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  Contents at a Glance

Introduction ................................................................ 1

Book I: Photoshop Fundamentals .................................. 7

  Chapter 1: Examining the Photoshop Environment ...................................................... 9 Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Tools Panel ................................................................ 27 Chapter 3: Starting, Finishing, and Getting It on Paper ............................................... 39 Chapter 4: Viewing and Navigating Images .................................................................. 57 Chapter 5: Customizing Your Workspace and Preferences ....................................... 97 Book II: Image Essentials ......................................... 123 Chapter 1: Specifying Size and Resolution ................................................................. 125 Chapter 2: Choosing Color Modes and File Formats ................................................. 141 Chapter 3: Using and Managing Color ......................................................................... 165 Chapter 4: Time Travel — Undoing in Photoshop .................................................... 193 Chapter 5: Creating Actions for Productivity and Fun .............................................. 207 Book III: Selections .................................................. 219 Chapter 1: Making Selections ....................................................................................... 221 Chapter 2: Creating and Working with Paths ............................................................. 241 Chapter 3: Modifying and Transforming Selections and Paths................................ 265 Book IV: Painting, Drawing, and Typing .................... 285 Chapter 1: Painting and Drawing with Photoshop .................................................... 287 Chapter 2: Filling and Stroking ..................................................................................... 311 Chapter 3: Creating and Editing Type ......................................................................... 329 Book V: Working with Layers .................................... 357 Chapter 1: Creating Layers ........................................................................................... 359 Chapter 2: Managing Layers ......................................................................................... 389 Chapter 3: Playing with Opacity and Blend Modes ................................................... 407 Chapter 4: Getting Jazzy with Layer Styles and Clipping Groups ............................ 423 Chapter 5: Working with Smart Objects ..................................................................... 447

  

Book VI: Channels and Masks ................................... 457

  Chapter 1: Using Channels ............................................................................................ 459 Chapter 2: Quick-and-Dirty Masking ............................................................................ 477 Chapter 3: Getting Exact with Advanced Masking Techniques ............................... 489 Book VII: Filters and Distortions ............................... 507 Chapter 1: Making Corrections with Daily Filters ...................................................... 509 Chapter 2: Applying Filters for Special Occasions .................................................... 529 Chapter 3: Distorting with the Liquify Command ...................................................... 555 Book VIII: Retouching and Restoration ...................... 569 Chapter 1: Enhancing Images with Adjustments ....................................................... 571 Chapter 2: Repairing with Focus and Toning Tools .................................................. 617 Chapter 3: Fixing Flaws and Removing What’s Not Wanted..................................... 627 Book IX: Photoshop and Print ................................... 647 Chapter 1: Prepping Graphics for Print ...................................................................... 649 Chapter 2: Using Photomerge and Merge to HDR Pro .............................................. 665 Bonus Chapters ............................................ On the Web Bonus Chapter 1: Prepping Web Graphics ................................................................ BC1 Bonus Chapter 2: Slicing Web Images ...................................................................... BC31 Bonus Chapter 3: Other Sources of Information..................................................... BC47

Index ...................................................................... 673

  Table of Contents

Introduction ................................................................. 1

  About This Book .............................................................................................. 1 What’s in This Book ........................................................................................ 2

  Book I: Photoshop Fundamentals ........................................................ 2 Book II: Image Essentials ....................................................................... 3 Book III: Selections ................................................................................. 3 Book IV: Painting, Drawing, and Typing .............................................. 3 Book V: Working with Layers ............................................................... 3 Book VI: Channels and Masks .............................................................. 4 Book VII: Filters and Distortions .......................................................... 4 Book VIII: Retouching and Restoration ............................................... 4 Book IX: Photoshop and Print .............................................................. 5 About the Web Site ................................................................................ 5

  Conventions Used in This Book ..................................................................... 5 Icons Used in This Book ................................................................................. 6

  

Book I: Photoshop Fundamentals ................................... 7

  Chapter 1: Examining the Photoshop Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Launching Photoshop and Customizing the Desktop ................................. 9 Setting display settings with the Window menu .............................. 11 Setting up the status bar ..................................................................... 12 Playing with Panels ....................................................................................... 14 Working with Your First Photoshop File .................................................... 16 Opening, printing, and saving fi les .................................................... 17 Making selections ................................................................................ 17 Making simple image edits ................................................................. 17 Adjusting size, color, and contrast .................................................... 18 Creating layers ..................................................................................... 19 Applying fi lters ..................................................................................... 20 Unifying with the Application bar ...................................................... 21 Simplifying your edits with the Options bar .................................... 22 Viewing and navigating the image ..................................................... 24 Introducing Adobe ConnectNow........................................................ 25 Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Tools Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Turning On the Tools Panel ......................................................................... 27 Selecting tools ...................................................................................... 27 Getting to know your tools ................................................................. 29

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  Introducing the Photoshop Tools ............................................................... 30 Using selection tools ........................................................................... 30 Creating and modifying paths ............................................................ 30 Using painting tools ............................................................................. 32 Using tools for cloning and healing ................................................... 32 Creating effects with typographical tools......................................... 33 Using focus and toning tools .............................................................. 34 Creating shapes .................................................................................... 34 Viewing, navigating, sampling, and annotating tools ...................... 35 Using tools for the Web ....................................................................... 36

  Saving Time with Tool Presets .................................................................... 36 Creating custom tool presets ............................................................. 36 Managing your presets ........................................................................ 37

  Chapter 3: Starting, Finishing, and Getting It on Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Browsing for Files .......................................................................................... 39 Opening an Image .......................................................................................... 40 Opening special fi les ............................................................................ 42 Opening as a Smart Object ................................................................. 43 Placing Files .................................................................................................... 43 Creating a New Image .................................................................................... 45 Saving a File .................................................................................................... 48 Closing and Quitting ...................................................................................... 50 Getting It on Paper ......................................................................................... 51 Taking a look at printers ..................................................................... 51 Printing an image ................................................................................. 52 Setting printing options ...................................................................... 53 Chapter 4: Viewing and Navigating Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Looking at the Image Window ...................................................................... 57 Zooming In and Out of Image Windows ...................................................... 60 Zooming with keyboard shortcuts .................................................... 60 Using the Zoom tool ............................................................................ 60 Other ways to zoom ............................................................................ 62 Handling the Hand tool ....................................................................... 63 Rotating with the Rotate View tool .................................................... 64 Cruising with the Navigator Panel ............................................................... 65 Choosing a Screen Mode .............................................................................. 66 Getting Precise Layout Results .................................................................... 67 Creating guides .................................................................................... 68 Using guides ......................................................................................... 69 Using grids ............................................................................................ 70 Measuring Onscreen ..................................................................................... 71 Measuring an object ............................................................................ 71 Measuring an angle .............................................................................. 72

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  Using the Info Panel ....................................................................................... 72 Working with Extras ...................................................................................... 75 Managing Images with Adobe Bridge .......................................................... 75

  Brief anatomy of Bridge ...................................................................... 77 Confi guring the Bridge window .......................................................... 80 Using the Menu bar and buttons ....................................................... 81 Using keywords .................................................................................... 88

  Creating PDF Presentations .......................................................................... 89 Creating a Web Gallery ................................................................................. 92 Introducing Mini Bridge ................................................................................ 94

  Chapter 5: Customizing Your Workspace and Preferences . . . . . . . . .97 Creating Workspace Presets ........................................................................ 97 Creating and Deleting Workspace Presets ................................................. 99 Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts ................................................................ 99 Customizing Menus ..................................................................................... 101 Setting Your Preferences ............................................................................ 102 Setting general preferences .............................................................. 103 Customizing the interface ................................................................. 107 Deciding how you want fi les handled.............................................. 108 Handling performance options ........................................................ 111 Adjusting your cursors ..................................................................... 114 Adjusting transparency and gamut ................................................. 115 Setting measurement preferences ................................................... 117 Setting up guides, grids, and slices ................................................. 118 Adding plug-ins .................................................................................. 119 Specifying type options ..................................................................... 121 Using the Preset Manager ........................................................................... 122

Book II: Image Essentials .......................................... 123

Chapter 1: Specifying Size and Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125 Putting Images under the Microscope ...................................................... 126 Vector images ..................................................................................... 126 Raster images ..................................................................................... 127 Viewing Raster Images Onscreen .............................................................. 128 Using the Image Size Command ................................................................. 129 Resampling Images ...................................................................................... 131 Adding pixels to an image ................................................................. 132 Taking pixels out of an image ........................................................... 133 Changing the Canvas Size ........................................................................... 135 Cropping an Image ....................................................................................... 136 Using the Crop tool ............................................................................ 138 Cropping with the Marquee tool ...................................................... 139 Using the Trim command ................................................................. 139 Using the Crop and Straighten Photo command ........................... 140

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Chapter 2: Choosing Color Modes and File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141

Selecting a Color Mode ............................................................................... 141 RGB Color............................................................................................ 142 CMYK Color ........................................................................................ 143 Grayscale ............................................................................................ 144 Monotone, Duotone, Tritone, and Quadtone ................................. 144 Indexed Color ..................................................................................... 145 Lab Color ............................................................................................. 146 Bitmap ................................................................................................. 147 Multichannel ....................................................................................... 148 Converting to a Different Color Mode ....................................................... 148 Converting from RGB to CMYK ........................................................ 149 Converting to grayscale .................................................................... 149 Using the Conditional Mode Change command ............................. 151 Choosing the Right File Format ................................................................. 152 TIFF ...................................................................................................... 152 JPEG ..................................................................................................... 154 JPEG 2000 ............................................................................................ 155 GIF ........................................................................................................ 156 EPS ....................................................................................................... 156 PDF: The universal donor ................................................................. 157 Photoshop........................................................................................... 159 Photoshop Raw .................................................................................. 160 Camera Raw ........................................................................................ 160 BMP ...................................................................................................... 162 Large Document Format (PSB)......................................................... 163 Other fi le formats ............................................................................... 163

Chapter 3: Using and Managing Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Dealing with Foreground and Background Colors .................................. 165 Defi ning Color .............................................................................................. 166 Poking around Color Picker .............................................................. 167 Mixing with the Color panel ............................................................. 169 Grabbing color from the Swatches panel ....................................... 171 Lifting and sampling color ................................................................ 172 Using the Color Sampler tool to measure color ............................. 173 Finding and Sharing Color Themes with Kuler ........................................ 175 Color Management Essentials .................................................................... 176 Setting up your work environment .................................................. 178 Calibrating your monitor .................................................................. 178 Establishing Your Settings ......................................................................... 180 Handling Photoshop’s predefi ned settings .................................... 180 Indicating your working spaces ....................................................... 182 Working with your newly defi ned settings ..................................... 185 Setting color-management policies ................................................. 186 Getting Consistent Color among Adobe Applications ............................ 189 Proofi ng Colors in the Final Output (Soft Proofi ng) ................................ 191

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  Chapter 4: Time Travel — Undoing in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193 Undoing What’s Done with the Undo Command ..................................... 193 Reverting to What’s Saved ......................................................................... 194 Working with the Almighty History Panel ................................................ 194 Understanding states and snapshots .............................................. 195 Introducing History panel options and tools ................................. 195 Viewing an Image’s Various States ............................................................ 196 Going back to a particular state ....................................................... 197 Reviewing your image at different states........................................ 197 Purging and clearing all states ......................................................... 197 Navigating the history list................................................................. 197 Looking at the History Options Dialog Box .............................................. 198 Taking Snapshots ........................................................................................ 199 Restoring Part of an Image ......................................................................... 201 Using the Eraser with the Erase to History option ........................ 201 Using the History Brush tool ............................................................ 203 Using the Fill with History feature ................................................... 203 Using the Art History Brush tool ..................................................... 204 Chapter 5: Creating Actions for Productivity and Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . .207 Using the Actions Panel .............................................................................. 207 Introducing Preset Actions ......................................................................... 209 Loading preset actions ...................................................................... 209 Playing a preset action ...................................................................... 210 Creating a New Action ................................................................................. 211 Editing and Managing Actions ................................................................... 212 Rerecording an action ....................................................................... 213 Editing an action ................................................................................ 213 Creating and Saving Actions Sets .............................................................. 215 Batch Processing Actions ........................................................................... 215 Creating Droplets ......................................................................................... 218

Book III: Selections .................................................. 219

Chapter 1: Making Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221 Defi ning Selections ...................................................................................... 221 Marqueeing When You Can ........................................................................ 222 Using the Rectangular Marquee tool ............................................... 222 Using the Elliptical Marquee tool..................................................... 223 Using the Single Column and Single Row Marquee tools.............. 224 Using the Marquee options .............................................................. 224 Lassoing (When You Can’t Marquee) ....................................................... 229 Selecting straight sides with the Polygonal Lasso tool ................. 232 Attracting with the Magnetic Lasso tool ......................................... 234 Adjusting the Magnetic Lasso options ............................................ 235

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  Performing Wand Wizardry ........................................................................ 236 Selecting with the Magic Wand tool ................................................ 236 Setting your tolerance ....................................................................... 237 Using the Magic Wand Options bar ................................................. 238

  Saving Time with the Quick Selection Tool .............................................. 239

  Chapter 2: Creating and Working with Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241 Introducing Paths ........................................................................................ 241 Creating a Path with the Pen Tool ............................................................. 243 Knowing your Pen tool options........................................................ 243 Creating your fi rst work path ........................................................... 243 Drawing curves .................................................................................. 246 Connecting a straight segment to a curve segment ...................... 248 Connecting curve segments with cusp points ............................... 248 Closing a path ..................................................................................... 249 Creating subpaths .............................................................................. 249 Working with the Paths Panel .................................................................... 250 Creating a path ................................................................................... 251 Creating a new path ........................................................................... 251 Saving a work path............................................................................. 251 Deleting, duplicating, and renaming a path .................................... 251 Stroking a path ................................................................................... 252 Filling a path ....................................................................................... 253 Loading Paths as Selections ....................................................................... 254 Turning a Selection into a Path .................................................................. 255 Using the Kinder Freeform Pen .................................................................. 256 Curve Fit .............................................................................................. 257 Magnetic .............................................................................................. 258 Width, Contrast, Frequency, and Pen Pressure ............................. 258 Creating Paths without the Pen ................................................................. 258 Editing Paths ................................................................................................ 260 Using the Options Bar ................................................................................. 263 Chapter 3: Modifying and Transforming Selections and Paths . . . . .265 Achieving Selection Perfection .................................................................. 265 Adding to a selection ......................................................................... 266 Subtracting from a selection ............................................................ 267 Intersecting two selections ............................................................... 268 Getting the Keys to Behave ........................................................................ 268 Using the Select Menu ................................................................................. 269 Selecting all or nothing ..................................................................... 270 Reselecting a selection ...................................................................... 270 Swapping a selection ......................................................................... 270 Feathering a selection ....................................................................... 271 Using the other Modify commands ................................................. 272 Applying the Grow and Similar commands .................................... 273

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  Moving and Cloning Selections .................................................................. 274 Cloning ................................................................................................ 274 Moving the selection outline, but not the pixels ........................... 275

  Transforming Pixels .................................................................................... 275 Transforming Selection Marquees ............................................................ 278 Using Content-Aware Scaling ..................................................................... 279 Transforming Paths ..................................................................................... 280

  

Book IV: Painting, Drawing, and Typing ..................... 285

  Chapter 1: Painting and Drawing with Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287 Introducing the Pencil and Brush Tools ................................................... 287 Finding out what the Pencil tool does ............................................. 288 Using the Pencil tool .......................................................................... 289 Painting with the Brush tool ............................................................. 290 Blending with the Mixer Brush tool................................................. 291 Working with the Brush panel.......................................................... 293 Choosing a brush-tip shape .............................................................. 294 Using the preset brushes .................................................................. 297 Viewing preset brushes..................................................................... 298 Drawing with Vector Shapes ...................................................................... 302 Drawing a preset shape ..................................................................... 303 Drawing multiple shapes in a shape layer ...................................... 305 Setting Geometry options ................................................................. 306 Creating your own custom shape .................................................... 309 Using vector masks ............................................................................ 309 Manipulating shapes ......................................................................... 310 Chapter 2: Filling and Stroking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311 Filling a Selection with a Solid Color ......................................................... 311 Fill Options and Tips ................................................................................... 312 Pouring with the Paint Bucket Tool .......................................................... 314 Stroking a Selection ..................................................................................... 315 Working with Gradients .............................................................................. 317 Applying a preset gradient to a selection ....................................... 318 Customizing and editing gradients .................................................. 320 Adding transparency to a gradient .................................................. 323 Managing and Saving Gradients ................................................................. 325 Working with Patterns ................................................................................ 326 Applying a preset pattern ................................................................. 326 Creating a new pattern ...................................................................... 327 Chapter 3: Creating and Editing Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329 Selecting a Type Mode ................................................................................ 329 Understanding Different Kinds of Type .................................................... 330 Exploring the Type Tools ........................................................................... 331

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  Entering Text in Point Type Mode ............................................................. 332 Entering Text in Paragraph Type Mode .................................................... 333 Creating Type on or in a Path .................................................................... 334 Using the Options Bar ................................................................................. 335 Working with the Character Panel ............................................................ 337

  Leading ................................................................................................ 337 Tracking .............................................................................................. 338 Kerning ................................................................................................ 338 Vertical and Horizontal Scale ........................................................... 339 Baseline shift and text attributes ..................................................... 339

  Working with the Paragraph Panel ............................................................ 341 Changing paragraph alignment ........................................................ 341 Changing paragraph justifi cation..................................................... 342 Changing paragraph indentation ..................................................... 342 Changing spacing between paragraphs .......................................... 342 Breaking long words across two lines............................................. 342

  Editing Text .................................................................................................. 343 Finding and replacing text ................................................................ 343 Checking your spelling ...................................................................... 344

  Masking, Shaping, and Warping Type ....................................................... 345 Playing with type layer opacity ........................................................ 345 Creating fade effects .......................................................................... 346 Creating type outlines ....................................................................... 349 Rasterizing your type layer .............................................................. 350 Transforming type into vector shapes and paths ......................... 351 Wreaking havoc on your type .......................................................... 352

  Book V: Working with Layers .................................... 357

  Chapter 1: Creating Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359 Getting to Know the Layers Panel ............................................................. 359 Looking at the Background and Layers .................................................... 362 Introducing Different Types of Layers ...................................................... 364 Using plain vanilla layers .................................................................. 364 Using adjustment layers.................................................................... 365 Taking advantage of fi ll layers .......................................................... 368 Making use of shape layers............................................................... 370 Using type layers................................................................................ 370 Making Layers .............................................................................................. 372 Creating a new layer .......................................................................... 372 Using Layer via Copy and Layer via Cut ......................................... 373 Duplicating layers .............................................................................. 374 Compositing with Multiple Images ............................................................ 374 Copying and pasting images ............................................................. 374 Dragging and dropping layers .......................................................... 375 Using the Paste Special commands ................................................. 376

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  Transforming Layers ................................................................................... 378 Using Puppet Warp ...................................................................................... 379 Auto-Align Layers ........................................................................................ 380 Auto-Blend Layers ....................................................................................... 383

  

Chapter 2: Managing Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389