Adobe Photoshop is one of the most important computer programs of our age. It’s made photo editing a commonplace thing, something for the everyperson. Still, Photoshop can be a scary thing (especially that first purchase price!), comprising a jungle of menus and panels and tools and options and shortcuts as well as a bewildering array of add-ons and plug-ins. And that’s why you’re holding this book in your hands. And why I wrote it. And why John Wiley & Sons published it. You want to make sense of Photoshop — or, at the very least, be able to work competently and efficiently in the program, accomplishing those tasks that need to get done. You want a reference that discusses how things work and what things do, not in a technogeek or encyclopedic manner, but rather as an experienced friend might explain something to you. Although step-by-step explanations are okay if they show how something works, you don’t need rote recipes that don’t apply to the work you do. You don’t mind discovering tricks, as long as they can be applied to your images and artwork in a productive, meaningful manner. You’re in the right place! About This Book This is a For Dummies book, and as such, it was produced with an eye toward you and your needs. From Day One, the goal has been to put into your hands the book that makes Photoshop understandable and useable. You won’t find a technical explanation of every option for every tool in every situation, but rather a concise explanation of those parts of Photoshop you’re most likely to need. If you happen to be a medical researcher working toward a cure for cancer, your Photoshop requirements might be substantially more specific than what you’ll find covered here. But for the overwhelming majority of the people who have access to Adobe Photoshop , this book provides the background needed to get your work done with Photoshop . As I updated this book, I intentionally tried to strike a balance between the types of images with which you’re most likely to work and those visually stimulating (yet far less common) images of unusual subjects from faraway places. At no point in this book does flavor override foundation. When you need to see a practical example, that’s what I show you. I worked to ensure that each piece of artwork illustrates a technique and does so in a meaningful, nondistracting way for you. You’ll see that I used mostly Apple computers in producing this book. That’s simply a matter of choice and convenience. You’ll also see (if you look closely) that I shoot mostly with Canon cameras and use E ps on printers. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t shoot with Nikon, or that you shouldn’tprint with HP or Canon. If that’s what you have, if it’s what you’re comfortable with, and if it fulfills your needs, stick with it! You’ll also find that I mention Wacom drawing tablets here and there (and devoted one of the final chapters to the subject). Does that mean you should have one? If you do any work that relies on precise cursor movement (like painting, dodging, burning, path creation and editing, cloning, healing, patching, or lassoing, just to name a few), yes, I do recommend a Wacom Cintiq display or Intuos tablet. Next to more RAM and good color management, it’s the best investment just about any Photoshop user can make. One additional note: If you’re brand new to digital imaging and computers, this probably isn’t the best place to start. I do indeed make certain assumptions about your level of computer knowledge (and, to a lesser degree, your knowledge of digital imaging). But if you know your File➪Open from your File➪Close and can find your lens cap with both hands, read Chapter 1, and you’ll have no problem with Photoshop CS6 For Dummies. 本书来自: Photoshop CS6 For Dummies 更多书籍请到:http://www.fordummiespdf.com/ 内容截图： Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................. 1 About This Book...............................................................................................1 How This Book Is Organized...........................................................................2 Part I: Breezing through Basic Training...............................................2 Part II: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images....................................2 Part III: Creating “Art” in Photoshop ....................................................3 Part IV: Power Photoshop .....................................................................3 Part V: The Part of Tens.........................................................................3 Conventions Used in This Book......................................................................4 Icons Used in This Book..................................................................................4 How to Use This Book......................................................................................5 Where to Go from Here....................................................................................5 Part I: Breezing through Basic Training.......................... 7 Chapter 1: Welcome to Photoshop ! . 9 Exploring Adobe Photoshop ...........................................................................9 What Photoshop is designed to do....................................................10 New features to help you do those jobs............................................10 Other things you can do with Photoshop .........................................13 Viewing Photoshop ’s Parts and Processes.................................................15 Reviewing basic computer operations...............................................15 Photoshop ’s incredible selective Undo.............................................17 Installing Photoshop : Need to know..................................................19 Chapter 2: Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images . 21 What Exactly Is a Digital Image?...................................................................22 The True Nature of Pixels..............................................................................22 How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?...................................24 Resolution revelations.........................................................................25 Resolving image resolution.................................................................26 File Formats: Which Do You Need?..............................................................35 Formats for digital photos...................................................................35 Formats for web graphics....................................................................37 Formats for commercial printing........................................................38 Formats for PowerPoint and Word.....................................................39Chapter 3: Taking the Chef’s Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen . 41 Food for Thought: How Things Work...........................................................42 Ordering from the menus....................................................................42 Your platter full of panels....................................................................43 The tools of your trade........................................................................46 Get Cookin’ with Customization...................................................................47 Clearing the table: Custom workspaces............................................48 Sugar and spice, shortcuts are nice...................................................50 Spoons can’t chop: Creating tool presets..........................................51 Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings...................................................52 Standing orders: Setting the Preferences..........................................53 Ensuring consistency: Color Settings.................................................60 When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop ......................................61 Chapter 4: Getting Images into and out of Photoshop 63 Bringing Images into Photoshop .................................................................. 64 Downloading from your digital camera.............................................65 Scanning prints.....................................................................................67 Keeping Your Images Organized..................................................................71 Creating a folder structure..................................................................71 Using Adobe Bridge..............................................................................72 Renaming image files easily.................................................................74 Printing Your Images......................................................................................75 Cropping to a specific aspect ratio.....................................................76 Remembering resolution.....................................................................78 Controlling color using File➪Print.....................................................79 Considering color management solutions.........................................81 Printing alternatives.............................................................................82 Sharing Your Images......................................................................................83 Creating PDFs and websites................................................................83 E-mailing your images..........................................................................84 Part II: Easy Enhancements for Digital Images.............. 85 Chapter 5: Adding Dark Shadows and Sparkling Highlights 87 Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop.............................................88 Histograms Simplified....................................................................................88 Using Photoshop ’s Auto Corrections...........................................................92 Levels and Curves and You...........................................................................93 Level-headed you!.................................................................................95 Tonal corrections with the eyedroppers...........................................97 Adjusting your curves without dieting..............................................98Grabbing Even More Control......................................................................101 Using Shadow/Highlight.....................................................................102 Changing exposure after the fact......................................................105 Using Photoshop ’s toning tools........................................................105 Chapter 6: Making Color Look Natural 107 What Is Color in Photoshop ?......................................................................107 Color modes, models, and depths....................................................108 Recording color in your image..........................................................114 Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop ..................................................114 Watching the Histogram and Info panels.........................................116 Choosing color adjustment commands...........................................116 Manual corrections in individual channels.....................................131 The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas..................................................1 32 Chapter 7: The Adobe Camera Raw 7 Plug-In 135 Understanding the Raw Facts.....................................................................135 What’s the big deal about Raw?........................................................137 Working in Raw...................................................................................138 Do You Have What It Takes?.......................................................................139 Working in the Camera Raw Plug-In...........................................................140 Tools and preview options................................................................140 The histogram.....................................................................................146 The preview area................................................................................147 Workflow Options and presets.........................................................148 The Basic panel...................................................................................150 The Detail panel..................................................................................153 HSL, grayscale, and split toning........................................................155 Compensating with Lens Corrections..............................................157 Adding special effects........................................................................158 Camera profiles, presets, and sna ps hots........................................159 The Camera Raw buttons..................................................................159 Chapter 8: Fine-Tuning Your Fixes . 161 What Is a Selection?......................................................................................162 Feathering and Anti-Aliasing.......................................................................1 64 Making Your Selections with Tools............................................................166 Marquee selection tools.....................................................................166 Lasso selection tools..........................................................................169 The Quick Selection tool....................................................................171 The Magic Wand tool.........................................................................172 Refine Edge..........................................................................................172 Your Selection Commands..........................................................................174 The primary selection commands....................................................175 The Color Range command...............................................................176 Selection modification commands...................................................177 Transforming the shape of selections..............................................178 Edit in Quick Mask mode...................................................................179 The mask-related selection commands...........................................180 Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore...................................................181 Saving and loading selections...........................................................181 Editing an alpha channel....................................................................182 Adding masks to layers and Smart Objects.....................................183 Masking with vector paths................................................................184 Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes..................................................184 Adding an adjustment layer..............................................................185 Limiting your adjustments.................................................................186 Chapter 9: Common Problems and Their Cures . 189 Making People Prettier................................................................................190 Getting the red out . . . digitally........................................................190 The digital fountain of youth.............................................................191 Dieting digitally...................................................................................192 De-glaring glasses...............................................................................194 Whitening teeth...................................................................................194 Reducing Noise in Your Images..................................................................194 Decreasing digital noise.....................................................................195 Eliminating luminance noise.............................................................195 Fooling Around with Mother Nature..........................................................196 Removing the unwanted from photos..............................................196 Eliminating the lean: Fixing perspective..........................................200 Rotating images precisely..................................................................202 Part III: Creating “Art” in Photoshop .......................... 203 Chapter 10: Combining Images . 205 Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1.....................................................................205 Understanding layers.........................................................................206 Why you should use Smart Objects.................................................207 Using the basic blending modes.......................................................208 Opacity, transparency, and layer masks.........................................211 Creating clipping grou ps ....................................................................212 Making composited elements look natural.....................................213Making Complex Selections.........................................................................214 Vanishing Point.............................................................................................216 Creating Panoramas with Photomerge......................................................220 Chapter 11: Precision Edges with Vector Paths 221 Pixels, Paths, and You..................................................................................222 Easy Vectors: Using Shapes........................................................................223 Your basic shape tools.......................................................................224 The Custom Shape tool......................................................................226 More custom shapes — free!.............................................................226 Changing the appearance of a shape...............................................228 Simulating a multicolor shape layer.................................................229 Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths.........................................................231 Understanding paths..........................................................................231 Clicking and dragging your way down the path of knowledge.....2 32 A closer look at the Paths panel.......................................................234 Customizing Any Path..................................................................................238 Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points..................................238 Combining paths.................................................................................240 Tweaking type for a custom font......................................................241 Chapter 12: Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles 243 What Are Layer Styles?................................................................................243 Using the Styles Panel..................................................................................245 Creating Custom Layer Styles.....................................................................247 Exploring the Layer Style menu........................................................247 Exploring the Layer Style dialog box................................................248 Layer effects basics............................................................................250 Opacity, fill, and advanced blending................................................258 Saving Your Layer Styles.............................................................................261 Adding styles to the Style panel.......................................................261 Preserving your layer styles..............................................................262 Chapter 13: Giving Your Images a Text Message 263 Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels.................................................2 64 A type tool for every season, or reason...........................................266 What are all those options?...............................................................267 Taking control of your text with panels...........................................270 The panel menus — even more options..........................................274 Working with Styles............................................................................276 Putting a picture in your text............................................................277 Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers..............................................278 Selecting alignment or justification..................................................281 Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text............................................282Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path..........283 Applying the predefined war ps .........................................................283 Customizing the course with paths..................................................284 Chapter 14: Painting in Photoshop . 287 Discovering Photoshop ’s Painting Tools..................................................288 Painting with the Brush tool..............................................................290 Adding color with the Pencil tool.....................................................292 Removing color with the Eraser tool...............................................292 Working with Panels and Selecting Colors................................................293 An overview of options......................................................................293 Creating and saving custom brush ti ps ...........................................296 Picking a color.....................................................................................297 Integrating Your iPad into Your Painting Workflow.................................299 Expressing yourself with PS Express...............................................299 Using Adobe Nav.................................................................................300 Getting colorful with Color Lava.......................................................301 Easing your way into Eazel................................................................302 Connecting with Photoshop ..............................................................302 Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Ti ps and the Mixer Brush.........303 Exploring erodible brush ti ps ...........................................................303 Introducing airbrush and watercolor ti ps .......................................304 Mixing things up with the Mixer Brush............................................305 Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors......................................307 Deleting and dumping to add color..................................................307 Using gradients...................................................................................308 Chapter 15: Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop . 311 Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy..........................................311 The Filters You Really Need........................................................................313 Sharpening to focus the eye..............................................................313 Unsharp Mask......................................................................................314 Smart Sharpen.....................................................................................315 Blurring images and selections.........................................................316 The other Blur filters..........................................................................318 Correcting for the vagaries of lenses............................................... 32 0 Cleaning up with Reduce Noise........................................................ 32 3 Getting Creative and Artistic....................................................................... 32 4 Photo to painting with the Oil Paint filter........................................ 32 5 Working with the Filter Gallery......................................................... 32 6 Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify.............................................................. 32 8 Do I Need Those Other Filters?...................................................................330 Adding drama with Lighting Effects.................................................331 Bending and bubbling........................................................................331 Creating clouds...................................................................................3 32 Part IV: Power Photoshop ........................................... 333 Chapter 16: Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop 335 Ready, Set, Action!........................................................................................336 Recording your own Actions.............................................................337 Working with the Batch command...................................................341 Creating contact sheets and presentations.....................................343 Sticking to the Script....................................................................................343 Adding Extensions to Photoshop ...............................................................345 Tooling around in Bridge.............................................................................346 Creating Fancy PDF Presentations and Multi-Page PDFs.........................348 Creating a PDF presentation..............................................................348 Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet........................................351 Saving paper with picture packages.................................................353 Creating Web Galleries................................................................................353 Chapter 17: Working with Video and Animation . 357 Importing and Enhancing Video Cli ps .......................................................357 Getting video into Photoshop ...........................................................358 Adjusting the length of video and audio cli ps ................................360 Adding adjustment layers and painting on video layers...............361 Transitioning, titling, and adding special effects............................362 Transforming video layers.................................................................365 Rendering and exporting video.........................................................365 Creating Animations in Photoshop ............................................................366 Building frame-based animations.....................................................366 Creating frame content......................................................................367 Tweening to create intermediary frames........................................368 Specifying frame rate..........................................................................369 Optimizing and saving your animation............................................370 Part V: The Part of Tens............................................. 371 Chapter 18: Ten (or so) Things to Do with Photoshop CS6 Extended . 373 Understanding Photoshop CS6 Extended.................................................373 Using Smart Object Stack Modes................................................................374 Working with 3D Artwork............................................................................375 Creating 3D Objects......................................................................................376 Importing 3D Objects...................................................................................376 Rendering and Saving 3D Scenes................................................................377 Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels..............................................377 Photoshop CS6 For Dummies Measuring Length, Area, and More............................................................377 Calculating with Vanishing Point................................................................378 Counting Crows or Maybe Avian Flu..........................................................379 Viewing Your DICOM Medical Records.....................................................380 Ignoring MATLAB.........................................................................................381 Chapter 19: Ten Reasons to Love Your Wacom Tablet . 383 More Natural Movement..............................................................................383 Health and Safety..........................................................................................383 Artistic Control.............................................................................................383 Extended Comfort.........................................................................................384 Programmable Express Keys, Touch Rings, and Touch Stri ps ..............385 The Optimal Tablet......................................................................................385 The Pen’s Switch...........................................................................................385 Setting Preferences.......................................................................................386 The Accessories............................................................................................386 Cintiq for the Ultimate Control...................................................................387 Chapter 20: Ten Things to Know about HDR . 389 Understanding What HDR Is........................................................................389 Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro.................................................................390 Preparing Raw “Exposures” in Camera Raw.............................................391 Working with Merge to HDR Pro.................................................................392 Saving 32 -Bit HDR Images............................................................................395 HDR Toning...................................................................................................395 Painting and the Color Picker in 32 -Bit......................................................396 Filters and Adjustments in 32 -Bit...............................................................396 Selections and Editing in 32 -Bit..................................................................397 Printing HDR Images....................................................................................397 Index........................................................................ 399 正版 下载 ： htt ps ://guanjia.qq.com/sem/251/index.html?ADTAG=media.buy.baidu.1584htt ps ://guanjia.qq.com/sem/251/index.html?ADTAG=media.buy.baidu.1584 下载 破译补丁： http://www.cncrk....