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The Photoshop CS3/CS4 wow! book /

Dayton, Linnea, 1944-

The Photoshop CS3/CS4 wow! book / Linnea Dayton, Cristen Gillespie. - [Windows/Mac ed.] - Berkeley, CA : Peachpit Press, c2010. - 792 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm. + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Welcome to the Photoshop CS3/CS4 Wow! book -- What's new in Photoshop CS3/CS4? -- Fundamentals of Photoshop : How Photoshop thinks ; The Photoshop interface ; Working smart in Photoshop ; Recovering from mistakes ; Keeping Photoshop happy ; Getting an overview ; Anatomy of a Photoshop file -- Essential Photoshop skills : The essential skills ; Modifying selections ; Saving & loading selections ; Masking ; Blending ; Transforming & warping ; Understanding resampling ; Sizing up or sizing down ; Quick brush tip controls ; Exercising smart filters ; Exercising smart objects ; Exercising layer styles ; Quick masking & blending ; Exercising extract -- Getting in , Going fast & getting out : Getting in: input ; Going fast: automating ; Getting out: output ; Photoshop's companions ; Specialized output options ; Quick camera raw as a "front end" -- Color in Photoshop : What is color? ; Color modes ; Color depth ; Choosing or specifying colors ; Applying color ; Assessing color ; Adjusting color ; Getting consistent color ; Exercising gradients ; Duotones ; Quick tint effects ; From color to black & white ; Controlled recoloring ; Adding spot color -- Enhancing photos : Cropping ; Content-aware scaling ; Correcting for camera distortion ; Adjusting tone & color ; Retouching photos ; Noise reduction ; Sharpening ; Multi-shot techniques ; Repurposing photos ; Styling a photo ; "Framing" with masks ; Quick filtered frames ; Compensating for camera-related distortion ; Quick vignetting ; Quick tone & color adjustments ; Combing exposures ; Adjusting tone & color in camera raw ; Quick attention-focusing techniques ; Exercising lens blur ; Quick retouching from problem photos ; Quick retouching for sky ; Quick cosmetic changes ; Averaging out noise ; creating solitude ; Bringing out detail ; Quick ways to bring out detail ; In focus ; Softening the focus ; Hand-tinting a black & white photo ; Turning day into night -- Painting : First, a few words about terminology ; The painting tools ; The artists' cloning tools ; Choosing, editing & creating brush tips & tools ; The filling tools, fill layers & overlay effects ; "Painting" with filters & actions ; "Pre-conditioning" & "post-processing" ; Watercolor over ink ; "Wet on wet" acrylics ; Quick brush tips ; Pattern stamp watercolors ; Art history pastels ; Exercising Wow painting tools ; Quick "painting" with Wow actions -- Type & vector graphics : Type ; Drawing ; Editing shapes & paths ; Aligning paths & shape layers ; Transforming paths ; Stroking & filling paths ; "Softening" vector art ; Using Photoshop with Adobe Illustrator ; Exercising type layers ; Type on a circle ; Exercising drawing tools ; Organic graphics ; Quick filter treatments ; Coloring clip art ; Quick black & white graphics -- Special effects for type & graphics : Working with layer styles ; Understanding styles ; Layer style components ; Overlays ; Lighting in layer styles ; Satin ; Stroke ; Bevel and emboss ; Blending options ; Enhancing layer styles ; Adding dimension, color & texture ; Anatomy of "bumpy" ; Anatomy of clear color ; Custom chrome ; Anatomy of "shiny" ; Custom glass ; Anatomy of bevels ; Carving ; Quick neon type ; Quick FX: Wow actions ; Quick backgrounds & textures ; Quick seamless patterns -- Putting it all together : Composition methods ; Elements in a Photoshop file ; Choosing & preparing components ; FItting an element to a surface ; Creating panoramas ; Operating on several layers at once ; Reordering layers ; Merging & flattening ; Layer comps ; Adding type to an image ; Applying an image to a textured surface ; Liquifying a tattoo ; "Warping" graphics to a surface ; Exercising vanishing point ; Anatomy of masked groups ; Quick integration ; Exercising photomerge -- 3D, video & animation : 3D ; Video ; Animation ; Quick sources of 3D material ; Exercising 3D tools ; Exercising video: stills from video ; Exercising video: from Photoshop to video ; Animating a video clip ; Quick video techniques ; Animating frame-by-frame- Tweening & tweaking -- Measurement & analysis : Counting & measuring ; DICOM ; MATLAB ; Statistics ; Image sequences ; Some other useful functions ; Counting in Photoshop Extended ; Measuring in Photoshop Extended -- Appendixes : Filter demos ; Wow gradients ; Wow layer styles ; Wow patterns ; Artists and photographers -- On the Wow DVD : PS CS3-CS4 Wow presets ; Wow project files ; Wow goodies.


System requirements: DVD-ROM is designed to work with Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS3 Extended, and Photoshop CS4 Extended on Windows or Macintosh.

9780321514950 (pbk.) 0321514955 (pbk.)

2010282185


Adobe Photoshop.


Computer graphics.

T385 / .D4438 2010

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