Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

930 Pages·2013·93.504 MB·English

by  Lesa Snider

Photoshop CC
The book that should have been in the box®
Lesa Snider
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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual
by Lesa Snider
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Contents
The Missing Credits ...................................... xvii
Foreword ................................................. xxi
Introduction ............................................ xxiii
What’s New in Photoshop CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
About This Book ................................................. xxvi
About the Outline ............................................. xxix
For Photographers .............................................xxx
The Very Basics ............................................... xxxi
About→These→Arrows .......................................xxxii
About MissingManuals.com ................................... xxxiii
Safari® Books Online ......................................... xxxiii
CHAPTER 1: Photoshop CC Guided Tour ................................. 1
Meet the Application Frame .......................................... 1
The Almighty Options Bar ........................................3
Swapping Screen Modes ..........................................4
Changing Photoshop’s Appearance ................................6
Working with Panels ................................................7
Customizing Your Workspace ....................................10
The Tools Panel ..................................................11
Common Panels ................................................ 13
The Power of Undo .................................................14
Changing How Far Back You Can Go ..............................15
Turning Back Time with the History Panel ..........................15
The History Brush ............................................... 17
The Revert Command ...........................................19
Tweaking Photoshop’s Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
General ........................................................19
Interface .......................................................21
Sync Settings ...................................................21
File Handling ...................................................22
Performance ...................................................22
Cursors ........................................................24
Transparency and Gamut ........................................24
Units and Rulers ................................................25
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Guides, Grid, and Slices ..........................................25
Plug-ins ........................................................26
Type ...........................................................26
3D ............................................................26
Working with Presets ...............................................28
Sharing Presets .................................................29
CHAPTER 2: Opening, Viewing, and Saving Files. ....................... 31
Creating a New Document ..........................................31
Photoshop’s Ready-Made Documents .............................32
Setting Size and Resolution ......................................34
Choosing a Color Mode ..........................................35
Choosing a Background .........................................37
Advanced Options ..............................................37
Saving Files .......................................................38
File Formats ....................................................39
Opening an Existing Document ..................................... 40
The Open Dialog Box ............................................42
Opening Multiple Files within a Single Document ...................44
Opening Files as Smart Objects ..................................45
Opening Recent Files ............................................46
Working with PDFs ..............................................46
Working with Scanned Images ...................................47
Working with Raw Files ..........................................48
Duplicating Files ................................................49
Changing Your View ................................................50
Zooming In and Out .............................................50
Moving Around in an Image ......................................53
Getting Oriented with the Navigator Panel .........................55
Rotating Your Canvas ...........................................55
Arranging Open Images ............................................56
Guides, Grids, and Rulers ...........................................60
Rulers and Guiding Lines ........................................60
The Ruler Tool ..................................................62
CHAPTER 3: Layers: The Key to Nondestructive Editing. ............... 65
Layer Basics .......................................................67
The Layers Panel ................................................68
Activating Layers ...............................................68
Adding New Layers .............................................74
Hiding and Showing Layers ......................................74
Restacking Layers ..............................................76
Duplicating and Deleting Layers ..................................80
Copying and Pasting Layers ......................................83
Filling a Layer with Color .........................................83
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Tweaking a Layer’s Opacity and Fill ...............................90
Resizing and Rotating Layers .....................................91
Moving and Aligning Layers ......................................93
Managing Layers ...................................................98
Naming and Color-Coding Layers .................................98
Linking and Locking Layers ......................................98
Grouping Layers into Folders ....................................100
Layer Comps: Capturing Different Document Versions .............102
Rasterizing Layers .............................................105
Merging Layers ................................................106
Layer Blending ...................................................108
Layer Masks: Digital Masking Tape ..................................108
Adding Layer Masks ............................................109
Using Layer Masks ............................................. 110
Editing a Mask ..................................................115
Using Smart Objects .............................................. 118
Creating Smart Objects .........................................120
Managing Smart Objects .......................................122
Layer Styles ......................................................124
Managing Layer Styles ..........................................128
The Styles Panel ...............................................129
CHAPTER 4: Selections: Choosing What to Edit. ...................... 133
Selection Basics ..................................................133
Meet the Marching Ants ........................................134
Selecting by Shape ................................................136
The Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools .....................136
The Single Row and Column Marquee Tools .......................142
The Vector Shape Tools .........................................143
Selecting by Color ................................................146
The Quick Selection Tool ........................................146
The Magic Wand Tool ..........................................148
The Color Range Command ......................................151
The Background and Magic Erasers ..............................156
Selecting Irregular Areas ..........................................160
The Lasso Tools ................................................ 161
Selecting with the Pen Tool .....................................164
Creating Selections with Channels ...............................165
Using the Selection Tools Together ..............................165
Modifying Selections ..............................................165
Refining Edges ................................................165
Fixing Edge Halos ..............................................173
Creating a Border Selection .....................................174
Transforming a Selection .......................................174
Using Quick Mask Mode ........................................176
Moving Selections .............................................177
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Saving a Selection .............................................179
Filling a Selection with Color .................................... 181
Stroking (Outlining) a Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
CHAPTER 5: Understanding Channels. ................................ 183
How Color Works .................................................184
RGB Mode vs. CMYK Mode ......................................185
The Channels Panel and You .......................................186
Meet the Color Channels ...........................................190
RGB Channels ................................................. 191
CMYK Channels ................................................ 191
Spot Channels .................................................195
Lab Channels ..................................................195
Multichannel Mode .............................................196
Single-Channel Modes ..........................................196
The Mighty Alpha Channel .........................................198
Creating an Alpha Channel ......................................198
Editing Alpha Channels ........................................ 200
Loading an Alpha Channel as a Selection .........................202
Deleting Alpha Channels ........................................202
Basic Channel Stunts ..............................................202
Selecting Objects with Channels .................................202
Creating a Silhouette Effect .................................... 206
Lightening and Darkening Channels ............................. 209
Combining Channels ...........................................210
Sharpening Individual Channels ..................................211
CHAPTER 6: Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating. ....................... 215
Cropping Images .................................................216
The Rule of Thirds ..............................................216
Creative Cropping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
The Crop Tool .................................................218
Cropping with Selection Tools ...................................226
Trimming Photos Down to Size ..................................226
Cropping and Straightening Photos ..............................227
Cropping and Straightening in Camera Raw .......................229
Resizing Images ..................................................232
Pixels and Resolution ...........................................233
The Mighty Image Size Dialog Box ...............................234
Resizing Images for Print ...................................... 240
Resizing for Email and the Web ..................................242
Resizing Web Images for Print .................................. 244
Resizing Images for Presentations ...............................245
Resizing Smart Objects .........................................246
Automated Resizing with the Image Processor ....................247
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Resizing the Canvas ............................................249
Content-Aware Scaling ............................................251
Rotating and Distorting ............................................254
Simple Rotations ...............................................255
The Transformers ..............................................255
CHAPTER 7: Combining Images. ...................................... 263
Cut It Out ........................................................263
Pasting into a Selection ............................................265
Sky Swapping .................................................270
Fading Images Together ...........................................271
Soft Erasers ...................................................272
Soft Brushes and Layer Masks ...................................272
Gradient Masks ................................................274
Layer Blend Modes ................................................276
Normal and Dissolve Blend Modes ...............................278
Darken Blend Modes ...........................................279
Lighten Blend Modes ...........................................282
Lighting (Contrast) Blend Modes ................................284
Comparative Blend Modes ......................................287
Composite Blend Modes ........................................288
Zapping Backgrounds with Blending Sliders .........................289
Auto-Aligning Layers and Photomerge ..............................291
Building Panoramas with Photomerge ........................... 294
Auto-Blending Layers ............................................ 294
Cloning Between Documents ...................................... 296
Combining Vectors and Rasters ................................... 300
Mapping One Image onto Another ..................................303
CHAPTER 8: Draining, Changing, and Adding Color. .................. 307
Draining Color ....................................................307
Black & White Adjustment Layers ............................... 308
Gradient Map Adjustment Layers .................................311
The Lightness Channel .........................................313
Going Grayscale in Camera Raw .................................315
Partial-Color Effect ............................................316
Fading Color to Black and White .................................318
High-Contrast Black and White ..................................320
The High-Key Effect ............................................322
Delicious Duotones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
Changing Color ...................................................325
Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers ..............................325
Hue Blend Mode ...............................................332
Replacing Color ................................................332
Selective Color Adjustment Layers ...............................333
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Matching Colors ...............................................335
Photo Filter Adjustment Layers ..................................336
Posterizing: Your Ticket to Cartoon Art ...........................338
Inverting Colors ................................................338
Adding Color .....................................................339
Colorizing Images ..............................................339
Adding Solid Blocks of Color ....................................343
Building a Better Sunrise (or Sunset) ............................ 344
Adding Color to a Semi-Transparent Layer ........................347
CHAPTER 9: Correcting Color and Lighting ........................... 349
Quick Fixer-Uppers .............................................. 350
Fixing Color .................................................. 350
Fixing Lighting ................................................353
Correcting Images in Camera Raw ..................................361
Changing White Balance ........................................363
Fixing Exposure .............................................. 364
Making Colors Pop .............................................367
Camera Raw’s Adjustment Brush ................................368
Camera Raw’s Graduated Filters .................................371
More Fun with Camera Raw .....................................372
Using Levels ......................................................372
Histograms: Mountains of Information ............................373
The Levels Sliders ..............................................376
The Levels Eyedroppers ........................................379
Correcting by the Numbers .....................................383
Color-Correcting Skin ..........................................386
Working with Curves ..............................................387
Changing Contrast .............................................393
Creating High Dynamic Range Images ...............................395
Making Colors Pop ................................................399
Intensifying Colors .............................................399
Adjusting Hue/Saturation ......................................400
Adding Lab Pop ...............................................401
Rescuing the Unfixables .......................................... 402
CHAPTER 10: Changing Reality: Removing and Repositioning ......... 405
The Great Healers ................................................ 406
The Spot Healing Brush ........................................ 407
Using Content-Aware Fill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
The Healing Brush ............................................. 411
The Patch Tool .................................................415
Zapping Shines and Shadows ......................................418
Whitening Teeth ................................................. 420
Super Slimmers ...................................................422
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