Photoshop 7 Fundamentals of Graphic Design

Author: Yang Shunhua
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Photoshop 7 Chinese Edition: Fundamentals of Graphic Design is a required course for graphic design majors. This book covers basic knowledge from Photoshop 7.0's basic operations and functions, tool operations and applications, layer masks, channels, task automation, applying filters to create special effects, and creating animations, to practical and comprehensive design examples (such as patterned text, golden text, melting text, punched text, and stamped text), image processing (such as creating yellowed old photographs, water effects, sunsets, extracting horses, picture frames, unearthed artifacts, face-swapping, and the Cross of Love), industrial design (such as clocks, cosmetic bottles, mobile phones, and players), web buttons and animations (such as buttons, navigation buttons, blinking animations, and slider animations), and comprehensive design (such as artistic human figures, net patterns, packaging design, and goddesses). Using easy-to-understand language, step-by-step explanations and operations, and rich illustrations, the book vividly and detailedly introduces the fundamentals, basic principles, methods, and techniques of graphic design. With 25 exquisite examples + 20 typical hypermedia video tutorials, readers can deeply understand, learn, reference, imitate, and master the core functions and basic usage of graphic design, improve their own design skills, broaden their horizons, inspire creativity, and encourage innovation, benefiting greatly. (CD) Photoshop 7 Chinese Edition: Fundamentals of Graphic Design is a required course for graphic design majors. This book covers basic knowledge from Photoshop 7.0's basic operations and functions, tool operations and applications, layer masks, channels, task automation, applying filters to create special effects, and creating animations, to practical and comprehensive design examples (such as patterned text, golden text, melting text, punched text, and stamped text), image processing (such as creating yellowed old photographs, water effects, sunsets, extracting horses, picture frames, unearthed artifacts, face-swapping, and the Cross of Love), industrial design (such as clocks, cosmetic bottles, mobile phones, and players), web buttons and animations (such as buttons, navigation buttons, blinking animations, and slider animations), and comprehensive design (such as artistic human figures, net patterns, packaging design, and goddesses). Using easy-to-understand language, step-by-step explanations and operations, and rich illustrations, the book vividly and detailedly introduces the fundamentals, basic principles, methods, and techniques of graphic design. With 25 exquisite examples + 20 typical hypermedia video tutorials, readers can deeply understand, learn, reference, imitate, and master the core functions and basic usage of graphic design, improve their own design skills, broaden their horizons, inspire creativity, and encourage innovation, benefiting greatly. The accompanying CD includes complete example source files, practice material files, and hypermedia video teaching materials; the appendix provides answers to comprehensive exercises for each chapter. This book is suitable as a textbook for graphic design majors in higher education institutions; teaching materials for social graphic design beginner training courses; and a self-study guide for professionals using Photoshop for art design, advertising, packaging design, graphic, and image processing.