Getting Your Feet Wet
Getting Creative When You Have No Idea What You're Doing p. 5
Meet Bouton's Idea of a Picnic p. 6
Creating Your Own Special Effects Without a Clue as to What You're Doing p. 27
Summary p. 45
Photoshop Core Concepts
Optimizing and Customizing Photoshop Preferences p. 49
Glomming Over Photoshop's Preferences p. 50
Determining Which Units and Rulers to Use p. 68
Checking Out the Guides, Grid & Slices Preferences p. 71
Plug-Ins, Scratch Disks, Memory and Image Cache p. 73
Doing Some Photoshop House Cleaning p. 79
Who Wants So Many Palettes in a Group? p. 80
Customizing the Shapes Feature p. 82
Exploring Near-Infinite Brush Variations p. 85
Layers, Layers--Oh How Do You Control Layers? p. 96
Introducing the Tool Preset Palette p. 100
Summary p. 109
Harnessing the Power of Selections p. 111
Basic Selections 101 with Lab p. 112
Introducing the Marquee Tools p. 112
Rounding Up the Lasso Tools p. 123
Getting the Best Selections (in the Least Amount of Time) p. 125
Let's Lasso Somebody p. 127
Saving and Loading Selections p. 132
Magic Wand Tool Magic p. 134
The Layer Mask p. 140
Replacing an Overcast Sky p. 140
Making a Quick Panorama Using Selections p. 143
Summary p. 147
Enough Selections! The Layers and Shapes Chapter p. 149
Examining the Flexibility of Layers p. 150
New! Layer Sets p. 159
Using the Layer Mask Feature p. 161
Imagine Color Correction by Painting It On p. 167
Shapes and Clipping Paths p. 172
Summary p. 198
Working with Channels and Paths p. 201
Channels: A Definition and the Keys to Mastering Them p. 202
Alpha Channels: Storage Space for Special Information p. 217
Paths, as in Those Things in Illustrator and CorelDRAW p. 229
The Anatomy of a Path p. 233
The Pen Tool and Special Effects p. 237
Taking Paths to the Max p. 243
Summary p. 252
Using the Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, and Patch Tools p. 255
Copying Pixels Is the Name of the Game p. 256
Introducing the Healing Brush Tool p. 263
The Patch Tool at Work p. 265
Optional Independent Study p. 268
Summary p. 271
The Important and Headache-Causing Stuff: Calibration, Input, and Output
Understanding Photoshop's Color Management System p. 275
Understanding Photoshop's Color Management System (CMS) p. 278
Coming to Terms with Color Management p. 278
Preparing to Create a Custom Profile p. 287
Creating an ICC Profile for a Monitor p. 290
Setting Photoshop's Color Management Defaults p. 296
The Color Settings Dialog Box, or Laying Down the Rules p. 297
Choosing Between Assigning and Converting to Profile p. 312
Putting Theory into Practice p. 314
Soft-Proofing, or Seeing Onscreen What an Image Will Look Like When It's Printed p. 321
Summary p. 326
Resources p. 326
Input, Output, and Resolution p. 329
Bringing Images into Your Computer p. 330
Getting Images from the Creative Side p. 331
Getting Pictures from Digital Cameras p. 331
Scanning Pictures p. 335
Working with Kodak PhotoCDs p. 340
Output Essentials p. 342
Interpolation Means "Interpretation" p. 342
Going from Continuous Tones to Halftones p. 346
PostScript and Image Resolution p. 349
The Input/Output Chart p. 354
Printing Options in Photoshop p. 360
Film Recording p. 365
Summary p. 369
Photoshop for Photographers
Basic Picture Editing p. 373
Opening Pictures by Name p. 374
Using Photoshop's New File Browser Feature p. 376
Rotating a Picture p. 380
Always Work on a Copy p. 382
Cropping a Photograph p. 382
The Anatomy of a Digital Picture p. 389
Types of Graphic Files p. 396
Summary p. 398
Color and Tone Correction p. 401
Working with Tones p. 402
Examining the Curves Command p. 412
Colors, Color Shifting, and Color Correcting p. 422
Using the Variations Command p. 425
Summary p. 428
Restoring an Heirloom Photograph p. 431
Scanning Modes and Resolution p. 433
Become a Detective Before Retouching p. 433
Different Approaches for Different Problem Areas p. 436
Replacing the Image Background p. 447
Summary p. 456
Retouching an Heirloom Photograph p. 459
Adding Original Colors and Tonally Correcting the Image p. 460
Introducing New Image Elements p. 467
Summary p. 473
Photoshop for Artists
Using Paths p. 477
Understanding the Pen Tool Rule--Think of Points p. 480
Using Paths to Help Paint an Image p. 490
A Ton More Path Talk--Only Kidding p. 520
Summary p. 527
Bringing Out the Artist in You p. 531
Painting for the Non-Painter p. 532
Becoming One of the Great Painters in Art History p. 541
Adding to the Illusion Using Extra Texture p. 554
Summary p. 558
Out of This World A.R.T. (Advanced Rendering Techniques) p. 561
Rendering: What Is It? How Much Does It Cost? p. 562
Adding Modeling for Dimension p. 574
Applying Textures and Other Effects for Added Realism p. 596
Typography and Special Effects
Typography p. 615
Type Is Your Personality on Paper p. 617
Types of Type p. 622
Choosing Type p. 634
Using Type p. 639
Summary--Have Fun with Type! p. 657
Where to Buy Fonts on the Web p. 658
Special Effects with Type p. 661
Pleasing Clients with Multiple Versions of Text Handling p. 662
Summary p. 685
Photoshop for the Web
Creating Interface Elements p. 689
Interface Design 101 p. 690
Creating an Interface from Scratch p. 691
Summary p. 735
Rollovers, Slicing, and Optimization p. 737
Preparing an Interface for ImageReady p. 739
Wrapping Up in ImageReady p. 750
Summary p. 760
Animation p. 763
Animation Guidelines p. 764
Creating Animated Dissolving Text p. 764
Preparing Channels and Layers for Animation p. 765
Round and Round We Go: Creating Loops p. 775
Creating a Bulging Pipe Animation p. 778
Using Displacement Maps for Special Animations p. 779
Digging into the Whys and Wherefores of Displace p. 780
Creating Displacement Map Visual Content p. 781
Animated Fog/Scrolling Texture p. 789
Getting Your Hands on Some Clouds p. 789
Summary p. 796
Post Script (Pun Intended) p. 796
Scripting and Actions p. 799
Splitting Images with Actions p. 800
Splitting Images with Scripting p. 805
Scripting for Complex Tasks p. 811
Summary p. 821
Photoshop Tricks and Closing Thoughts
Gary Cauldron and Photoshop Tricks p. 825
Making Julian Float p. 827
Borrowing an Image's Color Palette p. 851
Creating a Photoshop Book Cover p. 855
Removing Fringing from Leaves p. 863
Making a Painting from a Photo p. 874
Fun with Fractals: Creating Seamless Tiles p. 884
Removing Red Eye p. 894
Creating a Bronze Guy p. 901
Becoming Gaugin in Your Spare Time p. 905
Fixing a Chopped-Off Drop Shadow p. 916
Grand Chapter Summary p. 920
PostScript p. 921
Where Do We Go from Here? p. 923
Closing Thoughts p. 923
The Back O'The Book
The Inside Photoshop 7 CD-ROM p. 931
Instructions for Installing Acrobat Reader 5 p. 932
What's On the Companion CD? p. 932
Special Offers p. 941
What to Do if You Have Problems with the Companion CD p. 942
Keyboard Shortcuts and Power User Tricks p. 945
Undoing a Potential Disaster p. 946
Clipboards and New Images p. 947
Dump Your Clipboard p. 947
Keep Plenty of Drive Space Available p. 947
Scratch Disk No-No p. 947
Closing All Open Images p. 948
Drawing a Straight Line in Photoshop p. 948
How to Hide Those Pesky Marching Ants p. 948
Quick Frame p. 949
Fade Power p. 950
Another Fade Trick (Windows Only) p. 950
Stuff for Retouching p. 950
New Photoshop 7 Brushes Palette p. 951
Making the Palettes Go Away (Temporarily) p. 951
Think Before You Reset All Brushes p. 951
Creating Irregularly Shaped Brushes p. 951
Great Fill Tricks p. 952
Great Zoom Tricks p. 952
The Best Zoom Setting Possible p. 953
Getting Around an Image Fast p. 953
Removing Blue Cast from Digital Camera Photos p. 953
Reapplying Filters p. 954
Resetting Filters to Default Settings p. 954
Adjustment Layers p. 954
Dragging Layers Between Images p. 955
A Context Menu Trick p. 955
Auto Selecting Layers p. 956
Layers and the Clone Tool p. 956
Quickly Toggling Between Measuring Tools p. 956
Speaking of Measuring Tool Tricks--Did Ya Know? p. 957
Making Better Grayscale Images from Color Ones p. 958
An Easy Way to Create Complex Selections Automatically p. 959
Creating a Selection Using Channels p. 960