Have you ever looked at your color pictures and wished you could make them black and white? Or maybe you've dreamed about taking that photo of your brother, cutting the head off and placing it on the body of a grizzly bear. The tool that you need is Adobe Photoshop and the book you need to learn all about it is How to Use Adobe Photoshop CS 2. Visually step through the process of creating images, manipulating them and then optimizing them for print or the web. The step-by-step approach used throughout the book will make it simple to learn the basic techniques involved in using Photoshop. You will learn to:

• Convert files
• Work with tone and color
• Edit images using tools, paths and layers
• Build web files

Master the basics of Photoshop with the visual examples and easy-to-follow lessons in How to Use Photoshop CS 2.

Experience the highly visual format of the Art of Photoshop: Digital Photography Workshop and learn how to take good source photos and transform them into display-quality digital works of art with visual effects used in Adobe Photoshop. Using the beauty of the Tuscan region of Italy as a backdrop, author and artist/photographer Daniel Giordan, will take you through the steps of how to capture good source materials, how to explore the artistic effect of those images, and how to turn those explorations into richly layered and visually complex artwork using the tools available in Photoshop. This is your chance to look over the author's shoulder as he guides you through a process of creative exploration through which he creates 10 artistic montages. 

Go where no other Photoshop book takes you. The Art of Photoshop, CS2 Edition allows you to look over the designer's shoulder while learning advanced Photoshop CS2 techniques. 19 vivid, full-color images, available on the included CD-ROM, will inspire you to push your understanding of Photoshop CS2 and its capabilities. Learn the techniques that the designer used to create the images and then how to apply them to your own images using the same techniques and the new tools available with the Photoshop CS2 software. Work with author Dan Giordan on developing these 19 images by:

• Making complex selections
• Transforming layers
• Mastering curves and color correction
• Working with layer masks
• Mastering the distort filters
• And more