Inside Adobe Photoshop 7
by Bouton, Gary D.; Bouton, Barbara; Hamlin, J. Scott; Will-Harris, Daniel; Stanley, Robert; Nathanson, Mara ZebestWe're Sorry
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Table of Contents
Getting Your Feet Wet | |
Getting Creative When You Have No Idea What You're Doing | p. 5 |
Meet Bouton's Idea of a Picnic | p. 6 |
Creating Your Own Special Effects Without a Clue as to What You're Doing | p. 27 |
Summary | p. 45 |
Photoshop Core Concepts | |
Optimizing and Customizing Photoshop Preferences | p. 49 |
Glomming Over Photoshop's Preferences | p. 50 |
Determining Which Units and Rulers to Use | p. 68 |
Checking Out the Guides, Grid & Slices Preferences | p. 71 |
Plug-Ins, Scratch Disks, Memory and Image Cache | p. 73 |
Doing Some Photoshop House Cleaning | p. 79 |
Who Wants So Many Palettes in a Group? | p. 80 |
Customizing the Shapes Feature | p. 82 |
Exploring Near-Infinite Brush Variations | p. 85 |
Layers, Layers--Oh How Do You Control Layers? | p. 96 |
Introducing the Tool Preset Palette | p. 100 |
Summary | p. 109 |
Harnessing the Power of Selections | p. 111 |
Basic Selections 101 with Lab | p. 112 |
Introducing the Marquee Tools | p. 112 |
Rounding Up the Lasso Tools | p. 123 |
Getting the Best Selections (in the Least Amount of Time) | p. 125 |
Let's Lasso Somebody | p. 127 |
Saving and Loading Selections | p. 132 |
Magic Wand Tool Magic | p. 134 |
The Layer Mask | p. 140 |
Replacing an Overcast Sky | p. 140 |
Making a Quick Panorama Using Selections | p. 143 |
Summary | p. 147 |
Enough Selections! The Layers and Shapes Chapter | p. 149 |
Examining the Flexibility of Layers | p. 150 |
New! Layer Sets | p. 159 |
Using the Layer Mask Feature | p. 161 |
Imagine Color Correction by Painting It On | p. 167 |
Shapes and Clipping Paths | p. 172 |
Summary | p. 198 |
Working with Channels and Paths | p. 201 |
Channels: A Definition and the Keys to Mastering Them | p. 202 |
Alpha Channels: Storage Space for Special Information | p. 217 |
Paths, as in Those Things in Illustrator and CorelDRAW | p. 229 |
The Anatomy of a Path | p. 233 |
The Pen Tool and Special Effects | p. 237 |
Taking Paths to the Max | p. 243 |
Summary | p. 252 |
Using the Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, and Patch Tools | p. 255 |
Copying Pixels Is the Name of the Game | p. 256 |
Introducing the Healing Brush Tool | p. 263 |
The Patch Tool at Work | p. 265 |
Optional Independent Study | p. 268 |
Summary | p. 271 |
The Important and Headache-Causing Stuff: Calibration, Input, and Output | |
Understanding Photoshop's Color Management System | p. 275 |
Understanding Photoshop's Color Management System (CMS) | p. 278 |
Coming to Terms with Color Management | p. 278 |
Preparing to Create a Custom Profile | p. 287 |
Creating an ICC Profile for a Monitor | p. 290 |
Setting Photoshop's Color Management Defaults | p. 296 |
The Color Settings Dialog Box, or Laying Down the Rules | p. 297 |
Choosing Between Assigning and Converting to Profile | p. 312 |
Putting Theory into Practice | p. 314 |
Soft-Proofing, or Seeing Onscreen What an Image Will Look Like When It's Printed | p. 321 |
Summary | p. 326 |
Resources | p. 326 |
Input, Output, and Resolution | p. 329 |
Bringing Images into Your Computer | p. 330 |
Getting Images from the Creative Side | p. 331 |
Getting Pictures from Digital Cameras | p. 331 |
Scanning Pictures | p. 335 |
Working with Kodak PhotoCDs | p. 340 |
Output Essentials | p. 342 |
Interpolation Means "Interpretation" | p. 342 |
Going from Continuous Tones to Halftones | p. 346 |
PostScript and Image Resolution | p. 349 |
The Input/Output Chart | p. 354 |
Printing Options in Photoshop | p. 360 |
Film Recording | p. 365 |
Summary | p. 369 |
Photoshop for Photographers | |
Basic Picture Editing | p. 373 |
Opening Pictures by Name | p. 374 |
Using Photoshop's New File Browser Feature | p. 376 |
Rotating a Picture | p. 380 |
Always Work on a Copy | p. 382 |
Cropping a Photograph | p. 382 |
The Anatomy of a Digital Picture | p. 389 |
Types of Graphic Files | p. 396 |
Summary | p. 398 |
Color and Tone Correction | p. 401 |
Working with Tones | p. 402 |
Examining the Curves Command | p. 412 |
Colors, Color Shifting, and Color Correcting | p. 422 |
Using the Variations Command | p. 425 |
Summary | p. 428 |
Restoring an Heirloom Photograph | p. 431 |
Scanning Modes and Resolution | p. 433 |
Become a Detective Before Retouching | p. 433 |
Different Approaches for Different Problem Areas | p. 436 |
Replacing the Image Background | p. 447 |
Summary | p. 456 |
Retouching an Heirloom Photograph | p. 459 |
Adding Original Colors and Tonally Correcting the Image | p. 460 |
Introducing New Image Elements | p. 467 |
Summary | p. 473 |
Photoshop for Artists | |
Using Paths | p. 477 |
Understanding the Pen Tool Rule--Think of Points | p. 480 |
Using Paths to Help Paint an Image | p. 490 |
A Ton More Path Talk--Only Kidding | p. 520 |
Summary | p. 527 |
Bringing Out the Artist in You | p. 531 |
Painting for the Non-Painter | p. 532 |
Becoming One of the Great Painters in Art History | p. 541 |
Adding to the Illusion Using Extra Texture | p. 554 |
Summary | p. 558 |
Out of This World A.R.T. (Advanced Rendering Techniques) | p. 561 |
Rendering: What Is It? How Much Does It Cost? | p. 562 |
Adding Modeling for Dimension | p. 574 |
Applying Textures and Other Effects for Added Realism | p. 596 |
Typography and Special Effects | |
Typography | p. 615 |
Type Is Your Personality on Paper | p. 617 |
Types of Type | p. 622 |
Choosing Type | p. 634 |
Using Type | p. 639 |
Summary--Have Fun with Type! | p. 657 |
Where to Buy Fonts on the Web | p. 658 |
Special Effects with Type | p. 661 |
Pleasing Clients with Multiple Versions of Text Handling | p. 662 |
Summary | p. 685 |
Photoshop for the Web | |
Creating Interface Elements | p. 689 |
Interface Design 101 | p. 690 |
Creating an Interface from Scratch | p. 691 |
Summary | p. 735 |
Rollovers, Slicing, and Optimization | p. 737 |
Preparing an Interface for ImageReady | p. 739 |
Wrapping Up in ImageReady | p. 750 |
Summary | p. 760 |
Animation | p. 763 |
Animation Guidelines | p. 764 |
Creating Animated Dissolving Text | p. 764 |
Preparing Channels and Layers for Animation | p. 765 |
Round and Round We Go: Creating Loops | p. 775 |
Creating a Bulging Pipe Animation | p. 778 |
Using Displacement Maps for Special Animations | p. 779 |
Digging into the Whys and Wherefores of Displace | p. 780 |
Creating Displacement Map Visual Content | p. 781 |
Animated Fog/Scrolling Texture | p. 789 |
Getting Your Hands on Some Clouds | p. 789 |
Summary | p. 796 |
Post Script (Pun Intended) | p. 796 |
Scripting and Actions | p. 799 |
Splitting Images with Actions | p. 800 |
Splitting Images with Scripting | p. 805 |
Scripting for Complex Tasks | p. 811 |
Summary | p. 821 |
Photoshop Tricks and Closing Thoughts | |
Gary Cauldron and Photoshop Tricks | p. 825 |
Making Julian Float | p. 827 |
Borrowing an Image's Color Palette | p. 851 |
Creating a Photoshop Book Cover | p. 855 |
Removing Fringing from Leaves | p. 863 |
Making a Painting from a Photo | p. 874 |
Fun with Fractals: Creating Seamless Tiles | p. 884 |
Removing Red Eye | p. 894 |
Creating a Bronze Guy | p. 901 |
Becoming Gaugin in Your Spare Time | p. 905 |
Fixing a Chopped-Off Drop Shadow | p. 916 |
Grand Chapter Summary | p. 920 |
PostScript | p. 921 |
Where Do We Go from Here? | p. 923 |
Closing Thoughts | p. 923 |
The Back O'The Book | |
The Inside Photoshop 7 CD-ROM | p. 931 |
Instructions for Installing Acrobat Reader 5 | p. 932 |
What's On the Companion CD? | p. 932 |
Special Offers | p. 941 |
What to Do if You Have Problems with the Companion CD | p. 942 |
Keyboard Shortcuts and Power User Tricks | p. 945 |
Undoing a Potential Disaster | p. 946 |
Clipboards and New Images | p. 947 |
Dump Your Clipboard | p. 947 |
Keep Plenty of Drive Space Available | p. 947 |
Scratch Disk No-No | p. 947 |
Closing All Open Images | p. 948 |
Drawing a Straight Line in Photoshop | p. 948 |
How to Hide Those Pesky Marching Ants | p. 948 |
Quick Frame | p. 949 |
Fade Power | p. 950 |
Another Fade Trick (Windows Only) | p. 950 |
Stuff for Retouching | p. 950 |
New Photoshop 7 Brushes Palette | p. 951 |
Making the Palettes Go Away (Temporarily) | p. 951 |
Think Before You Reset All Brushes | p. 951 |
Creating Irregularly Shaped Brushes | p. 951 |
Great Fill Tricks | p. 952 |
Great Zoom Tricks | p. 952 |
The Best Zoom Setting Possible | p. 953 |
Getting Around an Image Fast | p. 953 |
Removing Blue Cast from Digital Camera Photos | p. 953 |
Reapplying Filters | p. 954 |
Resetting Filters to Default Settings | p. 954 |
Adjustment Layers | p. 954 |
Dragging Layers Between Images | p. 955 |
A Context Menu Trick | p. 955 |
Auto Selecting Layers | p. 956 |
Layers and the Clone Tool | p. 956 |
Quickly Toggling Between Measuring Tools | p. 956 |
Speaking of Measuring Tool Tricks--Did Ya Know? | p. 957 |
Making Better Grayscale Images from Color Ones | p. 958 |
An Easy Way to Create Complex Selections Automatically | p. 959 |
Creating a Selection Using Channels | p. 960 |
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