CopyrightACKNOWLEDGMENTSABOUT THE AUTHORSINTRODUCTIONWhy we wrote this bookIs this book for you?Okay, how do I get started?Is this book for Macintosh, Windows, or both?How to use this bookWhat not to doLife in the Fast Lane: production tipsMAKING THE PREVIEW PALETTE BIGGERSAVING FILE BROWSER SETUPSSETTING DEFAULTS IN THE FILTER GALLERYREARRANGING YOUR BRUSHESCREATING YOUR OWN CUSTOM NEW DOCUMENT PRESETSFIND THE CENTER OF ANY DOCUMENTNO MORE JAGGY LASSO TOOL SELECTIONSTHE MENU TO FULL SCREEN MODEEXPERIMENTING WITH ZOOMOPEN UP SOME SCREEN REAL ESTATELET PHOTOSHOP DO THE WORK IN CURVESWANT A FINER GRID? YOU GOT IT!YOU DON'T NEED THE BRUSHES PALETTE TO CHANGE BRUSH SIZEROTATE TO ANY ANGLE THE FAST WAYREMOVING POINTS FROM THE POLYGONAL LASSOGETTING TO THE RIGHT PALETTE JUST GOT EASIEROPENING MULTIPLE IMAGES AND CLOSING THE BROWSEROPENING AN IMAGE AND CLOSING THE FILE BROWSERGET RID OF UNWANTED BRUSHESNAVIGATING THE BRUSH PICKER LIKE A PROGET MORE CONTROL OVER YOUR PAINT STROKESSPEED TIP TO ROTATE THROUGH OPEN IMAGESINSTANTLY FIND THE CENTER OF ANY OBJECTMAKING YOUR GUIDE FLIPCREATING TEMPORARY BRUSHESREUSING YOUR LAST CURVE SETTINGBRINGING BACK THOSE CROPPED-AWAY AREASFIX THOSE STRAY PIXELS FAST!GETTING MORE CONTROL OVER THE MAGIC WANDMAKING THE COLOR PALETTE WORK TWICE AS HARDPHOTOSHOP REMEMBERS THE LAST SIZE YOU INPUTSEEING YOUR CURVES UP CLOSEUSE YOUR LAST SETTINGS AND SAVE TIMEHIT THOSE CHANNELS FASTHOW TO GET AN UNDO AFTER YOU'VE CLOSED THE DOCUMENTUSING THE PEN? STAY AWAY FROM THE TOOLBOXPUT YOUR GRADIENT PICKER AT YOUR FINGERTIPSDON'T CLICK IN THAT FIELD!OUT OF MEMORY? TRY THIS FIRSTHOW TO "UNERASE"LET PHOTOSHOP STRAIGHTEN YOUR CROOKED SCANSCOPY ONE LAYER, OR COPY 'EM ALLSTUCK IN A FIELD? HERE'S HOW TO ESCAPEDON'T CANCEL; RESET AND SAVE TIMETIME FOR SOME PANTONE CONVENIENCEHOW TO HIDE THE PATH AROUND YOUR SHAPEZOOMING IN THE FILTER GALLERYSEE EVERY TWEAK WITH BIGGER FILTER GALLERY PREVIEWSSHOWING ONE EFFECT IN THE FILTER GALLERYUSE THE MOVE TOOL ANYTIMEFILTER GALLERY ZOOM QUICK TIPTRASHING FILTER GALLERY FILTERS THE FAST WAYSAVING YOUR FAVORITE FOLDERS IN THE FILE BROWSERNESTING YOUR FILE BROWSER PALETTESBRUSHES RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT 'EMBorn to Run: essential tips you've got to knowTHE HIDDEN MEASUREMENT POP-DOWN MENUBATCH RENAMING MADE MORE USABLECHANGING METADATA FONT SIZESGETTING A FRESH HISTOGRAM IN ONE CLICKUSING THE LASSO TOOL? KEEP IT STRAIGHTSKIP THE ZOOM TOOLCAN'T REMEMBER SELECTION SHORTCUTS? LOOK AT THE CURSORSNAP YOUR PALETTES TO ORDERYOUR SELECTIONS AREN'T STUCKMOVE 'EM!ONE-BUTTON REFRESH FOR THE FILE BROWSERGET RID OF THE ANNOYING CHECKERBOARD PATTERNUNDERSTANDING THE GIANT MONDO-BIG BRUSHES PALETTEHOW TO TAME THE SELECT SIMILAR COMMANDRUN THAT FILTER ONE MORE TIMEDON'T LET THE BROWSER PREVIEW FOOL YOUWANT THE DEFAULT COLORS? JUST "D-DO" ITSCRUBBY SLIDER SHIFT-CLICK TRICKSAVING TIME IN THE FILL DIALOGWHY THE FILE BROWSER WON'T DOCKESCAPE FROM THE CROP TOOL (OR DIE!)GETTING THE STARTUP WINDOW BACKGETTING YOUR WARNINGS BACK (RESETTING ALL DIALOGS)HOW TO SEE YOUR VECTOR EPS FILES IN THE FILE BROWSERTHE SMALLER TOOLBOX TRICKBRUSHES PALETTE: THAT'S NOT A HEADER, IT'S A BUTTONDANGEROUS INTERSECTION?NUDGING POWERMAKE THAT OPTIONS BAR FLOAT FLOAT???WHERE'S THE 3D TRANSFORM FILTER?THE FATE OF CLIPPING GROUPSSUPERSIZE ITLOCK THOSE PIXELS AND FILLSTEAL COLOR FROM ANYWHEREASK PHOTOSHOP TO REMEMBER MORETHE MONDO-COOL BATCH RANKING SECRET SHORTCUTSHRINK THOSE PALETTES DOWN TO SIZESTOP THE WARNINGS FROM YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGESCREATING THE ÜBER PALETTEKILLING LAYERS WITH NO MERCYTIRED OF PRESSING THE SHIFT KEY TO ROTATE THROUGH TOOLS?FIX THOSE TOOL SETTINGS FASTBRING ORDER BACK TO YOUR WORLDTHE UNDOCUMENTED FILL SHORTCUTDESELECTED AND FORGOT TO SAVE? DON'T SWEAT ITSUPER-FAST INCHES TO PIXELSLIGHTNING-FAST FEATHERZOOMED IN? DON'T USE THE SCROLL BARSBOSS AROUND YOUR COLOR SWATCHESLET PHOTOSHOP DO THE MATH WHEN COPYING/PASTINGINSTANT SELECTION FROM ANY PATHMAXIMUM FILE BROWSER HIDDEN SHORTCUTCANVAS COLOR QUICK CHANGESAVE CLICKS WHEN YOU CLOSEBEEN BINGING ON RAM? MAYBE IT'S TIME TO PURGE!REACHING THE FREE TRANSFORM HANDLESTRANSFORMING AND COPYING AT THE SAME TIMEGreased Lightnin': Way Cool TipsTHE TRICK TO TRICKY EXTRACTIONSLIVE PATCHING PREVIEWZOOMING ALL YOUR TILED IMAGES AT ONCEFINDING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC BRUSH TIPSHOW TO DUPLICATE A COLOR STOPREMOVING EDGE FRINGE WHEN COLLAGINGCRACKING THE EASTER EGG MYSTERYSUPERCHARGE YOUR FILTER EFFECTSUNDO ON A SLIDER!GETTING TO THE FOLDER OF PHOTOS YOU WANTFAST!TWO FILES ARE BETTER THAN ONERESIZING PATHS THE EASY WAYTHE GAUSSIAN BLUR KEYBOARD SHORTCUTTHE ADVANTAGE OF PHOTO FILTER ADJUSTMENT LAYERSWHERE TO SET CUSTOM VIEW SIZESMOVING YOUR IMAGE IN FULL SCREEN MODEDON'T RANK ITFLAG ITPHOTO-RETOUCHING SAFETY TIPPHOTOSHOP'S HIDDEN STEP AND REPEATPAUSING FOR A BRUSH PREVIEWTHE UNDOCUMENTED AIRBRUSH TOGGLE TRICKGIVE MOST ANYTHING A KEYBOARD SHORTCUTNO MORE UNLOCKING A BACKGROUND COPYSWAPPING CROP FIELDSLET THOSE WINDOWS BREATHE!THE MULTIPLE UNDO SHORTCUTWANT ARROWHEADS? PHOTOSHOP CAN ADD THEM FOR YOU!GETTING TO THE FREE TRANSFORM TOOL'S POP-UP LISTDRAGGING AND DROPPING WHERE YOU WANTCUSTOM BRUSHES DON'T HAVE TO BE SQUARE ANYMOREFEATHER A SELECTION WITHOUT THE GUESSING GAMECREATING A FLATTENED VERSION OF YOUR LAYERED IMAGEIF IT'S NOT SQUARE, YOU CAN STILL CROP ITTOP-SECRET PHOTOSHOP SPLASH SCREENFALL IN LOVE WITH A TEMPORARY BRUSH, OR NOTUNDO A SAVE? THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, ISN'T IT?MAKE A PHOTOSHOP CLIENT PRESENTATIONCHANGE BRUSH SOFTNESS ON THE FLYLIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: SLIDE SHOWS USING PHOTOSHOPHOW TO CORRECT ONE PROBLEM COLORBUILDING A BETTER BACKGROUND ERASER TOOLGETTING SIDE-BY-SIDE PREVIEWSCUSTOM BRUSHES: START WITH A CLEAN SLATETIMING IS EVERYTHING!INSTANT THUMBNAIL SIZE CONTROLBRING UP YOUR LAST PREFERENCEBurn Rubber: smokin' Type TipsGETTING TYPE IN A PERFECT CIRCLEI NEED MY DUMB QUOTES AGAINRESETTING YOUR TYPEONE-CLICK ACCESS TO THE COPYRIGHT SYMBOL, AND MOREHIGHLIGHTING YOUR TEXT SUPER FAST!RENDERING TEXT IN JUST ONE CLICKMADE TO FITTEXT-PATH-MAKING MANIACPICTURE THIS: PUTTING A PHOTO INSIDE TYPEFONTS, FONTS, AND MORE FONTSMAKE YOUR TEXT JUMP INTO ACTIONDOUBLE YOUR PLEASURESEEING YOUR TYPE CHANGE COLORMOVE YOUR TYPE, WITHOUT SWITCHING TOOLSEDITING TEXT WITHOUT HIGHLIGHTING ITRASTERIZE TIMES 2, 4, 6...HONEY, I NEED SOME SPACE: VISUALLY ADJUST KERNINGTELL PHOTOSHOP WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH TYPEBRING THOSE TYPE LAYERS TOGETHERTHE LONG AND THE SHORT OF TYPEMADE TO FIT: PART TWOMAKING THE SPELL CHECKER OBEY YOUR COMMANDSEDITING TYPE ON A PATHEXACT SIZING FOR YOUR TEXT COLUMNSREMOVING THOSE TYPOGRAPHICALLY INCORRECT SPACESTWEAK ALL YOUR TYPE IN ONE FELL SWOOP!DON'T HAVE ITALIC OR BOLD? DON'T SWEAT ITFast & Furious: killer web tipsLOSE THOSE ANNOYING NUMBERS IN THE UPPER LEFT-HAND CORNERNEED TO SHRINK THE FILE SIZE? USE TRANSPARENCYCROP IT EVEN CLOSERLET PHOTOSHOP MAKE THE FILE SIZE CALLZOOM OUT FOR SHARPER WEB IMAGESIMAGEREADY FEATURE COMES TO PHOTOSHOPTWO EASY WAYS TO CREATE TRANSPARENCYIMAGEREADY WINDOW SPEED TIPIF IT'S WEB SAFE, DON'T USE ITCHANGE ONE PREFERENCE, SAVE A BUNDLEGET THE REAL 100% VIEWSTYLE WARNING FOR WEB DESIGNERSSPEND MORE TIME ANIMATING, LESS TIME CLICKINGGETTING TO THE HEXADECIMAL CODEGET SUPER-CLEAN TYPE FOR THE WEBGOT A FOLDER FULL OF IMAGES FOR THE WEB? BATCH 'EM!EXERCISING YOUR INFLUENCE ON GIFSREAD THE WEB COLOR ONSCREENIMAGEREADY'S SUPERCHARGED EYEDROPPERIMAGEREADY'S AUTO TILE MAKERMAKE SURE YOU SEE IT THE SAME WAY THEY SEE ITDON'T LOAD THAT BOGUS SLICE!USE LAYER-BASED SLICESBLUR THAT JPEG AND SHRINK IT DOWNFast Company: photoshop design tipsEFFECTIVE GHOSTING OR BACKSCREENINGTWO-COLOR MAY BE BETTER THAN FOUROVERLAP GRAPHIC ELEMENTS TO ADD VISUAL INTERESTFOCUSING ATTENTION BY ADDING DEPTHFOCUSING ATTENTION USING COLORDON'T MAKE IT BLACKMAKE IT MEGA BLACK!SHADOW OPACITY AND SOFTNESSCREATE YOUR OWN CUSTOM TYPEFACEUSE CORRECT CMYK BUILDS TO MATCH PANTONE COLORSADD COLOR TO YOUR SHADOWSPICKING COLORS? USE THE BUILT-IN COLOR WHEELCOLOR COMBINATIONS AFFECT SIZE AND PROPORTIONUSE TIGHT CROPPING TO SPICE UP IMAGESDETERMINING THE LENGTH OF A CAST SHADOWADD A POINT OF REFERENCE TO CONVEY SIZESpeedy Gonzalez: Layer TipsALMOST A BUILT-IN FLATTENING SHORTCUTJUMP TO ANY LAYER JUST BY CLICKING IN YOUR IMAGETURNING YOUR LAYERS INTO SEPARATE DOCUMENTSOPENING LAYERED FILES WITHOUT ALL THE LAYERSMISSING YOUR BACKGROUND LAYER? HERE'S THE FIXAVOIDING THE LAYER MENULOCK ALL THOSE LAYERS IN JUST ONE CLICKTOGGLE THROUGH THE BLEND MODESHIDE YOUR OTHER LAYERS IN THE BLINK OF AN EYEWHY DRAGGING AND DROPPING STYLES ROCKS!APPLYING LAYER STYLES TO YOUR BACKGROUND LAYERTURN YOUR LAYER COMPS INTO THEIR OWN DOCSMORE CONTROL OVER BLENDS: ADVANCED BLENDINGINSTANT OPACITY CHANGECOPY A LAYER IN THE SAME LOCATION IN ANOTHER DOCUMENTMOVING MULTIPLE LAYERS FROM DOCUMENT TO DOCUMENTCENTERING DRAGGED LAYERS THE EASY WAYEASIER DROP SHADOW ANGLE ADJUSTMENTSLAYER NAVIGATION SHORTCUTSUPER-FAST LAYER COPIESINSTANT LAYER ALIGNMENTSEPARATION ANXIETY: PUT A LAYER STYLE ON A SEPARATE LAYERLAYER EFFECTS REMOVAL SPEED TIPSHAPES WITHOUT THE SHAPE LAYERCOLOR-CODING MADE EASYCAN'T PAINT ON A LAYER? HERE'S WHYSPEED UP PHOTOSHOP BY MERGING LAYERSLAYER SET SUPER-SPEED TIPSAVE ROOM IN YOUR LAYERS PALETTECAN'T WE ALL JUST HAVE THE SAME STYLE?LAYER PALETTE NAVIGATION SPEED TIPSQUICK-COPY YOUR LAYER MASKSELECT EVERYTHING ON YOUR LAYER IN ONE CLICKVIEW YOUR LAYER MASK AS A RUBYLITHSELECTING JUST ONE OBJECT ON A LAYERKEEP LAYER STYLES FROM AFFECTING NEW WORKUN-FILLING FOR FUN AND PROFITOPACITY SLIDER SPEED TIPSSECRET OPACITY SEE-THROUGH PART OF A LAYER TIPSKIPPING THE LAYER COMP DIALOGSpeed Freak: troubleshooting tipsTHE REAPPEARING/DISAPPEARING BRUSH TIPGET PRINT RESOLUTION FROM YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGESHOW TO USE RGB FILTERS ON GRAYSCALE IMAGESSTOP THE CROP SNAPPINGLET'S DO THE TEXT WARP AGAINUNLOCKING THE BACKGROUND LAYERTRIMMING YOUR PLUG-INS FOR FASTER STARTUPMAKING YOUR COLOR PRINTOUTS MATCH YOUR MONITORDO YOU HAVE ENOUGH RAM? ASK PHOTOSHOPGETTING BETTER EPS PREVIEWSTHE KILLER TROUBLESHOOTING TIP: DELETING THE PREFERENCESGET BACK YOUR BACKGROUND LAYEREXPANDING RECTANGULAR SELECTIONSFIXING THE "ROUNDED CORNERS" SELECTION PROBLEMMAKING GLOBAL LIGHT WORK FOR YOUFIND THE HIDDEN MAGNETIC PEN TOOL OPTIONSPRINTING SHADOWS OVER SOLID COLORS IN PAGE LAYOUT APPSLET PHOTOSHOP REBUILD YOUR PREFSSTOP THE "CLICK-AND-JUMP-TO-THAT-LAYER" BLUESFASTER APPLICATION SWITCHINGWILL MORE RAM MAKE PHOTOSHOP RUN FASTER?DON'T USE CROP TO FIX BARREL DISTORTIONGETTING SMALLER PHOTOSHOP FILESHOW TO USE ACTIONS FROM THE WEBSpeed 2: image-correction and prepress tipsGETTING MORE ACCURATE COLOR USING REPLACE COLORCORRECTING HIGHLIGHTS? WATCH OUT FOR OPEN SHADOWS!HOW TO HEAL ON A BLANK LAYERBETTER HEALING WITH A CUSTOM BRUSHCREATING A CUSTOM SHADOW/HIGHLIGHT DEFAULTGETTING BACK SHADOW/HIGHLIGHT'S FACTORY DEFAULTSHEALING WITH PRESSURECONTROL THE OPACITY OF YOUR HEALING PROCESSSAY GOOD-BYE TO GRADIENT BANDINGSHARPENING YOUR IMAGES LIKE A PROFIVE TIPS FOR GETTING RID OF MOIRÉ PATTERNSSCAN LINE ART AT THE RESOLUTION YOU NEEDUSING THE HIGH PASS FILTER FOR SHARPENINGSPOT COLOR GRADIENT FILM SAVERCORRECT IN CMYK OR RGB?STRAIGHTENING SCANS IN 10 SECONDS (OR LESS)STAY AWAY FROM THE SPONGE TOOLREMOVING NOISE IN DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGESSCANNERS AREN'T JUST FOR FLAT OBJECTSREMOVING RED EYE WITH THE COLOR REPLACE BRUSHARE YOUR COLORS PRESS READY?NEVER SWAP COLORS AGAIN WHEN CLEANING LINE ARTLET PHOTOSHOP DO YOUR RESOLUTION MATHGOING TO PRESS? MAKE SURE YOUR MONITOR IS IN THE "RIGHT SPACE"WANT BETTER GRADIENTS ON PRESS? HERE'S THE TIPGETTING BEFORE AND AFTER PREVIEWSCLONING FROM IMAGE TO IMAGEGET MORE REALISTIC DROP SHADOWS ON PRESSMAKING SURE YOUR WHITES ARE REALLY WHITETRY NOT TO CORRECT MORE THAN ONCEHAVE PHOTOSHOP HELP FIND YOUR HIGHLIGHTS/SHADOWSTALKIN' 'BOUT MY RESOLUTIONARE YOU REALLY SEEING YOUR SHARPENING?ADJUSTING CURVE POINTS WITH PRECISIONAPPLY UNSHARP MASK TO CMYK IMAGESRGB FLESH TONES: GETTING THE "RED" OUTONCE YOU'RE IN CMYK MODE, STAY THERETHE SIMPLE TIP TO BETTER COLOR SEPARATIONSHOW TO SHARPEN FLESH TONES IN CMYKHOW TO READ FOUR AREAS AT ONCEMORE CURVE POINT QUICK TIPSSpeed Kills: advanced tipsUSING THE FILE BROWSER TO OPEN 16-BIT IMAGESKEEPING TRACK OF YOUR EVERY MOVEEMBED YOUR MESSAGE INTO YOUR PHOTOSMANAGING THE METADATA OVERLOADPHOTOSHOP'S OWN SLIDE SHOWTHE HISTOGRAM PALETTE'S VISUAL CUESSEEING YOUR FULL-COLOR IMAGE WHILE EDITING A CHANNELHOW TO COMBINE TWO PATHS INTO ONEPOWER UP YOUR LAYER STYLESSWAPPING FILES? MAKE SURE YOUR COLOR STAYS INTACTFREEFORM/PEN TOOL QUICK SWITCHVISUAL CONTROL OVER YOUR SELECTIONS USING QUICK MASKBETTER COLOR-TO-GRAYSCALE USING LABHAVE PHOTOSHOP SELECT THE SHADOWS AND HIGHLIGHTSTROUBLESHOOTING ACTIONS? SLOW DOWN!ACCESSING GRAYED-OUT FILTERS IN CMYKMORE CONTROL OVER FILTERSASSIGNING METADATA TO MULTIPLE FILESAPPLYING MULTIPLE FILTERS? NOT ON MY LAYER!NEW SNAPSHOT, THE MISTAKE INSURANCE POLICYSAVING YOUR ACTIONS AS PRINTABLE TEXT FILES3D PRINT EFFECTS (AND WHERE TO GET THOSE GOOFY GLASSES)CREATING REUSABLE DIAGONAL GUIDESLOCKING YOUR TABLET BRUSH SETTINGSTHE SECRETS OF SEARCHING IN THE BROWSERDRAG-AND-DROP CURVES FOR QUICK CORRECTIONACTIONS POWER TIP: ADD AN ACTION TO YOUR ACTIONPREPRESS CLEANUPSIN A SNAPBLEND MODE POWER TIPMAKING CHANGES TO RAW PHOTOS WITHOUT OPENING THEMNO MORE CREATING TYPE IN CHANNELSLET PHOTOSHOP TELL YOU THE HIGHLIGHT AND SHADOWUSING THE LASSODON'T STOP TO NAVIGATELOAD ANY SAVED SELECTION WITHOUT THE CHANNELS PALETTEPLOT MULTIPLE CURVE POINTS IN JUST ONE CLICKTOUGH SELECTION TIPMAKING THE COLOR PICKER SHOW CMYKMOVING MULTIPLE CURVE POINTS AT ONCEADD TO YOUR SELECTIONS THROUGH THE CHANNELS PALETTEEMBEDDING PATHS INTO ACTIONSMEASURE TWICE, LOOK ONCESTROKING HALF A PATHHALF A PATH????SPEEDING UP BATCH ACTIONSLOCKING A PDF PRESENTATIONSAVING TIME WHEN CORRECTING CAMERA RAW PHOTOSPUTTING YOUR LENS FLARE ON THE SPOTCOLOPHONPHOTOGRAPHYILLUSTRATIONADDITIONAL PHOTOSHOP RESOURCESIndex