camera to publishing the images on the Web."

The latest in the series of bestselling "Missing Manual" titles created by prolific writer/publisher Pogue in collaboration with O'Reilly & Associates, iPhoto: The Missing Manual is "the book that should have been in the box," and more. It's the essential guide for any Mac user who wants to master digital photography.

iPhoto: The Missing Manual

By David Pogue, Joseph Schorr, Derrick Story

July 2002, 350 pages, $24.95 US $38.95 CA http://www.oreillynet.com/