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Adobe Photoshop ® ® CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less Micah Laaker and Christopher Schmitt Adobe Photoshop ® ® CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less Micah Laaker and Christopher Schmitt Adobe® Photoshop® CS in 10 Simple Steps or Less Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2004 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Available from Publisher ISBN: 0-7645-4237-0 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1O/QY/RS/QT/IN No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sec- tions 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Cen- ter, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Credits Acquisitions Editor Project Coordinator Sharon Cox Nancee Reeves Development Editor Graphics and Production Specialists Scott Amerman Beth Brooks Jennifer Heleine Technical Editor LeAndra Hosier Ramona Pruitt Kristin McMullan Lynsey Osborn Copy Editor Heather Pope Travis Henderson Quality Control Technicians Editorial Manager John Greenough Kathryn A. Malm Angel Perez Vice President & Executive Group Publisher Book Designer Richard Swadley Kathie S. Schnorr Vice President and Executive Publisher Proofreading and Indexing Robert Ipsen TECHBOOKS Production Services Vice President and Publisher Joseph B. Wikert Executive Editorial Director Mary Bednarek To CP — Micah Laaker For Gail — Christopher Schmitt Acknowledgments From Micah Laaker: This book would not have been possible if it weren’t for the hard work and efforts of a number of people. First, a thank you goes out to David Fugate from Waterside for getting things rolling, and to Michael Morrison for providing the introduction (as well as being an amazing author and game developer). Second, much appreciation goes out to my co-author, Christopher Schmitt, and the Wiley team, namely Sharon Cox, Scott Amerman, and Ramona Pruitt, who worked hard to shape this book and make it a reality. No acknowledgment would be accurate without an incredibly heartfelt thank-you to my wife, the beauti- ful and amazing Carrie Patton Laaker. Her support and assistance in making and completing this book have been tremendous. Thank you. Special thanks go out to my family and friends for all their love and support through the years, especially the Rev. Dr. Damon & Mary Laaker, Sarah & Tom Emery, Amanda Laaker, and Aaron Steckelberg. You couldn’t picture a more wonderful, encouraging bunch, and their support has been unwavering. Also, a huge thank-you is extended to all the amazing teachers I’ve learned from and been challenged by at the University of Kansas and Omaha Public Schools, especially Patrick Dooley, Barry Fitzgerald, Tom Eblen, Kim Cooper, Mike Krainak, and Kathleen Bradley, amongst dozens of other downright incredible people. It is fantastic, supportive, and challenging teachers like these who continue to make our public education institutions a treasure. And, of course, I want to express my thanks to the good folks at Adobe Systems, Inc. (especially Kevin Cheng for his eleventh-hour help), for continuing to develop and refine the legacy of the Knoll brothers, whose product is truly a staple of my livelihood. As an expression of my gratitude for having all these wonderful people in my life, all after-tax profits I have received from this book’s advance will go to the Rev. Dr. Damon & Mary Laaker Scholarship Fund (www.laaker.com/fund)and the Heifer Project (www.heifer.org) through the A Penny A Day program. For more information about this program, please visit www.apennyaday.com.. vi Acknowledgments From Christopher Schmitt: I recall the first time I used Photoshop. While being filled with awe at such an amazing tool, I also had a head full of questions about the many Photoshop commands and features available. That’s why I want to thank Micah for helping to co-write this educational tool. Through his invaluable contributions, we have created a truly wonderful educational tool to eliminate those types of questions for new users as well as old. I’m thankful for the steering by David Fugate at Waterside as well as the hard work and contributions from Scott Amerman, Sharon Cox, and Romana Pruitt. Their support helped guide the book to what you see in your hands now. A special thanks to Mat, Brook, and Tim at Gen X Images for their support and stock photo contributions. It’s always great to have excellent source material when demonstrating a complex application like Photoshop. Thanks, too, to Richard Grillotti (www.rg.org) for donating digital photographs so I could work on the Camera Raw task as well some fresh new images for a few of the filter pages. And for helping me to keep my feet firmly planted on the ground, a special thanks to Dee Lalley, Dave and Margot Schmitt, and the rest of my family. Thank you! About the Authors Micah Laakeris the creative director of Fearless Concepts, an interactive design and development firm in New York. As head of the creative department, Micah leads the conceptual and visual direction of music and entertainment projects. Having worked in the interactive field for more than seven years, he has provided his entertainment, corporate, and not-for-profit clients with a range of graphic design, illus- tration, and multimedia services. Micah was instrumental in the founding and operations of the research and development department at Iguana Studios, a leading New York–based design firm. Thanks to the resources of Iguana and with the support of Adobe Systems, Inc., he was able to coordinate the development of the first commercial SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) project: the redesign of BattleBots.com. Supplementing this development, Micah has written extensively detailing practical applications of SVG, including “SAMS Teach Yourself SVG in 24 Hours,” and continues to lecture and teach university classes about online vector graphics and interactive production technologies. His clients have included the ACLU, Island Def Jam Music Group, Disney Channel, Sprint PCS, Lockheed Martin, and Adobe Systems. Micah has won numerous awards for both creative and Web development, including the 2002 London International Advertising Awards Gold Award and the 2001 Industrial Design Society of America’s Industrial Design Excellence Gold Award. You can read more about Micah’s professional work and experience at www.laaker.com. Christopher Schmitthas been involved in Web projects since 1993. He is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm in Tallahassee, Florida. Christopher graduated in 1997 with a Fine Arts degree with emphasis on Graphic Design from Florida State University. While an undergraduate, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid-90s, wrote for local newspapers about Web sites and design, and won the presti- gious High Five award. He has written for Web Techniques, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Referenceand contributed four chapters to XML, HTML XHTML Magic. He wrote Designing CSS Web Pages(www.cssbook.com), a book about contemporary Web page layouts through Cascading Style Sheets, Dynamic HTML, PNG, and SVG.