| Introduction |
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Why a Book...For Dummies? |
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Don't You Have Another Photoshop Book? |
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2 | (1) |
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3 | (2) |
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What the...? Aagh, Help Me! |
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3 | (1) |
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The Care and Feeding of Pixels |
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4 | (1) |
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Tiptoe through the Toolbox |
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4 | (1) |
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Select Before You Correct |
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4 | (1) |
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So, You Say You're Serious about Image Editing |
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4 | (1) |
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4 | (1) |
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What's with All the Margin Icons? |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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| Part I: What the...? Aagh, Help Me! |
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Meet Dr. Photo and Mr. Shop |
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The Bland but Kindly Dr. Photo |
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The Ghastly but Dynamic Mr. Shop |
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10 | (2) |
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The Two Phunctions of Photoshop |
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12 | (4) |
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Painting without the mess |
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12 | (2) |
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Editing existing image detail |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (1) |
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Where Do I Find Images to Abuse? |
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17 | (4) |
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Canvassing the On-Screen Canvas |
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21 | (14) |
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Giving Photoshop the Electronic Breath of Life |
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21 | (4) |
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Tracking down a lost eyeball |
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23 | (1) |
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Switching between Photoshop and the Finder |
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24 | (1) |
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Making Sense of the Mouse and the Cursor |
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25 | (1) |
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Maneuvering through Menus |
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26 | (2) |
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Talking Back to Dialog Boxes |
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28 | (1) |
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Playing Around with Palettes |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (3) |
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Now the Fun Really Begins |
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35 | (18) |
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Don't Just Sit There, Open Something |
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35 | (5) |
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Opening a non-Photo CD image |
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36 | (3) |
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Opening a Kodak Photo CD image |
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39 | (1) |
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I Want to Start from Scratch! |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (2) |
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The Screen Is Your Digital Oyster |
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43 | (7) |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (1) |
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Zooming in and out on your work |
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45 | (1) |
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45 | (2) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (2) |
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Filling up the screen with your image |
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50 | (1) |
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Tools for the Terribly Precise |
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50 | (3) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (1) |
| Part II: The Care and Feeding of Pixels |
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53 | (56) |
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55 | (16) |
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55 | (2) |
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Screen Pixels versus Image Pixels |
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57 | (1) |
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Image Size, Resolution, and Other Tricky Pixel Stuff |
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58 | (12) |
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60 | (2) |
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Changing pixel dimensions |
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62 | (2) |
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Changing the physical dimensions of the image |
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64 | (2) |
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Keeping things proportionate |
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66 | (1) |
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Using the Image Size dialog box safely |
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66 | (4) |
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What Does This Canvas Size Command Do? |
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70 | (1) |
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Auntie Em versus the Munchkins (Death Match) |
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71 | (16) |
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Looking at Color in a Whole New Light |
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72 | (5) |
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Surfing the color channels |
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72 | (3) |
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Mixing red, green, and blue to create color |
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75 | (1) |
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Using the Channels palette |
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76 | (1) |
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Being Your Own L.J. Grand Master Funky Glow |
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77 | (5) |
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Juggling foreground and background colors |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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Lifting colors with the eyedropper tool |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (5) |
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83 | (1) |
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More grayscale tips from Auntie Em |
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84 | (3) |
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Save Before You Say Goodnight |
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87 | (12) |
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Save an Image, Save a Life |
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87 | (3) |
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Saving for the very first time |
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88 | (1) |
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Joint the frequent-saver program |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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Photoshopper's Guide to File Formats |
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90 | (8) |
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What is a file format, anyway? |
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90 | (1) |
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TIFF: The great communicator |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (2) |
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94 | (1) |
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EPS: The 1 percent solution |
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95 | (1) |
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PICT: The generic picture format |
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96 | (1) |
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What about Photoshop's native format? |
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97 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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Goodnight, Image, Don't Let the Programming Bugs Bite |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (10) |
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This May Be All You Need to Know |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (2) |
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Getting Image and Paper in Sync |
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103 | (2) |
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Sending the Image to the Printer |
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105 | (1) |
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Printing CMYK Color Separations |
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106 | (3) |
| Part III: Tiptoe through the Toolbox |
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Paint Me Young, Beautiful, and Twisted |
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111 | (16) |
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Doodling with the Pencil, Paintbrush, and Airbrush |
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112 | (4) |
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Performing Special Painting-Tool Tricks |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (4) |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (3) |
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Going nuts with the Brushes palette |
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121 | (1) |
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Exploring More Painting Options |
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121 | (6) |
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Ogling the Options palette |
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122 | (2) |
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Experimenting with brush modes |
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124 | (3) |
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Making a Mockery of Reality |
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127 | (18) |
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Trimming Excess Gunk off the Edges |
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128 | (4) |
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The sharp edges of the crop tool |
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128 | (2) |
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More good news about cropping |
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130 | (2) |
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Touching Base with Retouching Tools |
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132 | (3) |
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What do the editing tools do, exactly? |
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133 | (1) |
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Uncovering hidden editing tools |
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134 | (1) |
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Smudging Away Imperfections |
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135 | (4) |
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137 | (1) |
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137 | (2) |
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All Them Other Edit Tools |
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139 | (6) |
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139 | (2) |
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Dodge? Burn? Those are opposites? |
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141 | (2) |
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Playing with the Color knob |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (12) |
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Using the Dust & Scratches Command |
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146 | (4) |
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Previewing the filter effects |
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147 | (1) |
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Specifying the size of the speck |
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148 | (2) |
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Spot Cleaning Your Image with TLC |
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150 | (7) |
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151 | (3) |
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Performing more magic with the rubber stamp |
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154 | (3) |
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Turning Back the Digital Clock |
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157 | (10) |
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Nuking the Last Operation |
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158 | (2) |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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The Amazing Powers of the Eraser |
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160 | (5) |
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Erasing to the last-saved version |
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160 | (3) |
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163 | (1) |
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Why won't the eraser work? |
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164 | (1) |
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Abandoning Edits En Masse |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (2) |
| Part IV: Select Before You Correct |
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The Great Pixel Roundup (Yee Ha) |
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169 | (18) |
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170 | (2) |
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172 | (1) |
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172 | (5) |
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172 | (1) |
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Drawing straight-sided selections |
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173 | (2) |
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Exploring your lasso options |
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175 | (2) |
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Selecting Rectangles, Squares, Ellipses, and Circles |
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177 | (2) |
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Grabbing a square or circle |
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177 | (1) |
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Getting even more control over selections |
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178 | (1) |
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Drawing from the center out |
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179 | (1) |
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179 | (3) |
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'Scuze me while I click the sky |
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180 | (1) |
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Teaching the wand tolerance |
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181 | (1) |
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Selecting with the Better Magic Wand |
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182 | (5) |
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Strolling through the Color Range |
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182 | (3) |
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Broadening your color base |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (12) |
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The Wonders of Deselection |
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188 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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189 | (3) |
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Adding and subtracting from a selection |
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189 | (2) |
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The intersection of Selection and Selection |
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191 | (1) |
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Avoiding keyboard collisions |
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192 | (1) |
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Automatic Selection Discombobulators |
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192 | (4) |
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193 | (1) |
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Swapping what's selected for what's not |
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193 | (1) |
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Making the selection fuzzy around the edges |
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194 | (1) |
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Border, Smooth, and the rest |
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195 | (1) |
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Moving and Cloning Selections |
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196 | (3) |
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Coloring Inside the Lines |
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199 | (18) |
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Put Down Newspaper Before You Paint |
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200 | (2) |
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Dribbling Paint from a Bucket |
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202 | (1) |
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Applying Color to Selection Innards |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (2) |
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204 | (1) |
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205 | (1) |
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The Ever-Changing Color Sea |
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206 | (8) |
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Checking out the gradient tool |
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206 | (1) |
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Changing the way of the gradient |
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207 | (1) |
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Choosing between linear and radial |
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207 | (2) |
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209 | (1) |
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Becoming a gradient wizard |
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210 | (1) |
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Changing, adding, and deleting colors |
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211 | (1) |
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Changing the transparency |
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212 | (2) |
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Your Image Needs Strokes, Too |
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214 | (3) |
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How the border rides the track |
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214 | (1) |
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Mix your stroke after you press Return |
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215 | (2) |
| Part V: So, You Say You're Serious about Image Editing |
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217 | (74) |
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Layers upon Layers upon Layers |
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219 | (18) |
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220 | (5) |
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Exploring floating selections |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (1) |
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Turning a selection into a layer |
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223 | (1) |
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Filling a selection with a selection |
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224 | (1) |
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Resizing an Image to Match Its New Home |
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225 | (1) |
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Excuse Me, But What's a Layer? |
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226 | (6) |
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Finding your way around the Layers palette |
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227 | (3) |
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Moving and manipulating layers |
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230 | (1) |
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Flattening and merging layers |
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231 | (1) |
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Tending Your Many Splendid Blends |
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232 | (5) |
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Fooling with layer opacity |
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232 | (1) |
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Playing around with blend modes |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (1) |
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Creating an image like Color Plate 15-1 |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (16) |
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Two, Two, Two Types of Text |
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239 | (1) |
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Putting Your Words on Screen |
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240 | (6) |
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Typing what must be typed |
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241 | (1) |
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Changing how the type looks |
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242 | (3) |
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Previewing a few formatting attributes |
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245 | (1) |
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Bringing text and image together |
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245 | (1) |
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Declaring Open Season on Type |
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246 | (6) |
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Tracing outlines around your letters |
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247 | (2) |
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Adding shadows behind your letters |
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249 | (1) |
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Turning your letters into ghosts of their former selves |
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250 | (2) |
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Moving and Deleting Characters |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (20) |
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254 | (2) |
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How to Fortify Those Wishy-Washy Details |
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256 | (6) |
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The single-shot sharpeners |
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257 | (2) |
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Unsharp Mask: The filter with a weird name |
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259 | (1) |
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Inside the ``Supersharpen'' dialog box |
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259 | (2) |
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Some sharpening scenarios |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (4) |
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263 | (1) |
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Creating motion and puzzle pieces |
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264 | (2) |
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266 | (7) |
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Giving your images that gritty, streetwise look |
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266 | (2) |
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Stamping your image in metal |
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268 | (2) |
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Merging colors in flaky images |
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270 | (3) |
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Drawing Color from a Dreary Wasteland |
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273 | (18) |
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The Color-Correction Connection |
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274 | (4) |
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Your friends Auto Levels, Levels, and Variations |
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274 | (3) |
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The other color correctors (boo, hiss) |
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277 | (1) |
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Leveling the Contrast Field |
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278 | (8) |
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278 | (2) |
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Making friends with the Levels dialog box |
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280 | (3) |
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Brightness and contrast as they should be |
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283 | (3) |
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Variations on a Color Scheme |
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286 | (5) |
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Turning plain old color into Technicolor |
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286 | (2) |
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It sure feels good to remove that color cast |
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288 | (3) |
| Part VI: The Part of Tens |
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291 | (34) |
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Ten Tricky Techniques to Assign to Memory |
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293 | (8) |
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Displaying and Hiding the Toolbox and Palettes |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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Changing the Way a Tool Works |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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spacebar, Option-spacebar |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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Double-click on the hand icon |
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295 | (1) |
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Double-click on the zoom icon |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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Click with polygon lasso, Option-click with regular lasso |
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296 | (1) |
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Adding to and Subtracting from Selection Outlines |
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297 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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Option-drag, Option-click |
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297 | (1) |
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Shift-Option-drag, Shift-Option-click |
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297 | (1) |
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Moving, Nudging, and Cloning |
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297 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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Option-dragging, Option-arrow key, Shift-Option-arrow key |
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298 | (1) |
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Drag with a selection tool |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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Making, Switching, and Selecting Layers |
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299 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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Click on new layer icon, Shift-J |
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299 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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Control-Option-click with the move tool |
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299 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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So Many Shortcuts, So Little Time |
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299 | (2) |
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Ten Amusing Ways to Mess Up a Loved One's Face |
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301 | (16) |
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303 | (1) |
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304 | (1) |
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Twisting the Face around a Taffy Pull |
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305 | (1) |
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Melting the Face into a Heap of Goo |
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306 | (2) |
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308 | (1) |
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Stretching the Face This Way and That |
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309 | (1) |
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Applying the Nuclear Sunburn Effect |
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310 | (2) |
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Applying the I-Don't-Know-What-It-Is Effect |
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312 | (1) |
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Stamping the Face in a Marble Haze |
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313 | (1) |
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Effecting a Total Molecular Breakdown |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (2) |
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Ten Things to Do with Your Photoshop Masterpiece |
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317 | (8) |
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318 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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Placing the Image into PageMaker or QuarkXPress |
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318 | (1) |
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Placing the Image into Illustrator or FreeHand |
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319 | (1) |
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Pasting the Image into Persuasion or PowerPoint |
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320 | (1) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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Engaging in Tag-Team Editing |
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322 | (1) |
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Posting the Image over the Internet or an Online Service |
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323 | (1) |
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Adding It to Your Private Collection |
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323 | (2) |
| Appendix A: How to Install Photoshop |
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325 | (2) |
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Putting Photoshop on Your Hard Disk |
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325 | (2) |
| Appendix B: Photo Credits |
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327 | (4) |
| Index |
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