About the Author

Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education and Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). He also creates the popular weekly QuickTime-based tutorials that appear on the members' Web site. Dave is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS2 and a Certified Technical Trainer as well as the author or co-author of numerous Photoshop and Illustrator books, including Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips and Photoshop CS2 Help Desk.

Book Description

If you're primarily interested in finishing touches--the million creative ways you can use your favorite software to improve, polish, and add pizzazz to your images--this is the book for you! The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Finishing Touches for Photoshop CS2 offers a treasure chest of creative finishing techniques. With chapters on frames and border effects, color and artistic effects, presentation, sharpening, and printing, this full-color guide covers everything from creative cropping to dramatic lighting, stock photos, collage ideas, combining black-and-white and color, selective blurring, storybook layouts, PDF presentation, and more. Each technique is a stand-alone tutorial, so you can jump in at any point without weeding through a lot of info that's not relevant to the task at hand. Even better, author Dave Cross' two-column format--with simple instructions in one column and lavish, full-color photos and artwork running alongside--makes the techniques instantly accessible. You'll also find several variations for most techniques as well as instructions for creating reusable templates.