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Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies - Peter Bauer

Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies

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Buch | Softcover
448 Seiten
2018 | 2nd edition
For Dummies (Verlag)
978-1-119-41811-5 (ISBN)
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The fast and easy way to grasp Photoshop CC essentials Photoshop is the gold standard when it comes to photo and image editing tools. But unless you've ever taken a class or gotten help from a Photoshop guru, you may find yourself a bit confused on where to start and how to get things done. Photoshop CC For Dummies, 2nd Edition is the book for those of us who don't know a layer from a level and just want to learn how to make photos look better. This update to Photoshop CC For Dummies, the first since the product launched, packs an even more powerful punch to help you manage and enhance your images.

In Photoshop CC For Dummies, 2nd Edition you'll find clear explanations of the menus, panels, tools, options, and shortcuts you'll use the most. Plus, you'll discover invaluable tips for fixing common photo flaws, improving color quality, adjusting brightness, removing unwanted background elements, and more. Whether you want to improve how your family photos look or need to add a new skillset to your resume, this friendly guide gives you all the steps to navigating the software and getting top-notch results.



Get a handle on the most common tools
Improve focus and color in photos
Add text and illustrations to create stunning graphics
Find insider tips and tricks the pros use

The sky's the limit for stunning photos and innovative images when you have Photoshop CC For Dummies, 2nd Edition in your design toolbox!

Peter Bauer is highly respected Photoshop instructor and author. He has been honored with membership in the Photoshop Hall of Fame and was named a Pioneer of Photoshop by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (now KelbyOne.com). He has written more than a dozen books on Photoshop, digital photography, and computer graphics.

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 2

Icons Used in This Book 3

How to Use This Book 3

Part 1: Getting Started with Photoshop CC 5

Chapter 1: Welcome to Photoshop! 7

Exploring Adobe Photoshop 7

What Photoshop is designed to do 8

Other things you can do with Photoshop 9

Viewing Photoshop’s Parts and Processes 10

Reviewing basic computer operations 10

Launching Photoshop 10

Working with images 11

Saving your files 11

Keyboard shortcuts 12

Photoshop’s incredible selective Undo 12

Installing Photoshop: Need to know 14

Chapter 2: Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images 17

What Exactly is a Digital Image? 18

The True Nature of Pixels 18

How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? 21

Resolution revelations 21

Resolving image resolution 22

Changing the size of your artwork with the

Image Size command 23

Picking an image resolution 28

File Formats: Which Do You Need? 30

Formats for digital photos 31

Formats for web graphics 33

Formats for commercial printing 34

Formats for PowerPoint and Word 35

Chapter 3: Taking the Chef’s Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen 37

Food for Thought: How Things Work 38

Ordering from the menus 38

Your platter full of panels 39

The tools of your trade 42

Get Cookin’ with Customization 43

Clearing the table: Custom workspaces 44

Sugar and spice, shortcuts are nice 46

Spoons can’t chop: Creating tool presets 47

Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings 48

Standing orders: Setting the Preferences 49

Preferences ➪ History Log 50

Preferences ➪ Tools 50

Preferences ➪ Interface and Preferences ➪ Workspace 50

Preferences ➪ File Handling 51

Preferences ➪ Performance 52

Preferences ➪ Scratch Disks 53

Preferences ➪ Cursors 53

Preferences ➪ Transparency & Gamut 54

Preferences ➪ Units & Rulers 54

Preferences ➪ Guides, Grid & Slices 54

Preferences ➪ Plug-Ins 55

Preferences ➪ Technology Previews 55

Ensuring consistency: Color Settings 55

When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop 57

Chapter 4: Getting Images into and out of Photoshop 59

Bringing Images into Photoshop 59

Downloading from your digital camera 60

Scanning prints 62

Determining scan resolution 63

Preventing moiré patterns 65

Keeping Your Images Organized 66

Creating a folder structure 66

Using Adobe Bridge 67

Renaming image files easily 70

Printing Your Images 71

Cropping to a specific aspect ratio 71

Remembering resolution 73

Controlling color using File ➪ Print 74

Considering color management solutions 75

Printing alternatives 76

Sharing Your Images 77

Creating PDFs and websites 78

Emailing your images 78

Chapter 5: What’s New in Photoshop CC? 79

Improvements and New Features 79

The new features you’re most likely to love 79

Additional new features 83

New to Camera Raw 85

More Sensei Coming Soon to Photoshop 87

What is Sensei? 87

The coolest capabilities 87

Part 2: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images 89

Chapter 6: Making Tonality and Color Look Natural 91

Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop 92

Histograms Simplified 92

Using Photoshop’s Auto Corrections 94

Levels and Curves and You 95

Level-headed you! 96

Tonal corrections with the eyedroppers 99

Adjusting your curves without dieting 100

Grabbing Even More Control 102

Using Shadow/Highlight 103

Changing exposure after the fact 106

Using Photoshop’s toning tools 106

What is Color in Photoshop? 107

Which color mode should you choose? 109

Does a color model make a difference? 111

Why should you worry about color depth? 112

Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop 114

Choosing color adjustment commands 116

Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, Exposure 116

Vibrance 117

Hue/Saturation 117

Color Balance 118

Black & White 119

Photo Filter 120

Channel Mixer 120

Color Lookup 120

Invert 120

Posterize 121

Threshold 121

Gradient Map 122

Selective Color 123

Shadow/Highlight 123

HDR Toning 124

Desaturate 124

Match Color 124

Replace Color 126

Equalize 127

Manual corrections in individual channels 127

The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas 129

Chapter 7: The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In 131

Understanding the Raw Facts 131

What’s the big deal about Raw? 133

Working in Raw 133

Working in the Camera Raw Plug-In 135

Tools and preview options 135

Before and After 136

Trash 136

Zoom, Hand, and White Balance 137

Color Sampler 137

Targeted Adjustment 137

Crop and Straighten 137

Transform 139

Spot Removal 139

Red Eye Reduction 140

Adjustment Brush 140

Graduated Filter 140

Camera Raw Preferences 141

The histogram 143

The preview area 143

Workflow Options and presets 144

The Basic panel 146

The Tone Curve panel 147

The Detail panel 149

HSL, grayscale, and split toning 150

Compensating with Lens Corrections 152

Adding special effects 153

Camera profiles, presets,

and snapshots 154

The Camera Raw buttons 155

Chapter 8: Fine-Tuning Your Fixes 157

What is a Selection? 158

Feathering and Anti-aliasing 160

Making Your Selections with Tools 162

Marquee selection tools 162

Lasso selection tools 166

The Quick Selection tool 167

The Magic Wand tool 167

Select and Mask 168

Your Selection Commands 170

The primary selection commands 170

The Color Range command 171

The Focus Area command 173

Selection modification commands 173

Transforming the shape of selections 174

Edit in Quick Mask mode 176

The mask-related selection commands 176

Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore 177

Saving and loading selections 177

Editing an alpha channel 178

Adding masks to layers and Smart Objects 179

Masking with vector paths 180

Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes 180

Adding an adjustment layer 181

Limiting your adjustments 182

Chapter 9: Common Problems and Their Cures 185

Making People Prettier 186

Getting the red out digitally 186

The digital fountain of youth 187

Dieting digitally 189

De-glaring glasses 190

Whitening teeth 191

Reducing Noise in Your Images 191

Decreasing digital noise 191

Eliminating luminance noise 192

Fooling Around with Mother Nature 193

Removing the unwanted from photos 193

Eliminating the lean: Fixing perspective 197

Rotating images precisely 198

Part 3: Creating “Art” in Photoshop 201

Chapter 10: Combining Images 203

Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1 203

Understanding layers 204

Why you should use Smart Objects 206

Using the basic blending modes 207

Opacity, transparency, and layer masks 210

Creating clipping groups 211

Making composited elements look natural 212

Making Complex Selections 213

Vanishing Point 216

Creating Panoramas with Photomerge 219

Chapter 11: Precision Edges with Vector Paths 221

Pixels, Paths, and You 222

Easy Vectors: Using Shapes 223

Your basic shape tools 223

The Custom Shape tool 225

More custom shapes — free! 226

Changing the appearance of the shape layer 228

Simulating a multicolor shape layer 229

Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths 231

Understanding paths 231

Clicking and dragging your way down the path of knowledge 232

A closer look at the Paths panel 235

Pick a path, any path 235

The Paths panel buttons 237

Customizing Any Path 239

Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points 239

Combining paths 241

Tweaking type for a custom font 242

Chapter 12: Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles 245

What are Layer Styles? 245

Using the Styles Panel 247

Creating Custom Layer Styles 249

Exploring the Layer Style menu 249

Exploring the Layer Style dialog box 251

Layer effects basics 252

Bevel and Emboss 253

Stroke 254

Inner Shadow 255

Inner Glow 255

Satin 256

Color Overlay 256

Gradient Overlay 257

Pattern Overlay 258

Outer Glow 258

Drop Shadow 260

Opacity, fill, and advanced blending 260

Saving Your Layer Styles 263

Adding styles to the Styles panel 264

Preserving your layer styles 264

Chapter 13: Giving Your Images a Text Message 267

Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels 268

A type tool for every season, or reason 270

What are all those options? 272

Taking control of your text with panels 275

The panel menus — even more options 279

Working with Styles 281

Putting a picture in your text 282

Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers 284

Selecting alignment or justification 286

Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text 287

Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path 287

Applying the predefined warps 288

Customizing the course with paths 289

Chapter 14: Painting in Photoshop 293

Discovering Photoshop’s Painting Tools 294

Painting with the Brush tool 296

Adding color with the Pencil tool 298

Removing color with the Eraser tool 299

Working with Panels and Selecting Colors 300

An overview of options 300

Creating and saving custom brush tips 303

Picking a color 303

Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Tips and the Mixer Brush 306

Exploring erodible brush tips 307

Introducing airbrush and watercolor tips 307

Mixing things up with the Mixer Brush 308

Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors 310

Deleting and dumping to add color 310

Using gradients 311

Chapter 15: Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop 313

Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy 314

The Filters You Really Need 315

Sharpening to focus the eye 316

Unsharp Mask 316

Smart Sharpen 318

Shake Reduction 319

Blurring images and selections 320

The other Blur filters 323

Correcting for the vagaries of lenses 324

Cleaning up with Reduce Noise 328

Getting Creative and Artistic 329

Photo to painting with the Oil Paint filter 329

Working with the Filter Gallery 330

Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify 332

Do I Need Those Other Filters? 335

Adding drama with Lighting Effects 335

Maximum and Minimum 336

Bending and bubbling 336

Creating clouds 337

Part 4: Power Photoshop 339

Chapter 16: Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop 341

Ready, Set, Action! 342

Recording your own Actions 343

Working with the Batch command 348

Find It Fast with Search 349

Creating Contact Sheets and Presentations 350

Creating a PDF presentation 350

Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet 352

Scanning Multiple Photos in One Pass 354

Sticking to the Script 355

Chapter 17: Working with Video and Animation 357

Importing and Enhancing Video Clips 357

Getting video into Photoshop 358

Adjusting the length of video and audio clips 360

Adding adjustment layers and painting on video layers 361

Transitioning, titling, and adding special effects 362

Transforming video layers 364

Rendering and exporting video 365

Creating Animations in Photoshop 366

Building frame-based animations 366

Creating frame content 367

Tweening to create intermediary frames 368

Specifying frame rate 369

Optimizing and saving your animation 370

Part 5: The Part of Tens 371

Chapter 18: Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC 373

Using Smart Object Stack Modes 374

The Mean Stack Mode 376

Working with 3D Artwork 376

Creating 3D objects 377

Importing 3D objects 377

Rendering and saving 3D scenes 377

Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels 378

Measuring length, area, and more 378

Calculating with Vanishing Point 379

Counting crows or maybe avian flu 380

Chapter 19: Ten Reasons to Love Your Wacom Tablet 381

More Natural Movement 381

Health and Safety 382

Artistic Control 382

Extended Comfort 383

Gestures, Programmable ExpressKeys, Touch Rings, and Touch Strips 383

The Optimal Tablet 383

The Pen’s Switch 384

Setting Preferences 384

The Accessories 385

Cintiq for the Photoshop Pro 385

Chapter 20: Ten Things to Know about HDR 387

Understanding HDR 388

Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro 389

Preparing Raw “Exposures” in Camera Raw 390

Working with Merge to HDR Pro 391

Saving 32-Bit HDR Images 394

HDR Toning 394

Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit 395

Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit 396

Selections and Editing in 32-Bit 396

Printing HDR Images 396

Appendix: Photoshop CC’s Blending Modes 399

Index 403

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 183 x 229 mm
Gewicht 748 g
Themenwelt Informatik Grafik / Design Digitale Bildverarbeitung
Informatik Grafik / Design Photoshop
Informatik Office Programme Outlook
ISBN-10 1-119-41811-9 / 1119418119
ISBN-13 978-1-119-41811-5 / 9781119418115
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