Practical Photoshop CC 2014 Level 2

Co-authored by community college instructors with many years of experience teaching Adobe Photoshop both in the classroom and online. This book picks up where Practical Photoshop Level 1 leaves off, and continues to provide you with the knowledge you need to take your use of the industry-standard image editing application to the next level. It includes 17 chapters of Guided Exercises and Case Studies that will walk you through intermediate-level features of this very complex • Camera Raw• The Filter Gallery• Converting between grayscale and color• Saving files for Web use• Using actions to batch process files• Understanding file formats• Working with channels and masks° The differences between layers, channels, and masks° Using layer masks° The power of clipping masks• Working with vector elements° Vectors vs. pixels° Shape layers and their options° Type tools and formatting