Photoshop CS5 Bible

Get the very most out

of Photoshop CS5

Correct, enhance, or

composite your photos

Design for the Web,

video, or mobile devices

Dayley

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The book you need to succeed!

If you want to learn Photoshop,

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Every previous edition of the Photoshop Bible has

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CS5 to the basics of Camera Raw—to techniques

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• Batch process multiple images or use scripts to speed workflow

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Photoshop classes, is the author

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and 3D Bible, and is coauthor of

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Brad Dayley.

Brad Dayley

is a senior software engineer with

almost 20 years of experience

creating computer applications as

well as working with Photoshop.

He is the author of the Silverlight 2

Bible, and other books.

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For D, A & F!

DaNae

As always, to Brad, my hero, my biggest fan, by best friend.

Always and Forever.

To my fantastic boys, may you always have as much energy as

you do now.

To all those who have been my cheerleaders and supporters,

thank you!

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About the Authors

Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer with almost 20 years of experience creating computer

software. He has been working with Photoshop for 19 years, enjoying the transition of Photoshop

from a simple image editor to the powerhouse it is today. He is the author of several books. He is

an avid amateur photographer and spends most of his free time in the remote areas of the Pacific

northwest with his wife DaNae and four sons (wherever a Jeep can get them).

DaNae Dayley has been working with Photoshop for 16 years and is still constantly amazed at the

cool stuff it can do! With a degree in Advertising from Brigham Young University, DaNae has

owned and operated a media creation business for 15 years, incorporating writing, graphic design,

and video editing over the years. She also enjoys teaching Photoshop classes locally. She has co￾authored several books with her husband Brad Dayley and is the author of Photoshop CS3 Extended

Video and 3D Bible and Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 in a Snap. DaNae lives in Utah with her husband

Brad and their four sons. When she is not at her computer, she can be found in the great outdoors

(with a camera), preferably in a Jeep!

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Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  xxxi

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Part I: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop CS5 1

Chapter 1: Introducing Adobe Photoshop CS5  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

The Versatile World of Photoshop ........................................................................................3

When to use Photoshop ..............................................................................................4

When not to use Photoshop ........................................................................................5

What’s New in Photoshop CS5 .............................................................................................6

Summary ............................................................................................................................15

Chapter 2: Understanding the Photoshop Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Workspace Overview ..........................................................................................................17

The document workspace .........................................................................................18

The application bar ...................................................................................................22

Workspace presets ....................................................................................................24

The Toolbox and tool options bar .............................................................................25

Cruising the Main Menus ....................................................................................................26

The File menu ...........................................................................................................26

The Edit menu ..........................................................................................................26

The Image menu .......................................................................................................26

The Layer menu ........................................................................................................27

The Select menu ........................................................................................................27

The Filter menu ........................................................................................................27

The Analysis menu ....................................................................................................27

Ruler tool ........................................................................................................27

Count tool .......................................................................................................27

Record Measurements .....................................................................................28

Set Measurement Scale ....................................................................................28

Set Data Points ................................................................................................29

Place Scale Marker ...........................................................................................29

The 3D menu ............................................................................................................30

The View menu .........................................................................................................30

Extras and Show ..............................................................................................30

Ruler ...............................................................................................................30

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Snap and Snap To ...........................................................................................31

New Guide, Lock Guides, and Clear Guide .....................................................31

Lock Slice and Clear Slices ..............................................................................31

The Window menu ...................................................................................................31

The Help menu .........................................................................................................31

Photoshop Help ...............................................................................................31

Deactivate ........................................................................................................32

Understanding Panels .........................................................................................................32

Understanding the Tools in the Toolbox .............................................................................36

Using Presets .......................................................................................................................40

Selecting tool presets .................................................................................................40

Managing presets.......................................................................................................41

Creating presets.........................................................................................................42

Setting Preferences ..............................................................................................................44

General preferences ...................................................................................................45

Interface preferences .................................................................................................48

File Handling preferences ..........................................................................................49

Performance preferences ...........................................................................................51

Cursors preferences ...................................................................................................53

Transparency & Gamut preferences ..........................................................................54

Unit & Rulers preferences .........................................................................................55

Guides, Grid & Slices preferences .............................................................................56

Plug-ins preferences ..................................................................................................57

Type preferences .......................................................................................................57

3D preferences ..........................................................................................................58

Customizing Shortcuts and Menus ......................................................................................58

Customizing menus ..................................................................................................59

Customizing shortcuts...............................................................................................60

Summary ............................................................................................................................62

Chapter 3: Image Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Exploring File Types ...........................................................................................................63

Compressed versus uncompressed ............................................................................64

Raster versus vector ...................................................................................................64

HDR images ..............................................................................................................65

Image files .................................................................................................................65

Photoshop (*.PSD, *.PDD) ..............................................................................65

TIFF (*.TIF;*.TIFF) .........................................................................................66

JPEG (*.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE) ..............................................................................66

JPEG 2000 (*.JP2;*.JPX) .................................................................................66

CompuServ GIF (*.GIF) ..................................................................................66

PNG (*.PNG) ..................................................................................................67

Bmp (*.BMP; *.RLE; *.DIB).............................................................................67

RAW (*.RAW; *.CR; *.CR2; *.DNG; and several others).................................67

Portable bitmap (*.PBM;*.PGM;*.PPM;*.PNM;*.PFM;*.PAM) ........................68

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Wireless bitmap (*.WBM;*.WBMPI) ...............................................................68

Encapsulated PostScript (*.EPS; *.AI3-*.AI8; *.PS; *.EPSP; *.EPSF) ...............68

Photoshop PDF (*.PDF;*.PDP)........................................................................68

PCX (*.PCX) ...................................................................................................69

PICT (*.PCT;*.PICT) .......................................................................................69

Pixar (*.PXR) ...................................................................................................70

FXG (*.FXG) ...................................................................................................70

Google Earth 4 (*.KMZ) ..................................................................................70

PSB (*.PSB) .....................................................................................................70

OpenEXR (*.EXR) ...........................................................................................70

Cineon ............................................................................................................71

IFF (*.IFF;*.TDI) ............................................................................................71

Scitex CT (*.SCT) ............................................................................................71

Targa (*.TGA; *.VDA; *.ICB; *.VST) ...............................................................71

Radiance (*.HDR; *.RGBE; *.XYZE) ................................................................71

Video files .................................................................................................................71

3D files ......................................................................................................................72

DICOM files ..............................................................................................................72

Creating and Opening Images .............................................................................................73

Creating a new image ................................................................................................73

Opening an existing image ........................................................................................74

Opening an existing image as a specific file type .......................................................75

Saving an image ........................................................................................................76

Resizing Files and Adjusting Resolution ..............................................................................78

Understanding resolution ..........................................................................................78

Changing the image size and resolution ....................................................................79

Understanding the resolution and size relationship .........................................79

Understanding Photoshop’s resizing algorithms...............................................80

Adjusting the image size and resolution ...........................................................81

Changing the canvas size ...........................................................................................82

Cropping and Straightening Images ....................................................................................84

Guidelines for cropping a photo ................................................................................84

Get rid of background clutter ..........................................................................84

Preserving aspect ratio .....................................................................................84

Rule of thirds ...................................................................................................85

Give your subject somewhere to go .................................................................86

Closing in on your subject ...............................................................................86

Don’t crop out the story ..................................................................................86

Cropping an image ....................................................................................................87

Using the Crop tool .........................................................................................88

Cropping using the Selection tools ..................................................................89

Straightening an image ..............................................................................................90

Rotating and flipping images ...........................................................................90

Rotating while cropping ..................................................................................91

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Using the Crop and Straighten tool .................................................................92

Using the Ruler tool .........................................................................................93

Trimming a border ....................................................................................................94

Summary ............................................................................................................................95

Chapter 4: Understanding Colors, Histograms, Levels, and Curves . . . . . 97

Color Basics ........................................................................................................................97

What is color? ...........................................................................................................97

Color, intensity, and the human eye ..........................................................................98

Understanding Channels and Levels ...................................................................................98

Adjusting with Histograms ..................................................................................................99

Understanding histograms.........................................................................................99

Determining overexposure and underexposure in an image ..........................100

Determining color balance in an image ..........................................................101

Using the Histogram panel ......................................................................................102

Setting Histogram panel options ....................................................................103

Selecting channels .........................................................................................103

Selecting a source ..........................................................................................105

Understanding statistics .................................................................................105

Adjusting images with the histogram tools ..............................................................107

Using the handles to adjust the histogram .....................................................107

Using the eyedroppers to adjust the histogram ..............................................109

Adjusting levels with the Curves tool ......................................................................109

Understanding curves ....................................................................................110

Using the Curves tool ....................................................................................111

Working in Different Color Modes ....................................................................................113

Understanding the different color modes ................................................................114

Bitmap ...........................................................................................................114

Grayscale .......................................................................................................115

Duotone ........................................................................................................116

Indexed color ................................................................................................117

RGB color ......................................................................................................118

CYMK color ...................................................................................................119

Lab color .......................................................................................................119

Multichannel .................................................................................................120

Bits per channel.......................................................................................................120

Choosing Colors ...............................................................................................................121

Using the Color Picker tool .....................................................................................121

Using the Color panel .............................................................................................123

Using the Swatches panel ........................................................................................125

Using the Eyedropper tool.......................................................................................126

Using the Color Sampler tool ..................................................................................127

Using the HUD Color Picker ...................................................................................128

Summary ..........................................................................................................................129

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Chapter 5: History and Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Photoshop: The Non-Destructive Application ...................................................................131

Using the History Panel .....................................................................................................133

Understanding the History panel .............................................................................134

Configuring the History panel .......................................................................134

Navigating through history states ..................................................................136

Using snapshots ............................................................................................136

Creating documents ......................................................................................137

Deleting history .............................................................................................137

Painting from history...............................................................................................137

Using the Eraser tool in the History panel .....................................................138

Using the History Brush ................................................................................140

Using the Art History Brush ...........................................................................140

Using selections when painting history ..........................................................140

Creating and Using Automated Actions .............................................................................141

Understanding the Actions panel.............................................................................141

Action list ......................................................................................................142

Actions panel menu .......................................................................................143

Toggle boxes .................................................................................................143

Quick Buttons ...............................................................................................143

Changing the view of the Actions panel .........................................................143

Loading existing action sets .....................................................................................144

Creating custom actions ..........................................................................................144

Editing actions ........................................................................................................145

Adding a stop ................................................................................................145

Adding operations .........................................................................................146

Moving operations .........................................................................................146

Duplicating actions and operations ................................................................146

Modifying operations .....................................................................................146

Deleting an operation ....................................................................................147

Modifying the action name and function key .................................................147

Saving actions ................................................................................................148

Temporarily adjusting action settings by using the toggle boxes ...................148

Playing actions ........................................................................................................148

Managing the action list ..........................................................................................148

Summary ..........................................................................................................................149

Chapter 6: Using Bridge to Organize and Process Photos  . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Working in the Bridge Workspaces ...................................................................................151

Understanding the Bridge utility .............................................................................151

Main menu ....................................................................................................152

Toolbar ..........................................................................................................153

Window panes ..............................................................................................154

Content view controls ...................................................................................155

Using the Bridge workspaces ...................................................................................156

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