The Photoshop CS / CS2 Wow! Book,9780321213457

The Photoshop CS / CS2 Wow! Book

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780321213457
ISBN10: 0321213459
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-10-12
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
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Summary

This inspirational tome unlocks all of Photoshop CSUs mysteries. Using full-color, professionally designed Photoshop projects, the text carefully lays out recipes that can be followed to reproduce the works shown in its pages. Includes a CD-ROM with project files and examples.

Author Biography

Linnea Dayton is an award-winning author of more than 20 books and numerous articles on computer imagery and design, including eight editions of the best-selling Photoshop Wow! Book and two books in Peachpit Press’s popular One-Click Wow! series. She is principal of Dayton & Associates and series editor for the Wow! Book series. Cristen Gillespie begins her journey as a Photoshop Wow! author with this edition. She has contributed to other books in the Wow! series and with Dayton, Davis, and Ben Willmore, authors the "Wow! Factor" column for Photoshop User magazine.

Table of Contents

Welcome to The Photoshop CS/CS2 Wow! Book
1(5)
Picture This. . .
Anchors Aweigh!
Don't Miss the Wow DVD-ROM!
Bon Voyage!
Installing Wow Styles, Patterns, Tools & Other Presets
What's New in Photoshop CS/CS2?
6(728)
The Creative Suite
Improvements to File Management & Workflow
Especially for Photographers
Other New Features
What's New in ImageReady?
Fundamentals of Photoshop
16(38)
How Photoshop Thinks
Working with Photoshop
Working Smart
Recovering from Mistakes
Keeping Photoshop Happy
Getting Some Practice
Anatomy of a Photoshop File
37(2)
Exercising Smart Objects
39(5)
Exercising Layer Styles
44(4)
Gallery
48(6)
Essential Photoshop Skills
54(34)
Making Selections
Selecting by Color
Selecting by Shape
Selecting by Shape and Color
Modifying Selections
Saving & Loading Selections
Masking
Blending
Transforming & Warping
Understanding Resampling
Sizing Up or Sizing Down
Quick Masking & Blending
75(5)
Alicia Buelow Applies Different Strokes
80(1)
Gallery
81(7)
Getting In, Going Fast & Getting Out
88(62)
Scanning
Digital Cameras
Camera Raw
Stock Photography
Pressure-Sensitive Tablets
Acquiring Images from PDFs
Managing Files
Automating
Actions
Scripts
File Formats
Video
William White Conquers ``Pepper Grain''
93(7)
Digital Infrared
100(17)
Mark Wainer Works the Percentages
117(11)
Exercising File Browser/Bridge
128(6)
Creating an Action To Animate a Video Clip
134(4)
Exercising Video: From Video to Web or Print
138(3)
Exercising Video: From Photoshop to Video
141(3)
Gallery
144(6)
Color in Photoshop
150(94)
Color Modes
Color Depth
Choosing or Specifying Colors
Applying Color
Assessing Color
Adjusting Color
Getting Consistent Color
Sharon Steuer Channels William Randolph Hearst
186(1)
Exercising Gradients
187(5)
Duotones
192(4)
``Styling'' a Photo
196(4)
Quick Tint Effects
200(11)
Laurie Grace & Don Jolley Garner Complements
211(1)
From Color to Black & White
212(4)
Russell Brown Sees in Black & White
216(1)
Memory Economy in 16-Bit Mode
217(4)
Controlled Recoloring
221(8)
Adding Spot Color
229(5)
Gallery
234(10)
Enhancing Photos
244(114)
Cropping
Correcting for Camera Distortion
Adjusting Tone & Color
Retouching Photos
Noise Reduction
Sharpening
Repurposing Photos
``Framing'' with Masks
260(4)
Quick Filtered Frames
264(2)
Quick Tone & Color Adjustments
266(9)
Deeanne Edwards Coaxes a Little More from the Ocean
275(1)
Exercising Lens Correction
276(3)
Compensating for Camera-Related Distortion
279(5)
Using a Spin Blur
284(1)
Focusing Attention on the Subject
285(6)
Exercising Lens Blur
291(3)
Quick Attention-Focusing Techniques
294(8)
Fixing a Problem Photo
302(5)
Softening a Portrait
307(4)
Quick Cosmetic Changes
311(6)
Quick Coverups
317(3)
Rod Deutschmann Lets His Fingers Do the Blocking
320(1)
Bringing Out Detail
321(5)
Quick Ways To Bring Out Detail
326(8)
Softening the Focus
334(4)
Hand-Tinting a Black & White Photo
338(6)
Cristen Gillespie Turns Day into Night
344(2)
Spectacular Lens Flare
346(1)
Gallery
347(11)
Painting
358(58)
Painting in Photoshop
The Painting Tools
Brush Control Options
Choosing, Editing & Creating Brush Tips & Tools
Using a Tablet & Stylus
The Artists' Cloning Tools
The Filling Tools
``Painting'' with Filters & Actions
``Post-Processing'' a Painting
Watercolor Over Ink
370(5)
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis Picks Some Winners
375(1)
Painting ``Wet on Wet''
376(5)
Quick Brush Tips
381(3)
Pattern Stamp Watercolors
384(4)
Art History Lessons
388(6)
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis Extracts Color & Form
394(1)
Exercising Wow Painting Tools
395(2)
Bert Monroy Does Neon
397(1)
Quick ``Painting'' with Wow Actions
398(3)
Turpentine or Photoshop?
401(1)
Gallery
402(14)
Type & Vector Graphics
416(72)
Type
Drawing
Editing Shapes & Paths
Aligning Paths & Shape Layers
Transforming Paths
Stroking & Filling Paths
``Softening'' Vector Art
Using Photoshop with Adobe Illustrator
Photoshop & Page Layout Programs
Exercising Type Layers
447(5)
Don Jolley Demos an Antique Technique
452(2)
Quick Neon Type
454(2)
Exercising Drawing Tools
456(4)
Designing for Scalability & Animation
460(7)
Organic Graphics
467(4)
Quick Filter Treatments
471(3)
Coloring Clip Art
474(8)
Gallery
482(6)
Special Effects for Type & Graphics
488(86)
Working with Layer Styles
Understanding Styles
Layer Style Components
Overlays
Lighting in Layer Styles
Shadows & Glows
Satin
Stroke
Bevel and Emboss
Blending Options
Enhancing Layer Styles
A Logo in Clear Color
509(4)
Anatomy of Clear Color
513(4)
Rusted & Pitted
517(5)
Anatomy of ``Bumpy''
522(3)
Custom Chrome
525(6)
Anatomy of ``Shiny''
531(3)
Custom Glass
534(3)
Anatomy of Bevels
537(3)
Carving
540(6)
Crafting a Neon Glow
546(5)
Quick FX: Wow Actions
551(4)
Quick Backgrounds & Textures
555(7)
Quick Seamless Patterns
562(4)
Gallery
566(8)
Putting It All Together
574(100)
Composition Methods
Choosing & Preparing Components
Fitting an Element to a Surface
Using Photomerge
Operating on Several Layers at Once
Layer Comps
Reordering Layers
Merging & Flattening
Exercising Vanishing Point
588(7)
Katrin Eismann Gives New Meaning to the Word ``Composite''
595(1)
Adding Type to an Image
596(8)
``Photomerging'' a Panorama
604(6)
Reflections
610(1)
Applying an Image to a Textured Surface
611(4)
Applying an Image with Liquify
615(5)
``Warping'' Graphics to a Surface
620(8)
Swapping a Background
628(7)
Building a Layout with Masks & Clipping Groups
635(8)
Many Versions from One Template
643(7)
Gallery
650(24)
The Web & Animation
674(60)
The Basic Workflow
Static Images for Graphics
Animations
Interactivity for Web Pages
Making a Web Photo Gallery
Quick GIF Optimizing
693(3)
Quick Tweening
696(1)
Geno Andrews Animates a ``Shape Shift''
696(5)
Animating with Actions
701(4)
Animating with Layer Comps
705(5)
Animating Frame-by-Frame
710(6)
Quick Button Rollovers
716(5)
Creating Remote Rollovers
721(8)
Gallery
729(5)
Appendixes
734(42)
Appendix A: Filter Demos
735(15)
Bert Monroy Inserts His Own ``Watermark''
750(1)
Appendix B: Wow Layer Styles
751(17)
Appendix C: Wow Patterns
768(6)
Appendix D: Artists and Photographers
774(2)
Index 776

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