Photoshop CC Essential Skills ─ A Guide to Creative Image Editing

Combining real world examples, step-by-step projects, and professional advice, Photoshop CC: Essential Skills provides the ultimate learning experience for beginner to intermediate Photoshop users. Written by two internationally recognized authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors, this book gives a guided tour of everything photographers need to know to master image editing and achieve stunning results.

Broken into three parts, this self-study guide to Photoshop covers the foundational skills for photographers and image editors to get started before moving onto more advanced image editing and photomontage techniques. A complete section of step-by-step imaging projects and 12+ hours of video tutorials on the companion website hone image-editing skills to yield professional quality results.

Mark Galer is a Senior Lecturer in photography at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He has lectured in photography in the UK and Australia and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial assignments. He has written numerous top-selling photography books. He is an official Adobe Ambassador for Photoshop.

Philip Andrews is Adobe Australia's official Photoshop and Elements Ambassador. He is an experienced photographer, author, magazine editor, and online course creator. He was previously a lecturer at the Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australia and Nescot, England. He is a beta tester for Photoshop, an alpha tester for Photoshop Elements, and a Photoshop specialist demonstrator for Adobe Australia. Philip is also co-founder of photo-college.com, an online photography training college. He's a regular contributor to several magazines including Shutterbug, Amateur Photographer, Australian Photography, and Better Photography, and is senior contributing editor for Better Digital, columnist for What Digital Camera, and co-editor and publisher of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.