PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL

Adobe Photoshop

- a book by Michael Karbo.

This work is protected by copyright. It has been published in many European countries but never in English language. Therefore I desided to upload it to the Internet. It is free to use as it is for personal, non-commercial use. All rights belong to Michael Karbo. You may not in any way copy the contents.

These web pages have been produced from a Microsoft Word file. Hence the design, which could be a lot better. The translation is not perfect, neither. You'll have to live with it as it is. However, you can learn to use Photoshop, going through my exercises, thousands have already done so.

Preface and Introduction.

Setting up Photoshop.

See the program’s structure.

The first picture.

Now let us draw.

Move the whole shebang.

Exercise with multiple layers.

Yet another layer.

More about the layers.

A puzzle.

Start selecting.

The magic wand’s sensibility plus a little lasso.

The magnetic lasso.

Alpha channels.

Eraser and cloning.

Patterns and more.

Optimize for Web.

The Extract tool.

A new extraction.

Selections and shortcuts.

Blend Modes.

With Photoshop at work.

Adjustment layers.

Introduction to masks.

More about the mask.

Layer masks a la carte.

New exercise: Water in the streets of Paris.

Exercise: A Flower Power Pongo.

Quick masking.

Exercise: Teddy bear in the field.

Exercise with text.

Repairs (1. step), Unsharp Mask, Transform.

Repairs (2. step), Healing brush etc..

Histograms and Levels.

The Curves function.

Adjustment of color channels.

News in Photoshop version 7.

ImageReady, Plugins.

Please enjoy the 37 modules, all highly illustrated ...