Photoshop CS Timesaving Techniques For Dummies
byPhyllis Davis
ISBN:0764567829
John Wiley & Sons
2004
(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
Part I - Making Photoshop Work for You
Technique 1 - Organizing Image Files and Managing Projects
Technique 2 - Creating Custom Palette Groups and Workspaces
Technique 3 - Assigning Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
Technique 4 - The Last Word about Color Management
Technique 5 - Making Image Editing Easier
Technique 6 - Creating Your Own Tool Presets
Technique 7 - Moving Back in Time: Getting Rid of Mistakes
Technique 8 - Creating Actions
Technique 9 - Automating Photoshop Functions
Part II - Getting Images Into and Out of Photoshop
Technique 10 - Importing Images Using a Scanner
Technique 11 - Getting Professional Results with the Camera Raw Format
Technique 12 - Using Tablets and Pressure-Sensitive Devices
Technique 13 - Printing to a Desktop Printer
Technique 14 - Getting Files Ready for Offset Printing
Part III - Using Layers to Save Time, Protect Your Work, and Create Cool Images
Technique 15 - Working with and Organizing Layers
Technique 16 - Getting to Know Layer Comps
Technique 17 - Enhancing Images with Blending Modes
Technique 18 - Transforming Images, Layers, and Selections
Technique 19 - Going Transparent with Opacity and Fill
Technique 20 - Creating Great Effects with Layer Styles
Technique 21 - Recoloring with Fill Layers
Technique 22 - Working with Adjustment Layers
Part IV - Painting and Coloring to Enhance Your Images
Technique 23 - Everything You Ever Needed to Know about Creating Brushes
Technique 24 - Creating a Painting by Using an Image
Technique 25 - Painting Back in Time
Technique 26 - The Big Color Swap Meet
Technique 27 - Recoloring with Gradients
Technique 28 - Creating Custom Patterns
Technique 29 - Filling and Painting with Patterns
Part V - Restoring and Retouching Images for Quick, Beautiful Results
Technique 30 - Enhancing Tone and Color
Technique 31 - Be Your Own Plastic Surgeon
Technique 32 - Getting Rid of Red Eye
Technique 33 - Adding Professional Photo Filter Effects
Technique 34 - Creating Grayscale Images: Your Choices and the Results
Technique 35 - Coloring and Tinting Black and White Photographs
Technique 36 - Stitching Photos to Create Panoramas
Part VI - Amazing Fast Filter Effects
Technique 37 - Accenting with Sharpening or Blurring
Technique 38 - Painting Watercolors with Filters
Technique 39 - Making Images Look Like Pressed Tin
Technique 40 - Creating Photo Silkscreens
Technique 41 - Sketching with Filters
Technique 42 - I’ve Been Framed!
Technique 43 - Dunking Images in Liquid
Part VII - Super Type Effects
Technique 45 - Knock-Out Type
Technique 46 - Pouring Liquid Metals
Technique 47 - Going Up in Flames
Technique 48 - 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 - Working with Layer Masks
Technique 50 - Using Layer Masks to Create Fade Ins and Outs
Technique 51 - Grouping Layers into Clipping Masks
Technique 52 - Working with Channels
Technique 53 - Individual Channel Adjustments
Technique 54 - Mixing Color with Channels
Part IX - Creating Flashy, Professional Web Graphics
Technique 55 - Getting to Know ImageReady
Technique 56 - Slicing Web Graphics
Technique 57 - Optimizing and Saving Images for the Web
Technique 58 - Creating Image Maps
Technique 59 - Making Your Graphics Rollover
Technique 60 - Making GIF Animations
Technique 61 - Creating Background Tiling for Web Pages
Part X - The Scary (or Fun) Stuff
Technique 62 - Installing Plug-Ins
Technique 63 - Enhancing Your Images with Auto FX Software
Technique 64 - Loading New Libraries