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Description Learn everything you need to know about Photoshop, in the order you need to know it, in this top-to-bottom overview of the world's most powerful image editing software, Adobe Photoshop. With all new movies and all new exercise files, Deke McClelland's flagship One-on-One series is completely refreshed for Photoshop CC 2015. In this Fundamentals installment, the first of three, Deke takes you on a personalized tour of the basic tools and techniques that lie behind great images and graphic design, while keeping you up to speed with the newest features offered in Creative Cloud. Learn to open images from multiple sources, crop and straighten images, navigate panels and menus, and work with layers—the feature that allows you to mask parts of an image, combine effects, and composite artwork. Deke shows you how to perform important editing tasks, adjusting brightness and contrast, correcting color, and retouching and healing portraits. He also reviews formatting text, printing, and preparing web graphics in Photoshop. Check back every time Photoshop updates for new movies, new feature reviews, and new ways to work. Introduction Welcome to One-on-One 1. Opening an Image How it all starts Opening an image from the Windows desktop Opening an image from the Macintosh Finder Opening an image from Photoshop or Bridge Opening an image in Camera Raw UPDATED Closing one image, or all at once 2. Getting Around Navigating your image Zooming in and out Using the more precise Zoom tool Zooming continuously Entering a custom zoom value Scrolling (aka panning) A few top-secret scrolling tricks Switching between open images Rotating and resetting the view Cycling between screen modes Using the Navigator panel Panels and workspaces Updating a workspace A few very important preferences Reassigning Spotlight (Mac only) 3. Image Size and Resolution Digital imaging fundamentals Image size and resolution Introducing the Image Size command Common resolution standards Upsampling vs. real high-resolution data Changing the print resolution Downsampling for print Downsampling for email and photo sharing The six interpolation settings Some practical downsampling advice Upsampling with Preserve Details 4. Crop and Straighten Honing in on your image Using the Crop tool Cropping nondestructively Rotating and other Crop tool tricks Straightening a crooked image Filling in missing background details Using the Perspective Crop tool 5. Introducing Layers The layered composition Introducing the Layers panel Converting the flat background into a layer Customizing the transparency checkerboard Turning a color photo black and white Creating a silhouette with Brightness/Contrast Creating a new layer and painting on it Simple tricks for painting with the Brush tool Distinguishing black from non-black pixels Moving an image from one document to another Expanding the canvas to contain a new layer Employing a clipping mask Working with opacity and blend modes Three ways to duplicate a layer Scale, rotate, and layer masks Filling a selection with color 6. Saving Your Progress The art of saving Four essential things to know about saving Saving layers to the native PSD format Saving a flat print image to TIFF Saving an interactive image to PNG Saving a flat photograph to JPEG 7. Brightness and Contrast Luminance and its relationship to color How luminance works The three Auto commands Automatic Brightness/Contrast Custom Brightness/Contrast Applying a dynamic adjustment layer Adjustment layer tips and tricks Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask Introducing the Histogram Putting the Histogram to use Reducing contrast with Shadows/Highlights 8. Balancing Colors Color resides in the eyes of the beholder Identifying the color cast of a photo Correcting a color cast automatically Manually adjusting colors with Color Balance Tipping a color cast with Photo Filter Correcting color cast in Camera Raw Adjusting color intensity with Vibrance Introducing Hue/Saturation Summoning colors where none exist Making even more color with Vibrance Creating a quick-and-dirty sepia-tone effect Your own personal color chart 9. Making Selections Photoshop's power of selection Using the geometric Marquee tools Painting with the Quick Selection tool Add, subtract, and intersect selections Turning a selection into a layer mask Aligning a layer to a selection Working with the Magic Wand tool Saving and loading selections Refining the quality of a selection Adding clouds to your composition Enhancing the drama of your scene Conquering the Quick Selection tool Using each of the three Lasso tools Drawing a freeform shadow with the Lasso Colorizing a layer with Color Overlay 10. The Quick Mask Mode Painting selections Combining the best of the selection tools Introducing the Quick Mask mode The fastest way to save a selection Gauging the quality of a selection Painting adjustments with the Brush tool Adding motion blur with the Smudge tool Reversing a mask with Invert Applying a special-effects filter Smoothing a badly stroked edge Selecting all the black lines Expanding and contracting a selection 11. Retouch and Heal Your best face forward Correcting very bad colors Cloning and Content-Aware tools A closer look at Content-Aware cloning Painting with the Spot Healing Brush Healing Brush tips and tricks Shift-clicking to heal in straight lines Using the standard Healing Brush Flipping and rotating the source data Using the Dodge and Burn tools Whitening teeth with the Sponge tool Reshaping details with the Liquify filter Selectively recoloring details Smoothing skin textures with blur Nondestructive dodging and burning Photoshop's most powerful plugin Applying Camera Raw as a filter UPDATED Nondestructive Camera Raw Handling a Camera Raw image in Photoshop Capturing raw images and converting to DNG Opening and developing a raw photograph Opening and editing multiple images Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks Clarity and Chromatic Aberration HSL and the Targeted Adjustment tool Using the Spot Removal tool Cleaning up with the Patch tool 13. Creating and Formatting Text Photoshop's vector-based type Creating and scaling a line of type Formatting type from the options bar Formatting type from the Character panel Tips and tricks for finding the perfect font Creating and editing paragraph text Adjusting leading and paragraph spacing Setting the antialiasing for very small text Aligning one layer to another Creating text along a circle Finding a character with the Glyphs panel Double-stroking a circle Creating a stressed cancellation mark 14. Printing Your Images Print from RGB, not CMYK Using my customizable printer test file Print, size, and position Using printer-specific options on the PC Using printer-specific options on the Mac Brightening your image for print Description and printing marks Establishing a borderless bleed Previewing an image at print size 15. Creating Web Graphics Images on the "Wild Wild Web" Assigning copyright and contact info How color works on the web Introducing the old-school Save for Web Saving a full-color PNG image Saving a graphic as a 8-bit GIF or PNG Using the new Quick Export command Exporting vector-based layers to SVG Exporting multiple layers and groups Stroking translucent text Conclusion Until next time Related Torrents
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