Book description
This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, it's all here!
You'll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You'll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making color natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you'll be making beautiful "art" with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques. Find out how to:
Import images and use all the tools and processes
Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows
Optimize images for print or the Web
Edit images
Explore the Painting function and master the daunting Brushes panel
Add layer styles
Create on-screen presentations, contact prints, and more
Complete with lists of ten reasons to love your Wacom tablet, ten reasons to own a digital camera, and ten favorite tips and tricks, Adobe CS4 For Dummies is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Photoshop CS4 for all your digital photography needs.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. Breezing through Basic Training
- 1. Welcome to Photoshop!
- 2. Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images
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3. Taking the Chef's Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen
- 3.1. Food for Thought: How Things Work
- 3.2. Get Cookin' with Customization
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3.3. Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings
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3.3.1. Standing orders: Setting the Preferences
- 3.3.1.1. PreferencesGeneral
- 3.3.1.2. PreferencesInterface
- 3.3.1.3. PreferencesFile Handling
- 3.3.1.4. PreferencesPerformance
- 3.3.1.5. PreferencesCursors
- 3.3.1.6. PreferencesTransparency & Gamut
- 3.3.1.7. PreferencesUnits & Rulers
- 3.3.1.8. PreferencesGuides, Grid & Slices
- 3.3.1.9. PreferencesPlug-Ins
- 3.3.1.10. PreferencesType
- 3.3.2. Ensuring consistency: Color Settings
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3.3.1. Standing orders: Setting the Preferences
- 3.4. When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop
- 4. Getting Images into and out of Photoshop
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II. Easy Enhancements for Digital Images
- 5. Adding Dark Shadows and Sparkling Highlights
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6. Making Color Look Natural
- 6.1. What Is Color in Photoshop?
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6.2. Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop
- 6.2.1. Watching the Histogram and Info panels
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6.2.2. Choosing color adjustment commands
- 6.2.2.1. Auto Tone/Auto Contrast/Auto Color
- 6.2.2.2. Brightness/Contrast
- 6.2.2.3. Levels
- 6.2.2.4. Curves
- 6.2.2.5. Exposure
- 6.2.2.6. Vibrance
- 6.2.2.7. Hue/Saturation
- 6.2.2.8. Color Balance
- 6.2.2.9. Black & White
- 6.2.2.10. Photo Filter
- 6.2.2.11. Channel Mixer
- 6.2.2.12. Invert
- 6.2.2.13. Posterize
- 6.2.2.14. Threshold
- 6.2.2.15. Gradient Map
- 6.2.2.16. Selective Color
- 6.2.2.17. Shadow/Highlight
- 6.2.2.18. Variations
- 6.2.2.19. Desaturate
- 6.2.2.20. Match Color
- 6.2.2.21. Replace Color
- 6.2.2.22. Equalize
- 6.2.3. Working with Variations
- 6.2.4. Manual corrections in individual channels
- 6.3. The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas
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7. The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In
- 7.1. Understanding the Raw Facts
- 7.2. Do You Have What It Takes?
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7.3. Working in the Camera Raw Plug-In
- 7.3.1. Tools and preview options
- 7.3.2. The histogram
- 7.3.3. The preview area
- 7.3.4. Workflow options and presets
- 7.3.5. The Basic panel
- 7.3.6. Adjusting the tone curve
- 7.3.7. The Detail panel
- 7.3.8. HSL, grayscale, and split toning
- 7.3.9. Compensating with Lens Correction
- 7.3.10. Camera profiles, presets, and snapshots
- 7.3.11. The Camera Raw buttons
- 8. Fine-Tuning Your Fixes
- 9. Common Problems and Their Cures
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III. Creating "Art" in Photoshop
- 10. Combining Images
- 11. Precision Edges with Vector Paths
- 12. Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles
- 13. Giving Your Images a Text Message
- 14. Painting in Photoshop
- 15. Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop
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IV. Power Photoshop
- 16. Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop
- 17. Introducing Photoshop CS4 Extended
- V. The Part of Tens
Product information
- Title: Photoshop® CS4 For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2008
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470327258
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