How do I do that in Photoshop? The quickest ways to do the things you want to do, right now!
Book - 2023
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Santa Barbara :
Rocky Nook
2023.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Second edition
- Item Description
- Previous edition: 2016.
- Physical Description
- 320 pages illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781681989259
- Chapter 1. How to Get Around Like a Pro
- Photoshop's Interface
- Open Panels?
- Make Panels "Float"?
- Hide or Close Panels?
- Have Hidden Panels Automatically Pop Out?
- Hide All the Panels?
- Organize All These Panels?
- Save How I've Set Up All My Panels?
- Create a New Blank Document?
- See More Than One Image at a Time?
- Change the Color Outside My image Area?
- See My Image at a Full 100% Size?
- Get My Image to Fit Fully on the Screen?
- See My Image at Full-Screen Size?
- Zoom In and Out of My Image?
- Move Around When I'm Zoomed In?
- Make the Rulers Visible?
- Use Guides?
- Use Guides to Create a Layout?
- Have Objects Snap to the Rulers or a Grid?
- Hide Guides and Things from View?
- Change the Color of Photoshop's Interface?
- Hide the Home Screen?
- Chapter 2. How to Use Photoshop's Tools
- Toolbar Tips
- See Just the Tools I Actually Use?
- Select Square or Rectangular Areas of My Image?
- Make a Free-Form Selection?
- Make Really Precise Selections?
- Adjust My Pen Tool Path?
- Delete, Add, or Change Pen Tool Path Points?
- Draw a Free-Form Path?
- See More Brushes?
- Pick My Brush Size?
- Make a Live Gradient?
- Edit a Classic Gradient?
- Create Things Like Arrows, Talk Bubbles, Stars, and Other Custom Shapes?37
- Use Colors That Are Already in My Image?
- Choose a Color?
- Make Lines?
- Draw a Single Thin Line of Pixels?
- Create Text?
- Erase Something?
- Use the Magic Wand Tool to Make Selections?
- Get Help Making a Selection?
- Point-and-Click to Select Objects?
- Crop My Image?
- Straighten My Image?
- Make Part of My Image Brighter or Darker?
- Undo Changes in Just One Part of My Image?
- Save My Favorite Settings for a Tool?
- Reset a Tool to Its Defaults?
- Get the Two-Column Toolbar?
- Get to the Hidden Tools?
- Turn Off Those Pop-Up Tool Tips?
- Chapter 3. How to Use Camera Raw Like a Boss
- The Essentials
- Get a Better Starting Place for My RAW Photo?
- Expand the Tonal Range of My Image?
- Adjust the Overall Exposure?
- Get My Color (White Balance) Right?
- Fix Flat-Looking Photos?
- Add Contrast with Curves?
- See Which Areas of My Photo Are Clipping?
- Bring Out Texture & Detail in My Image?
- Boost the Overall Color?
- Boost Just One Color?
- Fix Backlit Photos?
- Crop My Photo?
- Crop to a Specific Size?
- Straighten a Crooked Photo?
- Remove Darkening in the Corners?
- Sharpen My Image?
- Reduce Noise in My JPEG Image?
- Reduce Noise in My RAW Image?
- Fix Lens Problems, Like Bulging?
- Fix Things That Are Leaning Backward?
- Get Rid of the Purple & Green Fringe?
- Get Rid of Fog or Haze?
- Remove Something Distracting?
- Get Help Finding Spots or Specks?
- Apply Creative "Looks" to My Image?
- Adjust a Bunch of Images at Once?
- See a Side-by-Side Before/After?
- See a "Before" of Just the Panel I'm Working In?
- Create My Own Preset?
- Save My Own Custom Camera Raw Preferences?
- Chapter 4. How to Use Camera Raw's AI-Powered Masking Tools
- Our Photoshop Life Just Got Easier
- Dock My Masks Panel?
- Select My Subject?
- Select a Single Object?
- Create a Mask Based on Color?
- Create a Mask Based on Brightness?
- Add or Remove Something from a Mask?
- Brighten or Darken Parts of My Photo?
- Soften Skin?
- Brighten Just My Subject's Face?
- Create a Dramatic Spotlight Effect?
- Fix Washed-Out Skies?
- Make My Sky Look Better?
- Reduce Noise in Just One Area?
- Add Grain to My Image?
- Remove a Moire Pattern from Clothes?
- Keep the Red Tint on While Painting?
- Change the Red Mask Overlay to a Different Color?
- Switch It So the Red Tint Shows the Unmasked Areas Instead of Masked?
- Hide Mask Pins from View?
- Duplicate a Mask Pin?
- Keep from Painting Outside the Lines?
- Quickly Change the Size of My Brush?
- Fix the Brush If It's Not Painting Fully?
- Erase Something If I Make a Mistake?
- Name Masks in the Masks Panel?
- Delete a Mask (or All the Masks)?
- Quickly Reset All My Sliders?
- Save My Brush Settings as a Brush Preset?
- Chapter 5. How to Crop, Resize & Stuff Like That
- You'll Do This Stuff A Lot
- Crop an Image?
- Crop to a Specific Size?
- Change the Grid Over My Cropping Border?
- Straighten a Crooked Photo?
- Resize an Image?
- Rotate the Crop?
- Crop from the Center inward?
- Add White Space Around My Image?
- Keep My Crop from Being Permanent?
- Change the Shading Outside My Border?
- Fill In Gaps If I Make My Document Larger?
- Double the Physical Size of My Image?
- Chapter 6. How to Work with Layers
- This Is Where it Gets Fun
- Create a New Blank Layer or Delete One?
- Reorder My Layers?
- Hide a Layer from View?
- Change the Size of My Layer Thumbnails?
- Duplicate a Layer?
- Organize My Layers?
- Lock a Layer So It Won't Move?
- Make the Background Layer a Regular Layer?
- Move Multiple Layers at Once?
- Move a Layer from One Document to Another?
- Rename a Layer?
- Merge Two Layers into Just One Layer?
- Organize Layers By Assigning a Color?
- Find Layers by Name, Kind, Effect, Etc.?
- Quickly Brighten, Darken, or Add Contrast?
- Know the Difference Between Opacity and Fill?
- Create a Type Layer?
- Erase Part of a Type Layer?
- Try Out Different Fonts?
- Fill a Layer with a Solid Color?
- Make Part of a Layer Transparent?
- See Just the Layer Mask Itself?
- Add a Drop Shadow to a Layer?
- Separate a Drop Shadow from a Layer?
- Put a Stroke Around Something on My Layer?
- Change Layers without Going to the Layers Panel?
- Blend Two Photos Together?
- Blend Layers Using Sliders?
- Align or Center Multiple Layers?
- Make My RAW File Re-Editable as RAW?
- Remove Alf My Layers and Flatten the Image?
- Merge All My Layers to a New Layer?
- Chapter 7. How to Adjust Your Image
- Tweaking Your Image
- Use Camera Raw on an Already Open Image?
- Make My Adjustments Re-Editable?
- Adjust My Image Using Levels?
- Use the Levels Eyedroppers?
- Use Levels to Auto Set White & Black Points?
- Use Levels in My Workflow?
- Adjust My Midtones Using Curves?
- Use Curves to Add Contrast?
- Use Curves to Remove a Color Cast?
- Add a Film Look to My Image?
- Reduce the Amount of a Particular Color?
- Match the Color of One Photo to Another Photo?
- Convert to Black & White? (Method #1)
- Convert to Black & White? (Method #2)
- Chapter 8. How to Remove, Add & Change Stuff
- It's One of the Main Things We Go to Photoshop for and At Power Makes it Rock!
- Remove Something Distracting?
- Remove Spots?
- Clone Over Stuff to Hide It?
- Remove Glows Around Edges?
- Remove Cables or Power Lines? (Method #1)
- Remove Cables or Power Lines? (Method #2)
- Remove Larger Things?
- Cover Up Stuff I Don't Want Seen?
- Remove Reflections in Glasses?*
- Remove Tourists from My Photo? (Method #1)*
- Remove Complex Things Using AI?*
- Reduce Banding in the Sky?
- Make My Image Fit without Stretching?
- Fix a Cut-Off Area of My Photo?*
- Add Something Large to My Image That Wasn't Really There?*
- Add Smaller Things to My Image?*
- Change a Background?*
- Create a Composite from Scratch?*
- Change My Subject's Outfit?*
- Get Better Results from Select Subject?
- Get Better Generative Fill Results?*
- Stop the Contextual Task Bar from Moving Around?
- See More Choices When Using Generative Fill?*
- Delete Generative Fill Choices I Don't Need?*
- *See page xvii for more information.
- Chapter 9. How to Make Beautiful Prints
- Here's How It's Done
- Choose My Paper Size?
- Set My Page Margins?
- Sharpen for Print?
- Get the Best Results from My Printer?
- Get My Prints to Look as Bright as My Screen?
- See a Proof Before I Print?
- Resize My Image on the Page?
- Add a Stroke Border Around My Image?
- Create a Fine-Art Print Border?
- Add My Logo to My Print Layout?
- Choose My Print Resolution?
- Get My Image to Fit My Paper Size?
- Chapter 10. How to Do the Most Popular Special Effects
- And Making Stuff Look Cool
- Create a Lens Flare Effect?
- Darken the Edges around My Image?
- Make My Background Out of Focus?
- Colorize a Black & White Photo?
- Get a Soft, Dreamy Glow?
- Make Streets Look Wet?
- Add a Light Behind My Subject?
- Add a Gradient Behind My Subject?
- Apply Completely Editable Looks?
- Create the Look of Fall in a Landscape Shot?
- Get the Old HDR-Toned Look?
- Replace My Bad Sky With a Better Sky?
- Create a Mirror-Like Reflection?
- Add a Dramatic Beam of Light?
- Create a Panorama?
- Convert My Image to Black & White? (Method #3)
- Add a Cast Shadow?
- Create a Flat Matte Look?
- Add a Texture for an Aged Look?
- Create a Duotone Look?
- Chapter 11. How to Sharpen Your Images
- If It's Not Sharp, It's Soft
- Do Basic Sharpening?
- Do Advanced Sharpening?
- Sharpen Detail Areas, Like Eyes?
- Apply High Pass (Heavy) Sharpening?
- Replace the Sharpening Lost When Shooting in RAW?
- Sharpen Just Specific Parts of My Image?
- Sharpen a Portrait of a Woman?
- Sharpen for Instagram?
- Chapter 12. Other Stuff You'll Want to Know
- All That Other Stuff? It's in This Chapter
- Troubleshoot Photoshop Problems?
- Save an Image with a Transparent Background?
- Automate Boring, Repetitive Stuff?
- Put a Frame Around My Image?
- Draw a Straight Line with the Brush?
- Set My Color Space?
- Get More Than Just One Undo?
- Use Bridge to Quickly Find an Image or Rename Images?
- Save My Selection to Reuse Again?
- Save Images in Multiple Sizes and Formats?
- Create a Contact Sheet?
- Reduce the Intensity of an Edit?
- Convert to CMYK for Offset Printing?
- Open My RAW Image in 16-Bit Mode?
- Expand or Contract a Selection?
- Save Files as JPEGs or TIFFs?
- Make My JPEGs Automatically Open in Camera Raw?
- Select Hair?
- Remove Tourists from a Scene? (Method #2)
- Create Fine-Art Montages?
- Index