Photoshop CS3 for Dummies by Peter Bauer

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