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Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies

Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies


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Get picture perfect with Photoshop CC Photoshop is a stunning program that puts the power of a professional photography studio into your hands, but it can also be a jungle to navigate—with a dense proliferation of menus, panels, shortcuts, plug-ins, and add-ons to get thoroughly lost in. Written by a literal Photoshop Hall of Famer, the new edition of Photoshop CC For Dummies is your experienced guide to the technical terrain, slashing away the foliage for a clear picture of how to produce the perfectly framed and beautifully curated images you want. Beginning with an overview of the basic kit bag you need for your journey toward visual mastery, Peter Bauer—Photoshop instructor and an award-winning fine art photographer in his own right—shows you how to build your skills and enrich your creative palette with enhanced colors and tone, filters and layering, and even how undertake a foray into digital painting. Add in instructions on combining text with images and the how-tos of video and animation editing, and you have all the tools you need to carve out a one-person multimedia empire. Master everything from the basics to professional insider tips Combine, layer, tone, and paint your images Explore the colorfully creative world of Photoshop filters Fix common problems You'll find everything on the latest version of the software that you could dream of—and an improved shot at artistic success!

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 How to Use This Book 3 Part 1: Getting Started with Photoshop CC 5 Chapter 1: An Overview of Photoshop 7 Exploring Adobe Photoshop 7 What Photoshop is designed to do 8 Other things you can do with Photoshop 9 Viewing Photoshop’s Parts and Processes 10 Reviewing basic computer operations 10 Photoshop’s incredible selective Undo 12 Installing Photoshop: Need to know 14 Chapter 2: Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images 17 What Exactly is a Digital Image? 18 The True Nature of Pixels 18 How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? 21 Resolution revelations 21 Resolving image resolution 22 File Formats: Which Do You Need? 30 Formats for digital photos 31 Formats for web graphics 33 Formats for commercial printing 34 Formats for PowerPoint and Word 36 Chapter 3: Taking the Chef’s Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen 37 Food for Thought: How Things Work 38 Ordering from the menus 39 Your platter full of panels 40 The tools of your trade 42 Get Cookin’ with Customization 44 Clearing the table: Custom workspaces 44 Spoons can’t chop: Creating tool presets 47 Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings 48 Standing orders: Setting the Preferences 48 Ensuring consistency: Color Settings 55 When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop 57 Chapter 4: From Pics to Prints: Photoshop for Beginners 59 Bringing Images into Photoshop 59 Downloading from your digital camera 60 Scanning prints 61 Keeping Your Images Organized 66 Creating a folder structure 66 Using Adobe Bridge 67 Renaming image files easily 69 Printing Your Images 71 Cropping to a specific aspect ratio 71 Remembering resolution 73 Controlling color using File ➪ Print 74 Considering color management solutions 75 Printing alternatives 76 Sharing Your Images 77 Emailing and AirDropping your images 78 Creating PDFs and websites 78 Part 2: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images 79 Chapter 5: Making Tonality and Color Look Natural 81 Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop 82 Histograms Simplified 82 Using Photoshop’s Auto Corrections 84 Levels and Curves and You 85 Level-headed you! 86 Tonal corrections with the eyedroppers 89 Adjusting your curves without dieting 90 Grabbing Even More Control 92 Using Shadows/Highlights 93 Changing exposure after the fact 96 Using Photoshop’s toning tools 96 What is Color in Photoshop? 97 Which color mode should you choose? 98 Does a color model make a difference? 101 Why should you worry about color depth? 102 Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop 104 Choosing color adjustment commands 106 Manual corrections in individual channels 117 The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas 118 Chapter 6: The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In 121 Understanding the Raw Facts 121 What’s the big deal about Raw? 123 Working in Raw 124 The Camera Raw Interface 126 Camera Raw’s Tools and buttons 126 The histogram 132 The preview area 132 Workflow Options and presets 133 Making Adjustments in Camera Raw’s Edit Panel 134 The Basic section 134 The Curve section 137 The Detail section 137 The Color Mixer section 138 The Color Grading section 138 The Optics and Geometry sections 140 The Effects section 141 The Calibration section 141 The Camera Raw Cancel, Done, and Open buttons 142 Chapter 7: Fine-Tuning Your Fixes 143 What is a Selection? 144 Feathering and Anti-aliasing 146 Making Your Selections with Tools 148 Marquee selection tools 148 Lasso selection tools 152 The Object Selection tool 153 The Quick Selection tool 153 The Magic Wand tool 154 Select and Mask 155 Your Selection Commands 156 The primary selection commands 157 The Color Range command 158 The Focus Area command 159 The Select ➪ Subject command 160 The Select ➪ Sky command 161 Selection modification commands 161 Transforming the shape of selections 161 Edit in Quick Mask mode 163 The mask-related selection commands 164 Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore 164 Saving and loading selections 165 Editing an alpha channel 165 Adding masks to layers and Smart Objects 167 Masking with vector paths 167 Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes 168 Adding an adjustment layer 168 Limiting your adjustments 170 Chapter 8: Common Problems and Their Cures 173 Making People Prettier 174 Getting the red out digitally 174 The digital fountain of youth 175 Dieting digitally 176 De-glaring glasses 179 Whitening teeth 179 Reducing Noise in Your Images 179 Decreasing digital noise 180 Eliminating luminance noise 181 Fooling Around with Mother Nature 181 Removing the unwanted from photos 181 Eliminating the lean: Fixing perspective 185 Rotating images precisely 187 Adding a beautiful sky 188 Part 3: Creating “Art” in Photoshop 189 Chapter 9: Combining Images 191 Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1 192 Understanding layers 192 Why you should use Smart Objects 194 Using the basic blending modes 195 Opacity, transparency, and layer masks 198 Creating clipping groups 199 Making composited elements look natural 200 Making Complex Selections 201 Vanishing Point 204 Creating Panoramas with Photomerge 208 Chapter 10: Precision Edges with Vector Paths 211 Pixels, Paths, and You 212 Easy Vectors: Using Shapes 213 Your basic shape tools 214 The Custom Shape tool 216 More custom shapes — free! 217 Changing the appearance of the shape layer 219 Simulating a multicolor shape layer 220 Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths 221 Understanding paths 222 Clicking and dragging your way down the path of knowledge 222 A closer look at the Paths panel 226 Customizing Any Path 229 Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points 230 Combining paths 232 Tweaking type for a custom font 233 Chapter 11: Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles 235 What Are Layer Styles? 235 Using the Styles Panel 237 Creating Custom Layer Styles 239 Exploring the Layer Style menu 239 Exploring the Layer Style dialog box 241 Layer effects basics 242 Opacity, fill, and advanced blending 251 Saving Your Layer Styles 254 Adding styles to the Styles panel 254 Preserving your layer styles 255 Chapter 12: Giving Your Images a Text Message 257 Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels 258 A type tool for every season, or reason 260 What are all those options? 262 Taking control of your text with panels 266 The panel menus — even more options 269 Working with Styles 271 Putting a picture in your text 272 Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers 274 Selecting alignment or justification 276 Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text 277 Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path 278 Applying the predefined warps 278 Customizing the course with paths 279 Chapter 13: Painting in Photoshop 283 Discovering Photoshop’s Painting Tools 284 Painting with the Brush tool 286 Adding color with the Pencil tool 289 Removing color with the Eraser tool 289 Working with Panels and Selecting Colors 290 An overview of options 290 Creating and saving custom brush tips 293 Picking a color 294 Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Tips and the Mixer Brush 297 Exploring erodible brush tips 297 Introducing airbrush and watercolor tips 297 Mixing things up with the Mixer Brush 298 Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors 300 Deleting and dumping to add color 300 Using gradients 301 Chapter 14: Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop 305 Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy 306 The Filters You Really Need 307 Sharpening to focus the eye 308 Unsharp Mask 308 Smart Sharpen 310 Shake Reduction 311 Blurring images and selections 312 The other Blur filters 315 Correcting for the vagaries of lenses 316 Cleaning up with Reduce Noise 320 Getting Creative and Artistic 321 Photo to painting with the Oil Paint filter 321 Working with the Filter Gallery 322 Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify 325 What Are Neural Filters? 327 The original Neural Filters 328 Neural Filters in public beta testing 329 Proposed Neural Filters 330 Do I Need Those Other Filters? 330 Adding drama with Lighting Effects 331 Maximum and Minimum 331 Bending and bubbling 332 Creating clouds 332 Part 4: Power Photoshop 333 Chapter 15: Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop 335 Ready, Set, Action! 336 Recording your own Actions 337 Working with the Batch command 342 Find It Fast with Discover 344 Creating Contact Sheets and Presentations 344 Creating a PDF presentation 345 Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet 347 Scanning Multiple Photos in One Pass 349 Sticking to the Script 350 Chapter 16: Working with Video and Animation 353 Importing and Enhancing Video Clips 353 Getting video into Photoshop 354 Adjusting the length of video and audio clips 356 Adding adjustment layers and painting on video layers 357 Transitioning, titling, and adding special effects 358 Transforming video layers 361 Rendering and exporting video 361 Creating Animations in Photoshop 362 Building frame-based animations 362 Creating frame content 363 Tweening to create intermediary frames 365 Specifying frame rate 366 Optimizing and saving your animation 366 Part 5: The Part of Tens 367 Chapter 17: Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC 369 Using Smart Object Stack Modes 370 The Mean Stack Mode 372 Working with 3D Artwork 372 Creating 3D objects 373 Adding 3D objects 373 Rendering and saving 3D scenes 374 Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels 374 Measuring length, area, and more 374 Calculating with Vanishing Point 376 Counting crows or maybe avian flu 376 Viewing Your DICOM Medical Records 377 Ignoring MATLAB 378 Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Integrate Your iPad 379 Using Sidecar to Add an iPad to Your Screen 379 Sidecar System Requirements 380 Arranging Your iPad’s Screen 380 Mirroring the Screens 381 Maximizing the Screen Space 381 Making Use of Photoshop on the iPad 382 Using the Cloud with Photoshop on the iPad and Desktop 383 Using Other Adobe iPad Apps 384 Does the iPad Replace My Wacom Tablet? 384 Setting Wacom Tablet Preferences for Touch Keys and Touch Ring 385 Chapter 19: Ten Things to Know about HDR 387 Understanding HDR 387 Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro 389 Preparing Raw “Exposures” in Camera Raw 390 Working with Merge to HDR Pro 391 Saving 32-Bit HDR Images 394 HDR Toning 394 Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit 395 Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit 396 Selections and Editing in 32-Bit 397 Printing HDR Images 397 Appendix: Photoshop CC’S Blending Modes 399 Index 403

About the Author :
Peter Bauer is a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame and an award-winning fine-art photographer. The author of more than a dozen books on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, computer graphics, and photography, he is also the host of video-training titles at Lynda.com and a contributing writer for Photoshop User magazine.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781119711773
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: For Dummies
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 432
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 612 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1119711770
  • Publisher Date: 08 Apr 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 183 mm


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