Mark Galer M.Ed., Philip Andrews9780240522142, 0240522141
Offers practical advice through a highly structured learning approach to the fundamental techniques and skills for personal creativity and communication
Jam-packed full of Photoshop tutorials to put your skills into practice
A superb full color guide to creative image editing, this will take you through all the necessary steps in order to become a competent and confident Photoshop user. Photoshop CS: Essential Skills companion to Digital Imaging: Essential Skills, provides an in-depth exploration on the latest software features, allowing those who wish to use the digital darkroom instead of traditional darkroom techniques to create professional photographic illustration.
Supporting an independent learning approach, the foundation modules allow you to establish an effective working environment, promoting easy navigation through the image editing process from capture to print, focusing on the essential techniques and skills required. Subsequent guides build upon these skills by exploring creative applications including advanced retouching, photomontage, vector graphics, special effects and preparing images for the web.
www.photoshopessentialskills.com provides an hour and a half of QuickTime movie tutorials in addition to all of the downloadable images required to complete the practical activities within the study guides. It also supplies all the layer styles, custom shapes, gradients and curves settings used in the creative projects and a huge number of helpful links and galleries.
‘Reading a technical manual with such interest and enthusiasm is indeed a rarity. Easy to comprehend this will be essential reading for novice and experts alike who want to get to grips and understand the creative suite program as a whole. It is one of the best intro Photoshop books I have encountered to date.’
Andy Moxon, Professor of Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design
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Table of contents :
cover.pdf……Page 1
Acknowledgements……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
Introduction……Page 11
Essential information……Page 13
The digital darkroom……Page 14
Digital setup……Page 15
Monitor settings……Page 16
Managing your photos……Page 19
Getting started with Photoshop……Page 20
Settings and preferences……Page 23
Opening images……Page 25
Navigation and viewing modes……Page 26
Storage for digital photographs……Page 31
Keyboard shortcuts……Page 33
Mac or PC?……Page 35
Digital basics……Page 38
Introduction……Page 39
File size……Page 40
Modes and channels……Page 41
Bit depth……Page 42
Hue, saturation and brightness……Page 43
Color and light……Page 44
Color perception……Page 45
File formats……Page 47
Lossy and Lossless compression……Page 50
Resolution……Page 53
Capture, image and output resolutions……Page 54
Calculating fi le size and scanning resolution……Page 56
Image size……Page 58
Resampling……Page 59
Capture and enhance……Page 64
Image adjustment……Page 66
Correcting a weak histogram……Page 69
Image size……Page 70
Optimizing quality……Page 72
Save……Page 74
Capturing in RAW……Page 76
Monitor calibration and working color space……Page 82
RGB and CMYK……Page 83
Preflight checklist……Page 84
Soft proofing……Page 85
Print preview……Page 86
Printer settings……Page 87
Creating a ‘ringaround’……Page 88
Analysis of the test print……Page 89
Creating a ‘preview master’……Page 90
Printing using a professional laboratory……Page 91
Printing monochromes……Page 93
Layers and channels……Page 96
Introduction……Page 97
Layers overview……Page 98
Layer types……Page 102
Channels……Page 105
Adjustment layers……Page 107
Layer masks……Page 108
Working with layers and masks……Page 109
Layer blends……Page 120
Introduction……Page 121
The ‘Darken’ group……Page 123
The ‘Lighten’ group……Page 125
The ‘Overlay’ group……Page 127
Blend modes for tinting and toning……Page 129
Luminosity……Page 131
Difference and Exclusion……Page 132
Creating a simple blend……Page 133
Advanced blending techniques……Page 136
Selections……Page 142
Selection tools overview……Page 143
Modifying your selections……Page 145
Saving and loading selections……Page 147
Feather and anti-alias……Page 148
Defringe and Matting……Page 149
The ‘Magic Wand’……Page 150
‘Quick Mask’……Page 152
‘Color Range’……Page 154
Channel masking……Page 156
Extract filter……Page 158
Advanced Retouching……Page 178
16-bit image editing……Page 180
Target values – using the eyedroppers……Page 182
Controlling tones using the Shadow/Highlight feature……Page 183
Dust and scratches……Page 185
The History Brush technique……Page 187
Correcting perspective……Page 188
Capturing high contrast scenes……Page 209
Special Effects……Page 214
Layer comps……Page 215
Gradient maps……Page 222
Posterization……Page 233
Cross process effect……Page 238
Lith printing – the digital way……Page 240
Digital diffusion……Page 243
Split toning……Page 249
Selective toning……Page 251
Creating digital depth of field (DOF) effects……Page 254
Lens Blur DOF effects……Page 257
Digital Polaroid transfer effect……Page 259
Filters……Page 264
Filtering in Photoshop……Page 265
Filter Gallery……Page 266
Improving filter performance……Page 267
ARTISTIC FILTERS……Page 269
BRUSH STROKES FILTERS……Page 271
DISTORT FILTERS……Page 272
PIXELATE FILTERS……Page 273
RENDER FILTERS / SKETCH FILTERS……Page 275
STYLIZE FILTERS……Page 276
TEXTURE FILTERS……Page 277
Filter DIY……Page 278
Graphics……Page 282
Working with typography……Page 283
Vector graphics……Page 288
Creating a simple vector logo……Page 290
Layer styles……Page 294
Creating an animated graphic for the web……Page 297
Combined use of fi lters and styles……Page 300
Digital Imaging……Page 305
images for the web……Page 306
ImageReady……Page 308
Image resolution and the web……Page 309
Web page construction……Page 314
Slice the image canvas……Page 317
Save for Web Command……Page 318
Creating the rollovers……Page 319
Preview and save web pages……Page 320
automated features……Page 322
Keyboard shortcuts……Page 323
Actions……Page 324
Actions and Batch commands……Page 327
Contact Sheet……Page 328
Picture Package……Page 329
Photomerge……Page 330
PDF presentation……Page 331
Web Photo Gallery……Page 332
Glossary……Page 340
Keyboard shortcuts……Page 350
Web links……Page 352
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