The Focal easy guide to Photoshop CS2: image editing for new users and professionals

If You Don't Know Where To Start In Photoshop And Feel Overwhelmed With The Options, Then This Is The Book For You. With Highly Visual Step-by-step Explanations, This Concise Guide Gives You A Solid Grounding In Using Photoshop To Edit Digital Images And Helps You Develop A Full Understanding Of The Key Tools And Features Of Photoshop Cs2.brad Hinkel Guides You Through A Simple Image Editing Workflow To Get You Up And Running Fast. If You Want Solutions Quickly And Easy Access To Any Basic Step Of The Workflow, This Guide Provides The Essential Knowledge You Nee Front Cover; Focal Easy Guide To Photoshop Cs2; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Who Should Use This Book; Steps For Using This Book; Conventions; Photoshop Versions; Apple Macintosh Os X Vs Microsoft Windows Xp Operating Systems; Computer Requirements; Web Site; Acknowledgments; Chapter 2: Foundation; A Look At Photoshop; The Toolbox; The Palettes; Viewing The Image; Accelerators; Layers; The Layer Masks; A Look At The Layers Palette; Adjustment Layers; Some Notes On Layers; Merged Image Layers; Photoshop Brushes; Basic Adjustment Tools; Histograms; Levels; Curves Color Balancehue/saturation; Geeky Stuff; A Digital Image; Pixels; Channels/color Models; Bits And Bytes; Bit Depth; Image Size; Dots And Sensors; Resolution; Resampling/interpolation; Native Resolution; Files For Digital Imaging; Photoshop (*.psd); Tiff (*.tif, *.tiff); Jpeg (*.jpg, *.jpeg); Pdf Files; Raw Files; Chapter 3: The Image Editing Workflow; The Workflow Outline; Workflow Stage Summaries; Stage 0: Capture The Image; Stage 1: Organize The Images; Stage 2: Open Image Files (process Raw Files); Stage 3: Image Clean-up; Stage 4: Perform Global Adjustments Stage 5: Perform Local Adjustmentsstage 6: Photographic Edits; Stage 7: Print Preparation; Stage 8: Print; Stage 1: Organizing The Images; Organizing Original Image Files; Sorting Original Images; Organizing Edit Images; Archiving Files; Stage 2a: Opening Image Files; Stage 2b: Processing Raw Images; Adobe Camera Raw; Using Camera Raw With Multiple Images; Stage 3: Image Clean-up; Straighten; Crop; Spot; Reduce Noise; Save The Clean Image; Stage 4: Perform Global Adjustments; Adjustments Tasks And Adjustment Tools; Order Of Adjustments; Adjustment Layers Black And White Point Adjustment (levels Tool)adjusting Image Brightness (levels Tool); Adjusting Image Contrast (curves Tool); Adjusting Shadows/highlights (curves Tool); Color Balance (color Balance Tool); Edit Colors (hue/saturation Tool); The Success Of Basic Adjustments; Stage 5: Perform Local Adjustments; A Task List For Localizing Adjustments; Some Of My Favorite Selections; Some Notes On Selections; Performing The Adjustments; Editing The Mask; Chapter 4: Printing; What Is Color Management?; Color Spaces; Color Space Settings; Convert To Srgb; Components Of A Good Print; Proof Prints Preparing Images For Printoutline Of The Print Prep Stage; Save The Edited Image; Flatten The Image; Determine The Print Parameters; Crop Your Image; Resize The Image; Sharpening; Localized Sharpening; Print; Add An Annotation; Save The Print File; Basic Printing; Online Printing Services; Advanced Printing; Set Up The Proof; Resolving Out Of Gamut Colors; Printing With Profiles; Chapter 5: Advanced Options; Blending Layers; Opacity; Blending Modes; Advanced Adjustments - Tonal; Precise B&w Point Adjustment; Easy Dodging And Burning; Curves Adjustment Using Locking Points; Contrast Masking Shadow/highlight Tool Brad Hinkel. Includes Index. English