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over 19 publications, including Photoshop Elements For Dummies, How-to-Wow with Illustrator, and Digital Photography Just the Steps For Dummies, 2nd Edition Barb also teaches graphic design at Brooks Institute Dedication I would like to dedicate this book to Gary, Kylie, and Lucky, who constantly remind me of what’s really important in life Author’s Acknowledgments I would like to thank my excellent project editor, Nicole Sholly, who kept me and this book on track; Bob Woerner, the world’s best Executive Editor; Andy Cummings, who gives Dummies a good name; David Busch, for his great contribution to the first edition; Dennis Cohen, for his technical editing; and all the hard-working, dedicated production folks at Wiley A special thanks to Ted Padova, colleague, fellow author, and friend, who always reminds me there is eventually an end to all those chapters www.it-ebooks.info Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments at http://dummies.custhelp.com For other comments, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S at 877-762-2974, outside the U.S at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002 Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media Development Composition Services Project Coordinator: Katherine Crocker Project Editor: Nicole Sholly Copy Editors: Heidi Unger, Brian Walls Layout and Graphics: Claudia Bell, Samantha Cherolis, Joyce Haughey, Erin Zeltner Technical Editor: Dennis R Cohen Proofreader: Melissa D Buddendeck Editorial Manager: Kevin Kirschner Indexer: Sherry Massey Executive Editor: Bob Woerner Media Development Project Manager: Laura Moss-Hollister Media Development Assistant Project Manager: Jenny Swisher Media Development Associate Producers: Josh Frank, Marilyn Hummel, Douglas Kuhn, Shawn Patrick Editorial Assistant: Amanda Graham Sr Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case Cartoons: Rich Tennant (www.the5thwave.com) Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies Richard Swadley, Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Andy Cummings, Vice President and Publisher Mary Bednarek, Executive Acquisitions Director Mary C Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Composition Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services www.it-ebooks.info Contents at a Glance Introduction Book I: Photoshop Fundamentals Chapter 1: Examining the Photoshop Environment Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Tools Panel 27 Chapter 3: Starting, Finishing, and Getting It on Paper 39 Chapter 4: Viewing and Navigating Images 57 Chapter 5: Customizing Your Workspace and Preferences 97 Book II: Image Essentials 123 Chapter 1: Specifying Size and Resolution 125 Chapter 2: Choosing Color Modes and File Formats 141 Chapter 3: Using and Managing Color 165 Chapter 4: Time Travel — Undoing in Photoshop 193 Chapter 5: Creating Actions for Productivity and Fun 207 Book III: Selections 219 Chapter 1: Making Selections 221 Chapter 2: Creating and Working with Paths 241 Chapter 3: Modifying and Transforming Selections and Paths 265 Book IV: Painting, Drawing, and Typing 285 Chapter 1: Painting and Drawing with Photoshop 287 Chapter 2: Filling and Stroking 311 Chapter 3: Creating and Editing Type 329 Book V: Working with Layers 357 Chapter 1: Creating Layers 359 Chapter 2: Managing Layers 389 Chapter 3: Playing with Opacity and Blend Modes 407 Chapter 4: Getting Jazzy with Layer Styles and Clipping Groups 423 Chapter 5: Working with Smart Objects 447 www.it-ebooks.info Book VI: Channels and Masks 457 Chapter 1: Using Channels 459 Chapter 2: Quick-and-Dirty Masking 477 Chapter 3: Getting Exact with Advanced Masking Techniques 489 Book VII: Filters and Distortions 507 Chapter 1: Making Corrections with Daily Filters 509 Chapter 2: Applying Filters for Special Occasions 529 Chapter 3: Distorting with the Liquify Command 555 Book VIII: Retouching and Restoration 569 Chapter 1: Enhancing Images with Adjustments 571 Chapter 2: Repairing with Focus and Toning Tools 617 Chapter 3: Fixing Flaws and Removing What’s Not Wanted 627 Book IX: Photoshop and Print 647 Chapter 1: Prepping Graphics for Print 649 Chapter 2: Using Photomerge and Merge to HDR Pro 665 Bonus Chapters On the Web Bonus Chapter 1: Prepping Web Graphics BC1 Bonus Chapter 2: Slicing Web Images BC31 Bonus Chapter 3: Other Sources of Information BC47 Index 673 www.it-ebooks.info Table of Contents Introduction About This Book What’s in This Book Book I: Photoshop Fundamentals Book II: Image Essentials Book III: Selections Book IV: Painting, Drawing, and Typing Book V: Working with Layers Book VI: Channels and Masks Book VII: Filters and Distortions Book VIII: Retouching and Restoration Book IX: Photoshop and Print About the Web Site Conventions Used in This Book Icons Used in This Book Book I: Photoshop Fundamentals Chapter 1: Examining the Photoshop Environment Launching Photoshop and Customizing the Desktop Setting display settings with the Window menu 11 Setting up the status bar 12 Playing with Panels 14 Working with Your First Photoshop File 16 Opening, printing, and saving files 17 Making selections 17 Making simple image edits 17 Adjusting size, color, and contrast 18 Creating layers 19 Applying filters 20 Unifying with the Application bar 21 Simplifying your edits with the Options bar 22 Viewing and navigating the image 24 Introducing Adobe ConnectNow 25 Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Tools Panel 27 Turning On the Tools Panel 27 Selecting tools 27 Getting to know your tools 29 www.it-ebooks.info viii Photoshop CS5 All-in-One For Dummies Introducing the Photoshop Tools 30 Using selection tools 30 Creating and modifying paths 30 Using painting tools 32 Using tools for cloning and healing 32 Creating effects with typographical tools 33 Using focus and toning tools 34 Creating shapes 34 Viewing, navigating, sampling, and annotating tools 35 Using tools for the Web 36 Saving Time with Tool Presets 36 Creating custom tool presets 36 Managing your presets 37 Chapter 3: Starting, Finishing, and Getting It on Paper 39 Browsing for Files 39 Opening an Image 40 Opening special files 42 Opening as a Smart Object 43 Placing Files 43 Creating a New Image 45 Saving a File 48 Closing and Quitting 50 Getting It on Paper 51 Taking a look at printers 51 Printing an image 52 Setting printing options 53 Chapter 4: Viewing and Navigating Images 57 Looking at the Image Window 57 Zooming In and Out of Image Windows 60 Zooming with keyboard shortcuts 60 Using the Zoom tool 60 Other ways to zoom 62 Handling the Hand tool 63 Rotating with the Rotate View tool 64 Cruising with the Navigator Panel 65 Choosing a Screen Mode 66 Getting Precise Layout Results 67 Creating guides 68 Using guides 69 Using grids 70 Measuring Onscreen 71 Measuring an object 71 Measuring an angle 72 www.it-ebooks.info BC42 Saving Your Slices continued The dimensions depend on the demographics of your audience If you want to design a page that anyone in the world can view, even those in less-developed countries who are still cruising on old PCs with small monitors, you may want to stick with 800 x 600 pixels You need to go even smaller (480 pixels) for the vertical dimension for pages designed for netbooks The page can be even a tad smaller if you want to take into account the browser menu bar and controls Otherwise, 1024 x 768 pixels (or larger depending on the audience) may be the ticket Whichever you choose, leave space for the browser controls, if needed I’m sticking with 800 x 600, 72 ppi, and white contents for my splash page You can also give your file a name in the Name text box Finally, I’m setting my Color Profile to sRGB, a good standard to use for Web graphics For more on color profiles, see Book II, Chapter Note that Photoshop also offers Web presets Select Web from the preset pop-up menu Then, select your desired size from the Size pop-up menu You don’t have to create a new blank canvas to composite your multiple images Instead, you can use an image as your canvas and drag your supporting images onto it Just be sure that the base image is the correct mode and dimensions Make your first selection Then, with the Move tool, drag and drop the image onto your blank canvas, as shown in the figure For my page, I’m using the image on which I created a snowstorm in Book VII, Chapter I made a rectangular selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool and dragged the image onto my white canvas I left an open area at the top for my navigation bar Be sure to name all your layers (double-click the name in the Layers panel) Creating a splash page can require a lot of layers, so layer management is essential www.it-ebooks.info Saving Your Slices BC43 For my page, I’m using an image of a polar bear sticking his head out of a hole in the ice Apply any layer masks you need for your images to blend in with the canvas or the other images Click the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel Use the painting tools to create your desired mask My polar bear doesn’t quite look like he’s actually part of the snowy landscape background, so I applied a layer mask and blended him in accordingly I then used the Brush tool, with a feathered tip, set to Airbrush mode with a Flow Rate of 10%, to paint around the edges of my polar bear, as shown in the figure If you’ve prepared a logo, drag it onto the splash page If you’re using a vector art logo, such as one created in Illustrator, just choose File➪Open Specify your rasterization settings If the logo is at least 100% of its intended size, rasterize it as RGB, 72 ppi, and leave the dimensions at the default setting Create the type and/or buttons for your navigation bar I’m not a big fan of buttons unless they’re simple and understated I prefer to use type only for my navigation bars, like I’ve done in the figure But hey, it’s a free world; if you like buttons, go for it continued www.it-ebooks.info Bonus Chapter Slicing Web Images Make your second selection, and again drag and drop the image onto your splash page BC44 Saving Your Slices continued Be sure that your type looks legible onscreen Check out Bonus Chapter for tips on making your type look its best I used the Futura font for both my logo and navigation bar, set at 27 points and 12 points, respectively I set my anti-aliasing to Crisp You can create buttons quickly and easily in Photoshop Using the marquee or shape tools, draw a shape such as a rectangle, an ellipse, or even a custom shape on a separate layer Open the Styles panel and, with that layer active, simply click a preset style Several preset libraries are dedicated to buttons You can find them at the bottom of the Style panel options menu Apply any layer effects or styles to your images or type I kept it simple and just applied a drop shadow and inner bevel to my logo type and a drop shadow to my logo Be sure to keep Use Global Light selected so that your light source for effects is consistent among all your elements 10 Add title text to your page and apply any layer effects or styles desired www.it-ebooks.info Saving Your Slices BC45 11 If you want to, you can now slice your image into chunks, which you can optimize separately Although not mandatory, sometimes slicing your image can help your viewers perceive that a page is downloading more quickly A Web page with slices loads as pieces, so users can get glimpses of the graphics and don’t have to wait for the entire page to load at once Slicing also allows you to take chunks of your page and apply separate optimization settings to them in the Save for Web & Devices dialog box continued www.it-ebooks.info Bonus Chapter Slicing Web Images I added my title type in the Impact font by using two sizes Because my type overlapped and was offset, I put it on two different layers I then applied layer effects — drop shadow, inner glow, and inner bevel, as illustrated in the upcoming figure Of course, you can this step concurrently with Steps and 8, if you want Then again, you can any of the steps in whatever order you desire There are no hardand-fast rules, so just let your creative juices take over BC46 Saving Your Slices continued 12 Use the Save for Web & Devices dialog box to compress the slices at different rates according to the quality needed, as shown in the figure You can also apply image maps and rollovers to slices in Dreamweaver If applying your slices to individual layers makes more sense, rather than to the image as a whole, you can that, as well www.it-ebooks.info Bonus Chapter 3: Other Sources of Information In This Chapter ✓ Adding notes ✓ Examining metadata in Adobe Bridge ✓ Finding out information about Photoshop and your computer P hotoshop offers all sorts of ways to find and add information about your images: The Info panel keeps data about X and Y coordinates or color information at the ready, depending on what tools you’re using At the bottom of the image window, the status bar shows your file’s size and dimensions The keyword feature in Adobe Bridge enables you to add keywords that help categorize images In this chapter, I cover other ways to find information about files or Photoshop itself These methods may not be for everybody, but if you need them, they’re handy to have The notes feature lets you add comments for colleagues or lets others leave comments for you In Adobe Bridge, photographers, journalists, and others who need to use Photoshop files for specific applications will want to know about the Metadata tab, which enables you to view IPTC data, Camera Raw data, and more And if you’re looking for information about Photoshop or your computer, the Help menu offers a hodgepodge of information that you’d never think you need but can help when you’re trying to troubleshoot patches, updates, plug-ins, and other system information Applying Notes Everybody’s a critic! That’s especially true when you’re using Photoshop in a work environment — or in any scenario that involves anything but 100-percent freedom to perform your Photoshop magic as you want Sometimes, you want to collect comments from your colleagues, approvals from your supervisors, ideas from your friends, or nit-picks from your clients Photoshop lets everyone have his or her say by using notes You can use this clever feedback tool without worrying about physically modifying the work that you’ve carefully done www.it-ebooks.info BC48 Applying Notes Text documents are often distributed for approval in a Portable Document Format (PDF) by using Adobe Acrobat Reader, and comments are added by using either the full Acrobat application or Acrobat Reader Photoshop is compatible with Acrobat, too, so you can save your Photoshop files in the PDF format For more detailed information on the PDF format, see Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible, by Ted Padova (Wiley) Text annotations, which Photoshop calls notes, are text comments that now appear in a dedicated Notes panel Notes are indicated by a yellow note icon in your image window If you’re reviewing someone else’s notes, simply double-click the note icon to open the Notes panel You can a lot of things with notes: ✓ Show or hide all the notes Choose View➪Show➪Notes ✓ Open the Notes panel from its icon Double-click the icon You can also choose Window➪Notes Or you can click the note icon in the Options bar when the Note tool is active ✓ Edit a note Open the Notes panel, select the note, and revise the text by using standard editing commands ✓ Delete a note Select the note and press Delete Notes can also be deleted via the Notes panel ✓ Delete all notes Right-click any note (Right-click or Ctrl-click on the Mac) and select Delete All Notes from the context menu that pops up You can also select a note and click Clear All on the Options bar ✓ Move a note’s icon Drag the note icon Creating a note To create a note, follow these steps: Select the Note tool in the Tool panel It shares a flyout menu with the Eyedropper tool If necessary, change the name in the Author text box on the Options bar Just click inside the Author text box and start typing By default, when you create a note, the name you entered when you installed Photoshop appears as the author of the note However, you may be working on an image with someone else’s computer, or you may be on the lam and using an assumed name Be sure that everyone looking at the file uses a unique name so that you can sort out the various notes and, perhaps, give all of them their proper weight (that is, always what the boss says, but take Seymour the intern’s comments with a grain of salt) www.it-ebooks.info Applying Notes BC49 Click the Color box on the Options bar and, in the Color Picker, select a color for the note icon Click in the image window in your desired location In the Notes panel that appears, type your message, as shown in Figure 3-1 You can use traditional editing commands, such as the Backspace key, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V (Delete key, Ô+X, Ô+C, and Ô+V on the Mac) to edit the text When you add another note, the Notes panel adds another “page” in the panel Click the right and left arrows to go back and forward to the previous or next note Importing and exporting PDF files with notes You can view PDF or FDF (Forms Data Format) documents that contain notes — and you can review the notes and make new notes of your own Note icon Notes panel Go back and forward to next note Purestock Figure 3-1: Use the Note tool to leave friendly comments to yourself or others www.it-ebooks.info Other Sources of Information Color-coding is a good way to differentiate authors, as well as priorities For example, you can use Red, Yellow, and Green to indicate relative status of a particular suggestion or select a color to represent a particular author Bonus Chapter BC50 Working with Metadata If you want to send an image file to a friend or colleague who doesn’t have Photoshop, you can still get input You can even include notes of your own To export your file (and its notes) for review in Adobe Acrobat, just save the document and select Photoshop PDF as the format Be sure to select the Notes option at the bottom of the Save dialog box Then, when your Acrobat-using friend sends the file back to you, just follow these steps to access his or her input: Choose File➪Import➪Notes Navigate to the PDF or FDF file you want to open Click the Open button Photoshop imports the file with the notes intact Working with Metadata When working in Adobe Bridge, when you select an image, you can view its metadata Metadata is just a fancy name for information that’s embedded in your image file, as shown in Figure 3-2 In fact, Photoshop allows an image to have so much attached information, the only thing you won’t know is your image’s favorite color and hobbies The metadata categories include Camera Data (EXIF or Extended Information File); File Properties; IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council); and Audio, Video and Mobile SWF (Flash Player files) You can also choose to display additional categories, such as GPS (Global Positioning System), Camera Raw, and Edit History Select Preferences from the Metadata panel pop-up menu Select the Metadata category from the left side of the Preferences window In the following sections, you can find a brief description of some of the more frequently used metadata categories Camera Data (EXIF) EXIF data is information that’s attached to an image created from a digital camera It includes data such as make and model of camera, exposure, and f-stop settings If a digital camera didn’t capture the image, it doesn’t have any EXIF data, although some scanners attach EXIF data, such as Figure 3-2: Use Bridge to attach date, time, pixel dimensions, and resolution metadata to image files Camera Data isn’t editable www.it-ebooks.info Working with Metadata BC51 File Properties The fields in the File Properties category include common vitals, such as filename, size, format, color mode, and so on This data can’t be edited IPTC Core IPTC Core data includes info commonly used in the media and press industry Fields such as headline, credit, source, and copyright are available for input via File➪File Info Or make it easy: Select an image, or several images, and simply click the field in the Metadata panel in Bridge and type your entry Press Enter or click the check mark at the bottom of the Metadata panel to apply the changes The File Info dialog box is extensible, which means that users can create custom panels with fields specifically tailored to business needs or personal interests Because Bridge is a feature that’s used across all Creative Suite applications, including illustration and page-layout programs, fonts and swatches are part of the metadata that can be reflected GPS Some files, such as images captured by satellites and most digital cameras, may contain GPS, or Global Positioning System, data This data may contain information on latitude, longitude, altitude, direction, speed, and so on Camera Raw Camera Raw is a file format used to capture images by a lot of different digital cameras The image information is captured directly from the camera’s sensors and isn’t adulterated by filters or adjustments made by the camera This format enables photographers to read the image data and make their own controlled adjustments Camera Raw data includes settings such as white balance, temperature, exposure, color saturation, and so on The Camera Raw metadata reflects the adjustments made to the image while in the Camera Raw dialog box Audio With the explosion of digital music, it’s no wonder this category exists In this category, you can enter data regarding your sound files, such as the name of the artist, album, and track www.it-ebooks.info Other Sources of Information Choose View➪As Details to display the file properties data (along with other data) next to the image thumbnail This option allows you to collapse the left side of the Bridge without sacrificing the display of important metadata Bonus Chapter BC52 Accessing Help When You Need It Video For all you videographers out there, this category enables you to enter data about your video files, such as the tape name, scene, date, and so on Edit History The Edit History option records all the edits (image enhancements, retouches, and so on) made on an image in an edit log that you can save as a text file or as attached metadata In Photoshop, select the History Log option in the General panel in the Preferences dialog box to establish your desired settings for your editing history See Book I, Chapter for details Metadata Panel options Bridge’s Metadata panel offers some options via the Panel pop-up menu: ✓ Find: Select Find to locate images by various metadata fields ✓ Increase/Decrease Font Size: Select these options to enlarge or decrease the font size of text that appears in the Metadata panel in set increments ✓ Show Metadata Placard: Select this option to display the mini-panel with your camera (EXIF) and file data You’ll be able to view data such as camera exposure, file dimensions, file resolution, and color mode ✓ Preferences: Select the Metadata category on the left side of the Preferences window Select the fields to be displayed in the Metadata panel in each of the metadata categories Keep your panel lean and mean by selecting the Hide Empty Fields option to hide metadata items that are set to display but don’t contain any data ✓ Create/Edit Metadata Template: This command enables you to create and edit your own metadata templates Remember, you can create a customized template that contains only the pertinent data you want about your media assets ✓ Append/Replace Metadata: Append Metadata adds data from an existing metadata template If there’s already a value in a particular metadata field, then the value in that metadata template for that field is ignored Replace Metadata replaces the existing metadata with the values in the selected template, regardless of whether metadata already exists for that image Note that the Create, Edit, Append, and Replace Metadata commands can also be found in the Tools submenu of the main Bridge menu Accessing Help When You Need It To access the Photoshop Help system, plus some other useful information, look no further than the handy-dandy Help menu www.it-ebooks.info Accessing Help When You Need It BC53 The Help system contains a lot of embedded cross-reference links that allow you to fully explore the scope of a feature or command It also offers direct links to other resources, such as tips, tutorials, user forums, and online support Bonus Chapter You might not visit the Help menu very often, but if you ever want to find all your help resources in one location, this place is it Here are some other help sources: Other Sources of Information ✓ The About Photoshop splash screen displays the version number of your Photoshop program That way, you always know whether you’ve installed the latest patches and updates to Photoshop CS5 ✓ The About Plug-In entry displays a list of all the plug-ins you’ve installed for Photoshop Selecting an item in the list shows an About screen of version information for that plug-in On a Mac, both the About Photoshop splash screen and About Plug-In menu are on the Photoshop menu ✓ The Photoshop Support Center is an area where you have access to both Adobe support and the beta Community Help program, shown in Figure 3-3, where you can use a Google search to find answers to questions about Photoshop wherever they may lurk Figure 3-3: Reach out to the Photoshop Community for help www.it-ebooks.info BC54 Accessing Help When You Need It ✓ The System Info entry displays information about your computer, its operating system, and its available memory, plus Photoshop-specific data such as the location you set for your Plug-Ins folder If you like, you can click the Copy button to copy this information to the clipboard, and then paste it in a text document and print it out ✓ The Complete/Update Adobe ID Profile, Deactivate, Updates, and Photoshop Online choices access Internet resources for Photoshop www.it-ebooks.info s p p A e l Mobi There’s a Dummies App for This and That With more than 200 million books in print and over 1,600 unique titles, Dummies is a global leader in how-to information Now you can get the same great Dummies information in an App With topics such as Wine, Spanish, Digital Photography, Certification, and more, you’ll have instant access to the topics you need to know in a format you can trust To get information on all our Dummies apps, visit the following: www.Dummies.com/go/mobile from your computer www.Dummies.com/go/iphone/apps from your phone www.it-ebooks.info Computer Graphics/Image Processing Everything you need to know about Photoshop is right in these friendly pages! 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