Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Mac & PC

705 Pages·2007·60.16 MB·English

by  Martin Evening

Adobe Photoshop CS3
for Photographers
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In memory of my mother Marjorie Evening
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers
A professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
Martin Evening
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Contents
Contents
Foreword ...................................................................................................................... xx
Introduction................................................................................................................ xxii
Book and DVD contents ...................................................................................... xxiii
Photoshop for Photographers website ............................................................. xxiii
Acknowledgments .............................................................................................. xxiv
Chapter 1: What’s New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 1
New interface design ......................................................................................................2
Performance ...................................................................................................................4
Camera Raw 4.0 .............................................................................................................4
New Curves ...................................................................................................................6
New Brightness and Contrast .........................................................................................7
Black & White adjustments ............................................................................................8
Align controls.................................................................................................................9
Automatic Photomerge .................................................................................................10
Clone Source palette and options.................................................................................11
Blending multiple images with Stacks ..........................................................................12
New Smart Object features ...........................................................................................14
Smart Filters ..........................................................................................................14
Quick Selections ..........................................................................................................16
Refi ne selection edges ...........................................................................................16
Vanishing Point 2.0 ......................................................................................................18
Printing ........................................................................................................................19
Bridge 2.0 ....................................................................................................................20
PDF enhancements ......................................................................................................22
Device Central ..............................................................................................................22
Overall impressions .....................................................................................................23
Chapter 2: Photoshop Fundamentals 25
How to use this book....................................................................................................26
Photoshop installation .................................................................................................30
The Photoshop interface ...............................................................................................30
The image document window ................................................................................32
Title bar proxy icons (Macintosh) ..........................................................................33
Managing document windows ...............................................................................34
Rulers, Guides & Grid ...........................................................................................35
‘Snap to’ behavior ..................................................................................................35
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The Photoshop palettes ................................................................................................36
Palette docking ......................................................................................................36
Workspace settings ...............................................................................................38
Customizing the menu options ......................................................................39
Image resolution ..........................................................................................................39
Pixels versus vectors....................................................................................................42
Terminology ..........................................................................................................42
ppi: pixels per inch .........................................................................................42
lpi: lines per inch ............................................................................................43
dpi: dots per inch ............................................................................................43
Desktop printer resolution .....................................................................................44
Repro considerations .............................................................................................44
The relationship between ppi and lpi .....................................................................45
Creating a new document ......................................................................................47
Altering the image size ..........................................................................................48
Image interpolation ................................................................................................49
Nearest Neighbor ............................................................................................49
Bilinear interpolation ......................................................................................49
Bicubic interpolation .......................................................................................49
Bicubic interpolation methods ...............................................................................50
Bicubic Smoother ...........................................................................................50
Bicubic Sharper ..............................................................................................50
Step interpolation ..................................................................................................50
Converting raw data into pixels ....................................................................................52
Photoshop CS3 Tools palette .......................................................................................54
Options palette ......................................................................................................56
Tool Presets palette ...............................................................................................57
Selection tools .............................................................................................................58
Modifi er keys .........................................................................................................60
Painting tools ...............................................................................................................62
On-the-fl y brush changes ......................................................................................63
Brushes palette ......................................................................................................64
Brushes palette options ..................................................................................65
Brush tool presets .................................................................................................66
Tools for fi lling .............................................................................................................66
Tools for drawing .........................................................................................................67
Image editing tools .......................................................................................................68
Working with Layers ..............................................................................................70
Automating Photoshop .................................................................................................71
Move tool ..............................................................................................................72
Layer selection using the move tool ......................................................................72
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Navigation and information tools .................................................................................74
History .........................................................................................................................75
The History palette ................................................................................................75
History settings and memory usage ......................................................................76
History brush ........................................................................................................78
Use of history versus undo ...................................................................................78
Snapshots .............................................................................................................79
Non-linear history .................................................................................................80
Preset Manager ............................................................................................................81
Adobe Bridge CS3 ........................................................................................................82
The Bridge interface ...............................................................................................82
Opening and saving images from Bridge ...............................................................84
When fi les won’t open ...........................................................................................86
Save often ..............................................................................................................87
Save As... and Save a Copy ............................................................................88
File formats ...........................................................................................................89
Photoshop native fi le format ...........................................................................89
PSB (Large Document Format) .......................................................................90
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) ....................................................................90
Photoshop PDF .....................................................................................................92
PDF security ...................................................................................................93
Easter eggs...................................................................................................................96
Chapter 3: Confi guring Photoshop 97
What you will need .......................................................................................................98
Macintosh .............................................................................................................98
Windows ...............................................................................................................98
The ideal computer setup .............................................................................................99
Choosing a display .............................................................................................100
Display calibration and profi ling .........................................................................102
Calibration hardware ....................................................................................104
Do you want good color or just OK color? ....................................................106
Calibration using a third-party calibrator ......................................................108
Color management settings .................................................................................110
Extras ..................................................................................................................111
Backing up image data ........................................................................................112
Photoshop preferences ...............................................................................................113
General preferences .............................................................................................113
Interface ...............................................................................................................115
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File Handling .......................................................................................................116
File compatibility ..........................................................................................116
Performance ........................................................................................................119
RAM memory and scratch disks ..........................................................................120
Enhancing memory and performance ...........................................................121
Scratch disks ................................................................................................121
Scratch disk performance ....................................................................................123
Interface connections ....................................................................................123
RAID scratch disks ..............................................................................................124
RAID 0 (striping) .................................................................................................124
Internal RAID ................................................................................................124
External RAID................................................................................................125
Image Cache ........................................................................................................126
Cache pyramid structure ...............................................................................126
Cursors ...............................................................................................................127
Transparency & Gamut ........................................................................................128
Units & Rulers .....................................................................................................129
Guides, Grid & Slices ...................................................................................130
Plug-ins ..............................................................................................................131
Type preferences ..................................................................................................132
Chapter 4: Basic Pixel Image Editing 133
Image capture and fi le output .....................................................................................134
Scanner software .................................................................................................135
The image histogram ...........................................................................................136
16 bits per channel support .......................................................................................138
16-bit and color space selection ..........................................................................139
Levels adjustments ..............................................................................................141
Levels after a conversion ..............................................................................144
Fine-tuning the endpoints .............................................................................146
Specular Highlights ......................................................................................148
Preserving the highlight detail ......................................................................150
Cutouts against a white background .............................................................150
Curves adjustments ............................................................................................152
Using Curves in place of Levels ...................................................................154
Using Curves to improve contrast ................................................................156
Curves luminance and saturation .................................................................156
Saving and loading curves ...........................................................................158
Curve presets ...............................................................................................159
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Manipulating portions of a curve ........................................................................161
Improved Brightness and Contrast ......................................................................162
Color corrections .......................................................................................................164
Basic color balancing with Levels........................................................................165
Auto adjustments .................................................................................................166
Color correction with Levels or Curves ...............................................................168
Precise color correction using Curves ................................................................170
Hue/Saturation ....................................................................................................174
Correcting shadow and highlight detail ...............................................................176
Amount .........................................................................................................176
Tonal Width ..................................................................................................176
Radius ..........................................................................................................177
Color Correction ...........................................................................................179
Midtone Contrast ..........................................................................................179
Smart Filters ..............................................................................................................180
Improving the midtone contrast ..................................................................................183
Removin g noise from an image .................................................................................186
Reducing fi lm grain noise ....................................................................................187
Reduce Noise fi lter ..............................................................................................188
Advanced mode noise reduction ...................................................................189
Targeted noise reduction ...............................................................................190
JPEG noise removal ............................................................................................193
Saving Reduce Noise settings .......................................................................193
Removing moiré patterns .....................................................................................194
Image sharpening ................................................................................................195
Sharpening solutions ..........................................................................................197
Multipass sharpening ...................................................................................197
Capture sharpening .............................................................................................198
Sharpening for output ..........................................................................................198
Unsharp Mask fi lter .............................................................................................199
Amount .........................................................................................................199
Radius ..........................................................................................................200
Threshold .....................................................................................................200
Luminance sharpening ........................................................................................202
Sharpening for the image source .........................................................................203
Which sharpen settings to use .............................................................................205
Sharpening for smooth edge content ...................................................................209
Presharpening summary .....................................................................................213
Third-party sharpening plug-ins .........................................................................213
Selective sharpening ...........................................................................................214
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