Photoshop CS2 Bible

by McClelland, Deke; Ulrich Fuller, Laurie; Fuller, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780764595950
• ISBN10: 0764595954
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-05
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Inside, you'll find advanced coverage of Photoshop CS2 * Explore new ways to adjust and enhance color * Use retouching and color adjustment techniques to correct seemingly impossible-to-fix images * Gain control over digital camera images with Photoshop's enhanced Camera Raw capabilities * Manage your work more efficiently with Actions, Batch processing, and the new Adobe Bridge * Master complex filter techniques and create your own custom filter You already know your way around Photoshop. You want to focus on creative expression, and that's what you'll find in this streamlined, lavishly illustrated volume. A Photoshop Hall of Fame inductee, a master trainer, and a Web graphics expert have collected the most important Photoshop CS2 techniques, tips, and twists to share with you-along with their enthusiasm and experience. Completely and painstakingly updated for CS2, this is truly the ultimate professional guide.

Author Biography

McClelland most sinister books are the award-winning Photoshop Bible and Photoshop Bible, Professional Edition, now in their twelfth year with more copies in print than any other guides on computer graphics. Other subversive titles include Photoshop CS For Dummies, and Photoshop Elements For Dummies (both Wiley Publishing, Inc.).

Deke further shocks and appalls as host of the interactive “Video Workshop” that ships with Photoshop as well as the fiendishly exhaustive Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS (www.totaltraining.com), the predecessor of which was named Training Product of the Year by MacNet 2.0. His other DVD- and CD-based video series include Digital Photography with Photoshop Elements and Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS (both Total Training).

In 2002, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals voted Deke into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Deke has also managed to become an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, a featured speaker on the 2003 Photoshop Fling cruise of the Eastern Caribbean, and a contributing editor for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines.

An artist through heredity and education, a teacher by nature, and a writer since she was old enough to pick up a crayon, Laurie Ulrich Fuller is a graphic artist, computer trainer, and the author and co-author of more than 25 books on computers, software, and the Web. Laurie has written hundreds of training manuals for universities and corporate training centers, and in the past 15 years, she’s personally trained thousands of people to make more creative and effective use of their computers.

Her classroom has recently expanded to include total strangers she’ll never lay eyes on—through CD-based training products available from both Total Training and VTC.
In the early 1990’s, after spending way too many years working for other people, Laurie started her own firm, Limehat & Company, Inc. This venture allowed her to put her experience, ideas, and contacts to good use, providing consulting, training, Web design, and Web hosting services with a focus on the special needs of growing companies and non-profit organizations. If you’re wondering where the name “Limehat” came from, it’s a long story, but suffice to say it goes back to a childhood taunt heard on the school bus, regarding a plaid hat that Laurie’s mother thought looked cute, but that nearly turned the then 6-year-old Laurie into a social pariah. When not writing about or teaching people to use computers, Laurie can be found supporting a variety of animal advocacy groups—through protests, writing educational articles, and maintaining her other organization’s Web site, freedomforanimals.org. She also enjoys her family, gardening, antiques, old houses (she and her husband are about to begin renovating one of their own), and adding to her collections of books, movies, and Wallace Nutting artwork.
You can find out more about Laurie’s work, experiences, and both personal and professional interests at www.planetlaurie.com, and she welcomes your e-mail at [e-mail].

Mr. Fuller typically shuns the bright light of day, lurking instead in the cold dark basements or shallow pools beneath convenience store dumpsters known to be the common environs of the wretched PC user. His rare appearance here can only be attributed to his fascination with shiny objects. The Macintosh, which appeared on the family’s kitchen counter just after Christmas, lured him onto the upper floors of his quiet domicile gawking in wonder. “Hmmm...likie-likie,” he was heard to snivel as he licked the slick, translucent mouse.
Having enveloped him in the “warm fuzzies,” the likes of which he hasn’t felt since his NeXT Dimension Turbo Cube was mothballed, no one’s been able to pull him away from this fabulous eMac since.
His family, believing the long hours he’s spent with the new toy may have a rejuvenating effect on his psyche, thought that seeing his work in print might hasten his return into polite society. At the very least, it’s stopped him from shuffling about the basement, threatening faceless apparitions, and shaking his monitor violently—grumbling something about fleeing to Cupertino, California.
Robert is the author of the Dreamweaver 4 and HTML Virtual Classrooms (McGraw-Hill/Osborne), HTML in 10 Steps or Less (Wiley Publishing, Inc.), and has contributed to The Photoshop 7 Complete Reference, (McGraw-Hill/Osborne), The Photoshop Elements 2 Bible, and Restoration and Retouching with Photoshop Elements 2 (both Wiley Publishing, Inc.), as well as this lovely tome you’re reading now.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Painting and Brushes	1	(44)
The Paint Tools	3	(2)
The Edit Tools	5	(2)
Basic Techniques	7	(7)
Painting a straight line	7	(1)
Painting a perpendicular line	8	(1)
Painting with the Smudge tool	9	(3)
Mopping up with the Sponge tool	12	(2)
Undoing your damage	14	(1)
Brush Size and Shape	14	(9)
Selecting a brush shape	15	(2)
Modifying brush shapes	17	(5)
Defining a custom brush	22	(1)
Brush Dynamics	23	(10)
Brush dynamic basics	24	(1)
Shape dynamics	24	(6)
Additional brush dynamics	30	(2)
Noise, Wet Edges, and the rest	32	(1)
Opacity and Strength, Flow and Exposure	33	(3)
Brush Modes	36	(9)
The 25 paint tool modes	36	(7)
The three dodge and burn modes	43	(2)
Cloning, Healing, and Patterns	45	(46)
The Gentle Art of Retouching	45	(2)
Cloning and Healing	47	(14)
The Clone Stamp tool	47	(6)
The Healing Brush	53	(6)
The Patch tool	59	(2)
Retouching Photographs	61	(30)
Restoring an old photograph	63	(3)
Eliminating distracting background elements	66	(4)
Applying Repeating Patterns	70	(1)
Retouching with a pattern	71	(3)
Pattern painting options	74	(1)
Creating patterns and textures	75	(6)
Using the Pattern Maker	81	(4)
Building your own seamless pattern	85	(6)
Undo and History	91	(22)
The History Palette	92	(4)
Painting Away the Past	96	(4)
The History brush	96	(1)
The Art History brush	96	(4)
Source state limitations	100	(1)
Retouching with the History Brush	100	(6)
Sharpening and smoothing	101	(2)
Painting with the snapshots	103	(3)
Creative History Effects	106	(7)
Masks and Extractions	113	(28)
Working in Quick Mask Mode	115	(10)
How Quick Mask Mode works	115	(3)
Changing the red coating	118	(1)
Gradations as masks	119	(6)
Generating Masks Automatically	125	(4)
Using the Color Range command	125	(4)
A few helpful Color Range hints	129	(1)
Creating an Independent Mask Channel	129	(4)
Saving a selection outline to a mask channel	129	(3)
Converting a mask to a selection	132	(1)
Viewing mask and image	132	(1)
Building a Mask from an Image	133	(8)
Working with Layers	141	(50)
Layers, Layers Everywhere	142	(1)
Sending a Selection to a Layer	143	(4)
Other ways to make a layer	144	(2)
Duplicating a layer	146	(1)
Layer Basics	147	(13)
Switching between layers	147	(2)
Understanding transparency	149	(2)
Modifying the background layer	151	(3)
Reordering layers	154	(1)
Displaying layer edges	155	(1)
Blending layers	156	(2)
Fusing several layers	158	(1)
Deleting layers	159	(1)
Saving a flattened version of an image	159	(1)
Selecting the Contents of Layers	160	(1)
Moving, Linking, and Aligning Layers	161	(5)
Linking and unlinking	161	(2)
Organizing layers in groups	163	(3)
Creating and Using Smart Objects	166	(5)
Creating a new Smart Object	166	(1)
Editing Smart Objects	167	(2)
Exporting and replacing Smart Objects	169	(1)
Locking layers	170	(1)
Applying Transformations	171	(8)
Transforming the entire image	171	(1)
Transforming layers and selected pixels	172	(4)
Warping Layers	176	(2)
Numerical transformations	178	(1)
Intelligent alignment with Smart Guides	178	(1)
Masking and Layers	179	(8)
Preserving transparency	179	(3)
Creating layer-specific masks	182	(3)
Pasting inside a selection outline	185	(1)
Masking groups of layers	185	(2)
Working with Layer Comps	187	(4)
Blend Modes and Knockouts	191	(48)
It's All in the Blend	192	(1)
Opacity and Fill	193	(3)
Blend Modes	196	(20)
The hierarchy of blend modes	213	(2)
Sandwiching a filtered image	215	(1)
Advanced Blending Options	216	(13)
Blending interior layer effects	219	(3)
Masking and unmasking effects	222	(4)
Dumping whole color channels	226	(1)
Making knockouts	226	(3)
Dropping Out and Forcing Through	229	(10)
Color range slider bars	231	(3)
Fuzziness	234	(5)
Shapes and Styles	239	(40)
Drawing Shapes	240	(12)
The pros and cons of shapes	240	(1)
The shape tools	241	(2)
The shape drawing process	243	(3)
Combining and editing shapes	246	(2)
Editing the stuff inside the shape	248	(4)
The Bold and Beautiful Layer Styles	252	(20)
The basic varieties of layer effects	253	(8)
Inside the Layer Style dialog box	261	(11)
Modifying and Saving Effects	272	(7)
Disabling effects	273	(1)
Duplicating effects	273	(1)
Scattering effects to the four winds	274	(1)
Effects and blending options	274	(1)
Saving effects as styles	275	(4)
Corrective Filtering	279	(56)
A First Look at Filters	280	(6)
Corrective filters	280	(1)
Destructive filters	280	(2)
Effects filters	282	(1)
Fading a filter	283	(3)
Heightening Focus and Contrast	286	(14)
Using the Unsharp Mask filter	286	(9)
Sharpening grainy photographs	295	(3)
Using the High Pass filter	298	(2)
Blurring an Image	300	(19)
Applying the Gaussian Blur filter	301	(1)
Directional blurring	302	(8)
Using the Lens Blur filter	310	(5)
Softening a selection outline	315	(4)
Noise Factors	319	(16)
Adding noise	320	(5)
Removing noise with Despeckle	325	(1)
Averaging pixels with Median	325	(2)
Sharpening a compressed image	327	(5)
Using the Average filter	332	(3)
Pixelate, Distort, and Render	335	(68)
A Million Bizarre Effects	335	(10)
A note about RAM	345	(1)
The Filter Gallery	345	(2)
The Pixelate Filters	347	(6)
The Crystal Halo effect	348	(1)
Creating a mezzotint	349	(4)
Edge Enhancement Filters	353	(7)
Embossing an image	353	(3)
Tracing around edges	356	(2)
Creating a metallic coating	358	(2)
Distortion Filters	360	(37)
Reflecting an image in a spoon	361	(3)
Twirling spirals	364	(6)
Creating concentric pond ripples	370	(3)
Creating parallel ripples and waves	373	(6)
Distorting an image along a curve	379	(2)
Changing to polar coordinates	381	(4)
Distorting with the Liquify command	385	(12)
Lighting an Image	397	(6)
Custom Effects	403	(40)
Homegrown Effects with the Custom filter	403	(17)
Custom filter advice	405	(2)
Applying Custom Values	407	(1)
Symmetrical effects	408	(1)
Sharpening	408	(4)
Non-1 variations	412	(3)
Other custom effects	415	(5)
Displacing Pixels in an Image	420	(9)
Displacement theory	421	(4)
The Displace dialog box	425	(4)
Using Displacement Maps	429	(14)
Applying predefined dmaps	429	(4)
Creating your own textural dmaps	433	(2)
Customizing a dmap to an image	435	(2)
Designing custom transformations	437	(6)
Correcting Hue and Saturation	443	(50)
Adjusting Colors	443	(4)
A few words about color effects and corrections	444	(1)
Using the adjustment dialog boxes	445	(2)
Applying Color Variations	447	(8)
How hues work	448	(2)
Intensity and range	450	(3)
When to use Variations	453	(2)
Using the Match Color Command	455	(3)
Hue Shifting and Colorizing	458	(16)
Adjusting the Hue and Saturation values	458	(8)
Editing independent color ranges	466	(5)
Colorizing images	471	(3)
When Variations and Hue/Saturation Fail	474	(12)
Mixing color channels	476	(2)
Reducing red eye	478	(3)
Final channel-mixing tidbits	481	(1)
Using the Red-eye tool	482	(1)
Using the Color Replacement tool	482	(4)
Adjustment Layers	486	(7)
Creating an adjustment layer	486	(1)
The advantages of layer-based corrections	487	(6)
Levels, Curves, and Shadows	493	(44)
Why the Brightness/Contrast Command Creates Guesswork	494	(1)
Automatic Levels-Based Adjustments	495	(5)
Auto Levels	495	(2)
Auto Contrast	497	(2)
Auto Color	499	(1)
The Histogram Palette	500	(5)
The Levels Command	505	(12)
Input and output levels	505	(6)
Applying Levels one channel at a time	511	(2)
Customizing the Auto functions	513	(4)
Eyedropping neutral colors	517	(1)
The Curves Command	517	(16)
Mastering the brightness curve	518	(4)
Eyedropping graph points	522	(1)
Gradient maps	523	(3)
Creating and editing continuous curves	526	(2)
Working with arbitrary maps	528	(3)
Channel-by-channel brightness graphing	531	(2)
The Shadow/Highlight Command	533	(4)
File Management and Automation	537	(50)
Using the Bridge	537	(20)
A typical Bridge session	539	(1)
Opening images from the Bridge	540	(2)
Your Bridge view options	542	(2)
Rotating images	544	(1)
Adding an image to favorites	545	(5)
Managing the cache	550	(2)
Batch renaming	552	(1)
Using the File Info command	553	(4)
Creating Custom Actions	557	(9)
How actions work	557	(3)
Editing an action	560	(3)
Playing actions and operations	563	(2)
Saving and loading sets	565	(1)
Batch Processing	566	(4)
Using Photomerge to Create a Panorama	570	(4)
Correcting Camera Raw Images	574	(13)
Making color adjustments	576	(2)
Sharpening and smoothing	578	(1)
Correcting for the camera lens	579	(1)
Tweaking the profile	580	(2)
Opening and saving Camera Raw images	582	(1)
Saving your Camera Raw settings	583	(1)
Applying your saved Camera Raw settings	584	(3)
Preparing Web Graphics	587	(52)
Photoshop and ImageReady	587	(1)
Web Graphics Dos and Don'ts	588	(13)
Work large, then shrink	589	(2)
World-wide color shifts	591	(7)
More Web graphics guidelines	598	(3)
Saving JPEG Images	601	(2)
Adjusting the quality	602	(1)
Other JPEG options	603	(1)
Preparing and Saving GIF Images	603	(9)
The three routes to a GIF file	604	(3)
Using the Indexed Color command	607	(1)
Specifying the palette	607	(3)
Colors, transparency, and dithering	610	(2)
Making Side-by-Side Comparisons	612	(11)
JPEG optimization settings	615	(2)
GIF optimization settings	617	(1)
PNG optimization settings	618	(2)
The Optimize menu	620	(2)
The Preview menu	622	(1)
Creating Animated GIF Images	623	(3)
Slicing Images	626	(5)
Creating slices	626	(2)
Editing slices	628	(1)
Setting slice options	628	(3)
Saving slices	631	(1)
Turning to ImageReady	631	(8)
Index	639