Contents

Getting Started

About Classroom in a Book

What’s new in this edition

Prerequisites

Installing Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge

Starting Adobe Photoshop

Accessing the Classroom in a Book files

Restoring default preferences

Additional resources

Adobe certification

1 Getting to Know the Work Area

Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop

Using the tools

Setting tool properties

Undoing actions in Photoshop

More about panels and panel locations

Customizing the workspace

Finding resources for using Photoshop

Review questions and answers

2 Basic Photo Corrections

Strategy for retouching

Resolution and image size

Getting started

Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop

Adjusting the color and tone

Using the Spot Healing Brush tool

Using content-aware fill

Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool

Applying a content-aware patch

Sharpening the image

Review questions and answers

3 Working with Selections

About selecting and selection tools

Getting started

Using the Quick Selection tool

Moving a selected area

Manipulating selections

Using the Magic Wand tool

Selecting with the lasso tools

Rotating a selection

Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool

Selecting from a center point

Resizing and copying a selection

Cropping an image

Review questions and answers

4 Layer Basics

About layers

Getting started

Using the Layers panel

Rearranging layers

Applying a gradient to a layer

Applying a layer style

Adding an adjustment layer

Updating layer effects

Adding a border

Flattening and saving files

Review questions and answers

5 Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs

Getting started

About camera raw files

Processing files in Camera Raw

Applying advanced color correction

Correcting digital photographs in Photoshop

Correcting image distortion

Adding depth of field

Review questions and answers

6 Masks and Channels

Working with masks and channels

Getting started

Creating a mask

Refining a mask

Creating a quick mask

Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp

Working with channels

Review questions and answers

7 Typographic Design

About type

Getting started

Creating a clipping mask from type

Creating type on a path

Warping point type

Designing paragraphs of type

Working with type styles

Adding a rounded rectangle

Adding vertical text

Review questions and answers

8 Vector Drawing Techniques

About bitmap images and vector graphics

About paths and the Pen tool

Getting started

Using paths with artwork

Creating vector objects for the background

Working with defined custom shapes

Importing a Smart Object

Review questions and answers

9 Advanced Compositing

Getting started

Arranging layers

Using Smart Filters

Painting a layer

Adding a background

Automating a multistep task

Upscaling a low-resolution image

Saving the image for four-color printing

Matching color schemes across images

Stitching a panorama

Finishing the image

Review questions and answers

10 Editing Video

Getting started

Creating a new video project

Animating text with keyframes

Creating effects

Adding transitions

Adding audio

Muting unwanted audio

Rendering video

Review questions and answers

11 Painting with the Mixer Brush

About the Mixer Brush

Getting started

Selecting brush settings

Mixing colors

Creating a custom brush preset

Mixing colors with a photograph

Review questions and answers

12 Working with 3D Images

Getting started

Creating a 3D shape from a layer

Manipulating 3D objects

Adding 3D objects

Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space

Positioning objects in a scene

Applying materials to 3D objects

Lighting a 3D scene

Rendering a 3D scene

Review questions and answers

13 Preparing Files for the Web

Getting started

Creating slices

Exporting HTML and images

Using the Zoomify feature

Review questions and answers

14 Producing and Printing Consistent Color

About color management

Getting started

Specifying color-management settings

Proofing an image

Identifying out-of-gamut colors

Adjusting an image and printing a proof

Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file

Printing

Review questions and answers

Appendix: Tools Panel Overview

Index

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