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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Icons Used in This Book
How to Use This Book
Part 1: Getting Started with Photoshop CC
Chapter 1: Welcome to Photoshop!
Exploring Adobe Photoshop
Viewing Photoshop’s Parts and Processes
Chapter 2: Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images
What Exactly Is a Digital Image?
The True Nature of Pixels
How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?
File Formats: Which Do You Need?
Chapter 3: Taking the Chef ’s Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen
Food for Thought: How Things Work
Get Cookin’ with Customization
Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings
When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop
Chapter 4: Getting Images into and out of Photoshop
Bringing Images into Photoshop
Keeping Your Images Organized
Printing Your Images
Sharing Your Images
Chapter 5: What’s New in Photoshop CC?
Improvements and New Features
New to Camera Raw
More Sensei Coming Soon to Photoshop
Part 2: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images
Chapter 6: Making Tonality and Color Look Natural
Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop
Histograms Simplified
Using Photoshop’s Auto Corrections
Levels and Curves and You
Grabbing Even More Control
What Is Color in Photoshop?
Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop
The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas
Chapter 7: The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In
Understanding the Raw Facts
Working in the Camera Raw Plug-In
Chapter 8: Fine-Tuning Your Fixes
What Is a Selection?
Feathering and Anti-aliasing
Making Your Selections with Tools
Your Selection Commands
Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore
Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes
Chapter 9: Common Problems and Their Cures
Making People Prettier
Reducing Noise in Your Images
Fooling Around with Mother Nature
Part 3: Creating “Art” in Photoshop
Chapter 10: Combining Images
Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1
Making Complex Selections
Vanishing Point
Creating Panoramas with Photomerge
Chapter 11: Precision Edges with Vector Paths
Pixels, Paths, and You
Easy Vectors: Using Shapes
Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths
Customizing Any Path
Chapter 12: Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles
What Are Layer Styles?
Using the Styles Panel
Creating Custom Layer Styles
Saving Your Layer Styles
Chapter 13: Giving Your Images a Text Message
Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels
Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers
Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path
Chapter 14: Painting in Photoshop
Discovering Photoshop’s Painting Tools
Working with Panels and Selecting Colors
Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Tips and the Mixer Brush
Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors
Chapter 15: Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop
Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy
The Filters You Really Need
Getting Creative and Artistic
Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify
Do I Need Those Other Filters?
Part 4: Power Photoshop
Chapter 16: Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop
Ready, Set, Action!
Find It Fast with Search
Creating Contact Sheets and Presentations
Scanning Multiple Photos in One Pass
Sticking to the Script
Chapter 17: Working with Video and Animation
Importing and Enhancing Video Clips
Creating Animations in Photoshop
Part 5: The Part of Tens
Chapter 18: Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC
Using Smart Object Stack Modes
The Mean Stack Mode
Working with 3D Artwork
Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels
Chapter 19: Ten Reasons to Love Your Wacom Tablet
More Natural Movement
Health and Safety
Artistic Control
Extended Comfort
Gestures, Programmable ExpressKeys, Touch Rings, and Touch Strips
The Optimal Tablet
The Pen’s Switch
Setting Preferences
The Accessories
Cintiq for the Photoshop Pro
Chapter 20: Ten Things to Know about HDR
Understanding HDR
Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro
Preparing Raw “Exposures” in Camera Raw
Working with Merge to HDR Pro
Saving 32-Bit HDR Images
HDR Toning
Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit
Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit
Selections and Editing in 32-Bit
Printing HDR Images
Appendix: Photoshop CC’s Blending Modes
About the Author
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