Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

by Stephen Laskevitch
Released March 2020
Publisher(s): Rocky Nook
ISBN: 9781681985176

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Book description

Adobe Photoshop: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to creating, editing, and enhancing images and designs in Adobe Photoshop. Whether you’re retouching a photograph, making a simulated chalk drawing, or creating a composite photo with a 3D drawing, Photoshop is the tool for you—and this book will teach you what you need to know.

First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from Adobe Certified Instructor Steve Laskevitch, you will learn the procedures needed to use Photoshop effectively and professionally. Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any graphics you have in mind. Through these step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of Photoshop’s features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download. These can even serve as starting points for your own projects.

Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you’ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the “how” and “why” of Photoshop. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Photoshop’s key features and concepts in depth. With cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.

Learn step by step how to:

    • Set up an ideal workspace
    • Master selections and masks
    • Work with type and brushes
    • Use blend modes for combining images
    • Take advantage of Smart Objects
    • Become more efficient and effective with actions and scripts
    • And much more!

2021 Photoshop Update: Download an addendum covering the 2021 Adobe Photoshop update along with the supplied Course files for the book. See the book's Introduction for a link to downloadable resources webpage.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
    1. About the Author
      1. Acknowledgments
    2. Introduction
      1. Software and Files
        1. Image File Formats
        2. A Note Regarding Keyboard Shortcuts
  2. The Course
    1. 1 Preliminary Tuning
      1. Preferences
        1. Interface
        2. File Handling
        3. Performance
        4. Technology Previews
      2. Configuring the Workspace
        1. Docking and Arranging Panels
        2. Create a New Workspace
        3. Working Color Spaces
      3. Lesson A: Opening Multiple Images
      4. Lesson B: Intro to Layers
        1. Backgrounds vs Pixel Layers
      5. Lesson C: Basic Retouching
        1. Nondestructive Retouching
      6. Lesson D: An Adjustment
        1. What’s the Problem Here?
      7. Lesson E: Layers on the Move
        1. Drag, Keep Dragging, and Drop
      8. Lesson F: Selections & Masking
        1. Masking Metaphor
        2. A Warm-Up
        3. A Few Possible Methods
      9. Lesson G: Intro to Smart Objects and Filters
        1. A Note Regarding Navigation
    2. 2 A Few Adjustments
      1. Lesson A: The Color Wheel
        1. Additive Primaries
        2. Complementary Colors
        3. Just What’s Wrong?
      2. Lesson B: Photo Filter Adjustment
        1. Adjustment as Diagnostic and Cure
      3. Lesson C: Curves
        1. Tone and Color
        2. Monochromatic Contrast Enhancement
        3. Per-Channel Contrast Enhancement
        4. Auto and Semi-Auto Curves
      4. Lesson D: Vibrance & Hue/Saturation
        1. Definition of Saturation
        2. Color Clipping
        3. Vibrance
        4. Hue/Saturation
        5. Limiting Adjustments
    3. 3 Selections & Masking
      1. Warm-Up
      2. Lesson A: Rectangular Marquee
        1. Basic Use
        2. With Modifier Keys
      3. Lesson B: Elliptical Marquee
        1. Vibrance Adjustment
      4. Lesson C: Lasso & Polygonal Lasso
        1. The Lasso Tool
        2. The Polygonal Lasso Tool
      5. Lesson D: Object Selection
        1. Select Subject
        2. Object Selection Tool
        3. Magic Wand Tool
        4. Quick Selection Tool
        5. Select and Mask Workspace
      6. Lesson E: Mini Project
        1. Peachy In The Woods
        2. A Quick Shadow
      7. Lesson F: Color Range
        1. When a Color’s What You Want, or When It’s Not
      8. Lesson G: Saving & Loading Selections
        1. Selection to Channel
        2. What Quick Mask Really Is
        3. Luminosity Masks
    4. 4 Creative Features
      1. Lesson A: Creating Content
        1. Create a New Doc
        2. Creating a Pattern Fill Layer
        3. Creating a Gradient Fill Layer
        4. Creating a Color Fill Layer
        5. Type Layers
      2. Lesson B: Layer Styles
        1. Drop Shadow and Bevel & Emboss
      3. Lesson C: Smart Objects
        1. Smart Objects Are Smart Workflow
      4. Lesson D: Blend If
        1. Now That’s Shady
      5. Lesson E: Painting in Photoshop
        1. Prepare Your Canvas
        2. Happy Little Dabs
        3. Setting Behavior and Qualities
      6. Lesson A: Placing the Art
        1. Place and Finesse the Smart Object
      7. Lesson B: Knockout & Clip Mask Blending
        1. Knockout
        2. Clip Mask with Blending Options
        3. Combining the Two
      8. Lesson C: A Bit of Erasure
        1. Layers with Options
    5. 5 Adobe Camera Raw & Software-Aided Photography
      1. Lesson A: From Bridge to ACR
        1. Processing Images with ACR
      2. Lesson B: HDR
        1. Manage Contrast with Multiple Images
      3. Lesson C: Panorama
        1. Assemble Appropriately Captured Images
      4. Lesson D: Passers-Bye-Bye
        1. Statistics Script
        2. Stack Mode
    6. 6 Retouching & Transformation
      1. Lesson A: Cloning, Healing, and Content-Aware Fill
        1. Create a Retouch Layer
        2. Clone Stamp
        3. Healing Brush
        4. Spot Healing Brush
        5. Content-Aware Fill
      2. Lesson B: Transforms
        1. Free Transform
        2. Content-Aware Scale
      3. Lesson A: Where We’re Going
        1. Tour the Finished Piece
      4. Lesson B: Gathering the Ingredients
        1. Material Choices
        2. Custom Shape
      5. Lesson C: Bending & Warping
        1. Free Transform with Custom Grid
      6. Lesson D: Clipping and Layer Comps
        1. The Clipping Mask
        2. The Other Half
        3. Create Layer Comps
        4. Comps as Smart Object Properties
        5. Final Touches
  3. The Compendium
    1. 1 Layers & Smart Objects
      1. Layers
        1. The Layers Panel
        2. The Background
        3. Pixel or Image Layer
        4. Fill Layers
        5. Vector Shape Layers
        6. Type Layers
        7. Adjustment Layers
      2. Groups
        1. Making a Group
        2. Both Like and Unlike Individual Layers
        3. Neat and Clean
      3. Artboards
        1. A Bit Like Groups
      4. Smart Objects
        1. Creating Smart Objects
        2. Linking vs Embedding
        3. Workflows & Limitations
        4. Frame Layers
      5. Layer Comps
        1. An Alternative to Multiple Files
        2. What is Recorded?
        3. Applying, Editing, and Updating Layer Comps
        4. Exporting Layer Comps
        5. Layer Comps within Smart Objects
      6. Layer Locks & Filtering
        1. Locks
        2. Layer Filters
      7. General Blending Options
        1. Opacity
        2. Blend Modes
        3. Blend Modes & Smart Filters
        4. Blend Modes & Adjustment Layers
        5. Blend Modes & Groups
      8. Layer Styles & Effects
        1. Applying and Editing Styles
        2. Saving Styles
        3. The Effects Listed
        4. Layer Styles & Groups
      9. Advanced Blending Options
        1. Fill Opacity
        2. Channels
        3. Knockout
        4. Blend Interior Effects as Group
        5. Blend Clipped Layers as Group
        6. Transparency Shapes Layer
        7. Layer/Vector Mask Hides Effects
        8. Blend If
    2. 2 Adjustments & Color
      1. How Color Works
        1. Color Modes
        2. Color Spaces, Profiles, and Lab
        3. Adjusting in RGB or CMYK or Lab
      2. Choosing Color
        1. Color Picker and Panels
      3. Sampling and Monitoring Image Colors
        1. Eyedropper Tool
        2. Color Sampler Tool
      4. Adjustment Methods and Principles
        1. Best Practices
        2. Histograms
        3. Bit Depth
      5. The Adjustments, Listed
        1. Production Adjustments
        2. Creative Adjustments
    3. 3 Brushes & Painting
      1. Brushes and Brush Settings
        1. Brush Tips
        2. Loading and Saving Brushes
        3. Brush Behavior
      2. Tools with Brush Settings
        1. Brush
        2. Pencil
        3. Mixer Brush
        4. Retouching Tools
        5. Color Replacement
        6. Pattern Stamp
        7. History and Art History Brushes
        8. Erasers
        9. Tone and Focus Tools
        10. Gradient Tool
    4. 4 Selections & Masks
      1. Selections: Limiting the Damage
        1. Selection Tools
        2. Other Selection Modifiers
        3. Combining Selection Tools
        4. Saving & Loading Selections
      2. Masks
        1. A Metaphor and Example
        2. Creation
        3. Properties
        4. Applying Masks
        5. Selections from Masks
        6. Masks on Groups
        7. Masks on Smart Objects or within Them?
        8. Vector Masks
      3. Other Masking Features
        1. Frame Tool
        2. Clipping Masks
        3. Knockout
        4. Blend If
    5. 5 Filters & Transforms
      1. Filters
        1. Focus (Blurring and Sharpening)
        2. Texture
        3. Creation
        4. Artifying
        5. Distortion
        6. Technical
      2. Transforms
        1. Free Transform
        2. Content-Aware Scale
    6. 6 Retouching & Repair
      1. Tools & Methods
        1. Clone Stamp
        2. Healing Brush
        3. Clone Source Panel
        4. Spot Healing Brush
        5. Content-Aware Fill
        6. Patch
        7. Content-Aware Move
        8. Vanishing Point Filter
      2. Cosmetic Retouching
        1. Keep Your Options Open
        2. Blemish Removal
        3. Other Helpful Features
    7. 7 Editing Raw Files
      1. Adobe Camera Raw & Lightroom
        1. Why We Need Them
        2. Adobe Camera Raw
        3. Raw Adjustments
        4. Lightroom to Photoshop
    8. 8 Extending Photoshop
      1. Actions & Scripts
        1. Actions
        2. Scripts
      2. 3D
        1. Adobe Dimension
      3. Photoshop on iPad
        1. Taking Photoshop on the Road
    9. Keyboard Shortcuts
    10. New in Photoshop 2021
      1. Cloud Docs and Version History
        1. Version History Panel
        2. Collaboration
      2. Select & Mask
        1. So Many Things Refined
      3. Sky Replacement
        1. Flexible & Customizable
      4. Adobe Camera Raw
        1. New User Interface
        2. Color Grading
      5. Neural Filters
        1. Amusement with Potential

Product information

  • Title: Adobe Photoshop
  • Author(s): Stephen Laskevitch
  • Release date: March 2020
  • Publisher(s): Rocky Nook
  • ISBN: 9781681985176