Table of Contents

Chapter 1

How to Get Around Like a Pro

Photoshop’s Interface

Open Panels?

Hide or Close Panels?

Create a New Document?

See More Than One Image at a Time?

Organize All These Panels?

Use Guides?

Change the Color Outside My Image Area?

Change the Color of Photoshop’s Interface?

See My Image at Full-Screen Size?

Make Those Pop-Up Tool Tips Go Away?

Make the Rulers Visible?

Have Objects Snap to the Rulers or a Grid?

Use Guides to Create a Layout?

Save How I’ve Set Up All My Panels?

Hide Guides and Things from View?

Move Around When I’m Zoomed In?

Hide the Start Workspace?

Get My Image to Fit Fully on the Screen?

See My Image at a Full 100% Size?

Hide All the Panels?

Have Hidden Panels Automatically Pop Out?

Zoom In and Out of My Image?

Chapter 2

How to Use Photoshop’s Tools

Toolbox Tips

See Just the Tools I Actually Use?

Select Square or Rectangular Areas of My Image?

Make a Free-Form Selection?

Make Really Precise Selections?

Adjust My Pen Tool Path?

Delete, Add, or Change Points?

Draw a Free-Form Path?

Get to the Custom Brushes?

Pick My Brush Size?

Make a Gradient?

Edit a Gradient?

Create Things Like Arrows, Talk Bubbles, Stars, and Other Custom Shapes?

Use Colors That Are Already in My Image?

Choose a Color?

Make Lines?

Create Text?

Draw a Single Thin Line of Pixels?

Erase Something?

Select the Background Behind My Subject?

Get Help Making a Selection?

Crop My Image?

Reset a Tool to Its Defaults?

Straighten an Image?

Make Part of My Image Brighter or Darker?

Undo Changes in Just One Part of My Image?

Save My Favorite Settings for a Tool?

Chapter 3

How to Use Camera Raw Like a Boss

Part One

Expand the Tonal Range of My Image?

Adjust the Overall Exposure?

Deal with Clipped Highlights?

Fix Flat-Looking Photos?

Bring Out Texture in My Image?

Get My Color (White Balance) Right?

Boost the Overall Color?

Boost Just One Color?

Fix Backlit Photos?

Crop My Photo?

Crop to a Specific Size?

Straighten a Crooked Photo?

Remove Darkening in the Corners?

Sharpen My Image?

Adjust a Bunch of Images at Once?

Undo My Changes?

Create One-Click Presets?

Reduce Noise in My Image?

Make My RAW Image Look More Like a JPEG?

Fix Lens Problems, Like Bulging?

Stop Buildings from Leaning Back?

See Which Areas of My Photo Are Clipping?

Get Rid of the Purple & Green Fringe on the Edges of Things in My Image?

See a “Before” of Just the Panel I’m Working In?

Chapter 4

How to Use Camera Raw’s Adjustment Brush

There’s More Than Just One

Dodge & Burn (Lighten & Darken Specific Areas)?

Hide the Edit Pins from View?

Fix Noise in Just One Area?

Remove Spots and/or Specks?

Fix Washed-Out Skies?

Fix Red Eye (or Pet Eye) Problems?

Save My Brush Settings as a Preset?

Get Help Finding Spots or Specks?

Erase Something If I Make a Mistake?

Fix the Brush When It Isn’t Working?

Know When to Clone Instead of Heal?

Draw a Straight Line with the Brush?

Keep from Painting Outside the Lines?

Keep the Mask Overlay on While I’m Painting?

Quickly Change the Size of My Brush?

Duplicate an Edit Pin?

Soften Skin?

Create a Dramatic Spotlight Effect?

Fix Foggy or Hazy Areas in My Image?

Remove a Moire Pattern from Clothes?

Chapter 5

How to Crop, Resize & Stuff Like That

You’ll Do This Stuff a Lot

Crop an Image?

Crop to a Specific Size?

Change That Grid over My Crop?

Straighten a Crooked Photo?

Resize an Image?

Rotate the Crop?

Crop from the Center Inward?

Add White Space Around My Image?

Crop Away Stuff Outside the Edges?

Change the Shading Outside My Border?

Chapter 6

How to Work with Layers

This Is Where It Gets Fun

Create a New Blank Layer? Or Delete One?

Reorder My Layers?

Hide a Layer from View?

Move a Layer from One Document to Another?

Blend My Current Layer with Other Layers?

Create a Type Layer?

Erase Part of a Letter?

Try Out Different Fonts?

Fill a Layer with a Solid Color?

Make Part of a Layer Transparent?

Duplicate a Layer?

Organize My Layers?

Add a Drop Shadow to a Layer?

Put an Image Inside of Text?

Move the Background Layer (Unlock It)?

Move Multiple Layers at Once?

Lock a Layer So It Won’t Move?

Remove All My Layers and Flatten the Image?

Rename a Layer?

Make Two Layers Into Just One Layer?

Separate a Drop Shadow from a Layer?

Organize Layers Using Colors?

Lower a Layer’s Opacity without Affecting the Opacity of the Drop Shadow?

Quickly Sort My Layers?

Change Layers without Going to the Layers Panel?

Change the Size of My Layer Thumbnails?

Blend One Photo with Another?

Align or Center Multiple Layers?

Put a Stroke Around Something on My Layer?

Make My RAW File a Re-Editable Layer?

Chapter 7

How to Adjust Your Image

Tweaking Your Image

Adjust My Image Using Levels?

Use Curves to Add Contrast?

Remove Color Casts?

Add a Tint or Color Grading?

Deal with Too Much of a Particular Color?

Match the Color of One Photo to Another Photo?

Use Camera Raw on My Image Already Opened in Photoshop?

Have Photoshop Auto Fix My Photo?

Make My Adjustments Un-Doable Forever?

Convert to Black and White?

Chapter 8

How to Fix Problems

And There Will Be Problems. With Your Images. Not with Photoshop. Well, Hopefully

Realistically Fill in Gaps in My Image?

Fix Images of Buildings (Lens Problems)?

Remove Purple or Green Fringe?

Safely Stretch My Image to Fit?

Fix Group Shots?

Fix Washed-Out Skies?

Fix Red Eye?

Remove Spots or Distracting Stuff?

Know When to Clone Instead of Heal?

Reduce Noise?

Remove Larger Things?

Cover Up Stuff I Don’t Want Seen?

Chapter 9

How to Make Beautiful Prints

Here’s How It’s Done

Choose My Paper Size?

Set My Page Margins?

Sharpen for Print?

Get the Best Results from My Printer?

Get My Prints to Look as Bright as My Screen?

See a Proof Before I Print?

Resize My Image on the Page?

Add a Stroke Border Around My Image?

Create a Fine-Art Print Border?

Add My Logo to My Print Layout?

Choose My Print Resolution?

Let My Printer Handle Everything?

Chapter 10

How to Edit Video

It Does It Better Than You’d Think

Get a Video Clip into Photoshop?

Navigate Around My Movie?

Make a Clip Go in Slow-Motion?

Trim the Beginning or End of Clips?

Arrange the Order of My Clips?

Add Photos to My Movie?

Add Transitions Between Clips?

Add Background Music?

Fade Out My Background Music at the End?

Add Titles to My Movie?

Add Filter Effects to My Movie?

Make a Clip Black and White?

Fade In or Fade Out to Black?

Mute the Audio from My Camera’s Built-In Mic?

Split a Clip into Two Parts?

Apply an Effect to My Entire Movie?

Add Movement to My Still Photos?

Export My Video?

Chapter 11

How to Do the Most Popular Special Effects

And Making Stuff Look Cool

Create a Lens Flare Effect?

Create a Spotlight Effect?

Create a Soft-Focus Background Look?

Create a Tilt-Shift (“Tiny Town”) Effect?

Get a Dreamy-Focus Look?

Create a Desaturated-Skin Look?

Create a High-Contrast Portrait Look?

Create the Look of Fall in a Landscape Shot?

Do HDR Toning?

Convert My Image to Black & White?

Create Reflections?

Create a Painterly Effect?

Make a Panorama?

Make Wheels Look Like They’re Spinning?

Add a Cast Shadow?

Create a Cross-Processing Effect?

Add Texture to My Image?

Create a Duotone Look?

Chapter 12

How to Sharpen Your Images

If It’s Not Sharp, It’s Blurry

Do Basic Sharpening?

Do Advanced Sharpening?

Sharpen Detail Areas, Like Eyes?

Do High Pass (Heavy) Sharpening?

Do Capture Sharpening?

Sharpen Just Specific Parts of My Image?

Sharpen in Camera Raw?

Deal with Blurry Photos from Camera Shake?

Chapter 13

Other Stuff You’ll Want to Know

All That Other Stuff? It’s in This Chapter

Troubleshoot Photoshop Problems?

Save an Image with a Transparent Background?

Automate Boring, Repetitive Stuff?

Put a Frame Around My Image?

Draw a Straight Line with the Brush?

Set My Color Space?

Get More Than Just One Undo?

Use Bridge to Quickly Find an Image or Rename Images?

Save My Selection to Reuse Again?

Save Images in Multiple Sizes and Formats?

Create a Contact Sheet?

Reduce the Intensity of an Edit?

Convert to CMYK for Offset Printing?

Open My RAW Image in 16-Bit Mode?

Expand or Contract a Selection?

Save Files as JPEGs or TIFFs?

Make My JPEGs Automatically Open in Camera Raw?

Select Hair?

Remove Tourists from a Scene?

Create Fine-Art Montages?