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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

Lesa Snider

Special Upgrade Offer A Note Regarding Supplemental Files The Missing Credits About the Author About the Creative Team Acknowledgements The Missing Manual Series Foreword Chapter 1. Introduction

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What’s New in Photoshop CC About This Book

Note About the Outline

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For Photographers The Very Basics About→These→Arrows About MissingManuals.com Safari® Books Online

Chapter 2. Photoshop CC Guided Tour Meet the Application Frame

Note Note The Almighty Options Bar

Tip Tip Note

Swapping Screen Modes

Tip Tip

Changing Photoshop’s Appearance

Tip

Working with Panels

Note Tip Customizing Your Workspace

Tip

The Tools Panel

Tip Foreground and Background Color Chips

Common Panels

The Power of Undo

Note Changing How Far Back You Can Go Turning Back Time with the History Panel

Tip Note

The History Brush

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The Revert Command

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Tweaking Photoshop’s Preferences

Tip General

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Interface

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Sync Settings File Handling

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Performance

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Cursors

Tip

Transparency and Gamut Units and Rulers Guides, Grid, and Slices Plug-ins Type 3D

Working with Presets

Note Sharing Presets

Tip

Chapter 3. Opening, Viewing, and Saving Files Creating a New Document

Photoshop’s Ready-Made Documents

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Setting Size and Resolution

Note Tip

Choosing a Color Mode Choosing a Background Advanced Options

Saving Your Custom Settings

Saving Files

Tip Note File Formats

Note Note

Opening an Existing Document

Note Tip The Open Dialog Box

Note Tip Tip

Opening Multiple Files within a Single Document

Tip

Opening Files as Smart Objects

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Opening Recent Files Working with PDFs Working with Scanned Images

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Working with Raw Files

Tip Opening Raw Files Tip

Duplicating Files

Changing Your View

Zooming In and Out

Tip Tip Tip

Moving Around in an Image

Tip Tip

Getting Oriented with the Navigator Panel Rotating Your Canvas

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Arranging Open Images

Note Tip Tip

Guides, Grids, and Rulers

Rulers and Guiding Lines

Note Smart Guides Using the Document Grid

The Ruler Tool

Note Tip

Chapter 4. Layers: The Key to Nondestructive Editing

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Layer Basics

The Layers Panel Activating Layers

Tip Activating Multiple Layers Note Filtering Layers Tip Tip Note

Adding New Layers

Tip

Hiding and Showing Layers

Tip

Restacking Layers

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Duplicating and Deleting Layers

Tip Tip Tip

Copying and Pasting Layers

Tip

Filling a Layer with Color

Tip Note Creating Custom Patterns Note

Tweaking a Layer’s Opacity and Fill

Tip Tip

Resizing and Rotating Layers

Tip Tip

Moving and Aligning Layers

Note Aligning Layers Tip Note Moving Layers Between Documents Tip Exporting Layers to Separate Files Tip

Managing Layers

Tip Naming and Color-Coding Layers

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Linking and Locking Layers

Linking Layers Locking ’em Down Tip

Grouping Layers into Folders

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Layer Comps: Capturing Different Document Versions

Exporting Layer Comps

Rasterizing Layers

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Merging Layers

Note Tip Warning

Layer Blending Layer Masks: Digital Masking Tape

Adding Layer Masks

Note Tip Tip

Using Layer Masks

Tip Tip Fixing Exposure with an Adjustment Layer and its Mask

Editing a Mask

Tip

Using Smart Objects

Note Creating Smart Objects

Tip Note Note

Managing Smart Objects

Tip

Layer Styles

Note Tip Tip Managing Layer Styles The Styles Panel

Exporting and Loading Styles

Chapter 5. Selections: Choosing What to Edit Selection Basics

Meet the Marching Ants

Note Tip

Selecting by Shape

The Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools

Tip Tip Tip Creating a Soft Vignette

The Single Row and Column Marquee Tools The Vector Shape Tools

Tip Tip

Selecting by Color

The Quick Selection Tool

Note Tip

The Magic Wand Tool

Tip Note Note Expanding Your Selection Note

The Color Range Command

Tip Tip Tip

The Background and Magic Erasers

Tip The Background Eraser Tip Tip The Magic Eraser

Selecting Irregular Areas

The Lasso Tools

Lasso Tool Polygonal Lasso Tool Tip Magnetic Lasso Tool Tip Tip

Selecting with the Pen Tool Creating Selections with Channels Using the Selection Tools Together

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Modifying Selections

Refining Edges

Tip Tip Tip Adding a Creative Edge

Fixing Edge Halos Creating a Border Selection Transforming a Selection

Note Tip

Using Quick Mask Mode Moving Selections

Tip Note

Saving a Selection Filling a Selection with Color

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Stroking (Outlining) a Selection

Chapter 6. Understanding Channels How Color Works

Note Note RGB Mode vs. CMYK Mode

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The Channels Panel and You

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Meet the Color Channels

Note RGB Channels

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CMYK Channels

Note Creating a High-Key Portrait Effect Tip

Spot Channels

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Lab Channels Multichannel Mode Single-Channel Modes

The Mighty Alpha Channel

Tip Note Creating an Alpha Channel

Note Tip

Editing Alpha Channels

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Loading an Alpha Channel as a Selection Deleting Alpha Channels

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Basic Channel Stunts

Selecting Objects with Channels

Tip Tip

Creating a Silhouette Effect

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Lightening and Darkening Channels

Tip

Combining Channels

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Sharpening Individual Channels

Note Tip Tip

Chapter 7. Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating Cropping Images

The Rule of Thirds

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Creative Cropping The Crop Tool

Tip Tip Tip Tip Cropping to a Specific Shape, Size, and Resolution Note Tip Note Cropping with Perspective Adding Polaroid-Style Photo Frames Note Note

Cropping with Selection Tools Trimming Photos Down to Size Cropping and Straightening Photos

Note Tip

Cropping and Straightening in Camera Raw

Note Cropping Images Tip Tip Tip Straightening Images

Resizing Images

Note Pixels and Resolution

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The Mighty Image Size Dialog Box

Note Note Tip Tip Resolution Guidelines for Print Note

Resizing Images for Print

Note Note

Resizing for Email and the Web

Note Using the Save for Web Dialog Box Tip

Resizing Web Images for Print

Tip

Resizing Images for Presentations

Tip

Resizing Smart Objects

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Automated Resizing with the Image Processor

Tip Tip

Resizing the Canvas

Tip

Content-Aware Scaling

Note Note

Rotating and Distorting

Note Simple Rotations The Transformers

Note Note Note Tip Note Tip Tip Creating a Reflection Tip Tip Tip

Chapter 8. Combining Images Cut It Out

Tip

Pasting into a Selection

Note Tip Tip Sky Swapping

Tip

Fading Images Together

Soft Erasers Soft Brushes and Layer Masks

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Gradient Masks

Note Tip

Layer Blend Modes

Tip Normal and Dissolve Blend Modes

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Darken Blend Modes

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Lighten Blend Modes Lighting (Contrast) Blend Modes

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Comparative Blend Modes Composite Blend Modes

Zapping Backgrounds with Blending Sliders

Note Note Tip

Auto-Aligning Layers and Photomerge

Tip Building Panoramas with Photomerge

Tip

Auto-Blending Layers

Tip Tip

Cloning Between Documents

Note Tip Note Tip

Combining Vectors and Rasters

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Mapping One Image onto Another

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Chapter 9. Draining, Changing, and Adding Color Draining Color

Black & White Adjustment Layers

Note Tip Tip Tip Warp-Speed Color Tinting

Gradient Map Adjustment Layers

Tip Photographic Toning

The Lightness Channel Going Grayscale in Camera Raw

Tip Note

Partial-Color Effect

Tip Note Tip

Fading Color to Black and White

Tip

High-Contrast Black and White

Note Tip Tip

The High-Key Effect Delicious Duotones

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Changing Color

Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers

Note Note Targeting a Specific Range of Colors Note Tip Tip Note

Hue Blend Mode

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Replacing Color

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Selective Color Adjustment Layers Matching Colors

Tip

Photo Filter Adjustment Layers Posterizing: Your Ticket to Cartoon Art Inverting Colors

Tip

Adding Color

Note Colorizing Images

Tip Note Adding Digital MakeUp to Portraits Tip

Adding Solid Blocks of Color Building a Better Sunrise (or Sunset) Adding Color to a Semi-Transparent Layer

Chapter 10. Correcting Color and Lighting

Note Tip

Quick Fixer-Uppers

Note Fixing Color

Tip Note Tip

Fixing Lighting

Note Brightness/Contrast Adjustment Layers Tip Shadows/Highlights Adjustments

Correcting Images in Camera Raw

Note Tip Changing White Balance

Tip Note Tip

Fixing Exposure

Note Tip Tip

Making Colors Pop

Tip

Camera Raw’s Adjustment Brush

Note Tip Tip

Camera Raw’s Graduated Filters

Note Tip Using the Radial Filter

More Fun with Camera Raw

Using Levels

Histograms: Mountains of Information

Note Tip

The Levels Sliders

Tip Output Levels

The Levels Eyedroppers

Tip

Correcting by the Numbers

Tip Tip Tip

Color-Correcting Skin

Tip

Working with Curves

Note Note Tip Changing Contrast

Tip Tip

Creating High Dynamic Range Images

Note Note Note Note Note

Making Colors Pop

Tip Intensifying Colors

Tip

Adjusting Hue/Saturation Adding Lab Pop

Rescuing the Unfixables Chapter 11. Changing Reality: Removing and Repositioning

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The Great Healers

Note The Spot Healing Brush

Tip

Using Content-Aware Fill

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The Healing Brush

Tip Tip Tip

The Patch Tool

Tip Tip

Zapping Shines and Shadows

Note Tip Tip

Whitening Teeth Super Slimmers

Fixing Flabby Chins Liquifying Bulges

Note Tip Tip Note Tip

Slimming with Free Transform

Note Selective Slimming

Skin Softeners

Selective Blur Easy Glamour Glow Softening Wrinkles with Faux Dodge and Burn

Note Tip

Show-Stopping Eyes

Enhancing Eyes

Tip

Fixing Red-Eye

The Red Eye Tool Tip The Color Replacement Tool Fixing Red-Eye in Camera Raw

Fixing Animal White-Eye

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Other Creative Madness

Repositioning and Recomposing with Content-Aware Move

Note Tip

Reshaping Objects with Puppet Warp

Note Tip Tip

Chapter 12. The Art of Sharpening

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What Is Sharpening? Basic Sharpening

Note Sharpening with Unsharp Mask

Tip Tip How Much to Sharpen? Note

The Smart Sharpen Filter

Tip

Sharpening with the High Pass Filter The Shake Reduction Filter

Tip Tip Note Tip

Sharpening Layered Files

Note Combining Layers into a New Image Layer Tip Combining Layers into a Smart Object

Sharpening Part of an Image

Note Note Tip

Advanced Sharpening Techniques

Note Creating an Edge Mask

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Sharpening in Camera Raw

Global Sharpening

Note Tip

Local Sharpening

Tip

Chapter 13. Painting in Photoshop Color Theory: The Basics

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Choosing a Color Scheme

Note Using a Color Wheel

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Using the Kuler Panel

Note Tip

Other Color Scheme–Generating Tools

Choosing Individual Colors

The Color Picker

Note Tip

The Eyedropper Tool

Tip Tip

Loading Color Libraries

Tip

The Swatches Panel

Tip Tip

The Color Panel

Tip

(Re)Introducing the Brush Tool

Tip Tip Controlling the Brush Cursor’s Appearance

Tip Tip

Meet the Mixer Brush

Note Note Tip Tip

Painting from Scratch

Tip Tip Tip Tip Tip

Loading More Built-in Brushes

Making an Object Sparkle Tip

Customizing Brushes

Note Brush Tip Shape

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Shape Dynamics Scattering Texture Dual Brush Color Dynamics Transfer Brush Pose Noise Wet Edges Build-up Smoothing Protect Texture Suggested Brush Customizations

Defining a New Brush

Note Tip

Installing New Brushes

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Chapter 14. Drawing with the Vector Tools Photoshop’s Drawing Modes

Note Note

Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool

Drawing Straight Paths Drawing Curved Paths

Note Tip

Converting Anchor Points

Tip

Path Drawing Tips

Tip Tip

Saving Paths

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Drawing with the Shape Tools

Using the Shape Tools

Note Tip Tip Note Tip Tip Tip Customizing Stroke Options Using Live Shape Properties Note

Drawing Multiple Shapes on One Layer

Tip

Using Custom Shapes

Tip Tip

Editing Paths

Adding, Deleting, and Converting Points

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Activating and Moving Paths

Tip Tip

Making Paths Intersect

Tip Tip Aligning and Rearranging Paths

Adding a Stroke to a Path

Note Tip

Filling a Path

Making Selections and Masks with Paths

Tip Making a Path from a Selection

Tip

Making a Clipping Path

Tip

Using Vector Masks

Masking with Paths

Chapter 15. Creating Artistic Text Typography 101

Tip The Face of Type

Common Font Formats Note Font Categories Font Styles Tip Previewing Fonts

Creating and Editing Text

Tip Point Text vs. Paragraph Text

Note Tip Tip

Moving Text Highlighting Text

Note Tip Tip

Resizing Text

Tip

Creating a Hollow Text Selection

Note Note Note

Creating Text on a Path

Tip Note Note

Filling a Shape with Text Warping Text Using Find and Replace

Formatting Text

Tip Formatting with the Options Bar

Note Tip Tip Tip Note

The Character Panel

Note A Lesson in Leading Tip Learning to Kern Note Tip Track it Out Tip Doin’ the Baseline Shift Other Character Options Tip Tip Tip Note Tip Note

The Paragraph Panel

Aligning Text Tip Hyphenation and Justification Note Tip Note Tip Indenting Text Space Before and After

Special Text Effects

Tip Faded Text

Tip

Stroked Text

Tip Tip The Rare Multi-Stroked Text Effect Note

Texturizing Text

Texture from a Photo Note Texture from a Brush Texture from Filters

Placing a Photo Inside Text Converting Text to a Shape

More Typographic Resources Chapter 16. The Wide World of Filters

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The Joy of Smart Filters

Tip Tip Note Note

A Filters Tour

Note Note Adaptive Wide Angle

Note Note Tip Tip

Camera Raw Filter Lens Correction Liquify Oil Paint

Tip Tip

Vanishing Point

Tip Tip Tip

Artistic

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Blur

Note Fixing Color Fringe Tip Field Blur Note Tip Note Iris Blur Note Tip Tilt-Shift Tip Note Tip Lens Blur Tip Tip

Brush Strokes

Note Note Tip

Distort Noise Pixelate Render

Tip

Sharpen Sketch

Note

Stylize

Tip Emboss

Texture

Note

Video Other

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Digimarc Browse Filters Online

Chapter 17. Photoshop and Print The Challenge of WYSIWYG Printing

Understanding Color Gamuts and Profiles

Note Finding and Installing Drivers and Color Profiles Tip

Calibrating Your Display

Tip

Resizing and Formatting Files

Printer-Friendly File Formats

Tip

Resizing and Saving as a TIFF Resizing and Saving as a PDF

Tip

Printing on an Inkjet Printer

Note Note Tip Tip Note Tip Note Tip

Printing on a Commercial Offset Press

Converting RGB Images to CMYK Using Built-In Profiles Custom RGB to CMYK Profile Conversions

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Using Spot Color

Note Note Note Editing Spot Channels Saving a Document With Spot Channels Note Saving Spot Colors in PDF Format

Printing Duotone (Multitonal) Images

Tip

Printing Color Separations Proofing Images Onscreen Printing Proofs

Note

Printing on a Digital Press

Printing RGB Images on a Digital Press Printing CMYK Images on a Digital Press Printing Spot Colors on a Digital Press

Tip

Printing Multiple Images

Tip PDF Presentation Contact Sheet II

Recap: Stress-Free Printing Tips Chapter 18. Photoshop and the Web

Tip

Creating Web- and Email-Friendly Images

Note Resizing an Image

Note Tip Resizing Web Images Visually Tip

Choosing the Best File Format

Tip

Saving and Compressing Files

Tip Note Tip Tip

Animating a GIF

Note Editing Your Animation

Note

Saving Your Animation

Designing a Website Favicon

Note

Creating Web Page Mockups and Image Maps

Tip Tip Slicing an Existing Image

Tip

Modifying Slices

Tip Tip Slice Options Note

Saving Slices

Protecting Your Images Online

Embedding Copyright Info

Tip

Watermarking Images

Tip Note

Building Online Photo Galleries

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Chapter 19. Working Smarter with Actions The Actions Panel

Tip Tip Tip

Using Actions

Note Tip Recording Actions

Warning Note Tip Tip Tip

Running Actions on a Folder

Tip Tip

Managing Actions

Tip Tip Editing Actions

Note Tip

Creating Droplets Sharing Actions

Note Loading Actions Saving Actions as a Set

Tip

Chapter 20. Beyond Photoshop: Plug-Ins

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Adding and Removing Plug-Ins Managing Plug-Ins

Note

Noise Reducers

Noiseware

Tip

Dfine

Note

Photo Ninja (previously Noise Ninja)

Making Selections and Masking

Note Fluid Mask Perfect Mask

Tip

Color Correction and Enhancement

Viveza Color Efex Pro Perfect Portrait

Miscellaneous Plug-Ins

Silver Efex Pro Perfect Resize HDR Efex Pro Eye Candy SiteGrinder Dashboard Pro

Chapter 21. Photoshop and Video Creating Your First Video Project

Tip Using Video Document Presets

Note Note

Opening and Importing Video Clips

Note Tip Meet the Timeline Panel

Note Tip

Editing Video

Changing Clip Length

Note Note

Adding Transitions

Tip

Splitting and Trimming Video Clips

Tip Tip

Adding Text, Logos, and Still Images

Tip Tip Tip

Adding and Controlling Audio

Note Note Warning

Animating Objects and Effects

Adding and Deleting Keyframes

Tip

Editing and Copying Keyframes

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Choosing an Interpolation Method

Note

Warping Text Animating Masks Rotoscoping and Onion Skins

Global Lighting Adding Comments Adding Fill and Adjustment Layers

Adding a Color Tint Changing Fill and Adjustment Layers’ Duration

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Adding Layer Styles Using Smart Filters with Video Cloning and Healing

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Exporting Videos

Using Your Project in Other Video Editors

Additional Video Resources Chapter 22. Photoshop and 3D 3D Basics Photoshop’s 3D Environment

Tip Creating a 3D Postcard

Tip Note

Moving Objects in 3D Space

Note Using the HUD to Position an Object Note

Working with the Camera

Tip

Creating Other 3D Objects

Making 3D Text

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Making 3D Shapes

Tip Tip

Wrapping Art around Basic Shapes Making a Plane, Cylinder, or Sphere from Scratch Making a 3D Object from a Medical Scan Importing a 3D Model

Tip

Rendering

Tip

Saving and Exporting 3D Objects

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Editing 3D Objects

Working with Materials

Tip

Painting on a 3D Object

Tip Tip

Lighting Your 3D Scene

Tip Tip Positioning Lights Note

Instances Combining Objects Running Filters on a 3D Layer Changing a 3D Layer’s Blend Mode and Opacity Rasterizing a 3D Layer

Creating 3D Animations Additional 3D Resources Chapter 23. Using Adobe Bridge Installing Bridge

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Browsing through Photos

Note Tip Tip Tip Tip

Importing and Managing Photos

Tip Review Mode

Note Tip

Sorting and Filtering Images Grouping Images into Collections

Tip

Grouping Images into Stacks Opening Images in Camera Raw

Showing Off Your Work

Note Making a Slideshow Bridge CS6’s Export Panel Exporting Images from Bridge CS6 as PDFs

Tip

Making a Web Gallery

Using Mini Bridge

Note Tip Tip

Index

A note on the digital index Symbols A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W

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