Photoshop CS3 for dummies

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Personal Author:

Bauer, Peter

Series:

--For dummies

Publication Information:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2007

ISBN:

9780470111932

Subject Term:

Adobe Photoshop

Image processing -- Digital techniques

Computer graphics

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Summary

Loaded with the latest Photoshop tips and techniques

The secrets of digital image editing - explained in plain English!

Photoshop CS3 is a powerhouse, and here's the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This friendly guide helps you get images into Photoshop - and then turn them into dazzling works of art. You'll see how to work in the right file formats, master the Brushes palette, get creative with filters, convert color to grayscale, and more!

Adjust brightness, improve color, and fix flaws Take advantage of the Raw file format Composite images with layers and blending modes Automate your tasks with scripts and Actions Apply the new Smart Filters to Smart Objects

Author Notes

Peter Bauer is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE), a contributor to Photoshop User magazine, and the Help Desk Director for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP)

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 1
How This Book Is Organized	p. 3
Part I Breezing through Basic Training	p. 3
Part II Easy Enhancements for Digital Images	p. 4
Part III Creating "Art" in Photoshop	p. 4
Part IV Power Photoshop	p. 4
Part V The Part of Tens	p. 4
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 5
Icons Used in This Book	p. 5
How to Use This Book	p. 6
Part I Breezing through Basic Training	p. 7
Chapter 1 Welcome to Photoshop!	p. 9
Exploring Adobe Photoshop	p. 10
What Photoshop is designed to do	p. 10
Other things you can do with Photoshop	p. 13
If you don't have specialized software	p. 14
Viewing Photoshop's Parts and Processes	p. 16
Reviewing basic computer operations	p. 16
Photoshop's incredible selective Undo	p. 18
Installing Photoshop: Need to know	p. 20
Chapter 2 Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images	p. 23
What Exactly Is a Digital Image?	p. 24
The True Nature of Pixels	p. 25
How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?	p. 27
Resolution revelations	p. 27
Resolving image resolution	p. 28
File Formats: Which Do You Need?	p. 35
Formats for digital photos	p. 36
Formats for Web graphics	p. 37
Formats for commercial printing	p. 38
Formats for PowerPoint and Word	p. 40
Chapter 3 Taking the Chef's Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen	p. 41
Food for Thought: How Things Work	p. 42
Ordering from the menus	p. 42
Your platter full of palettes	p. 43
The tools of your trade	p. 45
Get Cookin' with Customization	p. 47
Clearing the table: Custom workspaces	p. 48
Sugar and spice, shortcuts are nice	p. 50
Spoons can't chop: Creating tool presets	p. 51
Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings	p. 52
Standing orders: Setting the Preferences	p. 52
Ensuring consistency: Color Settings	p. 58
When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop	p. 60
Chapter 4 Getting Images into and out of Photoshop	p. 61
Bringing Images into Photoshop	p. 62
Downloading from your digital camera	p. 63
Scanning prints	p. 64
Keeping Your Images Organized	p. 67
Creating a folder structure	p. 67
Using Adobe Bridge	p. 68
Renaming image files easily	p. 71
Printing Your Images	p. 71
Cropping to a specific aspect ratio	p. 72
Remembering resolution	p. 73
Controlling color using Print with Preview	p. 74
Considering color management solutions	p. 76
Printing alternatives	p. 77
Sharing Your Images	p. 78
Creating a PDF Presentation	p. 78
Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet	p. 80
E-mailing your images	p. 81
Part II Easy Enhancements for Digital Images	p. 83
Chapter 5 Adding Dark Shadows and Sparkling Highlights	p. 85
Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop	p. 86
Histograms Simplified	p. 86
Using Photoshop's Auto Corrections	p. 90
Levels and Curves and You	p. 91
Level-headed you!	p. 92
Tonal corrections with the eyedroppers	p. 94
Adjusting your curves without dieting	p. 95
Grabbing Even More Control	p. 97
Using Shadow/Highlight	p. 98
Changing exposure after the fact	p. 101
Using Photoshop's toning tools	p. 102
Chapter 6 Making Color Look Natural	p. 105
What Is Color in Photoshop?	p. 105
Color modes, models, and depths	p. 106
Recording color in your image	p. 111
Color Adjustments in Photoshop	p. 111
Watching the Histogram and Info palettes	p. 113
Choosing color-adjustment commands	p. 114
Working with Variations	p. 126
Manual corrections in individual channels	p. 128
The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas	p. 129
Chapter 7 The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-in	p. 131
Understanding the Raw Facts	p. 131
What's the big deal about Raw?	p. 132
Working in Raw	p. 134
Do You Have What It Takes?	p. 135
Working in the Camera Raw Plug-In	p. 136
Tools and preview options	p. 136
The histogram	p. 140
The preview area	p. 140
Workflow options and presets	p. 141
The Basic pane	p. 143
Adjusting the tone curve	p. 144
The Detail pane	p. 147
HSL, grayscale, and split toning	p. 148
Compensating with Lens Correction	p. 150
Customizing camera profiles and the Presets tab	p. 151
The Camera Raw buttons	p. 152
Chapter 8 Fine-Tuning Your Fixes	p. 153
What Is a Selection?	p. 154
Feathering and Anti-Aliasing	p. 157
Making Your Selections with Tools	p. 158
Marquee selection tools	p. 159
Lasso selection tools	p. 162
The Quick Selection tool	p. 164
The Magic Wand tool	p. 164
Refine Selection Edge	p. 165
Your Selection Commands	p. 166
The primary selection commands	p. 166
The Color Range command	p. 167
Selection modification commands	p. 169
Transforming the shape of selections	p. 170
The mask-related selection commands	p. 172
Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore	p. 172
Saving and loading selections	p. 172
Editing an alpha channel	p. 173
Working in Quick Mask mode	p. 175
Adding masks to layers and Smart Objects	p. 176
Masking with vector paths	p. 177
Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes	p. 177
Adding an adjustment layer	p. 178
Limiting your adjustments	p. 179
Chapter 9 Common Problems and Their Cures	p. 181
Making People Prettier	p. 182
Getting the red out...digitally	p. 182
The digital fountain of youth	p. 183
Dieting digitally	p. 184
Deglaring glasses	p. 185
Whitening teeth	p. 186
Reducing Noise in Your Images	p. 187
Decreasing digital noise	p. 187
Eliminating luminance noise	p. 188
Fooling Around with Mother Nature	p. 188
Removing the unwanted from photos	p. 188
Eliminating the lean: Fixing perspective	p. 193
Rotating images precisely	p. 195
Part III Creating "Art" in Photoshop	p. 197
Chapter 10 Combining Images	p. 199
Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1	p. 199
Understanding layers	p. 200
Why you should use Smart Objects	p. 201
Using the basic blending modes	p. 202
Opacity, transparency, and layer masks	p. 205
Creating clipping groups	p. 206
Making composited elements look natural	p. 207
Selecting with Extract	p. 208
Vanishing Point	p. 209
Putting Together Images Automatically	p. 214
Creating panoramas with Photomerge	p. 214
Combining exposures for HDR images	p. 216
Chapter 11 Precision Edges with Vector Paths	p. 219
Pixels, Paths, and You	p. 220
Easy Vectors: Using Shape Layers	p. 222
Your basic shape tools	p. 222
The Custom Shape tool	p. 223
More custom shapes - free!	p. 224
Changing the appearance of the shape layer	p. 226
Simulating a multicolor shape layer	p. 227
Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths	p. 229
Understanding paths	p. 229
Clicking and dragging your way down the path of knowledge	p. 230
A closer look at the Paths palette	p. 232
Customizing Any Path	p. 236
Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points	p. 236
Combining paths	p. 238
Tweaking type for a custom font	p. 240
Chapter 12 Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles	p. 243
What Are Layer Styles?	p. 244
Using the Styles Palette	p. 245
Creating Custom Layer Styles	p. 247
Exploring the Layer Style menu	p. 247
Exploring the Layer Style dialog box	p. 249
Layer effects basics	p. 250
Opacity, fill, and advanced blending	p. 258
Saving Your Layer Styles	p. 262
Adding styles to the Style palette	p. 262
Preserving your layer styles	p. 263
Chapter 13 Giving Your Images a Text Message	p. 265
Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels	p. 266
A type tool for every season, or reason	p. 268
What are all those options?	p. 271
Taking control of your text with palettes	p. 274
The palette menus - even more options	p. 278
Putting a picture in your text	p. 280
Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers	p. 282
Selecting alignment or justification	p. 284
Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text	p. 285
Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path	p. 285
Applying the predefined warps	p. 286
Customizing the course with paths	p. 287
Finding and Adding Fonts	p. 289
Downloading and purchasing fonts	p. 290
Installing (and removing) fonts: Mac	p. 291
Installing (and removing) fonts: Windows	p. 292
Chapter 14 Painting in Photoshop	p. 293
Discovering Photoshop's Painting Tools	p. 294
Painting with the Brush tool	p. 295
Adding color with the Pencil tool	p. 297
Removing color with the Eraser tool	p. 298
Picking a color	p. 298
Working with other brush-using tools	p. 301
Filling, stroking, and dumping to add color	p. 303
Using gradients	p. 304
Browsing the Brushes Palette	p. 305
An overview of options	p. 306
Creating and saving custom brush tips	p. 308
Chapter 15 Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop	p. 311
Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy	p. 311
The Filters You Really Need	p. 313
Sharpening to focus the eye	p. 313
Unsharp Mask	p. 314
Smart Sharpen	p. 315
Blurring images or selections	p. 316
Using the Lens Correction filter	p. 319
Cleaning up with Reduce Noise	p. 321
Getting Creative with the Filter Gallery	p. 323
Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify	p. 325
Do I Need Those Other Filters?	p. 328
Bending and bubbling	p. 328
Creating clouds	p. 328
Part IV Power Photoshop	p. 329
Chapter 16 Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop	p. 331
Running on Auto	p. 332
Creating a PDF presentation	p. 332
Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet	p. 334
One-step Web sites	p. 336
Saving paper with Picture Package	p. 337
Ready, Set, Action!	p. 340
Recording your own Actions	p. 341
Working with the Batch command	p. 344
Sticking to the Script	p. 345
Chapter 17 Introducing Photoshop CS3 Extended	p. 347
Understanding Photoshop CS3 Extended	p. 348
Painting and Layers in 32-Bit Color	p. 348
Smart Object Stack Modes	p. 350
Working with 3D Artwork	p. 351
Editing Imported Video	p. 353
Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels	p. 354
Measuring length, area, and more	p. 354
Counting crows or maybe avian flu	p. 356
Ignoring MATLAB, DICOM, and Other Initials	p. 357
Part V The Part of Tens	p. 359
Chapter 18 Pete's Top Ten Favorite Photoshop Tips and Tricks	p. 361
Adding Artistic and Creative Effects	p. 361
Smoothing skin perfectly	p. 362
From a photo to a painting	p. 363
Creating a sketch from a photo	p. 364
Creating snow or rain	p. 366
The Glass Text effect	p. 367
Useful Tricks to Make Life Easier	p. 367
Changing product colors in a snap	p. 367
Deleting a plain white background	p. 368
Making dashed and dotted lines	p. 368
Quick and easy edge effects	p. 368
Professional-looking contact sheets	p. 369
Chapter 19 Ten Reasons to Love Your Wacom Tablet	p. 371
More natural movement	p. 371
Health and safety	p. 371
Artistic control	p. 372
Extended comfort	p. 372
Programmable ExpressKeys and Touch Strips	p. 372
The optimal tablet	p. 372
The pen's switch	p. 373
Setting preferences	p. 373
Don't forget the accessories	p. 374
Cintiq for the ultimate control	p. 374
Chapter 20 Ten Reasons to Own a Digital Camera	p. 375
Shooting Digital for Your Work	p. 376
Shooting Digital for Yourself	p. 377
Shooting Digital for the Rest of Us	p. 377
Index	p. 379

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