Adobe Photoshop CS3: Photographer's Handbook

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements v
Introduction 2
Using This Book 3
Who Should Use this Book 3
Steps for Using this Book 3
Conventions 3
Photoshop Versions 4
Mac OS X vs. Microsoft Windows XP Operating Systems 4
Configuring Your System 5
Computer Requirements 5
Work Environment 6
Color Settings 7
An Honest Window to Your Image: Monitor Profiling 7
1 Essentials of Photoshop CS3 12
A Look at Photoshop 13
The Tool Palette 13
The Palettes 14
Viewing the Image 16
Accelerators: Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Clicks 19
Layers 20
Layer Masks 21
A Look at the Layers Palette 22
Adjustments 23
Adjustment Layers 23
Some Notes on Layers 24
Smart Objects 25
Photoshop “Painting” Tools 26
Brush Size 27
Brush Hardness 27
Brush Opacity 27
The Brush Tool: Color 28
A Simple Exercise with the Paint Brush: 28
Basic Adjustments 29
Histograms 29
Levels 31
Curves 33
Color Balance 35
Hue/Saturation 36
Looking Deeper 38
A Digital Image 38
Pixels 38
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Image Size 39
Dots & Sensors 39
Resolution 39
Resampling/Interpolation 40
Native Resolution 40
Channels/Color Models 41
Bits and Bytes 42
Bit Depth 43
File Formats for Digital Imaging 44
Photoshop (*.PSD) 44
TIFF (*.TIFF, *.TIF) 45
JPEG (*.JPG, *.JPEG) 45
PDF Files 46
DNG & RAW Files 46
2 The Image Editing Workflow 48
The Workflow Outline & Summary 49
Stage 1: Image Import 49
Stage 2: Sort & Organize the Images 50
Stage 3: Develop Images: Global Adjustments 50
Stage 4: Image Clean-Up 50
Stage 5: Perform Local Adjustments 51
Stage 6: Creative Edits 51
Stage 7a: Print Output 51
Stage 7b: Web Output 51
Stage 1 Image Import 51
Configure Bridge 52
Adobe Photo Downloader 52
Stage 2 Sort & Organize the Images 54
Bridge Interface Tour 54
Sorting 55
Labelling: Workflow Landmarks 57
Archiving Files 59
Stage 3 Develop Images: Global Adjustments 60
Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) 60
Global Adjustments in Photoshop 68
Stage 4 Image Clean-Up 77
Stage 5 Perform Local Adjustments 82
A Task List for Localizing Adjustments 82
Selection Tools & Methods 84
Editing Selections 88
Performing the Adjustments 92
Editing the Mask 93
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3 Printing 96
Basic or Advanced? 97
What is Color Management? 97
Working Color Spaces 99
Color Space Settings 100
Convert to sRGB 101
Components of a Good Print 101
Paper 101
Printer Driver Settings 102
Color Space 102
Viewing Lights 102
Printer 103
Proof Prints 103
Printing a Selection from your Print 104
Preparing Images for Final Print 105
Outline of the Print Prep Stage 105
Save the Edited Image 106
Crop your Image 107
Resize the Image 108
Sharpening 109
Localized Sharpening 110
Print 111
Add an Annotation 111
Save the Print File 111
Basic Printing 112
Online Printing Services 114
Advanced Printing 116
Set up the Proof 117
Printing with Profiles 118
4 Images for the Web & Devices 122
Tasks for Web Images 123
Precise Resampling 123
Convert to sRGB 124
Save As JPEG 124
Save for Web & Devices 125
Creating an Email File 127
Thumbnails 127
Web Photo Gallery 128
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5 Advanced Options 130
Blending Layers 131
Opacity 131
Blending Modes 133
Combining Images 135
Remove Random Content in Frames 135
HDR: High Dynamic Range Images 137
Composite Two or More Images 138
Advanced Adjustments—Tonal 141
Precise Black & White Point Adjustment 141
Dodging and Burning 143
Curves Adjustment using Locking Points 148
Shadow/Highlight Adjustment 149
Color Corrections 150
Using Photoshop’s Auto Color 151
Color Correction by the Numbers 154
Copying Color Corrections 159
Photo Filters 160
Reducing Localized Color Casts 161
Black & White Images 162
Black & White Adjustment Layer (introduced in CS3) 163
Photographic Effects 166
Film Grain 166
Lens Blur 167
“Split-Toning” Black & White Images 168
6 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 172
The Lightroom Interface 173
Navigation 173
Preferences 175
Stage 1 Image Import 176
Automatic Import 176
Keywording and Metadata 177
Libraries—or is it Catalogs? 178
Stage 2 Sort & Organize Images 179
Library Module: Rating and Filtering 179
Library Module: Labelling 179
Stage 3 Develop Images 181
White Balance 182
Adjusting Tone 183
Adjusting Color 183
Grayscale Images 184
Saving Develop Settings 184
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Stage 4 Image Clean-up 185
Removing Dust and Other Blemishes 185
Crop & Straighten 185
Stage 5 Local Adjustments 186
Lightroom’s Integration with Photoshop 186
Stage 6 Creative Development: Virtual Copies 186
Stage 7a Output: Slideshows 187
Create a Collection 187
Overview 187
Slide Layout 188
Exporting Slideshows 189
Stage 7b Output: Printing 190
Contact Sheets 191
Setting Resolution and other Settings 191
Stage 7c Output: Web Module 194
Flash or HTML? 194
Choosing a Layout 194
Customizing your Text, Colors, and Image Settings 196
Previewing, Exporting, and Uploading 198
Additional Resources for Lightroom 198
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