Book description
New to Photoshop? Looking to unlock the impressive power of Photoshop CC? Want to master image editing techniques and achieve professional-level results?
Then Photoshop CC: Essential Skills is the resource you need. This book and companion website’s proven combination of real world image editing examples, step-by-step projects, and professional advice from two internationally recognized authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors delivers an essential learning experience for beginner to intermediate Photoshop users.
This self-study guide to Photoshop CC covers the foundational skills for photographers and image editors to get started before moving onto more advanced image editing and photomontage techniques. A complete section of step-by-step imaging projects and 10+ hours of video tutorials on the companion website hone image editing skills to yield expert-quality results.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
-
foundation module
- Introduction
- 1 What's new for CC
- 2 Bridge
-
3 Workflow
- Introduction
- A few key concepts before we start...
- Foundation Project 1
- Image capture - Step 1
- Downloading files - Step 2
- Image management - Step 3
- Image processing steps
- Rotating and cropping an image - Step 4
- Color adjustments - Step 5
- Tonal adjustments - Step 6
- Cleaning an image - Step 7
- Sharpening an image - Step 8
- Setting Workflow Options - Step 9
- Applying changes to multiple files - Step 10
- Outputting processed files - Step 11
- Saving, duplicating and resizing for web - Step 12
-
4 Raw Processing
- Introduction
- Processing Raw data
- Foundation Project 2
- Lens corrections - Step 1
- Straighten, crop and size - Step 2
- Color space - Step 3
- Choosing a bit depth - Step 4
- White balance - Step 5
- Global tonal adjustments - Step 6
- Controlling saturation and vibrance - Step 7
- Localized correction - Step 8
- Grayscale conversion and toning - Step 9
- Adding special effects - Step 10
- Noise reduction and sharpening - Step 11
- Output options - Step 12
- Foundation Project 3
- Preliminary enhancements - Step 1
- Add Graduated Filter effect - Step 2
- Adjust the Graduated Filter effect - Step 3
- Reclaim some of the filtered detail - Step 4
- Add a film-like Grain effect - Step 5
- Digital exposure
- Adjusting exposure in ACR
- Foundation Project 4
- Dust on the sensor - batch removal
- Archiving Raw files as digital negatives
-
5 Fine Print
- Introduction
- The problem and the solution
- Prepare your print workshop
- Prepare your monitor
- Prepare your inkjet printer
- Select appropriate color setting
- Obtain a profile target
- Print the target using Adobe® Color Print Utility
- Alternative: Printing a target from Photoshop
- Adjust the printer settings
- Create and install custom profile
- Tag images with the Adobe RGB profile
- Test your color managed workflow
- Make printer presets
- Assessing the test print for accuracy
- Preserving shadow detail
- Soft proofing
- Printing using a professional lab
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advanced skills module
- 6 Layers and Channels
-
7 Selections
- Introduction
- Selection tools overview
- Shape-based selections with the Marquee tools
- Drawn selections using the Lasso tools
- Customizing your selections
- Refining selections
- Refine Edge in action
- Saving and loading selections
- Feather and anti-alias
- Defringe and Matting
- Quick Mask or Refine Edge
- Color Range
- Channel masking
- Tone-based selections and masks
- Selections from paths
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8 Filters
- The 'Smart' way to filter
- The Filter Gallery
- Fade Filter command
- Improving filter performance
- Installing and using third party filters
- Filtering a shape, text, or vector layer
- The great filter roundup
- Liquify filter
- Vanishing Point
- Adaptive Wide Angle
- Lighting Effects Gallery
- Blur Gallery
- Correcting lens distortion with filters
- Noise filters
- Sharpen filters
- Texture filters
- Other filters
- Filter DIY
- 9 Layer Blends
-
imaging projects module
- 10 Retouching Projects
-
11 Composite Projects
- Refine Edge - Project 1
- Refine Edge (Take Two) - Project 2
- Paths, masks and blend modes - Project 3
- Replacing a sky - Project 4
- Composite studio lighting and action - Project 5
- Smart fixed position composite - Project 6
- Preserving shadows - Project 7
- Replacing a studio background - Project 8
- High Dynamic Range (HDR) - Project 9
- HDR problems and solutions - Project 10
- Photomerge - Project 11
- Vertical panoramas - Project 12
- 12 Special Effects
- Glossary
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Web Links
- Index
Product information
- Title: Photoshop CC: Essential Skills
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317976066
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