Photoshop 7.0 Dream Effects Bible (with disc) (with disc)

Author: Cao Yanqing
Publisher: Beijing Hope Electronics Press
Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: Features of the book: 1. Relaxing, fun, comprehensive content, 100% practical application; 2. Typical examples, detailed steps, integrated teaching and practice, easy to get started; 3. Example files for each chapter are stored on the accompanying CD, making learning convenient, and the bonus Photoshop trial version provides a practice platform; 4. Well-designed: Summaries and exercises at the end of each chapter give readers the opportunity to practice hands-on. Suitable for: Advertising professionals in graphic design, advertising design, computer art design, computer painting, and web image creation; college and university students and teachers of computer art, and social graphic design training classes.
This is a dedicated book aimed at quickly learning and mastering the excellent image processing master, Photoshop 7.0, in a short time. The entire book adopts the learning model of "mouse + brain + art + technology" and, through 55 carefully designed, exciting examples and 9 chapters + appendix, provides an in-depth, vivid, and detailed description of the main functions and usage methods of Photoshop 7.0.
Chapter 1 guides users through Photoshop 7.0 installation, startup, new features, workspace, toolbox, and basic applications of various control panels using nearly 100 stunning Photoshop-created images.
Chapter 2 introduces the use of tools such as the pencil, eraser, text, airbrush, and vector repair through three examples: a travel poster, a beverage character, and a deep autumn atmosphere.
Chapter 3 explains the use of tools like the magic wand, lasso, masks, selection stacking and combination, saving and loading, feathering, and rotation and distortion through four examples: night travel, stone inscriptions, sea of clouds, and dewdrops.
Chapter 4 demonstrates 11 commands such as Undo, Copy, and CopyMerged for perspective, rotation, scaling, and skew transformations through three examples: a spacecraft, a cover, and lipstick.
Chapter 5 presents methods for creating neon lights, fading effects, starry backgrounds, brick textures, sketches, carvings, and rainy effects using Level and Invert through five examples: posters, negatives, sketches, commemorative coins, and a rainy day simulation.
Chapter 6 introduces layer creation, copying, moving, stacking, adding, and using layer masks to create fading effects through six examples: a flying car online, animal world, vanity table, embossing, go, and shop signs.
It also covers the creation, processing, and two methods for making shadows using Alpha channels.
Chapter 7 introduces the use of 48 filters through 18 examples: ice lanterns, paper-cutting, rust traces, homecoming, watercolor paintings, night flying cars, Einstein, license plates, architectural renderings, scratch removal, fabric patterns, frosted glass, 3D geometric shapes, shallow, Christmas cards, intense beams, and gray late autumn.
Chapter 8 introduces 24 filters through 12 examples: billiards, childlike illustrations, burlap textures, wooden textures, unwavering, reflections, celestial bodies, stamps, gems, soccer balls, cherry blossoms, and fossils.
Chapter 9 covers the use of ImageReady 7.0 through four examples: interactive buttons, fleeting clouds, slides, and web image optimization.
The appendix illustrates the names and functions of Photoshop 7.0's 112 filters.