Book description
Combining real word examples, step-by-step projects and professional advice, Photoshop CS6: Essential Skills provides you with the ultimate learning experience. Written by two internationally recognized authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors, this book and DVD package gives you a guided tour of everything you need to know to master image editing and achieve stunning results.
Broken into three parts, this self-study guide to Photoshop covers all the foundation skills to get you started, before moving on to more advanced image editing and photomontage techniques to develop you skills even further. A complete section of step-by-step imaging projects and the 12+ hours of DVD video tutorials will hone your image editing skills to give you professional quality results.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Contents DVD
- Introduction
- 1 What's new for CS6
- 2 Bridge
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3 Workflow
- Introduction
- A few key concepts before we start…
- Foundation Project 1
- Image capture – Step 1
- Downloading files – Step 2
- Image management – Step 3
- Image processing steps
- Rotating and cropping an image – Step 4
- Color adjustments – Step 5
- Tonal adjustments – Step 6
- Cleaning an image – Step 7
- Sharpening an image – Step 8
- Setting Workflow Options – Step 9
- Applying changes to multiple files – Step 10
- Outputting processed files – Step 11
- Saving, duplicating and resizing for web – Step 12
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4 Raw Processing
- Introduction
- Processing Raw data
- Foundation Project 2
- Lens corrections – Step 1
- Straighten, crop and size – Step 2
- Color space – Step 3
- Choosing a bit depth – Step 4
- White balance – Step 5
- Global tonal adjustments – Step 6
- Controlling saturation and vibrance – Step 7
- Localized correction – Step 8
- Grayscale conversion and toning – Step 9
- Adding special effects – Step 10
- Noise reduction and sharpening – Step 11
- Output options – Step 12
- Foundation Project 3
- Preliminary enhancements – Step 1
- Add Graduated Filter effect – Step 2
- Adjust the Graduated Filter effect – Step 3
- Reclaim some of the filtered detail – Step 4
- Add a film-like grain effect – Step 5
- Digital exposure
- Adjusting exposure in ACR
- Foundation Project 4
- Dust on the sensor – batch removal
- Archiving Raw files as digital negatives
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5 Fine Print
- Introduction
- The problem and the solution
- Prepare your print workshop
- Prepare your monitor
- Prepare your inkjet printer
- Select appropriate color setting
- Obtain a profile target
- Print the target using Adobe® Color Print Utility
- Alternative: Printing a target from Photoshop
- Adjust the printer settings
- Create and install custom profile
- Tag images with the Adobe RGB profile
- Test your color managed workflow
- Make printer presets
- Assessing the test print for accuracy
- Preserving shadow detail
- Soft Proofing
- Printing using a professional lab
- 6 Layers and Channels
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7 Selections
- Introduction
- Selection tools overview
- Shape-based selections with the Marquee tools
- Drawn selections using the Lasso tools
- Customizing your selections
- Refining selections
- Refine Edge in action
- Saving and loading selections
- Feather and anti-alias
- Defringe and Matting
- Quick Mask or Refine Edge
- ‘Color Range’
- Channel masking
- Tone-based selections and masks
- Selections from paths
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8 Filters
- Introduction
- The ‘Smart’ way to filter
- The Filter Gallery
- Fade Filter command
- Improving filter performance
- Installing and using third party filters
- Filtering a shape, text or vector layer
- The great filter roundup
- Liquify filter
- Vanishing Point
- Adaptive Wide Angle
- Lighting Effects Gallery
- Blur Gallery
- Correcting lens distortion with filters
- Noise filters
- Sharpen filters
- Texture filters
- Other filters
- Filter DIY
- 9 Layer Blends
- 10 Retouching Projects
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11 Composite Projects
- Refine Edge – Project 1
- Refine Edge (take two) – Project 2
- Paths, masks and blend modes – Project 3
- Replacing a sky – Project 4
- Composite studio lighting and action – Project 5
- Preserving shadows – Project 6
- Replacing a studio background – Project 7
- High Dynamic Range (HDR) – Project 8
- HDR problems and solutions – Project 9
- Photomerge – Project 10
- Vertical panoramas – Project 11
- 12 Special Effects
- Glossary
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Web Links
- Index
Product information
- Title: Photoshop CS6: Essential Skills
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136087097
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