Take your Photoshop CS4 skills to a new level with Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended: Advanced. With Jennifer Smith as your host, you'll learn how to give your images a professional touch. You'll discover advanced level techniques for color correction, photo retouching, and compositing using Photoshop.
You'll also learn how to optimize your images for the web and how to work with animation. If you already know the fundamentals of Photoshop, get ready to take what you know one step further and learn tips and techniques that will impress even the most seasoned Photoshop user!

Martin Evening's Adobe Photoshop for Photographers titles have become classic reference sources for photographers at all skill levels. Whether you are an accomplished user or just starting out, the Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers book contains a wealth of practical advice, hints and tips to help you achieve professional-looking results.

Black and white photography has come a long way in the digital world. This comprehensive reference will help you maximize your workflow with coverage of all of the relevant new features of Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2, including every stage of the black and white process from capture to printing.

Create powerful images with the professional standard! Adobe Photoshop - the essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 now offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities. Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. They'll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop's essential features.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended software delivers all the features in Photoshop CS4, plus new features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis.Easily access every tool for nondestructive adjustment of color and tone. Quickly adjust specific image areas with easier access to all the tools for creating and editing nondestructive masks.Now paint directly on 3D models; wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes; convert gradient maps to 3D objects; and add depth to pixel layers, text, 2D shapes, and DICOM frames with volume rendering.Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence with ease using single-key shortcuts.Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes.....

Create powerful images with the professional standard!
Adobe Photoshop - the essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 now offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.

Scott Kelby "Photoshop CS4 Down and Dirty Tricks First edition"
May 2009 | English | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-56317-0 | 359 Pages | PDF | 59.0 MB

UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE HOTTEST TRICKS, AND MOST REQUESTED PHOTOSHOP EFFECTS IN ONE AMAZING BOOK!

Scott Kelby, co-host of Photoshop User TV and the world’s #1 bestselling Photoshop author, is back to unlock the secrets of an amazing new collection of the latest eye-popping, jaw-dropping, Photoshop special effects—the same kind that made Scott’s previous editions of this book one of the top selling Photoshop books in history.You’ll learn some of the most closely guarded Photoshop CS4 special effects—the same ones you see on TV, in magazines, and on the Web. Using Scott’s simple step-by-step method, with hundreds of full-color images, you’ll see exactly how it’s all done. The book is written so clearly, and it is so easy to follow, you’ll immediately be able to create all of these effects yourself. You’ll learn:
• The latest photographic special effects
• How to fake studio shots (you’ll be amazed at how it’s done)
• The latest cutting-edge type effects
• The most popular effects used by big movie studios
• The most-requested advertising effects
• Commercial effects that clients go crazy over!
• The most asked-for current Web effects
• Amazing 3D effects using Photoshop Extended
• Plus loads of effects that look hard, but are easy once you know the secrets

New CS4 Features:

Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation (New)

Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. And use the revolutionary new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.

Adjustments panel (New)

Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.

Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 includes new online features that bring the power of the web to your desktop. Use these features to connect with the community, collaborate, and get more from your Adobe tools. Powerful creative online services let you complete tasks ranging from colour matching to data conferencing. The services seamlessly integrate with desktop applications so you can quickly enhance existing workflows. Some services offer full or partial functionality when you’re offline too.

Some Creative Suite 4 applications include these initial offerings:Kuler™ panelQuickly create, share, and explore color themes online.Adobe® ConnectNowCollaborate with dispersed working teams over the web, sharing voice, data, and multimedia.Resource CentralInstantly access tutorials, sample files, and extensions for Adobe digital video applications.

Corey Barker — education and curriculum developer for NAPP — shows you through the basic essentials of Adobe® Photoshop®. Whether you are new to Photoshop® CS4 or even Photoshop in general, this course is the place to start learning. Not only will you learn the basics of the Photoshop core tools and functions, but by the time you finish this course you will be editing and compositing your images with ease. Even if you are somewhat familiar with Photoshop this course will be great to refresh or sharpen your skills.

In this DVD you will learn:
How to set up your preferences and workspaces
How to customize Photoshop to suit your needs
How to create selections
How to work with layers
How to create text

Times: 07:59:43
Format: QuickTime (.MOV), 768 x 576
Quality: MPEG-4 AAC LC, 44100Hz 128 kb/s tot , stereo (2/0)

Chapter 1: Part 1
Section 1: Interface Overview
Section 3: Using Bridge — Overview
Section 4: Creating New Documents
Section 5: Selection Tools
Section 6: Crop and Straighten
Section 7: Moving Pixels Around
Section 8: Layer Basics
Section 9: Painting Tools

Chapter 2: Part 2
Section 10: Gradient Tools
Section 11: Erasers
Section 12: Tool Presets
Section 13: Using Strokes
Section 14: Using Fills
Section 15: Working with Patterns
Section 16: Pattern Stamp Tool
Section 17: The History Panel

Chapter 3: Part 3
Section 18: Creative Editing Tricks
Section 19: Advanced Brush Controls
Section 20: Advanced Selection Techniques
Section 21: More Layer Techniques
Section 22: Working with Filters

This is the FULL Adobe Photoshop CS3 in a 50Mb package…

It is NOT PORTABLE , it is the FULL VERSION .

To install you simply extract the .rar to C:/Program Files/Adobe Photoshop. And then create a shortcut to photoshop.exe inside that folder and put it on your desktop.

This version of Photoshop has all the features working and in perfect order…

Create powerful images with the professional standard

The essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 now offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.

Reasons to upgrade

* Smart Filters
* Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools
* Advanced compositing
* Streamlined interface
* Better raw image processing

* Improved Adobe Bridge
* Enhanced Vanishing Point
* Enhanced 32-bit HDR support
* Peak performance
* Black-and-white conversion