About Photoshop Digital Classroom

The Adobe
® Photoshop® CS6 Digital Classroom provides a broad foundation of essential
Photoshop skills. It is the perfect way to learn Photoshop if you are just starting out with
the software, upgrading from a previous version, or if you have never received formal
training-even if you have been using Photoshop for years. The Adobe Photoshop CS6
Digital Classroom provides you with essential skills across a wide range of Photoshop’s
capabilities. Whether you plan to use Photoshop for color correction and retouching of
images, creating digital artwork, designing web pages, or creating advertisements, the
Photoshop Digital Classroom is your starting point for beginning to understand everything
that Photoshop of  ers. It has been a best-selling Photoshop book for many versions, and is
widely used by schools teaching Photoshop, digital imaging, and digital design.
The Adobe Photoshop CS6 Digital Classroom helps you get up-and-running right away.
You can work through all the lessons in this book, or complete only specii  c lessons.
Each lesson includes detailed, step-by-step instructions, along with lesson i  les, useful
background information, and video tutorials on the included DVD–it is like having your
own expert instructor guiding you through each lesson while you work at your own pace.
This book includes 14 self-paced lessons that let you discover essential skills, explore new
features, and understand capabilities that will save you time. You’ll be productive right
away with real-world exercises and simple explanations. The Adobe Photoshop CS6 Digital
Classroom lessons are developed by the same team of Photoshop experts who have created
many oi   cial training titles for Adobe Systems.

Prerequisites
Before you start the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Digital Classroom lessons, you should have a
working knowledge of your computer and its operating system. You should know how to
use the directory system of your computer so that you can navigate through folders. You
also need to understand how to locate, save, and open i  les, and you should also know how
to use your mouse to access menus and commands.
Before starting the lessons i  les in the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Digital Classroom, make sure
that you have installed Adobe Photoshop CS6. The software is sold separately, and not
included with this book. You may use the free 30-day trial version of Adobe Photoshop
CS6 available at the adobe.com website, subject to the terms of its license agreement.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 versions
Photoshop CS6 comes in two versions: Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6
Extended. The Extended version of  ers everything you i  nd in Photoshop CS6, along with
additional tools for editing video, motion-graphics, 3-D content, and performing image
analysis. This book covers both versions of Photoshop CS6. Where appropriate, we have
noted any features that are available only in the Extended version. Adobe Photoshop CS6
is used to refer to both versions of the software throughout the book.

System requirements
Before starting the lessons in the Adobe Photoshop CS6 Digital Classroom, make sure that
your computer is equipped for running Adobe Photoshop CS6, which you must purchase
separately. The minimum system requirements for your computer to ef  ectively use
the software are listed below and you can i  nd the most current system requirements at
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/tech-specs.html
Windows
•  Intel
® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft
® Windows
® XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
•  1 GB RAM
•  1 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during
installation (cannot install on removable l ash storage devices)
•  1024×768 display (1280×800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 256 MB (512 MB
recommended) of VRAM and OpenGL 2.0–capable system
•  DVD-ROM drive
•  Broadband Internet connection required for software activation and access to online
services.
Mac OS
• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
•  1 GB RAM
•  2 GB of available hard disk space for installation; additional free space required during
installation (cannot install on a removable l ash storage device or case-sensitive volume)
•  1024×768 display (1280×800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 256 MB (512 MB
recommended) of VRAM and OpenGL 2.0–capable system
•  DVD-ROM drive
•  Broadband Internet connection required for software activation and access to online
services.

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