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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS2 in 24 Hours

by: Rose, Carla

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS2 in 24 Hours

by: Rose, Carla

ISBN 13:
9780672327551
ISBN 10:
0672327554
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2005
Publisher: Sams
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Summary

A beginner's guide to Adobe Photoshop CS2 introduces the fundamental principles, techniques, and applications of the best-selling image manipulation software, covering such topics as color adjustments, art tools, masks, filters, photographic repair and manipulation, printing, and special effects. Original. (Beginner)

Introduction

(1)

Conventions Used in This Book

(3)

Part I: Getting Started

Hour 1: The Basics

(20)

Finding Your Way Around

(3)

The Toolbox

(6)

Tool Options Bar

(1)

What's on the Menus?

(6)

Setting Preferences

(5)

Hour 2: Opening and Saving

(14)

Working with Files

(6)

Saving Your Work

(4)

Undoing and Redoing

(4)

Hour 3: Making Selections

(18)

The Selection Tools

(7)

The Selection Menu

(2)

Selecting Large Areas

(2)

Cutting and Copying

(1)

Cropping

(6)

Hour 4: Transformations

(18)

Resizing

(3)

Rotating

(6)

Flipping

(1)

Selection Transformations

(3)

Warp and Liquify

(5)

Hour 5: Color Modes and Color Models

(16)

Color Models

(4)

The Modes and Models of Color

(7)

Color Bit Depth and Why It Matters

(4)

Hour 6: Adjusting Color

(22)

Adjusting by Eye with Variations

(4)

Making Other Adjustments

(11)

Adjustment Layers

107

(1)

Understanding Channels

108

(5)

Hour 7: Paintbrushes and Art Tools

113

(18)

The Brushes Menu

114

(4)

The Painting Tools

118

(13)

Hour 8: Digital Painting

131

(16)

Foreground and Background Colors

131

(1)

Selecting Colors

132

(9)

Blending Modes

141

(6)

Hour 9: Moving Paint

147

(16)

Smudges

147

(2)

Focus Tools

149

(5)

The Toning Tools

154

(9)

Part II: More Tools and Tricks

Hour 10: Advanced Painting Techniques

163

(18)

Simulating Different Media

164

(17)

Hour 11: Layers

181

(18)

Using the Layers Palette

182

(7)

Working with Multiple Layers

189

(10)

Hour 12: Using Masks

199

(14)

Applying Masks

200

(1)

Using Quick Mask

201

(3)

Layer Masks

204

(9)

Hour 13: Paths

213

(22)

Creating Paths

214

(9)

Editing Paths

223

(2)

Using Paths

225

(10)

Part III: Fun with Filters

Hour 14: Filters That Improve Your Picture

235

(18)

Sharpen Filters

235

(5)

Blur Filters

240

(8)

Fading Filters

248

(5)

Hour 15: Filters to Make Your Picture Artistic

253

(26)

Artistic Filters

254

(12)

Brush Strokes

266

(4)

Sketch Filters

270

(9)

Hour 16: Filters to Distort and Other Funky Effects

279

(24)

Distort Filters

279

(8)

Pixelate Filters

287

(3)

The Stylize Filter

290

(4)

Combining Filters

294

(9)

Part IV: Text Effects and Getting Plugged In

Hour 17: Adding Type to Pictures

303

(24)

The Type Tools

304

(4)

Setting Type

308

(2)

Creating Drop Shadows

310

(6)

Cutting and Filling Type

316

(2)

Adding Glows

318

(2)

Creating Bevel and Emboss Effects

320

(1)

Warping Text

320

(2)

Setting Type on a Path

322

(1)

Checking Your Spelling

323

(4)

Hour 18: Special Effects and Useful Tricks

327

(22)

Glows

328

(2)

Lighting Effects

330

(3)

Reflections

333

(5)

Extracting Selections

338

(1)

Notepad

339

(1)

Contact Sheets and Picture Packages

340

(4)

Working Efficiently

344

(5)

Hour 19: Photoshop Plug-Ins and Add-Ons

349

(16)

Where to Get Plug-Ins

350

(1)

How to Install Plug-Ins

350

(1)

Alien Skin's Eye Candy

351

(3)

Kai's Power Tools

354

(3)

Auto FX Photo/Graphic Edges

357

(1)

Flaming Pear

358

(1)

Genuine Fractals

359

(1)

Andromeda

359

(1)

Digimarc

360

(5)

Part V: Photo Repair and Enhancement

Hour 20: Compositing

365

(24)

Image Sources

365

(2)

Making One Picture from Two

367

(3)

Realistic Composites

370

(4)

Replacing a Background

374

(5)

Composites from Nothing

379

(3)

Photomerge

382

(7)

Hour 21: Photo Repair---Black and White

389

(22)

Easy Fixes

389

(5)

Using the Eyedropper

394

(1)

Using the Clone Stamp

395

(1)

Healing Brush and Patch Tools

396

(2)

Cleaning Up a Picture, Step by Step

398

(5)

Applying Tints

403

(4)

Vignetting

407

(4)

Hour 22: Photo Repair---Color

411

(18)

Color Retouching

411

(9)

Removing

420

(9)

Part VI: Picture Publishing on Paper and Otherwise

Hour 23: Printing and Publishing

429

(22)

Choosing a Printer

430

(2)

Preparing to Print

432

(6)

Printing the Page

438

(2)

Preparing the Image

440

(5)

Picking the Paper

445

(1)

Placing Photoshop Images in Other Programs

446

(5)

Hour 24: Photoshop for the Web

451

(24)

Jumping into ImageReady

452

(1)

File Formats and File Size

453

(5)

Preparing Backgrounds

458

(2)

Building Animations

460

(3)

Web Photo Gallery

463

(3)

Creating Slices

466

(1)

Preparing Text for the Web

467

(1)

Emailing Your Pictures

468

(1)

Making Pages Load Faster

469

(6)

Part VII: Appendix

APPENDIX A: Photoshop CS2 Palette Quick Reference

475

(14)

Navigator Palette

475

(1)

Info Palette

476

(1)

Histogram Palette

477

(1)

Color Palette

477

(1)

Swatches Palette

478

(1)

Styles Palette

479

(1)

History Palette

480

(1)

Actions Palette

481

(1)

Layers Palette

482

(1)

Channels Palette

483

(1)

Paths Palette

484

(1)

Character Palette

485

(1)

Paragraph Palette

485

(1)

Animation Palette

486

(1)

Brushes Palette

487

(1)

Layer Comps Palette

487

(1)

Tool Presets Palette

488

(1)

Index

489

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