Focal Press.

Focal Press

30 Corporate #400, Burlington MA 01803

www.focalpress.com

A DVD with over 10 hours of movie support and royalty-free images packs Mark Galer & Philip Andrews's Photoshop CS4 Essential Skills (9780240521244, $39.95), a book on creative image editing written by two renowned authors expert in Photoshop at a top level. Photoshop CS4 Essential Skills is designed as a self-study guide and offers a structured program covering foundation skills and advanced techniques as well. Learn how to enhance photos using the latest CS4 features with chapters packed with color photo examples throughout. Highly recommended as a basic instructional for any Photoshop CS4 user at any level. Steve Caplin's ART & DESIGN IN PHOTOSHOP (9780240811093, $39.95) provides chapters on typography and basic design principles and shows how to design everything from book covers and posters to packaging and more. Photoshop basics offers photographers and designers alike keys to successful creative design, and shows how to simulate just about anything in Photoshop, from famous works of art to book and magazine covers. A top pick. Also tops is Richard Lynch's discussion of one of the most complex aspects of Photoshop in THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 LAYERS BOOK (9780240521558, $39.95), offering a visual, hands-on guide to using layers. From isolating image areas for adjustments to using different blending forms, masks, layer modes and channels, this comes with a CD library of practical actions based on the book. Very highly recommended!

Print Get the Mag Weekly Updates