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how to do everything adobe photoshop cs4 ® ® chad perkins new york chicago san francisco lisbon london madrid mexico city milan new delhi san juan seoul singapore sydney toronto[close]
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about the author chad perkins is an award-winning software trainer an adobe certified instructor in photoshop after effects encore premiere pro illustrator indesign and acrobat and is comptia ctt certified chad has authored multiple books on photoshop and after effects he has trained or created art for such companies as warner brothers paramount nike sony lockheed martin disney and the united way chad and his brother todd broadcast the all things adobe podcast which offers free tips in adobe software www.chadandtoddcast.com about the technical editor wayne palmer owns palmer multimedia imaging he is a photoshop and photoshop elements beta tester and has worked with photoshop since version 3.0 he has been a technical editor for numerous photoshop books and co-authored photoshop restoration retouching 3rd edition wayne also teaches digital imaging and photoshop classes at the pennsylvania college of technology.[close]
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contents at a glance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 welcome to photoshop getting efficient with the workspace document and layer basics working with color getting creative picking pixels with selections working with images blending layers advanced image doctoring transforms and smart objects creating and adjusting text intro to photoshop extended special effects advanced creative concepts exporting time savers and automation making a living using photoshop index 1 7 23 41 59 81 97 115 129 143 159 173 185 211 227 237 251 259 v[close]
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contents acknowledgments introduction chapter 1 xiii xiii welcome to photoshop 1 1 2 4 4 5 what is photoshop what you can do with photoshop the world of photoshop but wait there s more what s coming up chapter 2 getting efficient with the workspace 7 7 9 10 10 11 12 12 13 13 14 15 16 16 19 19 20 22 about panels the tools panel other key interface elements the menu bar the application bar the options bar the application frame customizing moving panels around closing unwanted panels creating floating panels retrieving missing panels working with workspaces working with documents opening documents navigating documents keyboard shortcuts list vii[close]
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viii how to do everything adobe photoshop cs4 chapter 3 document and layer basics 23 23 24 26 28 30 30 32 33 36 creating a new photoshop document document presets the truth about resolution document color introduction to layers the layers panel making new layers mini project the magic of layers another project opacity and layer blending chapter 4 working with color 41 41 42 43 48 52 52 52 54 54 57 58 the essentials of color hue saturation and lightness the emotional effects of color using colors together color and media rgb color cmyk color working with color in photoshop the adobe color picker using swatches the eyedropper tool chapter 5 getting creative 59 60 60 63 67 69 70 71 71 72 73 74 75 75 77 77 intro to brushes and painting the repetitious nature of brushes adjusting basic brush properties more invaluable painting shortcuts using gradients changing gradient colors changing the type of gradient using gradients intro to vectors and shapes creating shapes modifying shapes using layer styles applying layer styles adjusting layer styles creative mini-project .[close]
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contents chapter 6 ix picking pixels with selections 81 81 84 84 88 89 91 91 92 93 93 94 the power of selections the selection tools the marquee tools the lasso tools the quick selection tool selecting by color the magic wand tool color range adjusting selections the select menu refine edge chapter 7 working with images 97 97 98 98 100 101 102 103 103 108 108 108 111 113 browsing images with bridge launching bridge quick tour of the bridge interface browsing files with bridge searching for images editing images in camera raw getting images into camera raw editing in camera raw getting images out of camera raw basic image editing in photoshop the adjustments panel limiting adjustments with selections cropping images chapter 8 blending layers 115 115 116 116 117 118 124 124 125 combining images copy and paste dragging layers blending images layer blend modes layer masks creating a layer mask masking areas on a layer chapter 9 advanced image doctoring 129 129 130 cloning using the clone stamp tool .[close]
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x how to do everything adobe photoshop cs4 healing the patch tool the healing brush tool the spot healing brush creating realistic fakes note the light source use reference material cloning tricks chapter 10 133 134 135 136 138 139 139 139 transforms and smart objects 143 143 144 145 147 151 152 154 156 156 157 157 157 transforming objects moving flipping free transforming rotating skewing and distorting mini-project using smart objects creating smart objects working with imported smart objects editing smart objects saving smart objects chapter 11 creating and adjusting text 159 160 160 161 162 162 163 163 165 168 170 171 creating text creating point text creating a text box formatting text selecting text to edit adjusting a text box making simple text adjustments intermediate text formatting warping text text and layer styles text on a path chapter 12 intro to photoshop extended 173 174 174 175 177 3d in photoshop cs4 extended the anatomy of a 3d scene opening 3d files making 3d objects .[close]
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contents manipulating 3d objects painting on 3d objects saving 3d files video and animation in photoshop cs4 extended importing video working with video creating animation exporting video chapter 13 178 178 179 180 180 181 182 182 xi special effects filters 185 185 186 197 199 199 201 204 204 204 208 using filters smart filters warping the free transform warp the liquify filter making textures from scratch making metal making wood creating fine art chapter 14 advanced creative concepts 211 211 214 214 215 216 219 220 221 225 using layer comps project bringing it all together create the document creating guides making the eye preparing the eye to be a 3d texture creating the 3d object creating custom brushes finding more photoshop presets chapter 15 exporting 227 227 228 229 229 231 232 234 234 234 235 printing and exporting the print dialog box choosing a file format exporting to a page layout program saving for the web the gif file format the jpeg file format the png file format the wbmp file format exporting to mobile devices .[close]
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xii how to do everything adobe photoshop cs4 chapter 16 time savers and automation 237 238 241 242 243 246 automating with actions the automate commands crop and straighten photos photomerge saving dialog settings chapter 17 making a living using photoshop 251 252 252 253 253 254 255 255 256 257 258 can you do this what kind of education do you need your portfolio certifications internships what types of jobs are available where do i find work the best resources of all time conventions and user groups who s the boss index 259[close]
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acknowledgments the team at mcgraw-hill professional has been fantastic to work with thank you to roger stewart and carly stapleton as well as to all of the editors who caught my mistakes it was a really great experience to work with wayne palmer as my tech editor again his expert eyes always saw concepts that i missed thanks to matt wagner for being such a great support and advocate thanks also to my seminary kids who dealt patiently with the fact that i was a zombie every morning for two months an extra special thanks also to my family who frequently must endure my tendency to overbook my schedule and yet through all of this they see the light at the end of the tunnel more easily than i do introduction welcome to this book before we jump right in and start learning i want to give you a heads up as to what you can expect going forward if you re brand-new to photoshop or intimidated by photoshop have no fear we ll go from the ground up even if you aren t quite sure what photoshop does or who uses it or what jobs you can get with it we ll catch you up to speed before you learn how to use it photoshop is not just for editing photographs anymore we ll then look at the interface which is the layout of the buttons features and workspace of photoshop at that point you ll feel comfortable enough to move on to the rest of the book to actually start creating art if you have some prior experience with photoshop or if you are looking to use photoshop for a specific purpose feel free to jump around the book as you please i ve tried to create this book so that you can learn about whatever interests you without having to drudge through material that doesn t this book also takes a different focus than most photoshop books do other photoshop books tend to focus on photo editing which is obviously a core part of what photoshop does hence the name and we will cover a lot of information about image editing of course but we ll also focus a lot on the creative side of photoshop for those of you who like to scrapbook paint design or just be artistic we ll cover many tools for the job we ll even look briefly at using photoshop for web graphics 3d mobile phones and video throughout this book you ll notice that my screenshots are of a mac computer note that photoshop is available for both mac and pc and it functions almost identically on both the real difference that you ll notice in this book is in the keyboard shortcuts as we ll discuss you can use combinations of keys to accomplish certain tasks in photoshop much more quickly than you could otherwise the keys usually used for this purpose are called modifier keys these keys are different on macs and pcs for example you can press the keyboard combination control ctrl and the letter o to open a file on a pc on a mac you would use the keys command cmd and the letter o to perform the same function each time i refer to a keyboard shortcut i ll give you both the pc and mac shortcut on the pc the modifier keys are ctrl alt and shift on the mac the modifier keys are cmd option and shift other than that there really isn t much difference between platforms except where noted xiii[close]
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