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 program: 

• 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