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The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time

by: Kloskowski, Matt

The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time

by: Kloskowski, Matt

ISBN 13:
9780321441652
ISBN 10:
0321441656
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/21/2006
Publisher: Peachpit Press

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If you really want to harness the power of Adobe Photoshop CS2 and get things done faster than ever, you've come to the right place. Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, shows you how to use the power of automation to instantly save time, money, and frustration. This book isn't about free actions or fancy keyboard shortcuts. Instead, it's about learning how to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently in Photoshop by taking advantage of the many timesaving features it offers. Once you master these powerful tools, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them.

It Starts in Bridge: Use Bridge to Manage Your Images Quickly	p. 1
How to Read This Book	p. 2
Creating Your Own Bridge Workspace	p. 4
Changing the File Info (Metadata) on Multiple Images	p. 7
Using Metadata Templates to Change File Info on Multiple Images	p. 10
Creating a Slide Show	p. 13
Renaming Multiple Photos All at Once	p. 15
Letting Bridge Build the Cache for You	p. 18
Faster Searching with Keywords	p. 20
Saving Your Favorite Folders in Bridge	p. 24
Adding Automation Using Actions: The Basics of Streamlining Your Work with Actions	p. 27
Recording a Simple Action to Automate Common Tasks	p. 28
Changing an Existing Action	p. 30
Saving and Sharing Your Actions	p. 33
Loading Actions from Other People	p. 36
Creating Smarter Actions: Make Actions That Not Only Work Quickly but Are Smarter, Too	p. 39
Creating Actions with a One-Click Undo	p. 40
Recording Menu Items in an Action	p. 42
Adding Messages and Notifications to an Action	p. 45
Creating a Watermark Action for Any Image Orientation	p. 49
Creating an Action That Makes Decisions for You	p. 57
Applying Actions to Multiple Images: Uncover the Secrets Behind Photoshop's Batch Feature	p. 63
Everything You Wanted to Know About Batch Processing	p. 64
Batch Processing from Scratch	p. 71
Get Smart: Working with Smart Objects	p. 81
Creating a Smart Picture Package	p. 82
Replacing Only One Smart Object	p. 85
Smart Objects and Camera Raw	p. 87
Working with Smart Objects in Photoshop and Illustrator	p. 89
Warp, Twist, Turn, Distort, and Transform Anything Non-Destructively	p. 92
Speeding up the Raw Workflow: See How You Can Make Camera Raw Fly!	p. 97
Opening Photos in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)	p. 98
Saving Specific Settings in Camera Raw	p. 101
Making Changes to Multiple RAW Files at Once	p. 104
Straightening Crooked Photos in Camera Raw	p. 106
Saving Multiple Photos in the Background	p. 108
Cropping Multiple Photos at the Same Time	p. 111
Assigning Camera Profiles Outside of the Camera	p. 113
Photoshop can Do the Work for You: Unlock the Power of Photoshop's Own Automations	p. 115
Bridge or Photoshop? Read This Before You Begin This Chapter	p. 116
Crop and Straighten	p. 118
Creating a PDF Presentation for Your Clients, Friends, or Family	p. 120
Getting Your Portfolio on the Web (and Customizing It!)	p. 124
Customizing the Web Photo Gallery	p. 126
Using a Contact Sheet to Find Photos After You Back Them Up to CD	p. 128
Creating Your Own Picture Packages	p. 131
Creating a Killer Panorama	p. 136
Converting Multiple Images from One File Type to Another	p. 140
Running Actions Outside of Photoshop	p. 143
Creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image	p. 146
Photoshop for Geeks-The Power of Scripting: Scripting Isn't Just for Coding Geeks Anymore	p. 151
Working with Scripts in Photoshop	p. 152
Installing a New Script: Adding File Names to PDF Presentation	p. 154
Creating, Editing, and Testing Scripts (The ExtendScript Toolkit)	p. 156
Setting Scripts and Actions to Run Automatically	p. 161
Letting Photoshop Write Scripts for You (Installing Script Listener)	p. 164
Using the Script Listener	p. 166
Uninstalling the Script Listener	p. 170
General Workflow Speed Tips: Some Favorite Speed Tweaks That, Honestly, Just Didn't Fit Anywhere Else	p. 173
Quickly Previewing the Effect of Multiple Filters	p. 174
Saving Custom Settings in Your Filters	p. 177
Reducing Clutter with Layer Comps	p. 180
Sharing Your Layer Comps Quickly and Easily	p. 182
Saving Commonly Used Layer Styles	p. 184
Straightening Crooked Photos the CS2 Way	p. 186
Adding Adjustment Layers Quickly	p. 188
Nuts and Bolts: Get Under the Hood of Photoshop and Tweak the Settings to Make It Run Faster	p. 191
Getting the Most Out of Your RAM	p. 192
Getting Photoshop in Windows to Use More RAM	p. 195
Determining How Much Scratch Disk You Need	p. 197
Using the Preset Manager to Speed Up Photoshop	p. 200
Improve CS2's Performance If You Have Over 1 GB of RAM	p. 204
Setting Your Preferences for Speed	p. 206
Bringing it all Together in the Creative Suite: Work Faster When You're Moving Between Multiple Creative Suite Programs	p. 211
Setting Up the Creative Suite with the Same Color Management Settings	p. 212
How to Move Your Color Swatches from Photoshop to Illustrator or InDesign	p. 216
Viewing Your Favorite RSS Feeds in Bridge	p. 219
The Fast Way to Open Any Images in Any Creative Suite Program	p. 222
Saving Files as Groups in Bridge Center	p. 223
Where to Go from Here	p. 226
Index	p. 229
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The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time

The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time

9780321441652

0321441656

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