Actions for Photoshop CS6 for dummies [electronic resource]
Photoshop CS6 for dummies [electronic resource] / by Peter Bauer
- Author
- Bauer, Peter
- Additional Titles
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 for dummies
- Published
- Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 418 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Ebooks Corporation
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- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: About This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- pt. I Breezing through Basic Training -- pt. II Easy Enhancements for Digital Images -- pt. III Creating "Art" in Photoshop -- pt. IV Power Photoshop -- pt. 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 -- pt. I Breezing through Basic Training -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 4 Getting Images into and out of Photoshop -- Bringing Images into Photoshop -- Downloading from your digital camera -- Scanning prints -- Keeping Your Images Organized -- Creating a folder structure -- Using Adobe Bridge -- Renaming image files easily -- Printing Your Images -- Cropping to a specific 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 -- pt. II Easy Enhancements for Digital Images -- ch. 5 Adding Dark Shadows and Sparkling Highlights -- Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop -- Histograms Simplified -- 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 7 The Adobe Camera Raw 7 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 -- Workflow Options and presets -- The Basic panel -- The Detail panel -- HSL, grayscale, and split toning -- Compensating with Lens Corrections -- Adding special effects -- Camera profiles, presets, and snapshots -- The Camera Raw buttons -- ch. 8 Fine-Tuning Your Fixes -- What Is a Selection? -- Feathering and Anti-Aliasing -- Making Your Selections with Tools -- Marquee selection tools -- 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 modification 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 -- ch. 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 -- pt. III Creating "Art" in Photoshop -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 a shape -- 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 -- Customizing Any Path -- Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points -- Combining paths -- Tweaking type for a custom font -- ch. 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 Style panel -- Preserving your layer styles -- ch. 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 justification -- Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text -- Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path -- Applying the predefined warps -- Customizing the course with paths -- ch. 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 Workflow -- 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 -- ch. 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 -- Blurring images and selections -- The other Blur filters -- Correcting for the vagaries of lenses -- Cleaning up with Reduce Noise -- Getting Creative and Artistic -- Photo to painting with the Oil Paint filter -- Working with the Filter Gallery -- Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify -- Do I Need Those Other Filters? -- Adding drama with Lighting Effects -- Bending and bubbling -- Creating clouds -- pt. IV Power Photoshop -- ch. 16 Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop -- Ready, Set, Action! -- Recording your own Actions -- Working with the Batch command -- Creating contact sheets and presentations -- Sticking to the Script -- Adding Extensions to Photoshop -- Tooling around in Bridge -- Creating Fancy PDF Presentations and Multi-Page PDFs -- Creating a PDF presentation -- Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet -- Saving paper with picture packages -- Creating Web Galleries -- ch. 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 -- pt. V The Part of tens -- ch. 18 Ten (or so} Things to Do with Photoshop CS6 Extended -- Understanding Photoshop CS6 Extended -- 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 -- Measuring Length, Area, and More -- Calculating with Vanishing Point -- Counting Crows or Maybe Avian Flu -- Viewing Your DICOM Medical Records -- Ignoring MATLAB -- ch. 19 Ten Reasons to Love Your Wacom Tablet -- More Natural Movement -- Health and Safely -- Artistic Control -- Extended Comfort -- Programmable Express Keys, Touch Rings, and Touch Strips -- The Optimal Tablet -- The Pen's Switch -- Setting Preferences -- The Accessories -- Cintiq for the Ultimate Control -- ch. 20 Ten Things to Know about HDR -- Understanding What HDR Is -- Capturing (or Merge to HDR Pro -- Preparing Raw "Exposures" in Camera Raw -- Working with Merge to HDR Pro -- Saving 32-Bit HDR Images -- HDR Toning -- and Contents note continued: Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit -- Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit -- Selections and Editing in 32-Bit -- Printing HDR Images.
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- ISBN
- 1118227069 (electronic bk.)
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Includes index.
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