Photoshop CS5 for Dummies

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
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 Chef’s 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
			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
EULA