Peter Bauer - Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies

Adobe® Photoshop® CC For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020952052

ISBN 978-1-119-71177-3; ISBN 978-1-119-71179-7 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-71178-0 (ebk)

1 Cover

2 Title Page

3 Copyright

4 Introduction About This Book Conventions Used in This Book Icons Used in This Book How to Use This Book

5 Part 1: Getting Started with Photoshop CC Chapter 1: An Overview of Photoshop Exploring Adobe Photoshop Viewing Photoshop’s Parts and Processes Chapter 2: Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images What Exactly Is a Digital Image? The True Nature of Pixels How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? File Formats: Which Do You Need? Chapter 3: Taking the Chef’s Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen Food for Thought: How Things Work Get Cookin’ with Customization Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop Chapter 4: From Pics to Prints: Photoshop for Beginners Bringing Images into Photoshop Keeping Your Images Organized Printing Your Images Sharing Your Images

6 Part 2: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images Chapter 5: Making Tonality and Color Look Natural Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop Histograms Simplified Using Photoshop’s Auto Corrections Levels and Curves and You Grabbing Even More Control What Is Color in Photoshop? Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas Chapter 6: The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In Understanding the Raw Facts The Camera Raw Interface Making Adjustments in Camera Raw’s Edit Panel Chapter 7: Fine-Tuning Your Fixes What Is a Selection? Feathering and Anti-aliasing Making Your Selections with Tools Your Selection Commands Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes Chapter 8: Common Problems and Their Cures Making People Prettier Reducing Noise in Your Images Fooling Around with Mother Nature

7 Part 3: Creating “Art” in Photoshop Chapter 9: Combining Images Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1 Making Complex Selections Vanishing Point Creating Panoramas with Photomerge Chapter 10: Precision Edges with Vector Paths Pixels, Paths, and You Easy Vectors: Using Shapes Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths Customizing Any Path Chapter 11: Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles What Are Layer Styles? Using the Styles Panel Creating Custom Layer Styles Saving Your Layer Styles Chapter 12: Giving Your Images a Text Message Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path Chapter 13: Painting in Photoshop Discovering Photoshop’s Painting Tools Working with Panels and Selecting Colors Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Tips and the Mixer Brush Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors Chapter 14: Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy The Filters You Really Need Getting Creative and Artistic Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify What Are Neural Filters? Do I Need Those Other Filters?

8 Part 4: Power Photoshop Chapter 15: Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop Ready, Set, Action! Find It Fast with Discover Creating Contact Sheets and Presentations Scanning Multiple Photos in One Pass Sticking to the Script Chapter 16: Working with Video and Animation Importing and Enhancing Video Clips Creating Animations in Photoshop

9 Part 5: The Part of Tens Chapter 17: Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC Using Smart Object Stack Modes The Mean Stack Mode Working with 3D Artwork Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels Viewing Your DICOM Medical Records Ignoring MATLAB Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Integrate Your iPad Using Sidecar to Add an iPad to Your Screen Sidecar System Requirements Arranging Your iPad’s Screen Mirroring the Screens Maximizing the Screen Space Making Use of Photoshop on the iPad Using the Cloud with Photoshop on the iPad and Desktop Using Other Adobe iPad Apps Does the iPad Replace My Wacom Tablet? Setting Wacom Tablet Preferences for Touch Keys and Touch Ring Chapter 19: Ten Things to Know about HDR Understanding HDR Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro Preparing Raw “Exposures” in Camera Raw Working with Merge to HDR Pro Saving 32-Bit HDR Images HDR Toning Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit Selections and Editing in 32-Bit Printing HDR Images