Photoshop 7 Zero to Hero

258 Pages·2003·20.092 MB·English

by  Gavin Cromhout, Julie Hatton, Martin Jacobsen, Adam Juniper, Vikas Shah (auth.)

Gavin Cromhout
julie Hatton
Martin jacobsen
Adam juniper
Vikas Shah
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ISBN 978-1-59059-154-3 ISBN 978-1-4302-5123-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-5123-1
At friends of ED our mission is to unleash your digital creativity, providing technical know-how and
inspiration in equal measure.
With our Zero to Hero series we've gone one better - we'll take you further, faster.
Zero to Hero is more than just a catchy slogan and an endless opportunity for gimmicks, puns and
graphical representations of phone booths, tights, and capes. It's a style of learning designed by
friends of ED to reach beyond dry technical explanations and dusty old authors who wouldn't know
good design if it slapped them round the face with a wet fish.
You can either first learn everything you need about Photoshop 7, or dive straight into the
inspirational 'Hero' chapters and refer back if you get stuck.
The authors of the Hero chapters are Photoshop trailblazers from the friends of ED pool of talent.
They've each been given a different brief and a lot of freedom. They'll show how you can achieve
professional results with this remarkable program - how you too can be a Photoshop Hero.
And when you're done, you'll be ready to wear your underwear outside of your pants,
metaphorically speaking of course.
We'll not only unlock the toolset for you, we'll also feed your imagination - that's a promise.
So, what are you waiting for?
About the Authors
Gavin Cromhout
Currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Unfortunately, he has formal training in art from the University of Cape
Town. Unfortunate for his lecturers. that is. Gavin works as a web designer and digital photographer at Lodestone
(http://www.lodestone.co.za). He has contributed to seven other books. one of which even has him turning his one
ex-girlfriend into a lizard. Ah, the life of the designer. You can catch up with him at [email protected].
julie Hatton
julie always had an interest in photography, and when she first saw Adobe Photoshop she was hooked immediately.
She did a college course in Photography and Digital Imaging, giving her the incentive she needed to spend hours in
front of the computer massacring her photographs. julie eventually got a job designing ads for a local newspaper;
good experience but awful pay and conditions, which led to other jobs, including web design. At the same time. julie
set up her own website with some photographs (www.theimagegallery.co.uk) and a website offering design work and
training. Amazingly people started to find her (then quite awful and unpromoted) websites and began to offer her
work. so she started working for herself part-time. She now works almost full-time. providing customized training for various design applications
(www.designtraininguk.co.uk), occasionally design work or photo retouching, and various other things (like writing for friends of ED!). julie
would like also like to thank her husband john.
Martin Gammelsaeter jacobsen
Martin came from a good home and had a decent upbringing, and as such little blame can be put on his parents when
we try to find out what went wrong. After some time spent actively trying not to become an educated child-care
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worker and pedagogue. he did anyway as a National Officer for a Youth NGO. During his time with this organization,
he came to function as the in-house marketing department on the grounds that he understood how Photoshop
worked. After some time they had to part company because they really needed a national officer more than they
needed someone who spends hours on making the instructional posters for conventions look good. Since then Martin
has spent most of his time less than two metres away from his beloved Powerbook, occasionally trying to work for a living for clients such as
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Universal Records and the Norwegian Broadcasting Company NRK, and can barely remember the last time he had a love life.
Adam Juniper
Adam can only be described as having drifted in the general direction of Photoshop from what was to have been a
glittering career in journalism. Well. that's what he tells his friends anyway, because the amount of time he spends
staring into computer screens is probably a bit sad. Anyway. in reality, that interest in the printed word led Adam to
friends of ED - where no one looks at you oddly for enjoying playing with Photoshop. From there it was only a short
step from game-keeper to poacher (well, editor to author). Some people get all the breaks, eh? Oh, and Adam doesn't
have his own website.
,....---------, Vikas Shah
Vikas is Founder & Chairman of Ultima Group (http://www.ultimagroup.com), a leading multi-award-winning design
agency, established in 1994 in Manchester (UK) with clients worldwide including Nike. Unilever. The Queen's Golden
jubilee (String of Pearls Festival), and Sage Software. He is also an accomplished designer and manager, holding an
associateship at the Chartered Management Institute and winning a semi-finalist position in the Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Vikas has been involved in photography and creative direction for over eight years
and regularly lectures and speaks at schools. universities and events around the country. as well as writing for
magazines and publishers. His works have also been featured in two exhibitions in the UK. Vikas's photographic portfolio can be seen at
http://www.vikasshah.com. Vikas is also co-founder of egoRush@ Society Review (http://www.societyreview.com), a major digital arts project
showcasing the works of some of the world's top photographers and digital artists. EgoRush has been featured in media around the world, and
now receives in excess of one million hits per month .
Table of contents •
Zero 1
How to use this book .............................. 2
Mac or PC? ................................................. .3
Styles ...................................................... 3
Download ............................................. .4
Support .................................................. 4
A bit of theory ........................................... .5
Color theory ......................................... .5
Alpha ...................................................... 6 Chapter Zero: A welcoming look
Printing .................................................... 7 around, to give you a feel for the
ICC color profiles ................................ 7 book (and Photoshop, of course)
Resolution .................................................... 8
On with the show... .. ................................ 8
Toolbox ................................................ 10
Tool Options bar ................................ 12
Palette Well ........................................ 12
Palettes ........................................................ 12
File Browser ........................................ 13
Brushes palette .................................. 14
Navigator palette .............................. 14
Info ........................................................ 14
Color palette ...................................... 15
Swatches palette ................................ 15
Styles palette ...................................... 15
History palette .................................... 16
Actions palette .................................. 16
Tools presets ...................................... 16
Layers palette ...................................... 17
Channels palette ................................ 17
Paths palette ...................................... 17
Preferences ................................................ 18
File format ................................................ 18
A quick go? ................................................ 18
Before we go on... .. ................................ 22
1 Colors and corrections 23
Rotating ...................................................... 24
Cropping .................................................... 24
Crop and rotate ................................ 25
Cropping to a specified size .......... 26
Chapter 1: Changes to the whole
Image enhancement and image, including cropping, color
color correction ...................................... 27 correction and a tiny bit of theory
Color profiles ...................................... 28
Brightness and contrast ..................2 9
Levels .................................................... 30
Curves ..................................................3 2
Saving your settings .......................... 34
Eyedroppers ........................................3 4
Color values and the Info palette ...... 35
Artificial light color casts ..................... .35
Tinting and color distortion ................. .36
Color reproduction issues ................... .38
Proof colors ....................................... .38
Gamut warning .................................. 39
Filters .......................................................... 40
Moving on... .. ............................................ 40
2 Painting and restoring 41
Brushes and painting tools ................. .42
Brushes and pencils .......................... 43
Making your own brushes ............. .45
Properties ............................................ 46
Fills, patterns and gradients .................. 49
Color palette ......................................4 9
Chapter 2: Painting and drawing
Color picker ....................................... .49 with the brush tools, and
Oooh! I like that one! ..................... .49 convincing photographic
Pattern fills ......................................... .50 manipulation
Making patterns ................................ 51
Gradients in Photoshop ................. .52
Image manipulation ............................... .54
Patching ................................................ 55
Healing ·····································:············56
Cloning .................................................. 57
Digital darkroom ...................................... 58
Dodge and Burn ............................... .58
The Sponge tool ............................... .59
Blurring, sharpening
and smudging ....................................6 0
Conclusion ................................................ 60
3 Selections 61
Chapter 3: Selecting objects so
Selection tools .......................................... 62
that you can edit parts of your
Selecting basic shapes ............................ 62
work individually
Rectangular Marquee tool .............. 62
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Other Marquee tools ........................ 63
Whole image .................................... 64
Selecting complicated shapes .............. 64
Freehand selection ............................ 64
Polygonal Lasso .................................. 65
Magnetic Lasso .................................. 66
Selecting by color .............................. 67
Troublesome extractions ...................... 69
Working with selections ........................ 71
Hide the selection outline .............. 71
Move the selection boundary ........ 71
Editing and modifying selections ........ 72
Adding selections .............................. 72
Subtracting selections ...................... 73
Intersections ........................................ 73
Moving the boundaries .................... 74
Moving and shaking ................................ 75
Moving selections across images ........ 78
Selections .................................................. 78
4 Layers 79
Layers: the concept ................................ 80
Layers palette ............................................ 81
Naming layers .................................... 84
Delete a layer .................................... 85
Locking layers .................................... 85
Modifying the Layers palette ........ 86
Layer sets ............................................ 86
The background layer ...................... 86
Transparency and opacity .............. 87
Altering layers .......................................... 88
Moving the content of a layer ...... 88
Transforming single layers .............. 89
Transforming multiple layers .......... 91
Depth of field .......................................... 92
Chapter 4: Everything there is to
Layer styles ................................................ 94
know about using layers to edit
Layer blending modes ............................ 95 your images, Including creating a
Adjustment layers .................................... 96 montage, masking and non
Editing an adjustment layer ............ 97 destructive editing
Layer groups ...................................... 98
Masking ...................................................... 98
Filtering a mask .............................. 10 1
Remove a layer mask .................... 10 2
Montage .................................................. 10 2
Preparation ........................................ 10 2
Adding images .................................. 10 3
When and how to flatten layers ...... 10 4
Flatten image .................................... 10 4
Merge layers .................................... 10 5
Saving layered files ................................ 10 5
Phew! ........................................................ 106
5 Text and vector tools 107
Chapter 5:
Introducing vectors .............................. 10 8
Learn how to
Vector masks .......................................... 10 8
create vector
Shape tools .............................................. 111
graphics which
Simple shapes .................................. 112
scale without
Vector drawing ...................................... 113 loss of quality,
The Pen tool .................................... 114 and add
The Freeform Pen tool .................. 115 formatted and
Vector selection tools .................... 117 stylish text to
Using paths .............................................. 118 your work
Filling and stroking ........................ 118
Selections .......................................... 121
Put it all together ............................ 121
Writing text ............................................ 121
Captioning ........................................ 122
Words from pictures ...................... 123
Formatting text ...................................... 124
Characters .......................................... 125
Spelling .............................................. 127
Paragraphs ........................................ 128
Text warping .................................... 130
6 Output 131
Photoshop document files .................. 132
Other file formats ................................ 132
Saving TIFF files .............................. 133
Compression .................................... 134
Saving for the web ................................ 135
lmageReady ............................................ 137
Slices .................................................. 138
Animation .......................................... 139
Chapter 6: Output your work to
Rollovers ............................................ 140
web and print
Image maps ...................................... 142