Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN: 0321827333
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS6 choose Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS6 and how to manipulate images, edit motion-based content, and create image composites.
In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop interface, this completely revised CS6 edition covers new features, including precise cropping with multiple overlays, expanded content-aware toolkit with skin tone-aware selections and masking, three new blur effects, re-engineered design tools, adaptive Wide Angle adjustments, improved Camera Raw engine, improved auto corrections, Background Save and Auto-recovery, modernized user interface, intuitive video enhancements, simplified 3D interface, improved editing speed with real-time results, and more.
In addition to the lesson files, the companion DVD will feature 2 hours of free video tutorials from Adobe Photoshop CS6: Learn by Video by Adobe Press and video2brain, a great added value!
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” —Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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panel to resize it so that you can see more steps. The History panel records the recent actions you’ve performed in the image. The current state is selected, at the bottom of the list. 28 lesson 1 Getting to know the Work Area 4 Click an earlier action in the History panel, and notice how the image changes. Several actions are undone. 5 In the image window, create a new dot on the tie with the Brush tool. Notice that the History panel has removed the dimmed actions that were listed after
Selection tool ( ) quickly “paints” a selection by automatically finding and following defined edges in the image. Color-based selections The Magic Wand tool ( ) selects parts of an image based on the similarity in color of adjacent pixels. It is useful for selecting odd-shaped areas that share a specific range of colors. 68 lesson 3 Working with selections Getting started First, you’ll look at the image you will create as you explore the selection tools in Adobe Photoshop. 1 Start
in the Layers panel, and then click the Create A New Layer button ( ) at the bottom of the panel. 3 Choose Select > All. 4 Choose Select > Modify > Border. In the Border Selection dialog box, type 10 pixels for the Width, and click OK. A 10-pixel border is selected around the entire image. Now, you’ll fill it with white. 5 Select white for the Foreground Color, and then choose Edit > Fill. 6 In the Fill dialog box, choose Foreground Color from the Use menu, and click OK. 7 Choose Select >
is re-edited and saved, compression is reapplied and the image quality degrades. Show off to clients and friends When you prepare your work for delivery, choose the appropriate color file for the destination. Convert the image to that profile, rather than assigning the profile. sRGB is generally best for viewing electronically or for printing from most online printing services. Adobe 1998 or Colormatch are the best profiles to use for RGB images destined for traditionally printed material such as
know the Work Area Opening a file with adobe Bridge In this book, you’ll work with different start files in each lesson. You may make copies of these files and save them under different names or locations, or you may work from the original start files and then copy them from the DVD again if you want a fresh start. This lesson includes three start files. In the previous exercise, you used the Open command to open a file. Now you’ll open another file using Adobe Bridge, a visual file browser