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How Do I Do That In Photoshop?, 2nd Edition

Name: How Do I Do That In Photoshop?, 2nd Edition
Author: Scott Kelby
ISBN: 9781681989273

by Scott Kelby

July 2023

Beginner

320 pages

7h 25m

English

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About Scott
Table of Contents
If You Skip This One Page, You’ll Regret It for…
Same Thing Over Here. Regret (or Worse). Ack!
Once Again…Deep Regret!

You Really Don’t Want to Skip This One!
Chapter 1: How to Get Around Like a Pro: Photoshop’s Interface
Open Panels?Make Panels “Float”?Hide or Close Panels?Have Hidden Panels Automatically Pop Out?Hide All the Panels?Organize All These Panels?Save How I’ve Set Up All My Panels?Create a New Blank Document?See More Than One Image at a Time?Change the Color Outside My Image Area?See My Image at a Full 100% Size?Get My Image to Fit Fully on the Screen?See My Image at Full-Screen Size?Zoom In and Out of My Image?Move Around When I’m Zoomed In?Make the Rulers Visible?Use Guides?Use Guides to Create a Layout?Have Objects Snap to the Rulers or a Grid?Hide Guides and Things from View?Change the Color of Photoshop’s Interface?Hide the Home Screen?
Chapter 2: How to Use Photoshop’s Tools: Toolbar Tips
See Just the Tools I Actually Use?Select Square or Rectangular Areas of My Image?Make a Free-Form Selection?Make Really Precise Selections?Adjust My Pen Tool Path?Delete, Add, or Change Pen Tool Path Points?Draw a Free-Form Path?See More Brushes?Pick My Brush Size?Make a Live Gradient?Edit a Classic Gradient?Create Things Like Arrows, Talk Bubbles, Stars, and Other Custom Shapes?Use Colors That Are Already in My Image?Choose a Color?Make Lines?Draw a Single Thin Line of Pixels?Create Text?Erase Something?Use the Magic Wand Tool to Make Selections ?Get Help Making a Selection?Point-and-Click to Select Objects?Crop My Image?Straighten My Image?Make Part of My Image Brighter or Darker?Undo Changes in Just One Part of My Image?Save My Favorite Settings for a Tool?Reset a Tool to Its Defaults?Get the Two-Column Toolbar?Get to the Hidden Tools?Turn Off Those Pop-Up Tool Tips?
Chapter 3: How to Use Camera Raw Like a Boss: The Essentials
Get a Better Starting Place for My RAW Photo?Expand the Tonal Range of My Image?Adjust the Overall Exposure?Get My Color (White Balance) Right?Fix Flat-Looking Photos?Add Contrast with Curves?See Which Areas of My Photo Are Clipping?Bring Out Texture & Detail in My Image?Boost the Overall Color?Boost Just One Color?Fix Backlit Photos?Crop My Photo?Crop to a Specific Size?Straighten a Crooked Photo?Remove Darkening in the Corners?Sharpen My Image?Reduce Noise in My JPEG Image?Reduce Noise in My RAW Image?Fix Lens Problems, Like Bulging?Fix Things That Are Leaning Backward?Get Rid of the Purple & Green Fringe?Get Rid of Fog or Haze?Remove Something Distracting?Get Help Finding Spots or Specks?Apply Creative “Looks” to My Image?Adjust a Bunch of Images at Once?See a Side-by-Side Before/After?See a “Before” of Just the Panel I’m Working In?Create My Own Preset?Save My Own Custom Camera Raw Preferences?
Chapter 4: How to Use Camera Raw’s AI-Powered Masking Tools: Our Photoshop Life Just Got Easier
Dock My Masks Panel?Select My Subject?Select a Single Object?Create a Mask Based on Color?Create a Mask Based on Brightness?Add or Remove Something from a Mask?Brighten or Darken Parts of My Photo?Soften Skin?Brighten Just My Subject’s Face?Create a Dramatic Spotlight Effect?Fix Washed-Out Skies?Make My Sky Look Better?Reduce Noise in Just One Area?Add Grain to My Image?Remove a Moire Pattern from Clothes?Keep the Red Tint on While Painting?Change the Red Mask Overlay to a Different Color?Switch It So the Red Tint Shows the Unmasked Areas Instead of Masked?Hide Mask Pins from View?Duplicate a Mask Pin?Keep from Painting Outside the Lines?Quickly Change the Size of My Brush?Fix the Brush If It’s Not Painting Fully?Erase Something If I Make a Mistake?Name Masks in the Masks Panel?Delete a Mask (or All the Masks)?Quickly Reset All My Sliders?Save My Brush Settings as a Brush Preset?
Chapter 5: How to Crop, Resize & Stuff Like That: You’ll Do This Stuff A Lot
Crop an Image?Crop to a Specific Size?Change the Grid Over My Cropping Border?Straighten a Crooked Photo?Resize an Image?Rotate the Crop?Crop from the Center Inward?Add White Space Around My Image?Keep My Crop from Being Permanent?Change the Shading Outside My Border?Fill In Gaps If I Make My Document Larger?Double the Physical Size of My Image?
Chapter 6: How to Work with Layers: This Is Where It Gets Fun
Create a New Blank Layer or Delete One?Reorder My Layers?Hide a Layer from View?Change the Size of My Layer Thumbnails?Duplicate a Layer?Organize My Layers?Lock a Layer So It Won’t Move?Make the Background Layer a Regular Layer?Move Multiple Layers at Once?Move a Layer from One Document to Another?Rename a Layer?Merge Two Layers into Just One Layer?Organize Layers By Assigning a Color?Find Layers by Name, Kind, Effect, Etc.?Quickly Brighten, Darken, or Add Contrast?Know the Difference Between Opacity and Fill?Create a Type Layer?Erase Part of a Type Layer?Try Out Different Fonts?Fill a Layer with a Solid Color?Make Part of a Layer Transparent?See Just the Layer Mask Itself?Add a Drop Shadow to a Layer?Separate a Drop Shadow from a Layer?Put a Stroke Around Something on My Layer?Change Layers without Going to the Layers Panel?Blend Two Photos Together?Blend Layers Using Sliders?Align or Center Multiple Layers?Make My RAW File Re-Editable as RAW?Remove All My Layers and Flatten the Image?Merge All My Layers to a New Layer?
Chapter 7: How to Adjust Your Image: Tweaking Your Image
Use Camera Raw on an Already Open Image?Make My Adjustments Re-Editable?Adjust My Image Using Levels?Use the Levels Eyedroppers?Use Levels to Auto Set White & Black Points?Use Levels in My Workflow?Adjust My Midtones Using Curves?Use Curves to Add Contrast?Use Curves to Remove a Color Cast?Add a Film Look to My Image?Reduce the Amount of a Particular Color?Match the Color of One Photo to Another Photo?Convert to Black & White? (Method #1)Convert to Black & White? (Method #2)
Chapter 8: How to Remove, Add & Change Stuff: It’s One of the Main Things We Go to Photoshop for and AI Power Makes It Rock!
Remove Something Distracting?Remove Spots?Clone Over Stuff to Hide It?Remove Glows Around Edges?Remove Cables or Power Lines? (Method #1)Remove Cables or Power Lines? (Method #2)Remove Larger Things?Cover Up Stuff I Don’t Want Seen?Remove Reflections in Glasses?Remove Tourists from My Photo? (Method #1)Remove Complex Things Using AI?Reduce Banding in the Sky?Make My Image Fit without Stretching?Fix a Cut-Off Area of My Photo?Add Something Large to My Image That Wasn’t Really There?Add Smaller Things to My Image?Change a Background?Create a Composite from Scratch?Change My Subject’s Outfit?Get Better Results from Select Subject?Get Better Generative Fill Results?Stop the Contextual Task Bar from Moving Around?See More Choices When Using Generative Fill?Delete Generative Fill Choices I Don’t Need?
Chapter 9: How to Make Beautiful Prints: Here’s How It’s Done
Choose My Paper Size?Set My Page Margins?Sharpen for Print?Get the Best Results from My Printer?Get My Prints to Look as Bright as My Screen?See a Proof Before I Print?Resize My Image on the Page?Add a Stroke Border Around My Image?Create a Fine-Art Print Border?Add My Logo to My Print Layout?Choose My Print Resolution?Get My Image to Fit My Paper Size?
Chapter 10: How to Do the Most Popular Special Effects: And Making Stuff Look Cool
Create a Lens Flare Effect?Darken the Edges around My Image?Make My Background Out of Focus?Colorize a Black & White Photo?Get a Soft, Dreamy Glow?Make Streets Look Wet?Add a Light Behind My Subject?Add a Gradient Behind My Subject?Apply Completely Editable Looks?Create the Look of Fall in a Landscape Shot?Get the Old HDR-Toned Look?Replace My Bad Sky With a Better Sky?Create a Mirror-Like Reflection?Add a Dramatic Beam of Light?Create a Panorama?Convert My Image to Black & White? (Method #3)Add a Cast Shadow?Create a Flat Matte Look?Add a Texture for an Aged Look?Create a Duotone Look?
Chapter 11: How to Sharpen Your Images: If It’s Not Sharp, It’s Soft
Do Basic Sharpening?Do Advanced Sharpening?Sharpen Detail Areas, Like Eyes?Apply High Pass (Heavy) Sharpening?Replace the Sharpening Lost When Shooting in RAW?Sharpen Just Specific Parts of My Image?Sharpen a Portrait of a Woman?Sharpen for Instagram?
Chapter 12: Other Stuff You’ll Want to Know: All That Other Stuff? It’s in This Chapter
Troubleshoot Photoshop Problems?Save an Image with a Transparent Background?Automate Boring, Repetitive Stuff?Put a Frame Around My Image?Draw a Straight Line with the Brush?Set My Color Space?Get More Than Just One Undo?Use Bridge to Quickly Find an Image or Rename Images?Save My Selection to Reuse Again?Save Images in Multiple Sizes and Formats?Create a Contact Sheet?Reduce the Intensity of an Edit?Convert to CMYK for Offset Printing?Open My RAW Image in 16-Bit Mode?Expand or Contract a Selection?Save Files as JPEGs or TIFFs?Make My JPEGs Automatically Open in Camera Raw?Select Hair?Remove Tourists from a Scene? (Method #2)Create Fine-Art Montages?

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