Contents

Cover

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Software and Files

Image File Formats

A Note Regarding Keyboard Shortcuts

The Course

1 Preliminary Tuning

Preferences

Interface

File Handling

Performance

Technology Previews

Configuring the Workspace

Docking and Arranging Panels

Create a New Workspace

Working Color Spaces

Lesson A: Opening Multiple Images

Lesson B: Intro to Layers

Backgrounds vs Pixel Layers

Lesson C: Basic Retouching

Nondestructive Retouching

Lesson D: An Adjustment

What’s the Problem Here?

Lesson E: Layers on the Move

Drag, Keep Dragging, and Drop

Lesson F: Selections & Masking

Masking Metaphor

A Warm-Up

A Few Possible Methods

Lesson G: Intro to Smart Objects and Filters

A Note Regarding Navigation

2 A Few Adjustments

Lesson A: The Color Wheel

Additive Primaries

Complementary Colors

Just What’s Wrong?

Lesson B: Photo Filter Adjustment

Adjustment as Diagnostic and Cure

Lesson C: Curves

Tone and Color

Monochromatic Contrast Enhancement

Per-Channel Contrast Enhancement

Auto and Semi-Auto Curves

Lesson D: Vibrance & Hue/Saturation

Definition of Saturation

Color Clipping

Vibrance

Hue/Saturation

Limiting Adjustments

3 Selections & Masking

Warm-Up

Lesson A: Rectangular Marquee

Basic Use

With Modifier Keys

Drawing the Marquee

Lesson B: Elliptical Marquee

Vibrance Adjustment

Lesson C: Lasso & Polygonal Lasso

The Lasso Tool

The Polygonal Lasso Tool

Lesson D: Object Selection

Select Subject

Object Selection Tool

Magic Wand Tool

Quick Selection Tool

Select and Mask Workspace

Lesson E: Mini Project

Peachy In The Woods

A Quick Shadow

Lesson F: Color Range

When a Color’s What You Want, or When It’s Not

Lesson G: Saving & Loading Selections

Selection to Channel

What Quick Mask Really Is

Luminosity Masks

4 Creative Features

Lesson A: Creating Content

Create a New Doc

Creating a Pattern Fill Layer

Creating a Gradient Fill Layer

Creating a Color Fill Layer

Type Layers

Lesson B: Layer Styles

Drop Shadow and Bevel & Emboss

Lesson C: Smart Objects

Smart Objects Are Smart Workflow

Lesson D: Blend If

Now That’s Shady

Lesson E: Painting in Photoshop

Prepare Your Canvas

Happy Little Dabs

Setting Behavior and Qualities

Lesson A: Placing the Art

Place and Finesse the Smart Object

Lesson B: Knockout & Clip Mask Blending

Knockout

Clip Mask with Blending Options

Combining the Two

Lesson C: A Bit of Erasure

Layers with Options

5 Adobe Camera Raw & Software-Aided Photography

Lesson A: From Bridge to ACR

Processing Images with ACR

Lesson B: HDR

Manage Contrast With Multiple Images

Lesson C: Panorama

Assemble Appropriately Captured Images

Lesson D: Passers-Bye-Bye

Statistics Script

Stack Mode

6 Retouching & Transformation

Lesson A: Cloning, Healing, and Content-Aware Fill

Create a Retouch Layer

Clone Stamp

Healing Brush

Spot Healing Brush

Content-Aware Fill

Lesson B: Transforms

Free Transform

Content-Aware Scale

Lesson A: Where We’re Going

Tour the Finished Piece

Lesson B: Gathering the Ingredients

Material Choices

Custom Shape

Lesson C: Bending & Warping

Free Transform with Custom Grid

Lesson D: Clipping and Layer Comps

The Clipping Mask

The Other Half

Create Layer Comps

Comps as Smart Object Properties

Final Touches

The Compendium

1 Layers & Smart Objects

Layers

The Layers Panel

The Background

Pixel or Image Layer

Fill Layers

Vector Shape Layers

Type Layers

Adjustment Layers

Groups

Making a Group

Both Like and Unlike Individual Layers

Neat and Clean

Artboards

A Bit Like Groups

Smart Objects

Creating Smart Objects

Linking vs Embedding

Workflows & Limitations

Frame Layers

Layer Comps

An Alternative to Multiple Files

What is Recorded?

Applying, Editing, and Updating Layer Comps

Exporting Layer Comps

Layer Comps within Smart Objects

Layer Locks & Filtering

Locks

Layer Filters

General Blending Options

Opacity

Blend Modes

Blend Modes & Smart Filters

Blend Modes & Adjustment Layers

Blend Modes & Groups

Layer Styles & Effects

Applying and Editing Styles

Saving Styles

The Effects Listed

Layer Styles & Groups

Advanced Blending Options

Fill Opacity

Channels

Knockout

Blend Interior Effects as Group

Blend Clipped Layers as Group

Transparency Shapes Layer

Layer/Vector Mask Hides Effects

Blend If

2 Adjustments & Color

How Color Works

Color Modes

Color Spaces, Profiles, and Lab

Adjusting in RGB or CMYK or Lab

Choosing Color

Color Picker and Panels

Sampling and Monitoring Image Colors

Eyedropper Tool

Color Sampler Tool

Adjustment Methods and Principles

Best Practices

Histograms

Bit Depth

The Adjustments, Listed

Production Adjustments

Creative Adjustments

3 Brushes & Painting

Brushes and Brush Settings

Brush Tips

Loading and Saving Brushes

Brush Behavior

Tools with Brush Settings

Brush

Pencil

Mixer Brush

Retouching Tools

Color Replacement

Pattern Stamp

History and Art History Brushes

Erasers

Tone and Focus Tools

Gradient Tool

4 Selections & Masks

Selections: Limiting the Damage

Selection Tools

Other Selection Modifiers

Combining Selection Tools

Saving & Loading Selections

Masks

A Metaphor and Example

Creation

Properties

Applying Masks

Selections from Masks

Masks on Groups

Masks on Smart Objects or within Them?

Vector Masks

Other Masking Features

Frame Tool

Clipping Masks

Knockout

Blend If

5 Filters & Transforms

Filters

Focus (Blurring and Sharpening)

Texture

Creation

Artifying

Distortion

Technical

Transforms

Free Transform

Content-Aware Scale

6 Retouching & Repair

Tools & Methods

Clone Stamp

Healing Brush

Clone Source Panel

Spot Healing Brush

Content-Aware Fill

Patch

Content-Aware Move

Vanishing Point Filter

Cosmetic Retouching

Keep Your Options Open

Blemish Removal

Other Helpful Features

7 Editing Raw Files

Adobe Camera Raw & Lightroom

Why We Need Them

Adobe Camera Raw

Raw Adjustments

Lightroom to Photoshop

8 Extending Photoshop

Actions & Scripts

Actions

Scripts

3D

Adobe Dimension

Photoshop on iPad

Taking Photoshop on the Road

Keyboard Shortcuts

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