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... 24 Adobe Dialog...25 OS Dialog...25 Opening Files through Bridge...26 Screen Modes... 27 Standard Screen Mode...28 Maximized Screen Mode...28 Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar...29 Full Screen Mode...30 Creating a New Document... 30 Saving Files... 32 Reverting Files... 34 Closing Files... 35 Quitting Photoshop... 35 Summary... 36 Chapter 2 Configuring Basic Settings 37 Introduction... 37 Selecting a Workspace... 38 Managing Palettes... 42 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... 46 Creating Shortcut Keys...47 Highlighting Frequently Used Menu Options...50 Saving a Workspace... 52 Deleting a Workspace... 53 Customizing Preferences... 54 Setting General Preferences...55 Setting Interface Preferences...57 Setting File Handling Preferences...58 v
Photoshop CS3 in Simple Steps Setting Performance Preferences...58 Setting Cursor Preferences...59 Summary... 60 Chapter 3 Working with Images 61 Bitmap and Vector Images... 62 Understanding the Image Resolution... 62 About the Pixel Logic...63 Understanding the Image Size... 63 Changing the Resolution of an Image...64 Changing the Document Size...65 Resampling Image...66 Editing Images... 66 Rotating an Image...66 Cropping an Image...70 Hiding Instead of Cropping...73 Working with Canvas Size...74 Duplicating an Image...76 Color Mode... 77 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... 81 Levels...81 Curves...82 Brightness/Contrast...83 Hue/Saturation...84 Variations...85 File Formats... 85 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... 92 vi
Contents Chapter 4 Creating, Modifying and Transforming the Selections 93 Using Selections Tools... 94 The Marquee Tools...94 Lasso Tools...101 Magic Wand Tool...105 Making Color Range Selections... 106 Modifying a Selection... 108 Adding and Subtracting Selection...109 Expand and Contract Commands...109 Grow and Similar Commands...110 Refine Edges...112 Inverse...113 Transforming a Selection... 115 Scale...115 Rotate...116 Distort...116 Skew...117 Perspective...118 Warp...118 Saving and Loading Selection... 119 Summary... 122 Chapter 5 Drawing, Painting and Retouching Tools 123 Setting the Current Foreground and Background Colors... 124 The Color Picker Dialog Box...125 The Eyedropper Tool...126 The Color Palette...128 The Swatches Palette...128 The Drawing Tools... 130 Using the Rectangle Tool...131 Using the Custom Shape Tool...132 The Pen Tool...133 The Painting Tools... 138 The Gradient Tool...138 The Paint Bucket Tool...140 The Brush Tool...142 The Pencil Tool...148 The Color Replacement Tool...149 The Retouching Tools...150 The Spot Healing Brush Tool...151 The Healing Brush Tool...152 Patch Tool...153 Clone Stamp Tool...154 vii
Photoshop CS3 in Simple Steps viii The Pattern Stamp Tool...155 The Eraser Tool...157 The Background Eraser Tool...160 The Magic Eraser Tool...160 The Blur Tool...161 The Sharpen Tool...161 The Smudge Tool...162 The Dodge Tool...162 The Burn Tool...163 Sponge Tool...163 Summary... 164 Chapter 6 Layers 165 About the Layers Palette... 166 Working with Layers... 169 Creating a New Layer...169 Creating a New Layer Using the Layer via Cut Command...171 Creating a New Layer Using the Layer via Copy Command...173 Hiding/Showing Layers...174 Deleting Layers...175 Deleting a Layer using Layer Menu... 175 Changing Stack Order of Layer...176 Relocating Layers in the Image...177 Merging Layers...178 Flattening Images...179 Moving Layers between Images...181 Linking and Unlinking Layers...182 Working with Adjustment Layers... 184 Applying Blend Modes... 186 Masking Layers... 193 Layer Masking...193 Vector Masking...195 Type Masking... 195 Shape Masking... 196 Summary... 198 Chapter 7 Layer Style and Filter Effects 199 Layer Style... 200 Using the Layer Style Dialog Box...200 Applying a Layer Style...204 Copying Styles...208 Clearing Styles...209 Creating Layers from Styles...210 About Filters... 211
About Smart Objects and Filters... 220 Contents Creating a Smart Object...220 Editing Smart Object...222 The Filter Gallery... 225 Applying the Extract Filter...226 Applying the Liquify Filter...229 Applying the Vanishing Point Filter...232 Applying the Artistic Filters...235 Applying the Blur Filters...237 Applying the Brush Stroke Filters...239 Applying the Distort Filters...239 Applying the Noise Filters...240 Applying the Pixelate Filters...241 Applying the Render Filters...242 Summary... 242 Chapter 8 Automation and Printing in Photoshop 243 Creating an Action... 244 Contact Sheet... 246 Picture Package... 249 Web Photo Gallery... 254 Scanning Images... 261 The Paths to Illustrator Command... 263 Printing in Photoshop... 265 Page Setup...265 Various Print Commands in Photoshop...267 Summary... 270 ix