Book description
Adobe Photoshop is one of those programs that both dazzles and dismays: You can do extraordinary things with it--as long as you don't get lost in its maze of palettes and toolbars. Luckily for you, with Photoshop 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide,, that needn't be a problem! If you're ready to take on image editing in Photoshop 7, this straight-ahead visual reference is the place to start.
Veteran authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas are back with a completely revised edition of the guide that's become the standard for Photoshop instruction in classrooms, homes, and offices. Through clear, concise instructions and a multitude of screen shots, this book steps you through the basics of photo editing, manipulation, optimization, and correction. It also provides complete coverage of all that's new in version 7: native Mac OS X support, a new painting engine that facilitates wet and dry brush effects, and more--all in a task-based format that constantly reminds you of where you are in the program and what you're trying to accomplish.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- The Artists
- Color Gallery
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1. The Basics
- Using the Toolbox
- Toolbox
- Options bar
- The Photoshop screen: Mac OS X
- Key to the Photoshop screen: Mac OS and Windows
- The Photoshop screen: Windows
- Key to the Photoshop screen: Windows only
- The menus
- The palettes
- Mini-glossary
- Production techniques
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2. Photoshop Color
- Color basics
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Color management
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Calibration
- To calibrate your monitor (Mac OS):
- To calibrate your monitor (Windows):
- To choose a predefined color management setting
- Choose individual work space settings
- To customize your color management policies:
- To customize your conversion options:
- To change or delete a document’s color profile:
- To convert a document’s color profile:
- To proof your colors:
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Calibration
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3. Startup
- To launch Photoshop (Windows):
- To launch Photoshop (Mac OS):
- Where images come from
- Scanning
- Desktop scanning software basics
- 16-bits-per-channel mode
- To scan into Photoshop:
- To calculate the proper resolution for a scan or for an existing image:
- Using the status bar
- To find out an image’s storage size:
- To create a new image:
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Opening files
- To open an image within Photoshop:
- To open the File Browser:
- The File Browser panes
- To view files in the File Browser:
- To open a file or files:
- To choose a sorting method for thumbnails:
- To create a rank for sorting images:
- To rename a file:
- To delete a file:
- To create a new folder:
- To rotate a thumbnail:
- To open a Photoshop image from Windows Explorer:
- To open a Photoshop image from the Finder (Mac OS):
- Thumbnails
- To open a Kodak Photo CD file:
- To open an EPS, PDF, or Illustrator file as a new image:
- Pixel paste
- To place an EPS, PDF, or Adobe Illustrator image into an existing Photoshop image:
- Saving files
- Navigating
- Ending a work session
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4. Pixel Basics
- Changing dimensions and resolution
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Changing the canvas
- To change the canvas size:
- To crop an image using a marquee:
- To specify dimensions and resolution as you crop an image:
- To enlarge an image’s canvas area using the Crop tool:
- To crop an image using the Crop command:
- To crop an image using the Trim command:
- To flip an image:
- To rotate an image by a preset amount:
- To rotate an image by specifying a number:
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5. Select
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Creating selections
- To select an entire layer:
- To create a rectangular or elliptical selection:
- To create a freeform selection:
- To create a polygonal selection:
- To select by color (Magic Wand):
- To select using the Magnetic Lasso tool:
- Magnetic Lasso tool options bar
- To select by color (Color Range):
- To create a frame selection:
- To select a narrow border around a selection:
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Working with selections
- To deselect a selection:
- To reselect the last selection:
- To delete a selection:
- To move a selection marquee:
- To switch the selected and unselected areas:
- To hide a selection marquee:
- To transform a selection marquee:
- To modify a selection marquee via a menu command:
- To add to a selection:
- To subtract from a selection:
- To select the intersection of two selections:
- To vignette an image:
- To mask a shape using the Extract command:
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Creating selections
- 6. Compositing
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7. Layers
- Layers basics
- Transform layers
- Managing layers
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Copy layers
- To save a copy of a layer in a new file:
- To drag-and-drop a layer to another image (Layers palette):
- To drag-and-drop a layer to another image (Move tool):
- To copy and paste only the visible part of a layer to another image:
- Merge or flatten layers
- To merge two layers together:
- To merge multiple layers:
- To flatten layers:
- 8. History
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9. Adjustments
- Adjustment basics
- Adjustment layers
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Adjustment commands
- To adjust an image using Auto Contrast:
- To equalize a layer:
- To invert lights and darks:
- To make a layer high contrast:
- To posterize:
- To adjust brightness and contrast (Brightness/Contrast):
- To adjust brightness and contrast using Levels:
- To screen back a layer:
- To lighten using the Dodge tool or darken using the Burn tool:
- To restrict an adjustment layer’s effect using a mask:
- To make a layer grayscale using the Channel Mixer:
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10. Choose Colors
- Foreground and Background colors
- To choose a color using the Color Picker:
- To choose a custom color:
- To choose a color using the Color palette:
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Swatches palette
- To choose a color from the Swatches palette:
- To add a color to the Swatches palette:
- To rename a swatch:
- To delete a color from the Swatches palette:
- To save an edited swatches library:
- To replace or append a swatches library:
- To load a swatches library:
- To choose a color from an image using the Eyedropper:
- To copy a color as a hexadecimal value:
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11. Recolor
- Adjustment basics
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Using the Info palette with the Color Sampler tool
- To remove a color sampler:
- To replace colors:
- To convert a layer or the Background to grayscale:
- To colorize or color correct using Color Balance:
- To adjust color using thumbnail Variations:
- To saturate or desaturate colors using the Sponge tool:
- To heighten color or silhouette color areas on black:
- Levels and Curves
- Spot color channels
- 12. Paint
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13. Gradients
- To apply a gradient as a fill layer:
- To apply a gradient using the Gradient tool:
- To create or edit a gradient preset:
- To save the current gradients to a file:
- To use alternate gradient libraries:
- To restore the default gradients:
- To change the opacity of gradient colors:
- To create a multicolor wash:
- To apply a gradient map to a layer:
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14. More Layers
- Layer opacity
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Layer effects
- Applying layer effects
- To remove an individual layer effect:
- To apply the Drop Shadow or Inner Shadow effect:
- To transform a Drop Shadow effect:
- To create a drop shadow without using an effect:
- To apply an Outer or Inner Glow effect:
- To apply the Bevel or Emboss effect:
- To change the profile of a contour:
- To apply the Satin effect:
- To apply the Color Overlay effect:
- To apply the Gradient Overlay effect:
- To apply the Pattern Overlay effect:
- To apply a Stroke effect:
- Other effects commands
- Blending layers
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Layer masks
- To create a layer mask:
- To reshape a layer mask:
- To move layer pixels or a layer mask independently:
- To duplicate a layer mask:
- To choose layer mask display options:
- To fill type with imagery using a layer mask:
- To temporarily deactivate a layer mask:
- To apply or discard the effects of a layer mask:
- Clipping groups
- Linking layers
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15. Masks
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Alpha channels
- To save a selection to a channel using the current options settings:
- To save a selection to a channel and choose options:
- To display a channel selection:
- To load a channel selection onto an image using the current options:
- To load a channel selection onto an image and choose options:
- Save Selection Operations
- Load Selection Operations
- To choose channel options:
- To delete a channel:
- To duplicate a channel:
- To reshape an alpha channel mask:
- Quick Masks
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Alpha channels
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16. Paths/Shapes
- Creating paths
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Working with paths
- To move a path:
- To add to an existing, open path:
- To transform an entire path:
- To transform points on a path:
- To copy a path in the same image:
- To drag-and-drop a path to another image:
- To save a work path:
- To display a path:
- To hide a path:
- To select anchor points on a path:
- To reshape a path:
- To delete a path:
- To deselect a path:
- To convert a path into a selection:
- To stroke a path:
- To fill a path:
- To export a path to Illustrator or FreeHand:
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Vector masks
- To create a vector mask:
- To combine paths:
- To reshape a vector mask:
- To reposition a vector mask:
- To duplicate a vector mask:
- To deactivate a vector mask:
- To reverse the visible and hidden areas in a vector mask:
- To discard a vector mask:
- To convert a layer mask into a vector mask:
- To create an adjustment layer that uses a vector mask:
- To create a vector mask from type:
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Shapes
- To create a shape layer:
- To create a work path using a shape tool:
- To create a geometric, rasterized pixel area:
- To choose geometric options for a shape tool:
- To reposition a shape layer’s vector mask:
- To transform a shape layer:
- To modify the contour of an existing shape layer:
- To deactivate a shape layer’s vector mask:
- To paste a path object from Illustrator into Photoshop as a shape layer:
- To use the pathfinder options to add or subtract shapes from each other:
- To add a shape to the custom shape picker:
- To change the fill contents of a shape layer:
- To rasterize a shape layer:
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17. Type
- Creating type
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Editing text
- To select all or some characters on a type layer:
- To scale type by entering a value:
- To scale type by dragging:
- To adjust the spacing between (kern) two characters:
- To adjust the spacing for (track) a series of characters:
- To adjust leading in horizontal type:
- To shift selected characters above or below the normal baseline:
- To style type using the Character palette:
- To change type orientation:
- Paragraph settings
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Special effects with type
- To transform a type bounding box and the type inside it:
- To transform a type bounding box, but not the type:
- To warp type on an editable layer:
- To move a type layer:
- To rasterize type into pixels:
- To screen back an image behind type:
- To screen back type:
- To fill type with imagery using Paste Into:
- To fill type with imagery using a clipping group of layers:
- To create fading type:
- To apply layer effects to semi-transparent type:
- To stroke a type layer:
- To create a type selection:
- To move a type selection:
- To create type in a spot channel:
- To edit type in a spot channel:
- To create a type mask for an adjustment layer:
- Word processing
- 18. Filters
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19. Liquify
- To distort an image using the Liquify command:
- To display the mesh using View Options controls:
- To remove all distortion from the preview image:
- To return all unfrozen areas to their initial state:
- To return individual unfrozen areas to their initial state:
- To extend distortions from frozen areas into unfrozen areas:
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20. Automate
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Actions
- To create a new actions set:
- To record an action:
- To insert a stop in an action:
- To insert a menu item in an action:
- To insert a path in an action:
- To exclude or include a command from playback:
- To play back an action on an image:
- To replay an action on a batch of images:
- To choose batch naming options:
- To create a droplet from an action:
- To add commands to an action:
- To delete a command from an action:
- To activate/deactivate a modal control in an action:
- To change the order of commands:
- To rerecord an entire action using different dialog box settings:
- To rerecord a single command in an action:
- To duplicate an action:
- To delete an entire action:
- To save an actions set to a file:
- To load an additional actions set onto the Actions palette:
- To replace the current actions set with a different actions set:
- To run one action in another action:
- Other automate commands
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Actions
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21. Preferences
- To reset all the preferences to their default values:
- Memory & ImageCachePreferences
- General Preferences
- File Handling Preferences
- Display & Cursors Preferences
- Transparency & Gamut Preferences
- Units & Rulers Preferences
- Guides, Grid & Slices Preferences
- Plug-ins & Scratch Disks Preferences
- To use the Preset Manager:
- To reset or replace a preset:
- To save a subset of items in their own library:
- To save an item in a new preset library from a palette or picker:
- 22. Print
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23. Web/ImageReady
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The basics
- Image size
- Compression
- GIF
- Color depth
- JPEG
- PNG-8 and PNG-24
- Dithering
- Anti-aliasing
- The ImageReady Toolbox
- To optimize an image in the GIF or PNG-8 format:
- To create a master palette for optimized images in ImageReady:
- To apply a master palette to an image:
- To use weighted optimization:
- To use the ImageReady previews:
- Jump To
- To quick-optimize:
- To create and apply a droplet:
- To optimize an image in the JPEG or PNG-24 format:
- To make flat-color areas Web-safe:
- To preview potential browser dither in an optimized image:
- Controlling dithering
- To preview Windows and Mac gamma values:
- To change the gamma for an optimized file:
- To preview an optimized image in a browser on your system:
- To save a file in ImageReady:
- To save an optimized file in ImageReady:
- To update an existing HTML file:
- To change a Web page title or embed copyright information:
- To enter type in ImageReady:
- Tips for creating online type
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Slicing
- To slice an image using a command:
- To slice an image manually:
- To create a layer-based slice:
- To convert an auto slice or a layer-based slice into a user slice:
- To delete slices:
- To resize user slices:
- To slice an image into multiple links:
- To change the stacking position of a slice:
- To align user slices along a common edge:
- To evenly distribute user slices along a common axis:
- To create a layer-based image map:
- To create a tool-based image map:
- To change an image map from layer based to tool based:
- To hide/show image maps:
- To select an image map:
- To delete an image map:
- To align tool-based image maps along a common edge:
- To evenly distribute tool-based image maps along a common axis:
- To optimize an individual slice:
- To copy optimization settings from one slice to another:
- To link slices:
- To unlink slices:
- To attach an Alt tag to a slice or to an entire image:
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Rollovers
- To create a rollover for a slice:
- To create a rollover using a layer effect:
- To create a layer-based rollover:
- To use the Match command to apply attributes from the current layer:
- To use the Unify buttons to apply changes from the active layer:
- To preview a rollover in ImageReady:
- To preview a rollover in a Web browser:
- To create a secondary rollover:
- To create a button for a Web page:
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GIF animations
- To move layer imagery across an image via animation:
- To make imagery fade in or out:
- To remove frames from an animation:
- To choose options for animation playback:
- To preview an animation:
- To create a rocking animation:
- To edit an animation:
- To make an existing animation reverse itself to the first frame:
- To apply a second animation effect to an existing animation:
- To make a rollover trigger an animation sequence:
- To create a warped type animation:
- To remove or adjust warped type:
- To save a GIF animation:
- To optimize an animation:
- Ways to slim an animation down
- Layer effects
- Background tiling
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The basics
- A. Shortcuts
Product information
- Title: Photoshop 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2002
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: None
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