Adobe Photoshop CC. 2017 release

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Title:

Adobe Photoshop CC. 2017 release

Alternate title:

Photoshop CC

Author:

Faulkner, Andrew, author.

Chavez, Conrad, author.

Series:

Classroom in a book.

Summary:

Contains fifteen lessons that cover the features of Adobe Photoshop CC, covering such topics as using adjusting color and tone, working with selections, rearranging layers, adding a background, painting with the mixer brush, and editing video.

General Note:

Includes index.

Includes digital features access information.

"Adobe Press"--Spine.

"Adobe Press books are published by Peachpit, a division of Pearson Education located in San Francisco, California."--Title page verso.

Contents:

Getting started -- Getting to know the work area -- Basic photo corrections -- Working with selections -- Layer basics -- Quick fixes -- Masks and channels -- Typographic design -- Vector drawing techniques -- Advanced compositing -- Painting with the mixer brush -- Editing video -- Working with camera raw -- Preparing files for the web -- Producing and printing consistent color -- Printing 3D files.

Physical Description:

viii, 391 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Title Subject:

Adobe Photoshop.

Subject Term:

Image processing -- Digital techniques.

Photography -- Digital techniques.

Computer graphics.

Cloud computing.

Author(s):

Chavez, Conrad,

Publisher:

Peachpit,

Publication Date:

2017

ISBN:

9780134663456

Publication Information:

San Francisco, California : Peachpit, [2017]

Call Number:

006.68 FAULKNE

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Summary

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop and how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composites, and prepare images for print and the web.

In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop interface, this completely revised CC (2017 release) edition covers features like new and improved search capabilities, Content-Aware Crop, Select and Mask, Face-Aware Liquify, designing with multiple artboards, and much more!

The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases new features for Creative Cloud customers. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and interactive multiple-choice quizzes. As always with the Classroom in a Book, Instructor Notes are available for teachers to download.

Author Notes

Andrew Faulkner is the founder and creative guru at Afstudio Design with 20+ years in providing design and photo-illustration services to a long list of corporate clients. His work with Adobe Systems started in 1994, when they invited him to help develop the first Adobe Classroom in a Book. Andrew has co-authored numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash. In addition to his graphic design work, he is a veteran Photoshop-jockey, and his digital collage illustration work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal , The New York Tim es, The LA Times , and The Washington Post . His recent digital painting work can be seen online at www.andrew-faulkner.com . When Andrew's not at the studio, you can probably find him hunting down rare vinyl at one of the Bay Area's vintage record stores.

Conrad Chavez has provided education, training, and support for digital-media applications for over 20 years, originally contributing countless pages to the user guides for print, Web, and digital video products at Aldus Corporation and Adobe Systems Inc. Now a freelance writer and editor, Conrad creates books and videos that teach Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Creative Cloud workflows. His work includes the last three editions of Real World Adobe Photoshop for Photographers and the video Color Management for Photographers and Designers . He also writes articles for publications including CreativePro.com, InDesign Magazine, and Peachpit.com. To learn more about Conrad's work and photography, please see www.conradchavez.com .

Getting Started	p. 1
About Classroom in a Book	p. 1
What's new in this edition	p. 2
Prerequisites	p. 2
Installing Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge	p. 3
Starting Adobe Photoshop	p. 3
Online content	p. 4
Restoring default preferences	p. 5
Additional resources	p. 6
Adobe Authorized Training Centers	p. 7
1 Getting to Know the Work Area	p. 8
Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop	p. 10
Using the tools	p. 13
Sampling a color	p. 18
Working with tools and tool properties	p. 19
Undoing actions in Photoshop	p. 25
More about panels and panel locations	p. 27
Finding resources for using Photoshop	p. 29
2 Basic Photo Corrections	p. 32
Strategy for retouching	p. 34
Resolution and image size	p. 35
Opening a file with Adobe Bridge	p. 36
Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop	p. 38
Adjusting the color and tone	p. 40
Using the Spot Healing Brush tool	p. 44
Applying a content-aware patch	p. 45
Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool	p. 46
Sharpening the image	p. 48
3 Working with Selections	p. 52
About selecting and selection tools	p. 54
Getting started	p. 55
Using the Quick Selection tool	p. 55
Moving a selected area	p. 56
Manipulating selections	p. 57
Using the Magic Wand tool	p. 60
Selecting with the lasso tools	p. 63
Rotating a selection	p. 64
Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool	p. 65
Selecting from a center point	p. 66
Resizing and copying a selection	p. 67
Cropping an image	p. 69
4 Layer Basics	p. 72
About layers	p. 74
Getting started	p. 74
Using the Layers panel	p. 75
Rearranging layers	p. 80
Applying a gradient to a layer	p. 90
Applying a layer style	p. 92
Adding an adjustment layer	p. 97
Updating layer effects	p. 100
Adding a border	p. 100
Flattening and saving files	p. 102
5 Quick Fixes	p. 106
Getting started	p. 108
Improving a snapshot	p. 108
Adjusting facial features with Liquify	p. 112
Blurring a background	p. 114
Creating a panorama	p. 118
Filling empty areas when cropping	p. 122
Correcting image distortion	p. 124
Extending depth of field	p. 127
Moving objects with the Content-Aware Move tool	p. 130
Adjusting perspective in an image	p. 134
6 Masks and Channels	p. 140
Working with masks and channels	p. 142
Getting started	p. 142
Using Select and Mask	p. 143
Creating a quick mask	p. 154
Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp	p. 156
Using an alpha channel to create a shadow	p. 158
7 Typographic Design	p. 162
About type	p. 164
Getting started	p. 164
Creating a clipping mask from type	p. 165
Creating type on a path	p. 172
Warping point type	p. 175
Designing paragraphs of type	p. 176
Adding a rounded rectangle	p. 180
Adding vertical text	p. 181
8 Vector Drawing Techniques	p. 186
About bitmap images and vector graphics	p. 188
About paths and the Pen tool	p. 189
Getting started	p. 189
Drawing with the Pen tool	p. 190
Working with defined custom shapes	p. 198
Importing a Smart Object	p. 200
Adding color and depth to a shape using layer styles	p. 201
9 Advanced Compositing	p. 206
Getting started	p. 208
Arranging layers	p. 209
Using Smart Filters	p. 212
Painting a layer	p. 218
Using the History panel to undo edits	p. 221
Upscaling a low-resolution image	p. 227
10 Painting with the Mixer Brush	p. 230
About the Mixer Brush	p. 232
Selecting brush settings	p. 233
Mixing colors	p. 237
Creating a custom brush preset	p. 240
Mixing colors with a photograph	p. 242
11 Editing Video	p. 250
Getting started	p. 252
About the Timeline panel	p. 253
Creating a new video project	p. 254
Animating text with keyframes	p. 258
Creating Effects	p. 260
Adding Transitions	p. 264
Adding audio	p. 265
Muting unwanted audio	p. 266
Rendering video	p. 267
12 Working with Camera Raw	p. 270
Getting started	p. 272
About camera raw files	p. 273
Processing files in Camera Raw	p. 274
Applying advanced color correction	p. 289
13 Preparing Files for the Web	p. 306
Getting started	p. 308
Using layer groups to create button graphics	p. 309
Automating a multistep task	p. 315
Designing with artboards	p. 322
14 Producing and Printing Consistent Color	p. 334
Preparing files for printing	p. 336
Getting started	p. 337
Performing a "zoom test"	p. 338
Identifying out-of-gamut colors	p. 342
Adjusting an image	p. 344
Converting an image to CMYK	p. 346
About color management	p. 347
Specifying color-management settings	p. 348
Proofing an image on screen	p. 349
Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file	p. 351
Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop	p. 352
15 Printing 3D Files	p. 358
Getting started	p. 360
Understanding the 3D environment	p. 360
Positioning 3D elements	p. 364
Printing a 3D file	p. 365
Appendices	p. 372
Index	p. 378

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