PHOTOSHOP CS2 ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION WHO SHOULD USE THIS BOOK STEPS FOR USING THIS BOOK CONVENTIONS PHOTOSHOP VERSIONS APPLE MACINTOSH OS X VS MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP OPERATING SYSTEMS COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS WEB SITE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 2: FOUNDATION A LOOK AT PHOTOSHOP THE TOOLBOX THE PALETTES VIEWING THE IMAGE ACCELERATORS LAYERS THE LAYER MASKS A LOOK AT THE LAYERS PALETTE ADJUSTMENT LAYERS SOME NOTES ON LAYERS MERGED IMAGE LAYERS PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES BASIC ADJUSTMENT TOOLS HISTOGRAMS LEVELS CURVES COLOR BALANCE HUE/SATURATION GEEKY STUFF A DIGITAL IMAGE PIXELS CHANNELS/COLOR MODELS BITS AND BYTES BIT DEPTH IMAGE SIZE DOTS AND SENSORS RESOLUTION RESAMPLING/INTERPOLATION NATIVE RESOLUTION FILES FOR DIGITAL IMAGING PHOTOSHOP (*PSD) TIFF (*TIF, *TIFF) JPEG (*JPG, *JPEG) PDF FILES RAW FILES CHAPTER 3: THE IMAGE EDITING WORKFLOW THE WORKFLOW OUTLINE WORKFLOW STAGE SUMMARIES STAGE 0: CAPTURE THE IMAGE STAGE 1: ORGANIZE THE IMAGES STAGE 2: OPEN IMAGE FILES (PROCESS RAW FILES) STAGE 3: IMAGE CLEAN-UP STAGE 4: PERFORM GLOBAL ADJUSTMENTS STAGE 5: PERFORM LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS STAGE 6: PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITS STAGE 7: PRINT PREPARATION STAGE 8: PRINT STAGE 1: ORGANIZING THE IMAGES ORGANIZING ORIGINAL IMAGE FILES SORTING ORIGINAL IMAGES ORGANIZING EDIT IMAGES ARCHIVING FILES STAGE 2A: OPENING IMAGE FILES STAGE 2B: PROCESSING RAW IMAGES ADOBE CAMERA RAW USING CAMERA RAW WITH MULTIPLE IMAGES STRAIGHTEN CROP SPOT REDUCE NOISE SAVE THE CLEAN IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS TASKS AND ADJUSTMENT TOOLS ORDER OF ADJUSTMENTS BLACK AND WHITE POINT ADJUSTMENT (LEVELS TOOL) ADJUSTING IMAGE BRIGHTNESS (LEVELS TOOL) ADJUSTING IMAGE CONTRAST (CURVES TOOL) ADJUSTING SHADOWS/HIGHLIGHTS (CURVES TOOL) COLOR BALANCE (COLOR BALANCE TOOL) EDIT COLORS (HUE/SATURATION TOOL) THE SUCCESS OF BASIC ADJUSTMENTS A TASK LIST FOR LOCALIZING ADJUSTMENTS SOME OF MY FAVORITE SELECTIONS SOME NOTES ON SELECTIONS PERFORMING THE ADJUSTMENTS EDITING THE MASK CHAPTER 4: PRINTING WHAT IS COLOR MANAGEMENT? COLOR SPACES COLOR SPACE SETTINGS CONVERT TO SRGB COMPONENTS OF A GOOD PRINT PROOF PRINTS PREPARING IMAGES FOR PRINT OUTLINE OF THE PRINT PREP STAGE SAVE THE EDITED IMAGE FLATTEN THE IMAGE DETERMINE THE PRINT PARAMETERS CROP YOUR IMAGE RESIZE THE IMAGE SHARPENING LOCALIZED SHARPENING PRINT ADD AN ANNOTATION SAVE THE PRINT FILE BASIC PRINTING ONLINE PRINTING SERVICES ADVANCED PRINTING SET UP THE PROOF RESOLVING OUT OF GAMUT COLORS PRINTING WITH PROFILES CHAPTER 5: ADVANCED OPTIONS BLENDING LAYERS OPACITY BLENDING MODES ADVANCED ADJUSTMENTS – TONAL PRECISE B&W POINT ADJUSTMENT EASY DODGING AND BURNING CURVES ADJUSTMENT USING LOCKING POINTS CONTRAST MASKING SHADOW/HIGHLIGHT TOOL ADVANCED OPTIONS – COLOR CORRECTIONS USING PHOTOSHOP’S AUTO COLOR COLOR CORRECTION BY THE NUMBERS COLOR CORRECTING SKIN TONES COPYING COLOR CORRECTIONS MATCH COLOR PHOTO FILTERS REDUCING RED IN SKIN TONES CHANGING COLOR WITH THE COLOR REPLACEMENT TOOL B&W IMAGES CONVERTING FROM COLOR TO B&W – USING LUMINOSITY TONING B&W IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHIC EFFECTS FILM GRAIN SOFT FOCUS LENS BLUR PHOTO EDGES BURN CORNERS CHAPTER 6: IMAGES FOR THE WEB ISSUES FOR WEB IMAGES CREATING AN E-MAIL FILE PREPARING IMAGES FOR THE WEB ADDING A BLACK BORDER AND DROP SHADOW