Book description
Gary Bouton has made Inside Photoshop CS a perennial best-seller due to the loyalty of his audience. A lot of people simply love the way Gary explains what Photoshop is all about. In this revised edition, Gary truly puts the outsider "inside", demystifying such intangibles as pixels, color wheel, resolution, line screens, and more of vital information for the hobbyists and professional. He covers all the new features and adds expert tips and tricks for the digital photographer. Critics and readers alike have noted that Bouton's writing style makes difficult, technical topics easy to understand -- as if they were being guided by a close friend or mentor.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction: Not New, and Not Wonderful!
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The Basics So You Don't Get Headaches Later: Pixels, Color Spaces, and the Universe
- Answers to the Most Important Imaging Questions
- Producing Awesome Images from the Start
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The Critically Important Color and Gamma Calibration Chapter
- Understanding Photoshop's Color Management System (CMS)
- Coming to Terms with Color Management
- Preparing to Create a Custom Profile
- Creating an ICC Profile for a Monitor
- Setting Photoshop's Color Management Defaults
- The Color Settings Dialog Box, or Laying Down the Rules
- Choosing Between Assigning and Converting to Profile
- Putting Theory into Practice
- Soft-Proofing, or Seeing Onscreen What an Image Will Look Like When It's Printed
- Summary
- Resources
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Setting Preferences, Customizing, and Optimizing Photoshop CS
- Accessing Photoshop's Preferences Settings
- General Preferences
- File Handling Preferences
- Setting Display & Cursors Preferences
- Understanding How to Choose Transparency & Gamut Settings
- Setting Units & Rulers Preferences
- Checking Out the Guides, Grid & Slices Preferences
- Getting Some Control Over Screen Appearances of Elements!
- Optimizing Photoshop's Performance with the Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks and Memory & Image Cache Preferences Settings
- More Choices and More Control with the Preset Manager
- Who Wants So Many Palettes in a Group?
- Customizing the Shapes Feature
- Exploring Near-Infinite Brush Variations and Creating Custom Brushes
- Customizing Layers
- Using the Tool Presets Palette
- Using Actions to Add Keyboard Shortcuts
- Setting Selection and Mask Modes
- Spell Checking and Photoshop
- Customizing Your Workspace with the Palette Well
- Summary
- A Hands-On Reference for Creating and Editing Photoshop Images
- Image Acquisition Basics
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Correcting, Restoring, and Retouching Images
- Color Correction and Selections: Creating Beautiful Hands
- Working with Picture CD Pictures
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Curves and Adjustment Layers
- Laying the Groundwork for Applying Curves
- Using Curves and Adjustment Layers
- Applying Minor Corrections with a Curves Adjustment Layer
- Finding and Removing the Dominant Color's Influence
- Applying Corrections in Each of the Color Channels
- Creating Contrast in a Color Channel
- Applying Curves to Selected Areas
- Using Curves for Special Effects
- Summary
- Keeping Up Appearances: Techniques for Retouching Images
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Ambitious Image Editing
- Retouching a Group Scene by Creating a Composite Image
- Creating a Dream Image from a Hopeless Snapshot
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Color Balancing and Adjustment Layers: Creating a Cover Girl Image from an Average Picture
- Examining the Flaws in the Image
- Removing Unwanted Border and Making Basic Color Correction
- Cleaning Up the Image Background
- Adding a Diamond to the Image Background
- Editing Eye Highlights
- Editing the Shadows
- Toning Down Distracting Colors
- Refining and Touching Up Image Details
- Softening the Image Focus
- Turning the Cover Girl into a Magazine Cover
- Summary
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Surrealistic Photoshop
- Removing Large Image Areas with Layer Mask
- Refining an Imperfect Layer Mask
- Inserting a Layer into a Layer Set
- Using Adjustment Layers
- Flipping and Transforming a Layer
- Using Quick Methods for Creating a Layer Mask
- Unpainting a Painting: Removing and Replacing Image Areas
- Examining the Image and Applying the Final Touches
- Creating and Using Layer Comps
- Summary
- Replacing the Main Elements in an Image
- llustration, Page Layout, and Photoshop
- Working for the Web with ImageReady
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Working Smarter and Quicker in Photoshop
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Ten Photoshop Tricks
- Trick 1: Getting Rid of a Wattle
- Trick 2: Creating an Image Out of Text
- Trick 3: Borrowing an Image's Color Palette
- Trick 4: Removing Fringing from Leaves
- Trick 5: Making a Painting from a Photo
- Trick 6: Creating Organic-Looking Objects Using Photoshop Filters
- Trick 7: Creating a Bronze Guy
- Trick 8: Creating Images Using Adobe Dimensions with Photoshop CS
- Trick 9: Coping with a Horrific Photo
- Trick 10: Fixing a Chopped-Off Drop Shadow
- Grand Chapter Summary
- Using Photoshop with Quark, Illustrator, XARA, and Other Programs
- Where Do We Go from Here?
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Ten Photoshop Tricks
- Appendices
- Index
Product information
- Title: Inside Photoshop® CS
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2004
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: 9780672326448
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