Book description
Martin Evening, Photoshop hall-of-famer and acclaimed digital imaging professional, has revamped his much-admired Photoshop for Photographers book for an eleventh edition, to include detailed instruction for all of the updates to Photoshop CC on Adobe’s Creative Cloud. This comprehensive guide covers all the tools and techniques serious photographers need to know when using Photoshop, from workflow guidance to core skills to advanced techniques for professional results. Using clear, succinct instruction and real world examples, this guide is the essential reference for Photoshop users of all levels.
Accompanying the book is the photoshopforphotographers.com website, fully updated with new sample images, new tutorial videos, and additional bonus chapters.
It’s clear why so many people feel that any serious Photoshop user should not be without this invaluable reference text.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
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1 Photoshop Fundamentals
- Photoshop installation
- The Photoshop interface
- Photoshop CC Tools panel
- Selection tools
- Painting tools
- Tools for filling
- Tools for drawing
- Image editing tools
- Navigation and information tools
- Screen view modes
- Working with Layers
- Automating Photoshop
- Preset Manager
- History
- When files won’t open
- File formats
- Adobe Bridge CC
- Camera Raw 8.0
- Easter eggs
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2 Configuring Photoshop
- What you will need
- The ideal computer setup
- HiDPI (Retina displays)
- Photoshop preferences
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3 Camera Raw Image Processing
- Camera Raw advantages
- Getting raw images into Photoshop
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Basic Camera Raw image editing
- Working with Bridge and Camera Raw
- General controls for single file opening
- General controls for multiple file opening
- Opening raw files as Smart Objects
- Saving photos from Camera Raw
- The histogram display
- Image browsing via Camera Raw
- Camera Raw preferences
- Camera Raw cropping and straightening
- How to straighten and crop
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Basic panel controls
- White balance
- Process Versions
- The Process 2012 tone adjustment controls
- Preserving the highlight detail
- When to clip the highlights
- How to clip the shadows
- Shadow levels after a conversion
- Basic panel image adjustment procedure
- Auto tone corrections
- Clarity
- Vibrance and Saturation
- Tone Curve panel
- Correcting a high contrast image
- HSL/Grayscale panel
- Lens Corrections panel
- Lens Corrections: Color tab
- Lens Corrections: Manual tab
- Effects panel
- Camera Calibration panel
- Custom camera profile calibrations
- Camera Raw as a Photoshop filter
- Spot removal tool
- Red eye removal
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Localized adjustments
- Adjustment brush
- Initial Adjustment brush options
- Adding a new brush effect
- Editing brush adjustments
- Darkening the shadows
- Hand-coloring in Color mode
- Graduated filter tool
- Radial filter adjustments
- Correcting edge sharpness with the radial filter
- Camera Raw settings menu
- Presets panel
- Synchronizing different process versions
- Legacy presets
- Working with Snapshots
- DNG file format
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4 Sharpening and noise reduction
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When to sharpen
- Why one-step sharpening is ineffective
- Capture sharpening
- Process versions
- Improvements to Camera Raw sharpening
- Sample sharpening image
- Detail panel
- Masking slider
- Some real world sharpening examples
- How to save sharpening settings as presets
- Capture sharpening roundup
- Selective sharpening in Camera Raw
- Noise removal in Camera Raw
- Non-raw image noise reduction
- Localized sharpening in Photoshop
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When to sharpen
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5 Image Editing Essentials
- Pixels versus vectors
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Basic pixel editing
- The image histogram
- Basic Levels editing and the histogram
- Bit depth
- The RGB edit space and color gamut
- Direct image adjustments
- Levels adjustments
- Curves adjustment layers
- Direct Curves dialog
- Saving and loading curves
- Brightness and Contrast
- Correcting shadow and highlight detail
- Auto image adjustments
- Match Color corrections
- Enhance Brightness and Contrast
- Color corrections
- Cropping
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6 Black and white
- Converting color to black and white
- Black and white output
- 7 Extending the dynamic range
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8 Image retouching
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Basic cloning methods
- Clone stamp tool
- Healing brush
- Choosing an appropriate alignment mode
- Clone Source panel and clone overlays
- Better healing edges
- Spot healing brush
- Spot healing in Content-Aware mode
- Patch tool
- Content-aware move tool
- Working with the Clone Source panel
- Perspective retouching
- Alternative history brush spotting technique
- Portrait retouching
- Beauty retouching
- Liquify
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Basic cloning methods
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9 Layers, Selections and Masking
- Selections and channels
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Layers
- Layer basics
- Image layers
- Vector layers
- Text layers
- Adjustment layers
- Layers panel controls
- Adding layer masks
- Properties Panel in Masks mode
- Refine Edge command
- Working with the quick selection tool
- Combining a quick selection with Refine Edge
- Ragged borders with the Refine Edge adjustment
- Color Range masking
- Layer blending modes
- Working with multiple layers
- Transform commands
- Smart Objects
- Photoshop paths
- 10 Blur, optical and lighting effects filters
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11 Image management
- The Bridge solution
- Arranging the Bridge contents
- Bridge panels
- Managing images in Bridge
- Bridge automation
- Mini Bridge
- 12 Print output
- 13 Automating Photoshop
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781134657889
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