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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Third edition
- Item Description
- "Learning made easy" -- Cover.
"Diagnose common image problems and fix them ; learn to optimize color and tonality in photos ; add text and design elements for stunning layouts" -- Cover.
Previous edition: 2018. - Physical Description
- xii, 417 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781119711773
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Icons Used in This Book
- How to Use This Book
- Part 1. Getting Started with Photoshop CC
- Chapter 1. An Overview of Photoshop
- Exploring Adobe Photoshop
- What Photoshop is designed to do
- 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 Chefs 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
- 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. From Pics to Prints: Photoshop for Beginners
- 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
- Emailing and AirDropping your images
- Creating PDFs and websites
- Part 2. Easy Enhancements for Digital Images
- Chapter 5. Making Tonality and Color Look Natural
- 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 Shadows/Highlights
- Changing exposure after the fact
- Using Photoshop's toning tools
- What Is Color in Photoshop?
- Which color mode should you choose?
- Does a color model make a difference?
- Why should you worry about color depth?
- Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop
- Choosing color adjustment commands
- Manual corrections in individual channels
- The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas
- Chapter 6. The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In
- Understanding the Raw Facts
- What's the big deal about Raw?
- Working in Raw
- The Camera Raw interface
- Camera Raw's Tools and buttons
- The histogram
- The preview area
- Workflow Options and presets
- Making Adjustments in Camera Raw's Edit Panel
- The Basic section
- The Curve section
- The Detail section
- The Color Mixer section
- The Color Grading section
- The Optics and Geometry sections
- The Effects section
- The Calibration section
- The Camera Raw Cancel, Done, and Open buttons
- Chapter 7. Fine-Tuning Your Fixes
- What Is a Selection?
- Feathering and Anti-aliasing
- Making Your Selections with Tools
- Marquee selection tools
- Lasso selection tools
- The Object Selection tool
- The Quick Selection tool
- The Magic Wand tool
- Select and Mask
- Your Selection Commands
- The primary selection commands
- The Color Range command 1.58
- The Focus Area command
- The Select Subject command
- The Select Sky 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
- Chapter 8. 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
- Adding a beautiful sky
- Part 3. Creating "Art" in Photoshop
- Chapter 9. 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 10. 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
- Customizing Any Path
- Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points
- Combining paths
- Tweaking type for a custom font
- Chapter 11. 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 12. 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
- Chapter 13. 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
- 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
- Chapter 14. 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 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
- What Are Neural Filters?
- The original Neural Filters
- Neural Filters in public beta testing
- Proposed Neural Filters
- Do I Need Those Other Filters?
- Adding drama with Lighting Effects
- Maximum and Minimum
- Bending and bubbling
- Creating clouds
- Part 4. Power Photoshop
- Chapter 15. Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop
- Ready, Set, Action!
- Recording your own Actions
- Working with the Batch command
- Find It Fast with Discover
- 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 16. 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 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 17. Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC
- Using Smart Object Stack Modes
- The Mean Stack Mode
- Working with 3D Artwork
- Creating 3D objects
- Adding 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
- Chapter 18. Ten Ways to Integrate Your iPad
- Using Sidecar to Add an iPad to Your Screen
- Sidecar System Requirements
- Arranging Your iPad's Screen
- Mirroring the Screens
- Maximizing the Screen Space
- Making Use of Photoshop on the iPad
- Using the Cloud with Photoshop on the iPad and Desktop
- Using Other Adobe iPad Apps
- Does the IPad Replace My Wacom Tablet?
- Setting Wacom Tablet Preferences for Touch Keys and Touch Ring
- Chapter 19. Ten Things to Know about HDR
- Understanding HDR
- Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro
- Preparing Raw "Exposures" in Camera Raw
- Working with Merge to HDR Pro
- Saving 32-Bit HDR Images
- HDR Toning
- Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit
- Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit
- Selections and Editing in 32-Bit
- Printing HDR Images
- Appendix: Photoshop CC's Blending Modes
- Index