Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Studio Techniques

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Features

• NEW - Updated and revised to cover the latest features of Photoshop 6.

  • Provides students with the most current material, in simple and understandable terms, so they easily learn and update their skills on the essential aspects of Photoshop 6. Ex.___

• Companion CD—CD contains sample images to work with throughout each lesson, as well as demo plug-ins and software.

• Industry-leading Author—Ben Willmore is the founder of Digital Mastery, a training and consulting firm dedicated to the teaching of graphics arts. Since 1994, over 6000 students have attended his seminars, including his hugely successful seminar, “Master Photoshop in 3 Days.” He is also a regular speaker at Photoshop events around the U.S., and is the author of the previous edition of this book, Official Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Studio Techniques.

  • Industry-leading teachers, writers, and designers provide students with expert, professional training. Ex.___

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Description

• Copyright 2001
• Edition: 1st

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-201-71612-7
• ISBN-13: 978-0-201-71612-2

This is the definitive guide to mastering the most essential features of Photoshop. Experienced Photoshop instructor Ben Willmore provides lessons that will help all users truly understand this popular image editing software. The text starts out with basic Photoshop techniques and moves on to more complex tasks and features, including layers, resolution, line art scanning, compositing, color correction, and displaying images on the Web. With these concepts and skills explained in a "technobabble-free" way, readers will master even the most complex Photoshop concepts. This is not a special effects cookbook or a primer on digital design; rather, this reader-friendly book is designed to boost users' productivity by showing how and why to use certain Photoshop tools.

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

I. WORKING FOUNDATIONS.

1. Tool and Palette Primer.

Preparing Your Workspace. Working with Screen Modes. A Quick Tour of the Tools. Navigating Your Document. Picking Colors. Basic Editing Tools.

2. Selection Primer.

What Is a Selection? Basic Selection Tools. Refining a Selection. The Select Menu. Quick Mask Mode.

3. Layers Primer.

How Do Layers Work? Meeting the Layers. Leapin' Layers! More Tools and Toys. Done Playing Around?

II. PRODUCTION ESSENTIALS.

4. Resolution Solutions.

Scanning. Display Onscreen. Printed Images. Digital Cameras. Optimal Settings. Post-scan Adjustments. Scaling Images in Other Programs.

5. Line Art Scanning.

Avoiding the Jaggies. Straightening the Image. Improving Definition. Converting to Line Art. Minimizing File Size. Converting to Bitmap.

6. Optimizing Grayscale Images.

Levels Is the Solution. The Histogram Gives You Feedback. Improve Brightness. Setting Up Your Images for Final Output. A Quick Levels Recap. Post-adjustment Analysis. Sharpening.

7. Understanding Curves.

With Power Comes Complexity. Take Curves for a Test Drive. Input and Output Numbers.

8. Color Correction.

The Genesis of Color. The Digital Version of Color. RGB: Don't Leave Home Without It. Use Gray to Fix Color?!? Professional Color Correction.

9. Channels.

Channels Are Worth the Pain! Three Varieties of Channels. Navigating the Channels Palette. Understanding Color Channels. Understanding Spot Channels. Understanding Alpha Channels. Use Extract to Select Complex Objects.

III. CREATIVE EXPLORATIONS.

10. Shadows.

How to Think About Shadows. Four Shadow Types. RGB versus CMYK.

11. Image Blending.

Four Ways to Blend. Grouping Layers. Blending Sliders. Layer Masks. Layer Clipping Paths.

12. Enhancement.

Cooking With Pixels. Special Filter Effects. Painting with Filters. Liquify.

13. Retouching.

Rubber Stamp Tool. The Dodge and Burn Tools. The Sponge Tool. The Sharpen and Blur Tools.

14. Type and Background Effects.

Banishes Jaggy Text. Am I in a Page Layout Program? Entering Text. Editing Text. Type Layers. Layer Effects. The Styles Palette. Photo-realistic Effects. Backgrounds & Textures. Repeating Patterns. Applying Dimension to a Photo.

IV. WEB GRAPHICS.

15. Interface Design.

Consistent Design Principles. Creating Interface Elements.

16. Slicing and Rollovers.

The Slice Tool. Creating Rollovers. Saving Your Image with Slices.

17. Animation.

Simple Animations. Text Warping. Other Text Transformations. Rollover Animations.

18. Optimization.

JPEG Compression. GIF Compression. Optimize in Photoshop or ImageReady?

Index.

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