Photoshop CS2 Bible

by McClelland, Deke; Ulrich Fuller, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9780764589720
• ISBN10: 0764589725
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-22
• 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

Deke McClelland. Born near Verona in 1511, he was once the most popular portrait painter in all of Florence. His career came to a grinding halt a few centuries later with the advent of photography. Broken, penniless, and deeply resentful, Deke dedicated his energies to the development of a pathogen so insidious that it would one day contaminate each and every photograph on the planet. Code named the Pernicious Instrument of eXtreme EviL (or “pixel” for short), Deke smuggled his terrible creation into The New World and set it free. When his invention turned out to help rather than hurt photography, he went quite mad. He now inflicts his revenge by writing educational books and hosting training videos.
His most sinister books are the award-winning Photoshop CS2 Bible and Photoshop CS2 Bible, Professional Edition, now in their 12th 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.).

Laurie Ulrich Fuller. 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I: Welcome to Photoshop	1	(164)
Introducing Photoshop CS2	3	(8)
What Is Photoshop?	3	(1)
Image-Editing Theory	4	(4)
Bitmaps versus vectors	4	(1)
The ups and downs of painting	5	(1)
The downs and ups of drawing	6	(1)
When to use Photoshop	7	(1)
When to use a drawing program	7	(1)
What's New in Photoshop CS2	8	(2)
Summary	10	(1)
Inside Photoshop	11	(60)
Dive in with the Splash Screen	12	(1)
The Welcome Screen	12	(1)
The Photoshop Workspace	13	(26)
The Info Palette	16	(4)
The tools	20	(8)
The Toolbox controls	28	(2)
The Options bar	30	(1)
Tool presets	31	(2)
The Preset Manager	33	(1)
The floating palettes	34	(2)
Rearranging and docking palettes	36	(3)
Navigating in Photoshop	39	(9)
The view size	40	(1)
The Zoom tool	41	(1)
The Zoom commands	42	(1)
The magnification box	43	(2)
Creating a reference window	45	(1)
Scrolling in the window	45	(2)
The Navigator palette	47	(1)
Customizing the Interface	48	(22)
Summary	70	(1)
Image Management	71	(94)
Size Versus Resolution	71	(1)
Changing the Printing Resolution	72	(2)
Changing the Page-Layout Resolution	74	(1)
What's the Best Resolution?	74	(2)
The Resolution of Screen Images	76	(1)
How to Open, Duplicate, and Save Images	76	(13)
Creating a new image	78	(5)
Opening an image	83	(6)
Using the Bridge	89	(27)
A typical Bridge session	91	(2)
Opening images from the Bridge	93	(1)
Your Bridge view options	94	(4)
Selecting images	98	(1)
Rotating images	99	(1)
Adding an image to Favorites	100	(10)
Managing the cache	110	(1)
Renaming files	111	(1)
Using the File Info command	112	(3)
Duplicating an image	115	(1)
Saving an Image to Disk	116	(6)
Adding an extension to Mac files	116	(1)
Saving previews	117	(1)
Choosing other save options	117	(3)
The Save for Web dialog box	120	(2)
File Format Roundup	122	(26)
The native format	122	(1)
Special-purpose formats	123	(8)
Interapplication formats	131	(8)
The mainstream formats	139	(5)
The formats nobody talks to	144	(4)
Still can't get that file open?	148	(1)
Adding Annotations	148	(4)
Making a note of it	149	(1)
Speaking your mind	149	(1)
Managing annotations	150	(2)
Resampling and Cropping	152	(11)
Resizing versus resampling	152	(2)
Cropping	154	(9)
Summary	163	(2)
Part II: Painting and Retouching	165	(188)
Defining Colors	167	(48)
Specifying Colors	167	(2)
Using the Color Picker	169	(2)
Typing Numeric Color Values	171	(1)
Working in Different Color Modes	172	(16)
RGB	172	(2)
HSB	174	(1)
CMYK	174	(3)
CIE's Lab	177	(1)
Understanding Lab anatomy	178	(1)
Indexed Color	179	(2)
Grayscale	181	(1)
16 and 32 bits per channel	182	(1)
Black and white (bitmap)	183	(5)
Using Color Libraries	188	(10)
Predefined colors	188	(2)
The Color palette	190	(2)
The Swatches palette	192	(2)
Swatches presets	194	(1)
The Eyedropper tool	195	(1)
The Color Sampler tool	196	(2)
Introducing Color Channels	198	(4)
For those of you who just said ``So?''	199	(1)
How channels work	199	(1)
Switching and viewing channels	200	(2)
Trying Channels on for Size	202	(4)
RGB channels	202	(2)
CMYK channels	204	(2)
Lab channels	206	(1)
Other Channel Functions	206	(4)
Color Channel Effects	210	(3)
Improving the appearance of color scans	210	(2)
Using multichannel techniques	212	(1)
Summary	213	(2)
Painting and Brushes	215	(50)
Get to Know the Paint and Edit Tools	215	(5)
The paint tools	217	(1)
The edit tools	218	(2)
Basic Techniques	220	(10)
Painting a straight line	221	(1)
Painting a perpendicular line	221	(3)
Painting with the Smudge tool	224	(2)
Sponging color in and out	226	(2)
Using the Color Replacement tool	228	(2)
Undoing your damage	230	(1)
Brush Size and Shape	230	(10)
Selecting a brush shape	231	(2)
Making your own brush shape	233	(4)
Defining a custom brush	237	(1)
Saving and loading brush sets	238	(2)
Brush Dynamics	240	(10)
Brush dynamic basics	241	(1)
Shape dynamics	241	(5)
Additional brush dynamics	246	(2)
Noise, Wet Edges, and the rest	248	(1)
Undoing pressure-sensitive lines	249	(1)
Opacity and Strength, Flow and Exposure	250	(2)
Brush Modes	252	(11)
The 25 paint tool modes	253	(8)
The three Dodge and Burn modes	261	(2)
Summary	263	(2)
Filling and Stroking	265	(42)
Filling Selections with Color or Patterns	266	(1)
The Paint Bucket tool	266	(6)
The Fill command	272	(2)
Backspace- and Delete-key Techniques	274	(1)
Using the Paint Bucket Inside a Selection	275	(2)
Applying Gradient Fills	277	(20)
Using the Gradient tool	278	(1)
Gradient options	279	(3)
Gradient styles	282	(2)
Creating custom gradations	284	(1)
Editing solid gradients	285	(5)
Creating noise gradients	290	(2)
Saving and managing gradients	292	(1)
Gradations and brush modes	293	(4)
Applying Strokes and Arrowheads	297	(8)
Stroking a selection outline	298	(2)
Applying arrowheads to straight lines	300	(2)
Appending arrowheads to curved lines	302	(3)
Summary	305	(2)
Retouching and Restoring	307	(46)
Cloning and Healing	309	(14)
The Clone Stamp tool	310	(4)
The Healing Brush tool	314	(5)
The Spot Healing Brush	319	(1)
The Patch tool	320	(2)
The Red Eye tool	322	(1)
Retouching Photographs	323	(13)
Restoring an old photograph	327	(4)
Eliminating distracting background elements	331	(5)
Stepping Back through Time	336	(16)
Using the traditional undo functions	337	(1)
The History palette	338	(4)
Painting away the past	342	(10)
Summary	352	(1)
Part III: Selections, Masks, and Filters	353	(258)
Selections and Paths	355	(68)
How Selections Work	355	(4)
Geometric Selection Outlines	359	(3)
Free-form Outlines	362	(2)
Magnetic Selections	364	(3)
Using the Magnetic Lasso tool	365	(1)
Modifying the Magnetic Lasso options	366	(1)
The World of the Wand	367	(5)
Adjusting the tolerance	368	(3)
Making the Wand see beyond a single layer	371	(1)
Ways to Change Selection Outlines	372	(13)
Quick changes	372	(1)
Manually adding and subtracting	373	(1)
Power-User tricks	374	(1)
Adding and subtracting by command	375	(5)
Softening selection outlines	380	(5)
Moving and Duplicating Selections	385	(7)
The role of the Move tool	385	(1)
Making precise movements	385	(1)
Cloning a selection	386	(3)
Moving a selection outline independently of its contents	389	(1)
Scaling or rotating a selection outline	389	(3)
How to Draw and Edit Paths	392	(22)
Paths overview	393	(3)
Drawing paths with the Pen tool	396	(6)
Editing paths	402	(6)
Filling paths	408	(1)
Painting along a path	408	(4)
Converting and saving paths	412	(2)
Importing and Exporting Paths	414	(7)
Swapping paths with Illustrator	415	(1)
Exporting to Illustrator	416	(1)
Retaining transparent areas in an image	416	(5)
Summary	421	(2)
Masks and Extractions	423	(46)
Painting and Editing Inside Selections	425	(4)
Working in Quick Mask Mode	429	(13)
How the Quick Mask mode works	430	(5)
Changing the red coating	435	(1)
Gradations as masks	436	(6)
Generating Masks Automatically	442	(15)
The Magic Eraser	442	(2)
The more magical Background Eraser	444	(3)
The still more magical Extract command	447	(6)
Using the Color Range command	453	(3)
A few helpful Color Range hints	456	(1)
Creating an Independent Mask Channel	457	(4)
Saving a selection outline to a mask channel	457	(2)
Converting a mask to a selection	459	(1)
Viewing mask and image	460	(1)
Building a Mask from an Image	461	(7)
Summary	468	(1)
Corrective Filtering	469	(72)
A First Look at Filters	470	(3)
Corrective filters	470	(1)
Destructive filters	471	(1)
Effects filters	472	(1)
How Filters Work	473	(3)
External plug-ins	474	(1)
Previewing filters	474	(2)
Reapplying the last filter	476	(1)
Nudging numerical values	476	(1)
Fading a Filter	476	(4)
Creating layered effects	478	(1)
Filtering inside a border	478	(1)
Undoing a sequence of filters	478	(2)
Heightening Focus and Contrast	480	(14)
Using the Unsharp Mask filter	480	(7)
Using the preset sharpening filters	487	(1)
Sharpening grainy photographs	487	(2)
Smart Sharpen	489	(3)
Using the High Pass filter	492	(1)
Converting an image into a line drawing	493	(1)
Blurring an Image	494	(32)
Applying the Gaussian Blur filter	495	(1)
The preset blurring filters	496	(1)
Anti-aliasing an image	497	(2)
Directional blurring	499	(9)
Using the Lens Blur filter	508	(4)
Applying a Box Blur	512	(3)
Using the Shape Blur	515	(3)
Working with Surface Blur	518	(2)
Softening a selection outline	520	(6)
Noise Factors	526	(13)
Adding noise	526	(4)
Removing noise with Despeckle	530	(1)
Averaging pixels with Median	530	(1)
Sharpening a compressed image	531	(4)
Cleaning up scanned halftones	535	(2)
Using the Average filter	537	(2)
Summary	539	(2)
Distortions and Effects	541	(70)
Bizarre Effects	542	(11)
What about the others?	552	(1)
One final note about RAM	552	(1)
The Filter Gallery	553	(2)
The Pixelate Filters	555	(1)
Creating a Mezzotint	556	(1)
Edge-Enhancement Filters	557	(5)
Embossing an image	557	(3)
Tracing around edges	560	(1)
Creating a metallic coating	561	(1)
Distortion Filters	562	(39)
The fun-house mirror	564	(2)
Twirling spirals	566	(3)
Zigging and zagging	569	(2)
Creating parallel Ripples and Waves	571	(8)
Distorting an image along a curve	579	(1)
Changing to Polar Coordinates	580	(2)
Working with Lens Correction	582	(3)
Distorting with the Liquify command	585	(10)
Creating a vanishing point	595	(6)
Adding Clouds and Spotlights	601	(8)
Creating clouds	602	(1)
Using the Fibers filter	603	(1)
Lighting an image	604	(5)
Summary	609	(2)
Part IV: Layers, Objects, and Text	611	(198)
Working with Layers	613	(66)
Sending a Selection to a Layer	616	(1)
Other Ways to Make a Layer	617	(3)
Layer Basics	620	(15)
Switching between layers	620	(2)
Switching layers from the keyboard	622	(1)
Selecting similar layers	622	(1)
Understanding transparency	623	(2)
Modifying the background layer	625	(2)
Reordering layers	627	(2)
Displaying layer edges	629	(1)
Automated matting techniques	630	(2)
Blending layers	632	(2)
Fusing several layers	634	(1)
Deleting layers	635	(1)
Saving a flattened version of an image	635	(1)
Selecting the Contents of Layers	635	(2)
Drop Shadows	637	(5)
Moving, Linking, and Aligning Layers	642	(5)
Linking and unlinking	642	(2)
Organizing layers in Groups	644	(3)
Creating and Using Smart Objects	647	(13)
Creating a new Smart Object	648	(1)
Editing Smart Objects	649	(2)
Locking layers	651	(1)
Using guides and Smart Guides	652	(4)
Setting up the grid	656	(2)
Using the Measure tool	658	(2)
Applying Transformations	660	(7)
Transforming the entire image	660	(1)
Transforming layers and selected pixels	661	(3)
Warping layers	664	(2)
Numerical transformations	666	(1)
Masking and Layers	667	(8)
Preserving transparency	667	(3)
Creating layer-specific masks	670	(3)
Pasting inside a selection outline	673	(1)
Masking groups of layers	673	(2)
Working with Layer Comps	675	(3)
Summary	678	(1)
The Wonders of Blend Modes	679	(56)
Opacity and Fill	681	(3)
Blend Modes	684	(17)
Advanced Blending Options	701	(11)
Blending interior layer effects	702	(3)
Masking and unmasking effects	705	(3)
Dumping whole color channels	708	(1)
Making knockouts	708	(4)
Dropping Out and Forcing Through	712	(7)
Color range sliders	713	(3)
Fuzziness	716	(3)
Whole Image Calculations	719	(15)
The Apply Image command	720	(4)
Add and Subtract	724	(4)
The Calculations command	728	(2)
Combining masks	730	(4)
Summary	734	(1)
Shapes and Styles	735	(34)
Drawing Shapes	736	(11)
The pros and cons of shapes	736	(2)
The shape tools	738	(1)
Drawing the shape	739	(3)
Combining and editing shapes	742	(3)
Editing for inner beauty	745	(2)
Skin-Deep Beauty: Layer Styles	747	(17)
The advantages of layer effects	755	(1)
Inside the Layer Style dialog box	756	(8)
Modifying and Saving Effects	764	(3)
Disabling effects	764	(1)
Duplicating effects	765	(1)
Scattering effects to the four winds	765	(1)
Saving effects as styles	766	(1)
Summary	767	(2)
Fully Editable Text	769	(40)
The Five Flavors of Text	770	(1)
Text as Art	771	(4)
Using the Type Tool	775	(2)
Creating Vertical Type	777	(1)
Creating and Manipulating Text in a Frame	778	(3)
Applying Character Formatting	781	(12)
Font	782	(2)
Size	784	(1)
Leading	785	(2)
Kerning	787	(2)
Fractional Widths and System Layout	789	(1)
Tracking	789	(1)
Horizontal and vertical scaling	789	(1)
Baseline	790	(1)
Color	791	(2)
Applying Paragraph Formatting	793	(6)
Alignment	793	(1)
Roman Hanging Punctuation	794	(1)
Justification	794	(2)
Indents and paragraph spacing	796	(1)
Hyphenation	797	(1)
Line breaks and composition methods	798	(1)
Checking your spelling	798	(1)
Finding and Replacing Text	799	(2)
Fitting Type on a Path	801	(3)
Warping Text	804	(2)
Editing Text as Shapes	806	(2)
Summary	808	(1)
Part V: Color and Output	809	(178)
Essential Color Management	811	(26)
A Typical Color-Matching Scenario	812	(10)
Setting up the source monitor	813	(3)
Selecting the ideal working space	816	(2)
Embedding the profile	818	(1)
Setting up the destination space	819	(1)
Defining color management policies	819	(1)
Converting the color space	820	(2)
Color Conversion Central	822	(8)
Description	822	(1)
Working spaces	822	(3)
Color management policies	825	(2)
More options	827	(3)
Custom CMYK Setup	830	(2)
Saving and Loading Color Settings	832	(2)
Synchronizing Bridge Color Settings	834	(2)
Summary	836	(1)
Mapping and Adjusting Colors	837	(80)
Color Effects and Adjustments	837	(2)
When Colors Need Therapy	839	(1)
Quick and Automatic Color Effects	840	(9)
Invert	840	(2)
Equalize	842	(1)
Threshold	843	(5)
Posterize	848	(1)
Quick and Automatic Corrections	849	(4)
Gray areas	849	(1)
The Auto Levels command	850	(1)
The Auto Contrast command	851	(1)
The Auto Color command	851	(2)
Adjusting Hues and Colorizing Images	853	(18)
Using the Hue/Saturation command	853	(8)
Colorizing images	861	(1)
Shifting selected hues	861	(1)
Shifting predefined colors	862	(2)
Filtering colors	864	(1)
Using the Variations command	865	(2)
Using the Match Color command	867	(3)
Enhancing colors in a compressed image	870	(1)
Making Custom Brightness Adjustments	871	(27)
The Histogram palette	872	(3)
The Levels command	875	(7)
The Curves command	882	(5)
Gradient maps	887	(1)
Practical applications: Continuous curves	888	(3)
Practical applications: Arbitrary curves	891	(1)
The Shadow/Highlight command	891	(4)
Correcting exposure	895	(3)
Adjustment Layers	898	(6)
The advantages of layer-based corrections	901	(2)
Correcting a flat image using layers	903	(1)
Correcting Camera Raw Images	904	(11)
Making color adjustments	906	(2)
Sharpening and smoothing	908	(1)
Correcting for the camera lens	909	(3)
Tweaking the profile	912	(1)
Opening and saving images with Camera Raw	912	(1)
Saving your Camera Raw settings	913	(1)
Applying your saved Camera Raw settings	914	(1)
Summary	915	(2)
Printing and Publishing with Photoshop	917	(70)
Understanding Printing Terminology	918	(3)
Printing Composites	921	(18)
Choosing a printer through Windows	923	(1)
Choosing a printer on a Mac	923	(1)
Setting up the page	924	(11)
Specifying a transfer function	935	(1)
Printing pages	936	(3)
Creating Color Separations	939	(3)
Outputting separations	940	(1)
Color trapping	941	(1)
Printing Duotones	942	(4)
Creating a duotone	942	(2)
Reproducing a duotone	944	(1)
Editing individual duotone plates	945	(1)
Spot-Color Separations	946	(1)
Optimizing Images for Web Publication	947	(1)
Choosing the Right Web Graphic Format	947	(7)
Graphic Interchange Format	948	(1)
JPEG File Interchange Format	949	(1)
Portable Network Graphics Format	950	(1)
The Save For Web Dialog Box	951	(3)
Optimizing Images into GIF and PNG-8 Formats	954	(7)
Optimization presets	956	(1)
Custom GIF and PNG-8 optimization settings	956	(5)
Optimizing Images into JPEG and PNG-24 Formats	961	(1)
Optimization presets	961	(1)
Custom JPEG and PNG-24 optimization settings	962	(1)
Resizing Images	962	(1)
Creating Animated GIF Images	963	(2)
Slicing and Dicing an Image	965	(6)
Creating slices	967	(1)
Editing slices	968	(1)
Setting slice options	968	(3)
Saving slices	971	(1)
Publishing from the Bridge	971	(15)
Printing contact sheets	974	(1)
Creating a picture package	975	(3)
Creating a Web Photo Gallery	978	(3)
Creating a PDF presentation	981	(2)
Using Photomerge to create a panorama	983	(3)
Summary	986	(1)
Appendix: The Keyboard, Menus, and Making Photoshop Your Own	987	(42)
Hidden Shortcuts and Modifiers	988	(5)
Windows Alt-key combos	988	(1)
The shortcut menu	989	(1)
Toolbox shortcuts	990	(1)
Palette shortcuts	991	(2)
Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts	993	(4)
Customizing menus	995	(1)
Creating a new menu set	996	(1)
The Great-Grandmother of All Shortcut Tables	997	(32)
Index	1029