Photoshop CS4 In Simple Steps Louis Benjamin
Discover everything you want to know about Photoshop CS4 in this easy to use guide, from the most essential tasks that you'll want to perform to solving the most common problems you'll encounter.
Photoshop CS4 In Simple Steps
Photoshop CS4 In Simple Steps
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Discover everything you want to know about Photoshop CS4 in this easy to use guide, from the most essential tasks that you'll want to perform to solving the most common problems you'll encounter.
Photoshop CS4 In Simple Steps Résumé
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Top 10 Photoshop CS4 Tips
Chapter 1 Getting Started with Photoshop CS4
- Preferences: set Photoshop history states
- Preferences: set Photoshop cursors
- Set and save Photoshop colour settings
- Arrange panels in the Photoshop workspace
- Save your custom Photoshop workspace
- Launch Adobe Bridge from Photoshop
- Arrange panels in Adobe Bridge
- Save a new workspace in Adobe Bridge
- Browse files in Adobe Bridge
- Open a JPEG file in Photoshop
- Open a JPEG file in Camera Raw
- Open a raw file
- Boxout: keys and keystrokes
Chapter 2 Set Up Adobe Bridge
LaunchAdobe Bridgefrom Photoshop
Arrange Panels in Adobe Bridge
Set the Preview layout as your main layout
Expand the thumbnail view and save the new workspace
SetBridgepreferences
Download files from your camera
Chapter 3 Work with the Brush Tool
Create a new document
Use the brush tool
Use the brushes panel
Use default foreground and backgroundcolours
Pick foreground and backgroundcolours
Use the Brush tool w/opacity
Boxout: Resize the Brush tool and change opacity with the keyboard
Use the Airbrush
Shift-click to paint connecting lines between two points
Constrain verticals & horizontals with the shift key
Show rulers
Add guides
Reposition guides
Use snap
Hide guides
Clear guides
Chapter 4 Work with Layers and Groups
Choose a marquee tool
Fill all or part of a layer
Change layer transparency
Duplicate the background layer
Reorder layers
Toggle a layer's visibility
Nudge a single layer
Nudge two layers together
Link layers
Unlink layers
Group layers
Expand or collapse a group
Add a layer to a group
Remove or delete a layer from a group
Toggle a group's visibility
Changethe blending mode of a layer or group
Rename layers and groups
Chapter 5 Erase, Move. Crop and Undo
Use the eraser tool
Select an areawith the Marquee tool and clear it
Choose a lasso tool
Select and move a section using the Polygonal Lasso
Select and copy part of a layer
Use the crop tool
Use Undo (command-z)
Use the History Panel
Chapter 6 Work with Type
Choose a Type tool
Use the Type tool to make straight-line text
Use Type tool to make wrapping text
Edit and reshape wrapping text
Alter type with the Options and character panels
Chapter 7 View your Document in Different Ways
Switch screen modes
Show or hide all panels
Rotate and reset the view
Zoom in or out
Reposition with the hand tool
Use Bird's Eye View
Use the Navigator panel
Chapter 8 Pre-edit in Camera RAW
Open a RAW file from Adobe Bridge
Set Camera RAW preferences
Set workflow options
Toggle full-screen mode
Zoom in or out
Move with the Hand tool
Rotate the image
Crop an image
Remove cropping from an image
Straighten an image
Use a pre-set white balance
Use the White Balance tool
Manually adjust colour temperature & tint
Use clipping warnings
Adjust Exposure, Recovery, Fill light, Blacks, Brightness, and Contrast
Adjust Clarity, Vibrance, Saturation
Use the Parametric Tone Curve
Use the Point Tone Curve
Use Noise Reduction
Toggle your preview
Convert to grayscale
Use Auto, Default, Reset and Undo
Open in Photoshop or Open a copy in Photoshop
Save edits without opening
Chapter 9 Basic Retouching
Duplicate the background layer
Reshape with the Liquify tool
Use the Patch tool
Add a blank layer for retouching and rename it
Use the Healing Brush
Use the Spot Healing Brush
Boxout: Watch out for Healing Brush bleed
Use the Clone Stamp
Boxout: Using Aligned
Chapter 10 Adjust Tones and Colours in Photoshop
* Adjust contrast with a preset curves adjustment layer
* Adjust the black point and white point of an image
* Make a curves adjustment layer from scratch
* Review and adjust an existing curves adjustment layer
* Adjust saturation
* Target a colour and adjust hue and saturation
* Adjust vibrance
* Adjust colour with curves using the Auto button
* Convert a colour image to black and white
* Colourize a black and white image
Chapter 11 Make Selections
Select using the rectangular Marquee and use Deselect
Select using the Elliptical Marquee
Select with the Lasso
Select with the Polygonal Lasso and reposition a selection
Select with the Magnetic Lasso
Use Select Inverse
Add to or subtract from selection
Use the Refine Edge command
Modify Quick Mask preferences
Modify a selection with Quick Mask
Create a new selection with Quick Mask
Select by Colour Range
Save a selection
Load a selection
Chapter 12 Advanced Techniques with Selections, Layers and Masks
Hide a selection
Use a selection to constrain painting
Black and White & Colour in the same image
Adjust contrast in one part of an image
Add a layer mask to hide pixels instead of erasing
Use a selection to make a layer mask
View and edit a mask directly
View the mask as an overlay
Use the Masks panel
Add "pop" to eyes and jewellery
Soften wrinkles
Whiten teeth
Brighten eyes
Add grain or noise for a film-like look
Use layer comps
Selectively merge layers
Chapter 13 Sharpening
Use zoom to view the image at output size
Add a sharpening layer
Use Smart Sharpen
Use a layer mask to hide some of the sharpening
Sharpen with the high-pass filter
Chapter 14 Saving and Exporting Files from Photoshop and Adobe Bridge
Open a file from Adobe Bridge
Save a file as a Photoshop file
Save a file as a TIFF file
Save a file as a copy
Save a file as JPEG
Resample an image using Fit Image
Resample an image using Image Size
Save a file using Save for Web and Devices
Make a PDF in Adobe Bridge
Make a web gallery in Adobe Bridge
Chapter 15 Print
Flatten for printing only Tip: Flattening is a problem. Don't forget to restore layers.
Resize for printing
Resample for printing
Print with Photoshop colour management
Set page layout parameters
Set colour management parameters
Boxout: About printer profiles and rendering intent
Specify printer
Select media type, colour mode and bits/channel
Turn off colour adjustment and set print quality
Print in Black and White
Use the History panel to undo flattening
Chapter 16 Use Workflow Tools
Compare images
Use the Loupe tool to inspect fine details
Use Review Mode
Use collections
Use ratings &labels
Work with metadata
Use File Info to embed your copyright
Export a File Info template
Use a File Info template
Boxout: Backup is crucial
Open RAW, JPEG or TIFF in Camera RAWfrom Adobe Bridge
Create an action
Use an action
Process batches from Photoshop with Image Processor
Process batches from Adobe Bridge with Image Processor
Top 10 Photoshop CS4 Problems Solved
I can't see changes when painting, retouching, etc.
I'm getting a message about a missing colour profile
I'm getting a message about an embedded profile mismatch
How come I can't Save As JPEG?
Changes are getting saved even when I don't want them
Help! All my tools and panels just disappeared!
My cursor suddenly just looks like a crosshair
My layers suddenly went out of alignment
Accidentally falling into Quick-mask
My prints are coming out very magenta
My matte paper prints look odd
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Photoshop CS4 In Simple Steps Louis Benjamin
Occasion - Très bon état
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Pearson Education Limited
2009-06-25
256
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