Photoshop is the foundation of every digital career. Many users think they know it, but in truth they have gaping holes in their training. This book covers what a professional truly needs to know about Photoshop. For students this book offers a chance to explore the program interactively. For professionals it provides a chance to add to their skill base. The book cuts though the clutter and is unique, focusing not just on digital photography, but also the Web, graphic design, and video.

Readers will learn the essentials in correcting, editing, sharpening, retouching, and presenting photos as well as work on specific projects/exercises. Coverage of exciting C6 features includes: Content Aware Move, Blur Gallery, Video Editing, Nondestructive Cropping, Text Styles, Oil Paint, and many performance enhancements and shortcuts.

The full-color book includes hand-on exercises and practice images as well as 109 new video training tutorials that expand on the lessons in the book.

This text book was utilized in an advanced Photoshop course that I took in 2013. The original book cover was the orange version, which I rebuilt in Photoshop CS6, as an independent study exercise. The blue version was an extension of the original design adding a variety of elements with a different approach than what was used on the original version. The instructor then also printed each of these two versions out on the schools high quality printer. She also asked me why I was taking this class since this was accomplished on the first couple of weeks of the class. I stated that there were things that I wanted to learn and explore in Photoshop that I thought that I could add to my skills. I stayed in the class and learned about non destructive editing, masking and other skills like histograms that I have utilized in my work and design since finishing the class in the spring of 2013.

Rich Harrington is a digital video expert, educator, speaker, and author.

As a digital video expert and trained business professional, Rich Harrington understands both the creative and management sides of the visual communications industry. He is the founder of the visual communications company RHED Pixel in Washington, DC. He is a certified instructor for Adobe and Apple and a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team. Rich is a popular speaker on the digital video circuit and has served as program manager for conferences hosted by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). He has also written several books for the video industry, including An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro, From Still to Motion, and Photoshop for Video. To explore more resources for media professionals and to watch Rich’s many podcasts, visit RichardHarrington.com.