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CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction to Photoshop CS3 1 Exploring the New Interface... 4 Title Bar...4 Menu Bar...5 Options Bar...5 Document Window...6 The Toolbox...7 All New Tabbed Palettes.

1 CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction to Photoshop CS3 1 Exploring the New Interface... 4 Title Bar...4 Menu Bar...5 Options Bar...5 Document Window...6 The Toolbox...7 All New Tabbed Palettes...18 Opening an Existing File Adobe Dialog...25 OS Dialog...25 Opening Files through Bridge...26 Screen Modes Standard Screen Mode...28 Maximized Screen Mode...28 Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar...29 Full Screen Mode...30 Creating a New Document Saving Files Reverting Files Closing Files Quitting Photoshop Summary Chapter 2 Configuring Basic Settings 37 Introduction Selecting a Workspace Managing Palettes Changing the Position of a Palette Group...42 Changing the Position of Palettes...43 Splitting a Palette Group...45 Stacking Palettes...45 Working with Keyboard Shortcuts and Menu Settings Creating Shortcut Keys...47 Highlighting Frequently Used Menu Options...50 Saving a Workspace Deleting a Workspace Customizing Preferences Setting General Preferences...55 Setting Interface Preferences...57 Setting File Handling Preferences...58 v

2 Photoshop CS3 in Simple Steps Setting Performance Preferences...58 Setting Cursor Preferences...59 Summary Chapter 3 Working with Images 61 Bitmap and Vector Images Understanding the Image Resolution About the Pixel Logic...63 Understanding the Image Size Changing the Resolution of an Image...64 Changing the Document Size...65 Resampling Image...66 Editing Images Rotating an Image...66 Cropping an Image...70 Hiding Instead of Cropping...73 Working with Canvas Size...74 Duplicating an Image...76 Color Mode RGB Mode...78 CMYK Mode...78 Indexed Color Mode...79 Duotone Mode...79 Grayscale Mode...79 HSB Mode...79 Lab Mode...79 Changing Modes...79 Making Color Adjustments Levels...81 Curves...82 Brightness/Contrast...83 Hue/Saturation...84 Variations...85 File Formats PSD (PhotoShop Document)...86 BMP (Bitmap)...86 EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)...86 TIFF Format (Tagged Image File Format)...86 GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)...88 JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)...88 PDF (Portable Document Format)...88 Summary vi

3 Contents Chapter 4 Creating, Modifying and Transforming the Selections 93 Using Selections Tools The Marquee Tools...94 Lasso Tools Magic Wand Tool Making Color Range Selections Modifying a Selection Adding and Subtracting Selection Expand and Contract Commands Grow and Similar Commands Refine Edges Inverse Transforming a Selection Scale Rotate Distort Skew Perspective Warp Saving and Loading Selection Summary Chapter 5 Drawing, Painting and Retouching Tools 123 Setting the Current Foreground and Background Colors The Color Picker Dialog Box The Eyedropper Tool The Color Palette The Swatches Palette The Drawing Tools Using the Rectangle Tool Using the Custom Shape Tool The Pen Tool The Painting Tools The Gradient Tool The Paint Bucket Tool The Brush Tool The Pencil Tool The Color Replacement Tool The Retouching Tools The Spot Healing Brush Tool The Healing Brush Tool Patch Tool Clone Stamp Tool vii

4 Photoshop CS3 in Simple Steps viii The Pattern Stamp Tool The Eraser Tool The Background Eraser Tool The Magic Eraser Tool The Blur Tool The Sharpen Tool The Smudge Tool The Dodge Tool The Burn Tool Sponge Tool Summary Chapter 6 Layers 165 About the Layers Palette Working with Layers Creating a New Layer Creating a New Layer Using the Layer via Cut Command Creating a New Layer Using the Layer via Copy Command Hiding/Showing Layers Deleting Layers Deleting a Layer using Layer Menu Changing Stack Order of Layer Relocating Layers in the Image Merging Layers Flattening Images Moving Layers between Images Linking and Unlinking Layers Working with Adjustment Layers Applying Blend Modes Masking Layers Layer Masking Vector Masking Type Masking Shape Masking Summary Chapter 7 Layer Style and Filter Effects 199 Layer Style Using the Layer Style Dialog Box Applying a Layer Style Copying Styles Clearing Styles Creating Layers from Styles About Filters

5 About Smart Objects and Filters Contents Creating a Smart Object Editing Smart Object The Filter Gallery Applying the Extract Filter Applying the Liquify Filter Applying the Vanishing Point Filter Applying the Artistic Filters Applying the Blur Filters Applying the Brush Stroke Filters Applying the Distort Filters Applying the Noise Filters Applying the Pixelate Filters Applying the Render Filters Summary Chapter 8 Automation and Printing in Photoshop 243 Creating an Action Contact Sheet Picture Package Web Photo Gallery Scanning Images The Paths to Illustrator Command Printing in Photoshop Page Setup Various Print Commands in Photoshop Summary ix

Disc I: (2:51:00) Disc II: (2:34:00) Part I: Intro/Environment. Part III: Tools. Part II: Selection Tools, Basic Editing & Layers.

Disc I: (2:51:00) Disc II: (2:34:00) Part I: /Environment Part III: Tools 21:59 Stamp Tools 6:21 Environment 24:22 Color Management Profiles Color # s Custom Colors Back to settings Edit: Preferences 5:57