Power, speed & automation with Adobe Photoshop / Geoff Scott with Jeffrey Tranberry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Geoff, 1968-

Contributor:

Tranberry, Jeffrey.

Series:

Digital imaging masters series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Photoshop.

Photography--Digital techniques.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Power, speed and automation with Adobe Photoshop

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Elsevier/Focal Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This is a must for the serious Photoshop user! Power, Speed & Automation explores how to customize and automate Photoshop to increase your speed and productivity. With numerous step-by-step instructions, the authors-two of Adobe's own software developers!- walk you through the steps to best tailor Photoshop's interface to your personal workflow; write and apply Actions; and use batching and scripts to process large numbers of images quickly and automatically. You will learn how to build your own dialogs and panels to improve your production workflows in Photoshop, the secrets of changing

Contents:

Front Cover; Power, Speed & Automation With Adobe Photoshop; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Who What Where Why How or, Rather, Why Who How What Where; Why You Should Read This Book; Speed; Power; Automation; Who This Book Is For; Assumptions About the Reader; How to Read This Book; Guideline to Learning; Explorations; Where Is the File Located?; Coding Concepts; Conventions Used in This Book; What the Requirements Are; Your Software; Your Computer; Where This Book Comes From; The Class; The Authors; Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Customizing How You Work in Photoshop: Changing the User Interface for Your Work Style and SpeedKeyboard Shortcuts; Discovering Keyboard Shortcuts; Useful Keyboard Shortcuts to Learn; Return and Escape Keys; Option and Shift Keys; Changing and Creating Keyboard Shortcuts; Menus; Changing the Menus; Frame, Docks, Bars, and Panels; Menu Bar; Application Frame; Work Area; Docks; Application Bar; Options Bar; Tool Bar; Tab Groups; Panels; Workspaces; Useful Strategies with Workspaces; Using More Than One Monitor; Exposé and Spaces; Document Windows; Tabbed Document Windows

Standard Screen Mode, Full Screen Mode, Full Screen Mode with MenusChanging the Background Color; File Information Displays; Preferences; General; Interface; Chapter 2: Customizing How Photoshop Works for You: Specifying Presets and Settings; Tools; Tool Presets; Tool Preset Picker; Tool Presets Panel; Preset Manager; Swatches and Styles; Gradients and Contours; Patterns and Custom Shapes; Brushes; Brush Panel; Brush Presets Panel; Brush Preset Picker; Define Brush Preset; Brush Picker; Documents; New Document Presets; Adobe Camera Raw Settings and Presets; Document Metadata; Color Settings

Working Color SpacePrinting; Proof Setup; Print Settings; Chapter 3: Optimizing Your System for Photoshop: Tuning for Performance; Hardware; 64- Versus 32-Bit Architectures; How to Run in 32-Bit; RAM: Your Computer's Short-Term Memory; Hard Drives and Scratch Disks; CPU: The Processor; GPU and Video Cards; Operating System; Photoshop; Number of History States; History Cache; Close Unused Files; Clear Available Memory With Purge; Run Photoshop Only; Keep Photoshop Up-to-Date; Don't Overload Presets; Turn Off Thumbnail Displays

Chapter 4: Duplicating Your Tasks in Photoshop: Recording What You Do So It Can Be Done RepeatedlyIntroduction to Actions; Examining the Actions Panel; Organizing Actions; Creating Actions; Playing Actions; Disabling Action Steps; Using Playback Options; Editing the Action Options; Using Button Mode; Editing Actions; Changing the Settings of an Action Step; Duplicating an Action; Deleting Action Steps; Adding Steps to an Action; Reordering Action Steps; Using Fit Image; Adding More Steps; Arranging Layers; Selecting Layers Via Keyboard Shortcuts; Inserting a Path Item; Stroking a Path

Using ""Align Layers To Selection"" to Intelligently Position Objects

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613611079

9781138372214

1138372218

9781136086229

1136086226

9781280581298

1280581298

9780240820941

0240820940

OCLC:

793511151