Adobe Photoshop Cs6 Essentials

, by Onstott, Scott

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ISBN: 9781118094952 | 1118094956
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Copyright: 7/31/2012

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Prepare for the Adobe Certified Associate Exam for Visual Communication Learn Photoshop Quickly and Easily This full-color guide covers the fundamentals and prepares you for the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Exam for Visual Communication with Adobe Photoshop CS6. You'll first explore the common-sense basics that all new designers should know about design, digital printing, and the Photoshop interface. From there, this clear, task-based book covers all exam areas while showing you step by step how to paint, draw, work in layers, manage color, retouch photos, and more. Whether you're new to Photoshop, preparing for the exam, or just brushing up your skills, this book is the perfect primer. Learn these Photoshop essentials-and more: Design, digital imaging, and camera fundamentals How to paint, draw, and create type in Photoshop Designing, applying, and altering layer styles Transforming paths, layers, and smart objects Adjusting, developing, retouching, and merging photos Getting the most out of Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) How to manage, correct, adjust, and proof color Supplying deliverables, no matter what output is required Learn how to develop, adjust, and retouch photos Use layer styles to illustrate and layer comps to explore alternatives This striking Essentials book features: Chapter-opening learning objectives Step-by-step tutorials Four-color screenshots and illustrations Essentials and Beyond-summaries and additional suggested exercises Downloadable exercise files

Scott Onstott is a consultant, former university lecturer, author, and independent video producer with more than 14 years of experience teaching and writing about design visualization and image-manipulation software. He is the author of eight books, including Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop and Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT2013 Essentials. In addition, Scott has been writing a column in Photoshop User magazine for the past six years.

Introduction	p. xix
Design Basics	p. 1
Understanding the Design Process	p. 1
Understanding Project Fundamentals	p. 1
Collaborating with Others	p. 3
Presenting Images	p. 3
Participating in the Design Process	p. 4
Learning Composition Principles	p. 4
Framing Compositions	p. 5
Employing Composition Themes	p. 7
Understanding Your Rights to Use Images	p. 18
Using Your Own Images	p. 18
Using Others' Images	p. 19
Photography and Scanning Primer	p. 21
Understanding Pixels	p. 21
Selecting a Digital Camera	p. 22
Lens Focal Length	p. 24
Lens Aperture	p. 25
Adjusting Exposure	p. 26
Focusing	p. 28
Selecting Light Sensitivity	p. 29
Scanning Tips	p. 30
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 32
Getting Acquainted with Photoshop's User Interface	p. 33
User Interface Overview	p. 33
Setting Application Preferences	p. 36
Accessing Commands	p. 38
Working with Documents	p. 40
Using Tools	p. 42
Understanding Tool Groups and Flyout Menus	p. 42
Selecting Tool Options and Entering Numerical Values	p. 45
Creating Tool Presets	p. 46
Arranging Panels	p. 48
Recalling Workspaces	p. 52
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 54
Digital Imaging Fundamentals	p. 55
Working with Pixels	p. 55
Maximizing Megapixels	p. 55
Selecting the Pixel Aspect Ratio	p. 57
Dealing with Aliasing	p. 58
Navigating Pixels	p. 59
Understanding Color	p. 60
Using Primary Colors	p. 60
Storing Color in Channels	p. 63
Selecting Image Modes	p. 65
Picking Color	p. 68
Storing Data	p. 73
Bits and Bit Depth	p. 73
Data versus Detail	p. 74
Compressing Data	p. 75
Setting Document Size and Resolution	p. 76
Setting Resolution	p. 77
Resampling Images	p. 78
Changing the Canvas Size and Trimming	p. 79
Cropping	p. 81
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 82
Painting	p. 83
Creating Gradients	p. 83
Selecting Paint Colors	p. 87
Using Painting Tools	p. 90
Sketching with a Pencil	p. 90
Painting with a Brush	p. 92
Pouring Paint from a Bucket	p. 94
Using Eraser Tools	p. 95
Exploring Brushes	p. 98
Opacity and Flow	p. 99
Brush Panel	p. 100
Painting With a Tablet	p. 102
Taking Advantage of Pressure Sensitivity	p. 103
Controlling Bristle Tip Brushes with Tilt Sensitivity	p. 104
Painting from History	p. 105
Understanding the History Panel	p. 105
Using the History Brush	p. 106
Painting with the Art History Brush	p. 108
Using the Mixer Brush	p. 110
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 112
Drawing	p. 113
Comparing Vector with Raster Data	p. 113
Drawing with Vector Tools	p. 116
Manipulating Shapes	p. 119
Working With Drawing Tool Modes	p. 123
Shape Tool Mode	p. 123
Path Tool Mode	p. 126
Pixels Tool Mode	p. 129
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 131
Writing	p. 133
Typography Primer	p. 133
Creating Point Text	p. 136
Creating Mask Text	p. 138
Fine-Tuning Type	p. 142
Creating Paragraph Text	p. 146
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 149
Selecting Pixels	p. 151
Selecting with Marquees	p. 151
Using the Rectangular Marquee	p. 151
Using the Elliptical Marquee	p. 153
Selecting with Lassos	p. 156
Using the Lasso	p. 156
Using the Polygonal Lasso	p. 158
Using the Magnetic Lasso	p. 160
Drawing Selections	p. 162
Painting Selections	p. 165
Selecting by Color	p. 167
Quick Selecting and Refining	p. 171
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 175
Working with Layers and Masks	p. 177
Understanding Layers	p. 177
Managing Layers	p. 181
Blending Layers	p. 184
Using Masks	p. 191
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 195
Using Layer Styles and Comps	p. 197
Applying Layer Effects	p. 197
Octagram Layer	p. 198
Rays Layer	p. 202
Outer and Circle Layers	p. 205
Circled Dot Layer Group	p. 208
Dividers Layer	p. 212
Working with Layer Styles	p. 216
Using Layer Comps	p. 218
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 219
Transforming Paths, Layers, and Smart Objects	p. 221
Using Rulers and Guides	p. 221
Moving, Aligning, and Distributing	p. 224
Free Transforming	p. 227
Deforming	p. 231
Transforming Smart Objects	p. 234
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 237
Adjusting and Filtering	p. 239
Applying Adjustments and Filters	p. 239
Working with Smart Filters	p. 243
Creating Fill and Adjustment Layers	p. 247
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 252
Developing Photos	p. 253
Using Adobe Bridge	p. 253
Making Development Decisions in ACR	p. 255
Basic Parameters	p. 256
Advanced Parameters	p. 260
Making Local Adjustments in ACR	p. 266
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 270
Retouching Photos	p. 271
Using Retouching Tools	p. 271
Developing the Photo	p. 271
Removing the Telephone Pole and Wires	p. 273
Replacing Textures In Perspective	p. 278
Mapping Perspective Grids	p. 278
Copying a Texture onto Surfaces in Perspective	p. 282
Changing Focus	p. 286
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 289
Merging Photos	p. 291
Making High Dynamic Range Imagery	p. 291
Using Merge to HDR Pro	p. 291
Applying HDR Toning To A Single Image	p. 295
Working with Panoramas	p. 297
Using Photomerge	p. 297
Making A Seamless 360-Degree Panorama	p. 300
Processing Images in Stacks	p. 304
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 308
Working with Color	p. 309
Managing Color	p. 309
Configuring Color Settings	p. 312
Assigning and Converting Color Profiles	p. 315
Correcting Color	p. 318
Using Curves to Set Black, Gray, and White Points	p. 318
Creating a Color Cast with the Photo Filter	p. 321
Adjusting Color	p. 323
Proofing Color	p. 326
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 328
Creating Output	p. 329
Printing	p. 329
Saving for the Web	p. 333
Rendering Images to Video	p. 337
The Essentials and Beyond	p. 339
Appendix Adobe Visual Communication Using Photoshop CS6 Objectives	p. 341
Index	p. 345
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