Photoshop® CS4: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks

Photoshop® CS4: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks includes 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Photoshop. The easy-to-use layout lets you work through all the tasks from beginning to end or jump in at random. Photoshop is an incredibly powerful program. Not only can you perform many different tasks with Photoshop, but you can also choose from a number of ways to complete each project. By setting up Photoshop to work for you, you can develop your own techniques and find ways to adapt the standard tools so you can be more creative. When you work on an image, you may prefer to see some panels and not others. You may also prefer certain tool settings to others.

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Customizing Photoshop to work your way makes you more productive, the program more useful, and everything you do with Photoshop much more fun.

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With Photoshop CS4, Adobe has changed the look of the interface and taken customization to a new level. You can modify your settings and preferences by adjusting the workspace, the panels, and the tools to fit the requirements of specific projects. You can close some panels and open others to simplify your screen and keep only the tools you need available. You can make your own gradients, customize shortcuts, and design your own brushes. These may seem like boring steps,yet by learning to customize Photoshop you gain familiarity with the program and become more efficient as you try different projects.

This book uses step-by-step instructions to guide you easily through each task. Numbered callouts on every screen shot show

you exactly how to perform each task, step by step.

Practical tips provide insights to save you time and trouble, caution you about hazards to avoid, and reveal how to do things in Photoshop that you never thought possible!