Format:
1 online resource (451 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118651360
Content:
Stretch your creativity beyond the cloud with this fully-updated Photoshop guide! Photoshop puts amazing design and photo-editing tools in the hands of creative professionals and hobbyists everywhere, and the latest version - Photoshop CC - is packed with even more powerful tools to help you manage and enhance your images. This friendly, full-color guide introduces you to the basics of Photoshop CC and provides clear explanations of the menus, panels, tools, options, and shortcuts you'll use the most. Plus, you'll learn valuable tips for fixing common photo flaws, improving color quality, adjusting brightness, removing unwanted background elements, and more. Covers the new Photoshop CC release which brings even more features to over four million photographers, graphic designers, web developers, and other Photoshop professionals Teaches the essentials for first-time users before moving on to more advanced techniques like removing blemishes and wrinkles, creating composite images, and working with layers, filters, levels, and curves Walks you through adjusting brightness, enhancing color, adding shadows and highlights, decreasing digital noise, taking advantage of Camera Raw, and optimizing your images for print and the web The sky's the limit for stunning photos and innovative images with Photoshop CC For Dummies in your design toolbox
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part I: Getting Started with Photoshop CC -- Part II: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images -- Part III: Creating "Art" in Photoshop -- Part IV: Power Photoshop -- Part V: The Part of Tens -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Icons Used in This Book -- How to Use This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Getting Started with Photoshop CC -- Chapter 1: Welcome to Photoshop! -- Exploring Adobe Photoshop -- What Photoshop is designed to do -- New features to help you do those jobs -- Other things you can do with Photoshop -- Viewing Photoshop's Parts and Processes -- Reviewing basic computer operations -- Photoshop's incredible selective Undo -- Installing Photoshop: Need to know -- Chapter 2: Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images -- What Exactly Is a Digital Image? -- The True Nature of Pixels -- How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? -- Resolution revelations -- Resolving image resolution -- File Formats: Which Do You Need? -- Formats for digital photos -- Formats for web graphics -- Formats for commercial printing -- Formats for PowerPoint and Word -- Chapter 3: Taking the Chef's Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen -- Food for Thought: How Things Work -- Ordering from the menus -- Your platter full of panels -- The tools of your trade -- Get Cookin' with Customization -- Clearing the table: Custom workspaces -- Sugar and spice, shortcuts are nice -- Spoons can't chop: Creating tool presets -- Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings -- Standing orders: Setting the Preferences -- Ensuring consistency: Color Settings -- When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop -- Chapter 4: Getting Images into and out of Photoshop -- Bringing Images into Photoshop -- Downloading from your digital camera -- Scanning prints
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Chapter 15: Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop -- Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy -- The Filters You Really Need -- Sharpening to focus the eye -- Unsharp Mask -- Smart Sharpen -- Shake Reduction -- Blurring images and selections -- The other Blur fi lters -- Correcting for the vagaries of lenses -- Cleaning up with Reduce Noise -- Getting Creative and Artistic -- Photo to painting with the Oil Paint fi lter -- Working with the Filter Gallery -- Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify -- Do I Need Those Other Filters? -- Adding drama with Lighting Effects -- Maximum and Minimum -- Bending and bubbling -- Creating clouds -- Part IV: Power Photoshop -- Chapter 16: Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop -- Ready, Set, Action! -- Recording your own Actions -- Working with the Batch command -- Creating Contact Sheets and Presentations -- Creating a PDF presentation -- Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet -- Scanning Multiple Photos in One Pass -- Sticking to the Script -- Chapter 17: Working with Video and Animation -- Importing and Enhancing Video Clips -- Getting video into Photoshop -- Adjusting the length of video and audio clips -- Adding adjustment layers and painting on video layers -- Transitioning, titling, and adding special effects -- Transforming video layers -- Rendering and exporting video -- Creating Animations in Photoshop -- Building frame-based animations -- Creating frame content -- Tweening to create intermediary frames -- Specifying frame rate -- Optimizing and saving your animation -- Part V: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 18: Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC -- Understanding Photoshop CC's Special Features -- Using Smart Object Stack Modes -- Working with 3D Artwork -- Creating 3D Objects -- Importing 3D Objects -- Rendering and Saving 3D Scenes -- Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels
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Customizing Any Path -- Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points -- Combining paths -- Tweaking type for a custom font -- Chapter 12: Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles -- What Are Layer Styles? -- Using the Styles Panel -- Creating Custom Layer Styles -- Exploring the Layer Style menu -- Exploring the Layer Style dialog box -- Layer effects basics -- Opacity, fill, and advanced blending -- Saving Your Layer Styles -- Adding styles to the Styles panel -- Preserving your layer styles -- Chapter 13: Giving Your Images a Text Message -- Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels -- A type tool for every season, or reason -- What are all those options? -- Taking control of your text with panels -- The panel menus - even more options -- Working with Styles -- Putting a picture in your text -- Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers -- Selecting alignment or justifi cation -- Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text -- Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path -- Applying the predefi ned warps -- Customizing the course with paths -- Chapter 14: Painting in Photoshop -- Discovering Photoshop's Painting Tools -- Painting with the Brush tool -- Adding color with the Pencil tool -- Removing color with the Eraser tool -- Working with Panels and Selecting Colors -- An overview of options -- Creating and saving custom brush tips -- Picking a color -- Integrating Your iPad into Your Painting Workfl ow -- Expressing yourself with PS Express -- Using Adobe Nav -- Getting colorful with Color Lava -- Easing your way into Eazel -- Connecting with Photoshop -- Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Tips and the Mixer Brush -- Exploring erodible brush tips -- Introducing airbrush and watercolor tips -- Mixing things up with the Mixer Brush -- Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors -- Deleting and dumping to add color -- Using gradients
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Keeping Your Images Organized -- Creating a folder structure -- Using Adobe Bridge -- Renaming image fi les easily -- Printing Your Images -- Cropping to a specifi c aspect ratio -- Remembering resolution -- Controlling color using File.Print -- Considering color management solutions -- Printing alternatives -- Sharing Your Images -- Creating PDFs and websites -- E-mailing your images -- Part II: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images -- Chapter 5: Adding Dark Shadows and Sparkling Highlights -- Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop -- Histograms Simplifi ed -- Using Photoshop's Auto Corrections -- Levels and Curves and You -- Level-headed you! -- Tonal corrections with the eyedroppers -- Adjusting your curves without dieting -- Grabbing Even More Control -- Using Shadow/Highlight -- Changing exposure after the fact -- Using Photoshop's toning tools -- Chapter 6: Making Color Look Natural -- What Is Color in Photoshop? -- Color modes, models, and depths -- Recording color in your image -- Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop -- Watching the Histogram and Info panels -- Choosing color adjustment commands -- Manual corrections in individual channels -- The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas -- Chapter 7: The Adobe Camera Raw 8 Plug-In -- Understanding the Raw Facts -- What's the big deal about Raw? -- Working in Raw -- Do You Have What It Takes? -- Working in the Camera Raw Plug-In -- Tools and preview options -- The histogram -- The preview area -- Workfl ow Options and presets -- The Basic panel -- The Detail panel -- HSL, grayscale, and split toning -- Compensating with Lens Corrections -- Adding special effects -- Camera profi les, presets, and snapshots -- The Camera Raw buttons -- Chapter 8: Fine-Tuning Your Fixes -- What Is a Selection? -- Feathering and Anti-aliasing -- Making Your Selections with Tools -- Marquee selection tools
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Lasso selection tools -- The Quick Selection tool -- The Magic Wand tool -- Refine Edge -- Your Selection Commands -- The primary selection commands -- The Color Range command -- Selection modifi cation commands -- Transforming the shape of selections -- Edit in Quick Mask mode -- The mask-related selection commands -- Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore -- Saving and loading selections -- Editing an alpha channel -- Adding masks to layers and Smart Objects -- Masking with vector paths -- Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes -- Adding an adjustment layer -- Limiting your adjustments -- Chapter 9: Common Problems and Their Cures -- Making People Prettier -- Getting the red out . . . digitally -- The digital fountain of youth -- Dieting digitally -- De-glaring glasses -- Whitening teeth -- Reducing Noise in Your Images -- Decreasing digital noise -- Eliminating luminance noise -- Fooling Around with Mother Nature -- Removing the unwanted from photos -- Eliminating the lean: Fixing perspective -- Rotating images precisely -- Part III: Creating "Art" in Photoshop -- Chapter 10: Combining Images -- Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1 -- Understanding layers -- Why you should use Smart Objects -- Using the basic blending modes -- Opacity, transparency, and layer masks -- Creating clipping groups -- Making composited elements look natural -- Making Complex Selections -- Vanishing Point -- Creating Panoramas with Photomerge -- Chapter 11: Precision Edges with Vector Paths -- Pixels, Paths, and You -- Easy Vectors: Using Shapes -- Your basic shape tools -- The Custom Shape tool -- More custom shapes - free! -- Changing the appearance of the shape layer -- Simulating a multicolor shape layer -- Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths -- Understanding paths -- Clicking and dragging your way down the path of knowledge -- A closer look at the Paths panel
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Measuring Length, Area, and More
Additional Edition:
Print version Bauer, Peter Photoshop CC for Dummies Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2013 ISBN 9781118645758
Language:
English
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