Adobe photoshop CC

Peter Bauer, 1957-

Book - 2021

"This book helps you gain an understanding of Photoshop CC and take charge of the tools, menu commands, and shortcuts that will help you perfect your photos and designs."--Page 4 of cover.

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Genres
Handbooks and manuals
Published
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Peter Bauer, 1957- (author)
Edition
3rd edition
Item Description
"Learning made easy" -- Cover.
"Diagnose common image problems and fix them ; learn to optimize color and tonality in photos ; add text and design elements for stunning layouts" -- Cover.
Previous edition: 2018.
Physical Description
xii, 417 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781119711773
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • How to Use This Book
  • Part 1. Getting Started with Photoshop CC
  • Chapter 1. An Overview of Photoshop
  • Exploring Adobe Photoshop
  • What Photoshop is designed to do
  • Other things you can do with Photoshop
  • Viewing Photoshop's Parts and Processes
  • Reviewing basic computer operations
  • Photoshop's incredible selective Undo
  • Installing Photoshop: Need to know
  • Chapter 2. Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images
  • What Exactly Is a Digital Image?
  • The True Nature of Pixels
  • How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?
  • Resolution revelations
  • Resolving image resolution
  • File Formats: Which Do You Need?
  • Formats for digital photos
  • Formats for web graphics
  • Formats for commercial printing
  • Formats for PowerPoint and Word
  • Chapter 3. Taking the Chefs Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen
  • Food for Thought: How Things Work
  • Ordering from the menus
  • Your platter full of panels
  • The tools of your trade
  • Get Cookin' with Customization
  • Clearing the table: Custom workspaces
  • Spoons can't chop: Creating tool presets
  • Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings
  • Standing orders: Setting the Preferences
  • Ensuring consistency: Color Settings
  • When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop
  • Chapter 4. From Pics to Prints: Photoshop for Beginners
  • Bringing Images into Photoshop
  • Downloading from your digital camera
  • Scanning prints
  • Keeping Your Images Organized
  • Creating a folder structure
  • Using Adobe Bridge
  • Renaming image files easily
  • Printing Your Images
  • Cropping to a specific aspect ratio
  • Remembering resolution
  • Controlling color using File print
  • Considering color management solutions
  • Printing alternatives
  • Sharing Your Images
  • Emailing and AirDropping your images
  • Creating PDFs and websites
  • Part 2. Easy Enhancements for Digital Images
  • Chapter 5. Making Tonality and Color Look Natural
  • Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop
  • Histograms Simplified
  • Using Photoshop's Auto Corrections
  • Levels and Curves and You
  • Level-headed you!
  • Tonal corrections with the eyedroppers
  • Adjusting your curves without dieting
  • Grabbing Even More Control
  • Using Shadows/Highlights
  • Changing exposure after the fact
  • Using Photoshop's toning tools
  • What Is Color in Photoshop?
  • Which color mode should you choose?
  • Does a color model make a difference?
  • Why should you worry about color depth?
  • Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop
  • Choosing color adjustment commands
  • Manual corrections in individual channels
  • The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas
  • Chapter 6. The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In
  • Understanding the Raw Facts
  • What's the big deal about Raw?
  • Working in Raw
  • The Camera Raw interface
  • Camera Raw's Tools and buttons
  • The histogram
  • The preview area
  • Workflow Options and presets
  • Making Adjustments in Camera Raw's Edit Panel
  • The Basic section
  • The Curve section
  • The Detail section
  • The Color Mixer section
  • The Color Grading section
  • The Optics and Geometry sections
  • The Effects section
  • The Calibration section
  • The Camera Raw Cancel, Done, and Open buttons
  • Chapter 7. Fine-Tuning Your Fixes
  • What Is a Selection?
  • Feathering and Anti-aliasing
  • Making Your Selections with Tools
  • Marquee selection tools
  • Lasso selection tools
  • The Object Selection tool
  • The Quick Selection tool
  • The Magic Wand tool
  • Select and Mask
  • Your Selection Commands
  • The primary selection commands
  • The Color Range command 1.58
  • The Focus Area command
  • The Select Subject command
  • The Select Sky command
  • Selection modification commands
  • Transforming the shape of selections
  • Edit in Quick Mask mode
  • The mask-related selection commands
  • Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore
  • Saving and loading selections
  • Editing an alpha channel
  • Adding masks to layers and Smart Objects
  • Masking with vector paths
  • Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes
  • Adding an adjustment layer
  • Limiting your adjustments
  • Chapter 8. Common Problems and Their Cures
  • Making People Prettier
  • Getting the red out ... digitally
  • The digital fountain of youth
  • Dieting digitally
  • De-glaring glasses
  • Whitening teeth
  • Reducing Noise in Your Images
  • Decreasing digital noise
  • Eliminating luminance noise
  • Fooling Around with Mother Nature
  • Removing the unwanted from photos
  • Eliminating the lean: Fixing perspective
  • Rotating images precisely
  • Adding a beautiful sky
  • Part 3. Creating "Art" in Photoshop
  • Chapter 9. Combining Images
  • Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1
  • Understanding layers
  • Why you should use Smart Objects
  • Using the basic blending modes
  • Opacity, transparency, and layer masks
  • Creating clipping groups
  • Making composited elements look natural
  • Making Complex Selections
  • Vanishing Point
  • Creating Panoramas with Photomerge
  • Chapter 10. Precision Edges with Vector Paths
  • Pixels, Paths, and You
  • Easy Vectors: Using Shapes
  • Your basic shape tools
  • The Custom Shape tool
  • More custom shapes - free!
  • Changing the appearance of the shape layer
  • Simulating a multicolor shape layer
  • Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths
  • Understanding paths
  • Clicking and dragging your way down the path of knowledge
  • A closer look at the Paths panel
  • Customizing Any Path
  • Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points
  • Combining paths
  • Tweaking type for a custom font
  • Chapter 11. Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles
  • What Are Layer Styles?
  • Using the Styles Panel
  • Creating Custom Layer Styles
  • Exploring the Layer Style menu
  • Exploring the Layer Style dialog box
  • Layer effects basics
  • Opacity, fill, and advanced blending
  • Saving Your Layer Styles
  • Adding styles to the Styles panel
  • Preserving your layer styles
  • Chapter 12. Giving Your Images a Text Message
  • Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels
  • A type tool for every season, or reason
  • What are all those options?
  • Taking control of your text with panels
  • The panel menus - even more options
  • Working with Styles
  • Putting a picture in your text
  • Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers
  • Selecting alignment or justification
  • Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text
  • Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path
  • Applying the predefined warps
  • Customizing the course with paths
  • Chapter 13. Painting in Photoshop
  • Discovering Photoshop's Painting Tools
  • Painting with the Brush tool
  • Adding color with the Pencil tool
  • Removing color with the Eraser tool
  • Working with Panels and Selecting Colors
  • An overview of options
  • Creating and saving custom brush tips
  • Picking a color
  • Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Tips and the Mixer Brush
  • Exploring erodible brush tips
  • Introducing airbrush and watercolor tips
  • Mixing things up with the Mixer Brush
  • Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors
  • Deleting and dumping to add color
  • Using gradients
  • Chapter 14. Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop
  • Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy
  • The Filters You Really Need
  • Sharpening to focus the eye
  • Unsharp Mask
  • Smart Sharpen
  • Shake Reduction
  • Blurring images and selections
  • The other Blur filters
  • Correcting for the vagaries of lenses
  • Cleaning up with Reduce Noise
  • Getting Creative and Artistic
  • Photo to painting with the Oil Paint filter
  • Working with the Filter Gallery
  • Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify
  • What Are Neural Filters?
  • The original Neural Filters
  • Neural Filters in public beta testing
  • Proposed Neural Filters
  • Do I Need Those Other Filters?
  • Adding drama with Lighting Effects
  • Maximum and Minimum
  • Bending and bubbling
  • Creating clouds
  • Part 4. Power Photoshop
  • Chapter 15. Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop
  • Ready, Set, Action!
  • Recording your own Actions
  • Working with the Batch command
  • Find It Fast with Discover
  • Creating Contact Sheets and Presentations
  • Creating a PDF presentation
  • Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet
  • Scanning Multiple Photos in One Pass
  • Sticking to the Script
  • Chapter 16. Working with Video and Animation
  • Importing and Enhancing Video Clips
  • Getting video into Photoshop
  • Adjusting the length of video and audio clips
  • Adding adjustment layers and painting on video layers
  • Transitioning, titling, and adding special effects
  • Transforming video layers
  • Rendering and exporting video
  • Creating Animations in Photoshop
  • Building frame-based animations
  • Creating frame content
  • Tweening to create intermediary frames
  • Specifying frame rate
  • Optimizing and saving your animation
  • Part 5. The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 17. Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC
  • Using Smart Object Stack Modes
  • The Mean Stack Mode
  • Working with 3D Artwork
  • Creating 3D objects
  • Adding 3D objects
  • Rendering and saving 3D scenes
  • Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels
  • Measuring length, area, and more
  • Calculating with Vanishing Point
  • Counting crows or maybe avian flu
  • Viewing Your DICOM Medical Records
  • Ignoring MATLAB
  • Chapter 18. Ten Ways to Integrate Your iPad
  • Using Sidecar to Add an iPad to Your Screen
  • Sidecar System Requirements
  • Arranging Your iPad's Screen
  • Mirroring the Screens
  • Maximizing the Screen Space
  • Making Use of Photoshop on the iPad
  • Using the Cloud with Photoshop on the iPad and Desktop
  • Using Other Adobe iPad Apps
  • Does the IPad Replace My Wacom Tablet?
  • Setting Wacom Tablet Preferences for Touch Keys and Touch Ring
  • Chapter 19. Ten Things to Know about HDR
  • Understanding HDR
  • Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro
  • Preparing Raw "Exposures" in Camera Raw
  • Working with Merge to HDR Pro
  • Saving 32-Bit HDR Images
  • HDR Toning
  • Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit
  • Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit
  • Selections and Editing in 32-Bit
  • Printing HDR Images
  • Appendix: Photoshop CC's Blending Modes
  • Index