Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual : Covers 2014 Release (2nd Edition).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snider, Lesa, Author.

Pogue, David, Author.

Contributor:

Pogue, David, Contributor.

Series:

The missing manual : the book that should have been in the box Photoshop CC

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Photoshop.

Image processing--Digital techniques.

Image processing.

Photography--Digital techniques.

Photography.

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (992 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Photoshop Creative Cloud

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, CA, USA O'Reilly Media 20140901

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Photoshop CC is an outstanding image editor, but it can be pretty overwhelming. This book makes learning Photoshop as easy as possible by explaining the hows and whys in a friendly, conversational style. You’ll unlock Photoshop’s secrets, new goodies, and time-saving features, with expert tips and practical editing advice you can use every day. The important stuff you need to know: Learn your way around. Tour Photoshop’s workspace and learn how to customize it. Unleash the magic. Use selections, layers, masks, and smart objects to safely edit images; automate common chores with actions. Perfect your photos. Learn to crop, resize, color-correct, retouch, combine, and prepare photos for print or online use. Master color. Drain, change, and add color, and even create digital makeup, partial-color effects, and duotones. Be artistic. Use filters effectively, create illustrations, paintings, artistic typography, animations, and videos. Go 3D. Create and edit 3D objects and send them off to a 3D-printing service from inside Photoshop. Export web graphics. Use Generator to instantly export and resize images—just by using layer names.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

The Missing Credits

Introduction

What's New in Photoshop CC 2014

About This Book

About the Outline

For Photographers

The Very Basics

About→These→Arrows

About the Online Resources

Missing CD

Registration

Feedback

Errata

Safari® Books Online

Part One: The Basics

Chapter 1: Photoshop CC Guided Tour

Meet the Application Frame

The Almighty Options Bar

Swapping Screen Modes

Changing Photoshop's Appearance

Working with Panels

Customizing Your Workspace

The Tools Panel

Common Panels

The Power of Undo

Changing How Far Back You Can Go

Turning Back Time with the History Panel

The History Brush

The Revert Command

Tweaking Photoshop's Preferences

General

Interface

Sync Settings

File Handling

Performance

Cursors

Transparency and Gamut

Units and Rulers

Guides, Grid, and Slices

Plug-Ins

Type

3D

Experimental Features

Working with Presets

Sharing Presets

Chapter 2: Opening, Viewing, and Saving Files

Creating a New Document

Photoshop's Ready-Made Documents

Setting Size and Resolution

Choosing a Color Mode

Choosing a Background

Advanced Options

Saving Files

File Formats

Opening an Existing Document

The Open Dialog Box

Opening Multiple Files within a Single Document

Opening Files as Smart Objects

Opening Recent Files

Working with PDFs

Working with Scanned Images

Working with Raw Files

Duplicating Files

Changing Your View

Zooming In and Out

Moving Around in an Image

Getting Oriented with the Navigator Panel

Rotating Your Canvas

Arranging Open Images

Guides, Grids, and Rulers

Rulers and Guides

The Ruler Tool

Chapter 3: Layers: The Key to Nondestructive Editing

Layer Basics

The Layers Panel

Activating Layers

Creating Layers.

Hiding and Showing Layers

Restacking Layers

Duplicating and Deleting Layers

Copying and Pasting Layers

Filling a Layer with Color

Tweaking a Layer's Opacity and Fill

Resizing and Rotating Layers

Moving and Aligning Layers

Managing Layers

Naming and Color-Coding Layers

Linking and Locking Layers

Grouping Layers

Layer Comps: Capturing Different Document Versions

Rasterizing Layers

Merging Layers

Layer Blending

Layer Masks: Digital Masking Tape

Adding Layer Masks

Using Layer Masks

Editing a Mask

Using Smart Objects

Creating Smart Objects

Managing Smart Objects

Layer Styles

Managing Layer Styles

The Styles Panel

Chapter 4: Selections: Choosing What to Edit

Selection Basics

Meet the Marching Ants

Selecting by Shape

The Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools

The Single Row and Column Marquee Tools

The Vector Shape Tools

Selecting by Color

The Quick Selection Tool

The Magic Wand

The Color Range Command

The Background and Magic Erasers

Selecting Irregular Areas

The Lasso Tools

Selecting with Focus Area

Selecting with the Pen Tool

Creating Selections with Channels

Using the Selection Tools Together

Modifying Selections

Refining Edges

Fixing Edge Halos

Creating a Border Selection

Transforming a Selection

Using Quick Mask Mode

Moving Selections

Saving a Selection

Filling a Selection with Color

Stroking (Outlining) a Selection

Chapter 5: Understanding Channels

How Color Works

RGB Mode vs. CMYK Mode

The Channels Panel and You

Meet the Color Channels

RGB Channels

CMYK Channels

Spot Channels

Lab Channels

Multichannel Mode

Single-Channel Modes

The Mighty Alpha Channel

Creating an Alpha Channel

Editing Alpha Channels

Loading an Alpha Channel as a Selection.

Deleting Alpha Channels

Basic Channel Stunts

Selecting Objects with Channels

Creating a Silhouette Effect

Lightening and Darkening Channels

Combining Channels

Sharpening Individual Channels

Part Two: Editing Images

Chapter 6: Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating

Cropping Images

The Rule of Thirds

Creative Cropping

The Crop Tool

Cropping with Selection Tools

Trimming Photos Down to Size

Cropping and Straightening Photos

Cropping and Straightening in Camera Raw

Resizing Images

Pixels and Resolution

The Mighty Image Size Dialog Box

Resizing Images for Print

Resizing for Email and the Web

Resizing Web Images for Print

Resizing Images for Presentations

Resizing Smart Objects

Automated Resizing with the Image Processor

Resizing the Canvas

Content-Aware Scaling

Rotating and Distorting

Simple Rotations

The Transformers

Chapter 7: Combining Images

Cut It Out

Pasting into a Selection

Sky Swapping

Fading Images Together

Soft Erasers

Soft Brushes and Layer Masks

Gradient Masks

Layer Blend Modes

Normal and Dissolve Blend Modes

Darken Blend Modes

Lighten Blend Modes

Lighting (Contrast) Blend Modes

Comparative Blend Modes

Composite Blend Modes

Hiding Backgrounds with Blending Sliders

Auto-Aligning Layers and Photomerge

Building Panoramas with Photomerge

Auto-Blending Layers

Cloning Between Documents

Combining Vectors and Rasters

Mapping One Image onto Another

Chapter 8: Draining, Changing, and Adding Color

Draining Color

Black &amp

White Adjustment Layers

Gradient Map Adjustment Layers

The Lightness Channel

Going Grayscale in Camera Raw

Partial-Color Effect

Fading Color to Black and White

High-Contrast Black and White

The High-Key Effect

Delicious Duotones

Changing Color.

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers

Hue Blend Mode

Selective Color Adjustment Layers

Replacing Color

Matching Colors

Photo Filter Adjustment Layers

Posterizing: Your Ticket to Cartoon Art

Inverting Colors

Adding Color

Colorizing Images

Adding Solid Blocks of Color

Building a Better Sunrise (or Sunset)

Adding Color to a Semi-Transparent Layer

Chapter 9: Correcting Color and Lighting

Lighting Basics

Quick Fixer-Uppers

Fixing Color

Fixing Lighting

Correcting Images in Camera Raw

Changing White Balance

Fixing Exposure

Making Colors Pop

Camera Raw's Adjustment Brush

Camera Raw's Graduated Filters

More Fun with Camera Raw

Using Levels

Histograms: Mountains of Information

The Levels Sliders

The Levels Eyedroppers

Correcting by the Numbers

Color-Correcting Skin

Working with Curves

Changing Contrast

Creating HDR Images

Intensifying Colors

Adjusting Hue/Saturation

Adding Lab Pop

Rescuing the Unfixables

Chapter 10: Retouching, Removing, and Repositioning

The Great Healers

The Spot Healing Brush

Content-Aware Fill

The Healing Brush

The Patch Tool

Using the Clone Stamp Tool

Zapping Shines and Shadows

Removing an Object

Duplicating an Object

Whitening Teeth

Super Slimmers

Fixing Flabby Chins

Liquifying Bulges

Slimming with Free Transform

Skin Softeners

Selective Blur

Easy Glamour Glow

Softening Wrinkles with Faux Dodge and Burn

Show-Stopping Eyes

Lightening Eyes

Fixing Red-Eye

Fixing Animal White-Eye

Other Creative Madness

Repositioning with Content-Aware Move

Reshaping Objects with Puppet Warp

Warping with Perspective

Chapter 11: The Art of Sharpening

What Is Sharpening?

Basic Sharpening

Sharpening with Unsharp Mask

The Smart Sharpen Filter.

Sharpening with the High Pass Filter

The Shake Reduction Filter

Sharpening Layered Files

Sharpening Part of an Image

Advanced Sharpening Techniques

Creating an Edge Mask

Sharpening in Camera Raw

Global Sharpening

Local Sharpening

Part Three: The Artistic Side of Photoshop

Chapter 12: Painting in Photoshop

Color Theory: The Basics

Choosing a Color Scheme

Using a Color Wheel

Other Color Scheme-Generating Tools

Choosing Individual Colors

The Color Picker

The Eyedropper Tool

Loading Color Libraries

The Swatches Panel

The Color Panel

(Re)Introducing the Brush Tool

Controlling the Brush Cursor's Appearance

Meet the Mixer Brush

Painting from Scratch

Loading More Built-in Brushes

Customizing Brushes

Brush Panel Settings

Suggested Brush Customizations

Defining a New Brush

Sharing and Installing New Brushes

Chapter 13: Drawing with the Vector Tools

Photoshop's Drawing Modes

Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool

Drawing Straight Paths

Drawing Curved Paths

Converting Anchor Points

Path Drawing Tips

Saving Paths

Drawing with the Shape Tools

Using the Shape Tools

Drawing Multiple Shapes on One Layer

Using Custom Shapes

Editing Paths

Adding, Deleting, and Converting Points

Activating and Moving Paths

Making Paths Intersect

Adding a Stroke to a Path

Filling a Path

Making Selections and Masks with Paths

Making a Path from a Selection

Making a Clipping Path

Using Vector Masks

Chapter 14: Creating Artistic Text

Typography 101

The Face of Type

Meet Adobe Typekit

Creating and Editing Text

Point Text vs. Paragraph Text

Moving Text

Highlighting Text

Resizing Text

Creating a Hollow Text Selection

Creating Text on a Path

Creating Text Inside a Path

Warping Text

Using Find and Replace.

Formatting Text.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781491905593

149190559X

9781491905623

149190562X

9781491905630

1491905638

OCLC:

889970335