Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers A professional image editor's guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC

769 Pages·2012·100.99 MB·English

by  Martin Evening

A professional image editor’s guide
to the creative use of Photoshop
for the Macintosh and PC
® ®
Adobe Photoshop CS6
for Photographers
Martin Evening
Adobe Photoshop CS6 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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Martin Evening
Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers
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Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................XIX
What’s different in this book ........................................................................................XXI
Accessing the on-line content ....................................................................................XXII
1 Photoshop fundamentals 1
Photoshop installation .......................................................................................................... 2
The Photoshop interface ........................................................................................................ 3
Creating a new document ............................................................................................... 5
User interface brightness ............................................................................................... 6
Tabbed document windows .......................................................................................... 10
Managing document windows ..................................................................................... 12
Synchronized scroll and zoom .............................................................................. 13
Image document window details .................................................................................. 14
Title bar proxy icons (Mac only) ........................................................................... 16
Info panel status information ................................................................................. 16
Rulers, Guides & Grid .................................................................................................. 17
‘Snap to’ behavior ........................................................................................................ 18
Pixel Grid view ............................................................................................................. 18
The Photoshop panels.................................................................................................. 19
Panel arrangements and docking .......................................................................... 20
Panel positions remembered in workspaces ......................................................... 21
Customizing the menu options ............................................................................ 22
Customizing the keyboard shortcuts ..................................................................... 23
Task-based workspaces ............................................................................................... 24
Working with a dual display setup ........................................................................ 26
Adobe™ Confi gurator 3 application ............................................................................. 27
Photoshop CS6 Tools panel ................................................................................................ 28
Options bar .................................................................................................................. 30
Tool Presets ................................................................................................................. 30
Selection tools .................................................................................................................... 32
Color Range ................................................................................................................. 34
Modifi er keys ............................................................................................................... 36
Painting tools ...................................................................................................................... 38
On-the-fl y brush changes ............................................................................................. 39
On-screen brush adjustments ............................................................................... 40
Brush panel .................................................................................................................. 41
Brush panel options ............................................................................................. 42
Pressure sensitive control ............................................................................................ 42
Brush tool presets ........................................................................................................ 43
Mixer brush ................................................................................................................. 43
Bristle tip brush shapes ............................................................................................... 45
Tools for fi lling .................................................................................................................... 46
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Tools for drawing ................................................................................................................ 47
Image editing tools .............................................................................................................. 48
Working with Layers............................................................................................................ 50
Automating Photoshop ........................................................................................................ 51
Move tool ..................................................................................................................... 52
Layer selection using the move tool ............................................................................. 52
Navigation and information tools ........................................................................................ 54
Zoom tool shortcuts ..................................................................................................... 54
Hand tool ..................................................................................................................... 55
Bird’s-eye view ............................................................................................................. 55
Flick panning ............................................................................................................... 56
Windows 7 Multi-touch support ................................................................................. 56
Eyedropper tool ............................................................................................................ 56
Ruler tool ..................................................................................................................... 56
Rotate view tool ............................................................................................................ 57
Notes tool .................................................................................................................... 58
Screen view modes ...................................................................................................... 59
Preset Manager ................................................................................................................... 60
History ................................................................................................................................ 61
The History panel ......................................................................................................... 61
History settings and memory usage ...................................................................... 62
History brush ............................................................................................................... 64
Use of history versus undo .......................................................................................... 64
Snapshots .................................................................................................................... 65
Non-linear history ........................................................................................................ 66
When fi les won’t open .................................................................................................. 67
Save often .................................................................................................................... 68
Background Saving ...................................................................................................... 69
Normal saves ........................................................................................................ 69
Using Save As… to save images .......................................................................... 70
File formats ......................................................................................................................... 71
Photoshop native fi le format......................................................................................... 71
Smart PSD fi les .................................................................................................... 71
Large Document (PSB) format ..................................................................................... 72
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) .................................................................................. 72
Pixel order ............................................................................................................ 73
Byte order ............................................................................................................. 74
Save Image Pyramid ............................................................................................. 74
TIFF compression options .................................................................................... 74
Flattened TIFFs ..................................................................................................... 74
Photoshop PDF ............................................................................................................ 75
PDF security ......................................................................................................... 75
Adobe Bridge CS6 ............................................................................................................... 76
The Bridge interface ..................................................................................................... 78
Custom workspaces in Bridge............................................................................... 79
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Opening fi les from Bridge ............................................................................................ 79
Mini Bridge .................................................................................................................. 81
What’s new in Camera Raw 7.0 .................................................................................... 82
Opening photos from Bridge via Camera Raw .............................................................. 83
Easter eggs.......................................................................................................................... 84
2 Confi guring Photoshop 85
What you will need .............................................................................................................. 86
Macintosh .................................................................................................................... 86
Windows ...................................................................................................................... 86
The ideal computer setup .................................................................................................... 87
Choosing a display ...................................................................................................... 88
Video cards ........................................................................................................... 89
Display calibration and profi ling .................................................................................. 90
Calibration hardware ............................................................................................. 90
The calibration/profi ling procedure .............................................................................. 92
White point ........................................................................................................... 92
Gamma ................................................................................................................. 93
Luminance ............................................................................................................ 93
Device calibration and measurement ............................................................................ 94
The profi ling process ................................................................................................... 94
Do you want good color or just OK color? ............................................................ 96
Color management settings ......................................................................................... 97
Synchronizing the Color Settings .......................................................................... 98
Extras ........................................................................................................................... 99
Backing up your image data ......................................................................................... 99
Protecting the power supply ....................................................................................... 100
Photoshop preferences ...................................................................................................... 101
General preferences ................................................................................................... 101
Interface preferences .................................................................................................. 104
File Handling preferences .......................................................................................... 106
Camera Raw preferences .................................................................................... 107
TIFF and PSD options ......................................................................................... 109
Recent File list .................................................................................................... 110
Performance preferences ............................................................................................ 111
Memory usage .................................................................................................... 112
32-bit and 64-bit RAM limits .............................................................................. 113
History & Cache ........................................................................................................ 113
Scratch disks.............................................................................................................. 114
Scratch disk performance ........................................................................................... 115
Interface connection ............................................................................................ 116
Hard drive speed ................................................................................................. 116
RAID setups ............................................................................................................... 117
RAID 0 (striping) ................................................................................................. 117
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RAID 1 (mirroring) .............................................................................................. 117
Internal RAID....................................................................................................... 118
External RAID ...................................................................................................... 118
Graphics Processor settings ............................................................................... 118
Cursors preferences ................................................................................................... 120
Transparency & Gamut ............................................................................................... 121
Color Picker gamut warning ................................................................................ 122
Units & Rulers............................................................................................................ 122
Guides, Grid & Slices ......................................................................................... 123
Plug-ins ..................................................................................................................... 125
Type preferences ........................................................................................................ 126
Ensuring the preferences are saved ............................................................................ 126
3 Camera Raw image processing 127
Camera Raw advantages .................................................................................................. 128
The new Camera Raw workfl ow .................................................................................. 128
Does the order matter? ........................................................................................ 130
Raw capture ........................................................................................................ 130
JPEG capture ...................................................................................................... 131
Editing JPEGs and TIFFs in Camera Raw ............................................................ 131
Alternative Raw processors ................................................................................. 132
A basic Camera Raw/Photoshop workfl ow ................................................................. 133
Camera Raw support .................................................................................................. 136
DNG compatibility ............................................................................................... 136
Getting raw images into Photoshop .................................................................................. 137
Image ingestion .......................................................................................................... 137
Importing images via Photo Downloader ............................................................ 138
Tethered shoot imports ....................................................................................... 143
Tethered shooting via Canon EOS Utility ............................................................. 144
Importing images via other programs ................................................................. 147
Import Images from Device (Mac only) ............................................................... 148
Basic Camera Raw image editing ..................................................................................... 150
Working with Bridge and Camera Raw ....................................................................... 150
General controls for single fi le opening ...................................................................... 152
Full size window view ......................................................................................... 154
General controls for multiple fi le opening .................................................................. 154
Opening raw fi les as Smart Objects ........................................................................... 156
Saving photos from Camera Raw ............................................................................... 160
The histogram display ................................................................................................ 161
Image browsing via Camera Raw ............................................................................... 162
Camera Raw preferences ............................................................................................ 164
Default Image Settings ........................................................................................ 165
Camera Raw cache .............................................................................................. 165
DNG fi le handling ............................................................................................... 165
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JPEG and TIFF handling ..................................................................................... 166
Camera Raw cropping and straightening .................................................................... 167
How to straighten and crop ........................................................................................ 168
Basic panel controls .......................................................................................................... 170
White balance ............................................................................................................ 170
Using the white balance tool ............................................................................... 170
Process Versions ....................................................................................................... 172
The Process 2012 tone adjustment controls ............................................................. 174
Exposure ............................................................................................................. 174
Contrast .............................................................................................................. 175
Highlights and Shadows ..................................................................................... 176
Whites and Blacks ............................................................................................... 177
Suggested order for the Basic panel adjustments ................................................ 177
Preserving the highlight detail ................................................................................... 178
When to clip the highlights ........................................................................................ 180
How to clip the shadows ............................................................................................ 181
Shadow levels after a conversion ............................................................................... 182
Digital exposure .................................................................................................. 184
How Camera Raw interprets the raw data ............................................................ 185
Basic panel image adjustment procedure ................................................................... 186
Auto tone corrections ................................................................................................. 189
Camera-specifi c default settings ......................................................................... 189
Clarity ........................................................................................................................ 191
Negative clarity .................................................................................................... 192
Vibrance and Saturation ............................................................................................. 194
Tone Curve panel ....................................................................................................... 196
Point Curve editor mode ..................................................................................... 198
RGB Curves ........................................................................................................ 198
Correcting a high contrast image ............................................................................... 200
HSL/Grayscale panel .................................................................................................. 202
Recovering out-of-gamut colors .......................................................................... 203
Adjusting the hue and saturation ......................................................................... 204
Lens Corrections panel .............................................................................................. 206
Perspective corrections ....................................................................................... 206
Lens Vignetting control ....................................................................................... 206
Defringe .............................................................................................................. 209
Automatic lens corrections .................................................................................. 209
Accessing and creating custom lens profi les ...................................................... 210
Chromatic aberrations......................................................................................... 212
Effects panel ............................................................................................................... 216
Post Crop Vignetting control ............................................................................... 216
Post Crop Vignette style options ......................................................................... 218
Highlights slider ................................................................................................. 220
Adding Grain effects............................................................................................ 222
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Camera Calibration panel ........................................................................................... 224
New Camera Raw profi les .................................................................................. 224
Camera look settings profi les .............................................................................. 225
Custom camera profi le calibrations ............................................................................ 226
DNG Profi le Editor .............................................................................................. 228
Spot removal tool ....................................................................................................... 232
Synchronized spotting with Camera Raw ............................................................ 233
Red eye removal ......................................................................................................... 234
Localized adjustments ....................................................................................................... 235
Adjustment brush ....................................................................................................... 235
Initial Adjustment brush options ................................................................................ 236
Brush settings ..................................................................................................... 236
Adding a new brush effect .......................................................................................... 237
Editing brush adjustments ......................................................................................... 238
Previewing the brush stroke areas....................................................................... 238
Auto masking ...................................................................................................... 240
Darkening the shadows .............................................................................................. 242
Hand-coloring in Color mode .................................................................................... 244
Graduated fi lter tool ................................................................................................... 246
Color temperature adjustments ........................................................................... 249
Camera Raw settings menu ........................................................................................ 251
Export settings to XMP ....................................................................................... 252
Update DNG previews ......................................................................................... 252
Load Settings… Save Settings… ....................................................................... 252
Camera Raw defaults .......................................................................................... 253
Presets panel ............................................................................................................. 253
Saving and applying presets .............................................................................. 253
Copying and synchronizing settings ................................................................... 255
Synchronizing different process versions ................................................................... 256
Legacy presets ........................................................................................................... 256
Working with Snapshots ............................................................................................ 258
DNG fi le format ................................................................................................................. 260
The DNG solution....................................................................................................... 260
DNG compatibility ............................................................................................... 261
Saving images as DNG .............................................................................................. 262
Lossy DNG .......................................................................................................... 262
DNG Converter .......................................................................................................... 264
4 Sharpening and noise reduction 265
When to sharpen ............................................................................................................... 266
Why one-step sharpening is ineffective ...................................................................... 266
Capture sharpening .................................................................................................... 266
Capture sharpening for scanned images ............................................................. 267
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Process versions ........................................................................................................ 268
Improvements to Camera Raw sharpening ................................................................. 268
Sample sharpening image .......................................................................................... 271
Detail panel ................................................................................................................ 271
Sharpening defaults ............................................................................................ 272
The sharpening effect sliders .............................................................................. 272
Amount slider ..................................................................................................... 273
Radius slider ....................................................................................................... 274
The suppression controls .................................................................................... 275
Detail slider ......................................................................................................... 275
Interpreting the grayscale previews ..................................................................... 277
Radius and Detail grayscale preview ................................................................... 277
Masking slider ........................................................................................................... 278
Masking slider example ..................................................................................... 279
Some real world sharpening examples....................................................................... 280
Sharpening portrait images ................................................................................. 280
Sharpening landscape images ............................................................................ 281
Sharpening a fi ne-detailed image ........................................................................ 282
How to save sharpening settings as presets ............................................................... 283
Capture sharpening roundup ..................................................................................... 284
Selective sharpening in Camera Raw ......................................................................... 285
Negative sharpening............................................................................................ 285
Extending the sharpening limits .......................................................................... 285
How to apply localized sharpening ...................................................................... 286
Negative sharpening to blur an image ................................................................. 288
Noise removal in Camera Raw ................................................................................... 290
Process Versions and noise reduction ................................................................ 290
Detail panel Noise Reduction sliders ................................................................... 292
Color noise ......................................................................................................... 293
Non-raw image noise reduction ................................................................................. 293
Adding grain to improve appearance of sharpness ............................................. 296
Localized noise reduction in Camera Raw ........................................................... 298
Localized moiré removal in Camera Raw............................................................. 300
Localized sharpening in Photoshop .................................................................................. 302
Smart Sharpen fi lter ................................................................................................... 302
Basic Smart Sharpen mode ................................................................................. 302
Advanced Smart Sharpen mode ................................................................................. 304
Removing Motion Blur ........................................................................................ 305
Creating a depth of fi eld brush ................................................................................... 306
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