
Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques For Dummies
byPhyllis Davis
ISBN:0764567829
John Wiley & Sons2004(405 pages)
This plain-English guide provides a comprehensive overview of Photoshop so you can customize your workspace, develop your own digital negatives, install plug-ins, download tool presets, and much more.Table of Contents
Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques for Dummies
Introduction
Part I -
Making Photoshop Work for You
Technique 1
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Organizing Image Files and Managing Projects
Technique 2
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Creating Custom Palette Groups and Workspaces
Technique 3
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Assigning Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
Technique 4
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The Last Word about Color Management
Technique 5
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Making Image Editing Easier
Technique 6
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Creating Your Own Tool Presets
Technique 7
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Moving Back in Time: Getting Rid of Mistakes
Technique 8
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Creating Actions
Technique 9
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Automating Photoshop Functions
Part II -
Getting Images Into and Out of Photoshop
Technique 10
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Importing Images Using a Scanner
Technique 11
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Getting Professional Results with the Camera Raw Format
Technique 12
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Using Tablets and Pressure-Sensitive Devices
Technique 13
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Printing to a Desktop Printer
Technique 14
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Getting Files Ready for Offset Printing
Part III -
Using Layers to Save Time, Protect Your Work, and Create Cool Images
Technique 15
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Working with and Organizing Layers
Technique 16
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Getting to Know Layer Comps
Technique 17
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Enhancing Images with Blending Modes
Technique 18
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Transforming Images, Layers, and Selections
Technique 19
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Going Transparent with Opacity and Fill
Technique 20
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Creating Great Effects with Layer Styles
Technique 21
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Recoloring with Fill Layers
Technique 22
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Working with Adjustment Layers
Part IV -
Painting and Coloring to Enhance Your Images
Technique 23
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Everything You Ever Needed to Know about Creating Brushes
Technique 24
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Creating a Painting by Using an Image
Technique 25
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Painting Back in Time
Technique 26
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The Big Color Swap Meet
Technique 27
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Recoloring with Gradients
Technique 28
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Creating Custom Patterns
Technique 29
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Filling and Painting with Patterns
Part V -
Restoring and Retouching Images for Quick, Beautiful Results
Technique 30
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Enhancing Tone and Color
Technique 31
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Be Your Own Plastic Surgeon
Technique 32
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Getting Rid of Red Eye
Technique 33
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Adding Professional Photo Filter Effects
Technique 34
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Creating Grayscale Images: Your Choices and the Results
Technique 35
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Coloring and Tinting Black and White Photographs
Technique 36
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Stitching Photos to Create Panoramas
Part VI -
Amazing Fast Filter Effects
Technique 37
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Accenting with Sharpening or Blurring
Technique 38
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Painting Watercolors with Filters
Technique 39
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Making Images Look Like Pressed Tin
Technique 40
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Creating Photo Silkscreens
Technique 41
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Sketching with Filters
Technique 42
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I’ve Been Framed!
Technique 43
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Dunking Images in Liquid
Part VII -
Super Type Effects
Technique 45
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Knock-Out Type
Technique 46
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Pouring Liquid Metals
Technique 47
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Going Up in Flames
Technique 48
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Going Translucent: Clear Type and Jelly Type
Part VIII -
Transforming Images Using Channels and Masks (It’s not as hard as you think!)
Technique 49
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Working with Layer Masks
Technique 50
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Using Layer Masks to Create Fade Ins and Outs
Technique 51
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Grouping Layers into Clipping Masks
Technique 52
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Working with Channels
Technique 53
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Individual Channel Adjustments
Technique 54
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Mixing Color with Channels
Part IX -
Creating Flashy, Professional Web Graphics
Technique 55
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Getting to Know ImageReady
Technique 56
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Slicing Web Graphics
Technique 57
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Optimizing and Saving Images for the Web
Technique 58
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Creating Image Maps
Technique 59
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Making Your Graphics Rollover
Technique 60
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Making GIF Animations
Technique 61
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Creating Background Tiling for Web Pages
Part X -
The Scary (or Fun) Stuff
Technique 62
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Installing Plug-Ins
Technique 63
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Enhancing Your Images with Auto FX Software
Technique 64
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Loading New Libraries
Color Insert
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Sidebars