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