Adobe photoshop CS5 one on one

Adobe photoshop CS5 one on one

“Brilliant! Deke has done it again with his latest book on Photoshop CS5 Deke’s ‘Pearls of Wisdom’

are some of the finest to be found This is a great book.”

—Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems Inc

on project files, and hours of online video demonstrations—

all designed to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills.

With Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One, you’ll use Photoshop faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought

Includes exclusive web access to 5 hours

of video hosted by Deke McClelland

Deke M c ClellanD

“Brilliant! Deke has done it again with his latest book on Photoshop CS5 Deke’s ‘Pearls of Wisdom’

are some of the finest to be found This is a great book.”

—Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems Inc

on project files, and hours of online video demonstrations—

all designed to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills.

With Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One, you’ll use Photoshop faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible

Award-winning technology writer Deke McClelland has written over 80 books—more than 20 on Photoshop alone He hosts hundreds of hours

of tutorial-style video training on Photoshop CS5 and other software for leading educational resource lynda.com, for which he has won 9 industry awards In 2002, Deke was inducted into the National Association of Photoshop Professionals’ Photoshop Hall of Fame For more insights and information, visit deke.com.

Includes exclusive web access to 5 hours

of video hosted by Deke McClelland

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Praise for Adobe Photoshop One-on-One

“As a Photoshop author, I hate picking up a book and learning things I didn’t already know But Deke’s done it to me again! If you want to learn Photoshop CS5 from the ground up, look

no further.”

—Scott Kelby President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals

“Deke McClelland has probably forgotten more than most people will ever know about Photoshop He’s insanely thorough (and just maybe insane), with a teaching style that’s both engaging and practical I think you’ll love what he has to offer.”

—John Nack Principal Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop and Bridge, Adobe Systems

“In my past life as a Photoshop Product Manager, I continually turned to Deke and his books

to dive deeper into the product Whether you’re a newbie or a hardened user, his One-on-One

series will speak to you There’s nobody I would trust more to teach me Photoshop.”

—Karen Gauthier Senior Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop (1998–2005) Director, Product Management, Gridiron Software (current)

“Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One is like having Deke next to you while you learn how to

organize, correct, retouch, and sharpen your photos To me it’s crystal clear! Deke loves exploring software to find the best techniques for improving images And his easy-to-understand, cut-to-the-chase explanations are invaluable.”

—Katrin Eismann Chair, Digital Photography, School of Visual Arts

“It’s like having Deke right there with you, with all his friendly insights, sharp skills, and vast experience Only you don’t have to feed him.”

—Michael Ninness Senior Product Manager, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Systems

“It’s obvious why Deke is one of the most popular teachers of Photoshop Throughout the book,

he blends humor and authority in a way that makes simple work of Photoshop’s most complex features You feel like he’s right there with you It really is one-on-one!”

—Julieanne Kost Photoshop Evangelist, Adobe Systems

Praise for Adobe Photoshop One-on-One

“What an awesome way to get deep inside Photoshop CS5: with lessons and techniques that are easy to follow and bring a new insight! Thanks Deke, for the pearls of wisdom and wonderfully illustrated lessons and references This book helps us develop techniques to bring image quality

to a new level A great source of learning, one on one!”

—Eddie Tapp, M.Photog.,Cr.,MEI,API,CPP imaging and workflow consultant, educator, photographer, author

“Once again Deke pushes Photoshop training to the next level His new book is a giant leap forward in the evolution of teaching Photoshop in easy-to-learn and understandable steps

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One is the next generation of how to learn Photoshop!”

—Kevin Ames photographer, author of Adobe Photoshop: The Art of Photographing Women

“Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One provides more bang-for-the-buck than any Photoshop book

I’ve seen With the very readable full-color pages and the incredible video training, Deke gives you a multi-media package, rather than just a Photoshop book Informative and entertaining, instructional and engaging, One-on-One is appropriate both for self-study and classroom

use It’s the fundamentals of Photoshop taught by one of the most accomplished Photoshop instructors of all time!”

—Pete Bauer Help Desk Director, National Association of Photoshop Professionals

“With his One-on-One series, Deke McClelland has created what might just be the best

all-around way to learn Photoshop The combination of video material, which is created specifically for the book, along with the project-based lessons in each chapter, is unbeatably effective Highly recommended!”

—Colin Smith Proprietor, photoshopCAFE.com

“Diving into Deke’s latest Adobe Photoshop CS5 book is like a brilliant undersea adventure Discovering his ‘Pearls of Wisdom’ makes each new chapter like a fantastic treasure hunt of great tips and techniques Get out your digital swim fins and get ready to learn a boat load of information about CS5!”

— Cap’n Russell “Mad Sea-Dog” Brown Senior Nautical Director, Adobe Systems

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preface

HOW OnE-On-OnE WORkS

Welcome to Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One, another in a series

of highly visual, full-color titles that combine step-by-step lessons

with more than four hours of video instruction As the name

One-on-One implies, I walk you through Photoshop just as if I were

teaching you in a classroom or corporate consulting environment

Except that instead of getting lost in a crowd of students, you

re-ceive my individualized attention It’s just you and me

I created One-on-One with three audiences in mind If you’re an

independent graphic artist, designer, or digital photographer—

professional or amateur—you’ll appreciate the real-world

authen-ticity of the tutorials and your immediate ability to apply what you

learn in your own work If you’re a student working in a classroom

or vocational setting, you’ll enjoy the personalized attention,

struc-tured exercises, and end-of-lesson quizzes If you’re an instructor in

a college or vocational setting, you’ll find the topic-driven lessons

helpful in building curricula and creating homework assignments

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One is designed to supply beginners

with all the guidance they need to get started in Photoshop, while

giving more advanced users the depth of knowledge that will

for-tify their expertise And I’ve seen to it that each lesson contains a

few techniques that even experienced Photoshoppers don’t know

Read, Watch, Do

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One is your chance to master

Photo-shop under the direction of a professional trainer with more than

twenty years of computer design and imaging experience Read the

book, watch the videos, do the exercises Proceed at your own pace

and experiment as you see fit It’s the best way to learn

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One contains twelve

lessons, each made up of three to six step-by-step exercises Every lesson in the book includes a cor-responding video lesson (see Figure 1), in which

I introduce the key concepts you’ll need to know

to complete the exercises and see features that are best explained in action Best of all, every exercise

is project-based, culminating in an actual finished document worthy of your labors (like the example

in Figure 2) The exercises include insights and context throughout, so you’ll know not only what

to do but—just as important—why you’re doing it

My sincere hope is that you’ll find the experience entertaining, informative, and empowering.All the videos and sample files required to perform the exercises are available for download at oreilly com/go/deke-PhotoshopCS5 If you already have

an oreilly.com account and are logged in, you can click straight through to a site where you can play the videos, download them to your computer if you like, and get the sample files (If you don’t have an oreilly.com login, you’ll be invited to create one, and then be sent properly on your way.) Together, the book, sample files, and videos form a single, comprehensive training experience

Figure 1

Figure 2

Previous installments of Adobe Photoshop One-on-One provided the video

and practice files on a DVD bound in the back of the book For the first time,

I’ve made the decision to deliver video and practice files online instead It’s a

more flexible, less wasteful approach that gives you the same great

One-on-One instructional experience Plus, I’m not limited with regard to sample file

selection or video length—and I have a place to post updates, bonus material,

and anything else I might want to share with you

One-on-One Requirements

The main prerequisite to using Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

is having Photoshop CS5 or Photoshop CS5 Extended installed on

your system You may have purchased Photoshop CS5 as a

stand-alone product or as part of Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 You can work

through many of the exercises using an earlier version of Photoshop,

but some steps will not work as written All exercises have been

fully tested with Adobe Photoshop CS5 but not with older versions

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One is cross-platform, meaning that

it works equally well whether you’re using Photoshop installed on

a Microsoft Windows-based PC or an Apple Macintosh

Any computer that meets the minimum requirements for Photoshop

CS5 also meets the requirements for using Adobe Photoshop CS5

One-on-One Specifically, if you own a PC, you need Windows XP

with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista (Home Premium or better) with

Service Pack 1, or Windows 7 If you own a Mac, you need Mac OS

X version 10.5.7 or higher

Regardless of platform, your computer must meet the following

minimum requirements:

• 1GB of RAM

• 2GB of available hard disk space

• 16-bit color graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.0 (as do

most modern cards, including those from market-leader nVidia)

• Color monitor with 1024-by-768 pixel resolution

• Broadband Internet connection for sample files and videos

• QuickTime Player software (if it is not already installed and

you want to watch downloaded versions of the videos offline;

available at www.apple.com/quicktime)

One-on-One Installation and Setup

Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One is designed to function as an

inte-grated training environment So before embarking on the lessons, I’m going to request that you install a handful of files onto your hard drive:

• Lesson files used in the exercises (700MB in all)

• One-on-One Creative Suite color settings

• Custom collection of keyboard shortcuts called dekeKeys

• A custom color workflow settings file

• The twelve lesson videos (if you want to view them offline; ing them online doesn’t require any downloading)

play-• QuickTime Player software (if it is not already installed and you want to watch downloaded versions of the videos offline)

As you’ll see, these files are all available at PhotoshopCS5, with the exception of QuickTime Player, which you can download from www.apple.com/quicktime.

www.oreilly.com/go/deke-I’ll also have you change a few preference settings These changes are optional—you can follow along with the exercises in this book regardless of your preferences Even so, I advocate these settings for two reasons: First, they make for less confusion by ensuring that you and I are on the same page, as it were Second, some of Photoshop’s default preferences are just plain wrong So, welcome to your first one-on-one style exercise:

1 Go to www.oreilly.com/go/Deke-PhotoshopCS5. This is the companion site for the book, where you can get all the supple-mental materials you’ll need It’s also where I’ll be posting tech-nical updates (in the event that Adobe makes significant changes

to Photoshop), bonus content, and other things I find relevant If you already have an oreilly.com account, you’ll be asked to log

in to the site straight away If you need to create an account (it’s free), you’ll be taken through that process and returned to the companion page when you’re done

2 Examine the table of contents. At the companion site, you’ll tice that each lesson has an entry in the table of contents That’s where you’ll find each lesson’s complement of sample files, ar-chived in a separate .zip file for easier downloading Once you

no-get those files on your hard drive, you can right-click the .zip

file and choose Extract All to create an unzipped folder for each

particular lesson

Stash the files somewhere convenient and memorable, so that

when I direct you to open one during an exercise, it won’t be

hard to find I’m going to suggest you make a Lesson

Files-PsCS5 1on1 folder on your desktop into which you drag those

separate folders for each lesson If you follow this suggestion,

the instructions I’ve supplied at the beginning of each exercise

will lead you right where you need to go

3 Decide whether you want to watch the videos at the site or

offline. At the outset of each book-based lesson, I’ll ask you

to play the companion video lesson These video lessons

in-troduce key concepts that make more sense when first seen

in action On the companion site, click the Watch button

next to the video you want, and it will play in a spiffy online

player (see Figure 3), which doesn’t require that you download

the movies or acquire a separate piece of software for playing

them I think it’s a fairly nice experience, actually

But if you have an unreliable Internet connection or you’d just

rather have the freedom of keeping the videos where you can

always get to them, click the Download button next to each

les-son to save them to your hard drive (and remember you’ll need

QuickTime to watch them if you choose that route)

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The video lessons were crafted by the talented folks at lynda.com These high-quality videos are not excerpts from other training materials but created expressly to complement the lessons in this book

Watch online as shown here… or choose to download for offline viewing

Figure 3

I recommend Apple’s QuickTime Player software because it’s free and offers great playback functions.

4 Download the dekeKeys and color settings files. While you’re online, notice that I’ve also provided two files to streamline and improve your Photoshop experience One contains my custom keyboard shortcuts, and the other, my preferred color settings So download Best workflow CS5.csf and dekeKeys-Photoshop-CS5 zip, put them somewhere you’ll remember, and I’ll show you how

to install them in the next steps

5 Move the color settings to the appropriate folder. Move the Best workflow CS5.csf file to one of two locations on your hard drive,

depending on your platform and operating system (Note that, in the following, user indicates your computer login name.)

• Under Windows 7 and Vista, the location is

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Color\Settings

• Under Windows XP, it’s

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Adobe\ Color\Settings

• On the Mac, choose Go→Home and copy the color settings

to the folder

Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Settings

If you can’t find the AppData or Application Data folder on the PC,

it’s because Windows is making the system folders invisible Choose

Tools→Folder Options, click the View tab, and turn on Show Hidden Files and Folders in the scrolling list Also turn off the Hide Extensions for Known File Types and Hide Protected Operating System Files check boxes

Then click the OK button.

6 Start Photoshop. If Photoshop CS5 is already running on your computer, skip to Step 7 If not, start the program:

• On the PC, go to the Start menu ( under Windows Vista) and choose Adobe Photoshop CS5 (The program may be located in the Programs or All Programs submenu, possibly inside an Adobe submenu.)

• On the Mac, choose Go→Applica tions in the Finder Then

open the Adobe Photoshop CS5 folder and double-click the

Adobe Photoshop CS5 application icon.

7 Change the color settings to Best Workflow. Now that

you’ve installed the color settings, you have to activate

them inside Photoshop Choose Edit→Color Settings

or press the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+K (

�-Shift-K on the Mac) In the Color Settings dialog box, click

the Settings pop-up menu and choose Best Workflow

CS5 (see Figure 4) Then click the OK button Now the

colors of your images will match (or very nearly match)

those shown in the pages of this book

If you own the full Creative Suite 5 package, you’ll need to

synchronize the color settings across all Adobe applications

Launch the Adobe Bridge by choosing File→Browse in Bridge

Inside the Bridge, choose Edit→Creative Suite Color Settings

Locate and select the Best Workflow CS5 item in the scrolling

list Then click Apply Now all your CS5 applications will

display consistent color

8 Install the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts. Return

to the desktop level of your computer (or wherever

you stashed dekeKeys-Photoshop-CS5.zip) and unzip

the file Then double-click dekeKeys PsCS5 1on1.kys

Photoshop will spring to the foreground (If you get a

message asking if you want to save the changes to your

preexisting shortcuts, click Yes, give the shortcuts a

filename, and click Save But more likely, you won’t

see any message.)

9 Confirm the dekeKeys installation. To confirm that

the dekeKeys shortcuts have installed successfully,

choose Edit→Keyboard Shortcuts and do the following:

• Confirm that the Set option at the top of the

Key-board Shortcuts dialog box reads Photo shop

Defaults (modified), meaning that some sort of

shortcuts shift has occurred

• Set Shortcuts For to Application Menus.

• Click the ▶ triangle to the left the File entry to

view the commands in the File menu

• Scroll down to the Place command (between Revert

and Import) If it lists the shortcut Alt+Shift+Ctrl+D

(or Option-Shift-�-D)—as circled in Figure 5 on

the next page—you’re looking at dekeKeys

Figure 4

10 Save the dekeKeys shortcuts. Click the

disk icon ( ) to the right of the Set

option to save the modified shortcuts Name the new shortcuts “dekeKeys CS5” (or your own name if you plan on cus-

tomizing them further), and click Save,

as in Figure 5 Then click OK to complete

the process You now have shortcuts for some of Photoshop’s most essential commands, including Variations, Color Range, and Smart Sharpen

11 Adjust a few preference settings. To minimize confusion and maximize Pho-toshop’s performance, I’d like you to modify a few preference settings Choose

Edit→Preferences→General (that’s Photoshop→Preferences→General on

the Mac) or press Ctrl+K (�-K) I’ve highlighted these settings in Figure 6 and the next four figures Red means turn the option off, green means turn it on.Figure 5

Figure 6

• Photoshop lets you copy big images And when you switch programs, Pho-toshop conveys those copied images

to the system Problem is, that takes time and the operation often fails Avoid complications by turning off

the Export Clipboard check box.

• Turn off the Use Shift Key for Tool Switch check box This makes it easier

to switch tools from the keyboard,

as we’ll be doing frequently over the course of this book

• Make sure that both the Animated Zoom and Enable Flick Panning

check boxes are available and on

If they’re dimmed, you either have

a system that is incompatible with the graphics acceleration standard OpenGL or need to update your graphics card driver

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For information about the wonderful features that rely on OpenGL, watch

Video Lesson 2, “Navigation” (see page 40)

• If you use a Mac, turn off Zoom Resizes Windows (On the PC,

it’s off by default.) In Photoshop CS5, the Zoom commands and

the zoom tool share the same window resizing behavior, and trust

me, you don’t want the zoom tool resizing the window

• Click Interface in the left-hand list Or press Ctrl+2 (�-2 on the

Mac) This switches you to the next panel of options

• Set all Border options in the top-right area of the dialog box to

None This makes for less confusion when gauging the

boundar-ies of an image

• By default, every image opens in a tabbed window, permitting

you to switch between images just by clicking a tab Sometimes

I like the tabbed interface; sometimes I don’t You can disable

it by turning off Open Documents as Tabs In other words, I’m

just letting you know it’s an option Hence the yellow highlighted

check box in Figure 7

Figure 7

Figure 8

• Click File Handling in the left-hand list or press Ctrl+3 (�-3) to

switch panels Notice the pop-up menu labeled Maximize PSD

and PSB File Compatibility? Unless you’re a video professional

or you trade images between Photoshop and Lightroom (a

sepa-rate program from Adobe), this option is best set to Never, as I’ve

done in Figure 8

• Click Cursors in the left-hand list,

or press Ctrl+5 (or �-5) to switch panels

• Turn on the Show Crosshair in Brush Tip check box Highlighted

green in Figure 9, this option adds a

to the center of every brush cursor, which helps you align the cursor to

a specific point in your image

• Click Units & Rulers in the

left-hand list, or press Ctrl+7 (or �-7)

to display another panel of options

• Set the Rulers pop-up menu to els, which I’ve highlighted green in

Pix-Figure 10 As you’ll see, pixels are far and away the best unit for mea-suring digital images

• Your preferences now match those

of the loftiest image-editing

profes-sional Click OK to exit the

Prefer-ences dialog box and accept your changes

Figure 9

Figure 10

12 Quit Photoshop. You’ve come full circle On the PC, choose

File→Exit; on the Mac, choose Photoshop→Quit Photoshop

Quitting Photoshop not only closes the program but also saves the changes you made to the color settings, keyboard shortcuts, and preference settings

Congratulations, you and I are now in sync Just one more thing: If you use a Macintosh computer, please read the following section

If you use a PC, feel free to skip the next section and move along

to the following one, “Structure and Organization.”

Reassigning the mac OS X Shortcuts

Adobe intends for the function keys to display or hide common els Meanwhile, pressing � and Option with the spacebar should access the zoom tool But in recent versions of OS X, these keys will tile or hide windows according to Apple’s Exposé or will invoke search functions via Apple’s Spotlight To rectify these conflicts,

pan-do the following steps:

1 Open your OS X System Preferences. From the � menu, choose

System Preferences Click the Keyboard & Mouse icon, and

then click the Keyboard Shortcuts button

2 Reset the Dashboard & Dock settings. In the left-hand pane,

click Dashboard & Dock In the right-hand pane, click the F12

shortcut to highlight it Then press Control-F12 (which appears

as ^F12 in the window)

3 Switch to the next group of shortcuts. Click Expose & Spaces,

replace F9 with Control-F9, F10 with Control-F10, and F11

with Control-F11

4 Reset the �-spacebar functionality. Spotlight, Mac’s

ques-tionably useful search feature, has taken over the �-spacebar

and �-Option-spacebar shortcuts In Photoshop, these

short-cuts let you zoom in and out of your images with immensely

convenient efficiency Reclaim this handy feature by choosing

Spotlight in the left-hand pane Next, click �Space and replace

it with �-Control-F1, and click -�-Space and replace it with

the shortcut �-Control-Option-F1 (which shows up in reverse

order as ^ �F1)

5 Close System Preferences. Finally, click the in the top-left

corner of the window to close the system preferences

From now on, the panel and zoom tool shortcuts will work according

to Adobe’s intentions, as well as the directions provided in this book

Structure and Organization

Each of the lessons in the book conforms to a consistent structure,

designed to impart skills and understanding through a regimen of

practice and dialog As you build your projects, I explain why you’re

performing the steps and why Photoshop works the way it does

Each lesson begins with a broad topic overview Turn the first

page of each lesson, and you’ll find a section called “About This

Lesson,” which lists the skills you’ll learn and provides you with

a short description of what you’ll find in the video-based

compo-nent of the lesson

As you read in “One-on-One Installation and Setup,” on page xvi, the videos

can be streamed or downloaded from the book’s companion Web site, found

at www.oreilly.com/go/deke-PhotoshopCS5.

These video lessons are an integral part of my plan for helping you really get your bearings in Photoshop Ranging from 15 to 45 minutes apiece, these high-quality videos introduce key concepts, focusing

on those features and techniques that make more sense if you first see them in action

Theoretically, you can watch the video lessons in any order you like However, each video makes the most sense and provides the most benefit when watched

at the outset of the corresponding book-based lesson

Edited and produced by the trailblazing online training company lynda.com, the video lessons are not traditional low-budget DVD-style video training They were made specifically to work with the exercises in this book, not excerpted from versions of my full-length video training A great deal of care—both in form and in content— has gone into making the video lessons

One final note: Unlike the exercises in the book, most of the video lessons do not include sample files The idea is that you work along with me in the book; you sit back and relax during the videos

Next come the step-by-step exercises, in which I walk you through some of Photoshop’s most powerful and essential image-manipulation functions A globe icon (like the one on the right) appears whenever I ask you to open a file from the Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1 folder that you created on your computer’s hard drive

To make my directions crystal clear, command and option names

appear in bold type (as in, “choose the Open command”) The first

appearance of a figure reference is in colored type More than 800 full-color, generously sized screen shots and images diagram key steps

in your journey, so you’re never left scratching your head, puzzling over what to do next And when I refer you to another step or section,

I tell you the exact page number to go to (Shouldn’t every book?)

To make doubly sure there are as few points of confusion as possible,

I pepper my descriptions with the very icons you see on screen, cal icons like , , , and So when I direct you to add a layer

criti-to your document, I don’t tell you criti-to click the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel (The only time you see the words Create a New Layer is when you hover your cursor over the

icon, which is hard to do if you don’t know where to hover your sor in the first place.) Instead, I tell you to click the icon, because

is what it is It has meant hand-drawing nearly 400 icons to date, but for you, it was worth it

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Along the way, you’ll encounter the occasional “Pearl of Wisdom,” which

provides insights into how Photoshop and the larger world of digital imaging

work Although this information is not essential to performing a given step

or completing an exercise, it may help you understand how a function works

or provide you with valuable context

More detailed background discussions appear in independent

side-bars These sidebars shed light on the mysteries of color, bit depth,

resolution, and other high-level topics that are key to

understand-ing Photoshop

A colored paragraph of text with a rule above and below it calls attention

to a special tip or technique that will help you make Photoshop work faster

and more smoothly

Some projects are quite ambitious My enthusiasm for a topic may

even take us a bit beyond the stated goal In such cases, I cordon off

the final portion of the exercise and label it “Extra Credit.”

e X t R a C R e D I t

If you’re feeling oversaturated and utterly exhausted, the star icon is your

oasis It’s my way of saying that you deserve a break You can even drop

out and skip to the next exercise On the other hand, if you’re the type

who believes quitters never prosper (which they don’t, incidentally), by all

means carry on; you’ll be rewarded with a completed project and a wealth of

additional tips and insights

I end each lesson with a “What Did You Learn?” section featuring

a multiple-choice quiz Your job is to choose the best description

for each of twelve key concepts outlined in the lesson Answers are

printed upside-down at the bottom of the page

f u R t h e R I n v e S t I g a t I O n

A “Further Investigation” marker includes information about further reading

or video training For example, let me use this one to refer you to the lynda

com Online Training Library Oftentimes, I refer you to the lynda.com Online

Training Library, which contains tens of thousands of movies, more than a

thousand of them by me And all available to you, by subscription, every

minute of every waking day Just to be absolutely certain you don’t feel

baited into making yet another purchase, I’ve arranged a time-limited back

door for you Go to www.lynda.com/deke and sign up for the 7-Day Free

Trial Account This gives you access to the entire Online Training Library But

remember, your seven days start counting down the moment you sign up,

so time it wisely Then again, if you find the service so valuable you elect to

subscribe, we’re happy to have you You’ll be happy, too

the Scope of this Book

No one book, including this one, can teach you everything there is

to know about Photoshop Here’s a quick list of the topics and tures discussed in this book and in the videos, as well as a visual preview (in Figure 11) of what you’ll encounter in the integrated videos that accompany each lesson

fea-• Lesson 1: Opening and organizing files, including the Adobe Bridge, ratings, workspaces, stacks, metadata, keywords, and the Batch Rename command

• Lesson 2: Navigation and cropping, including moving around with OpenGL, the crop and rotate tools, and the Image Size and Canvas Size commands

• Lesson 3: Selection tools, including the lasso, magic wand, and quick selection tools, as well as the Select menu and the Refine Edge command

• Lesson 4: Painting and retouching, including the paintbrush, dodge, burn, sponge, healing brush, and red eye tools, as well

as the new bristle brushes and the History panel

• Lesson 5: Layer functions, including the Layers and Layer Comps panel, scaling and repositioning, blending options, and knockouts

Video Lesson 1: Browsing in the Bridge

Video Lesson 7: Introducing Filters Video Lesson 8: Liquify in Motion Video Lesson 9: Exploring Camera Raw

Video Lesson 2: Navigation Video Lesson 3: The Selection Tools

• Lesson 6: Luminance adjustments, including the Levels, Curves,

Shadows/Highlights, Hue/Saturation, and Brightness/Contrast

commands and the Histogram panel

• Lesson 7: Filters and smart objects, including the Smart Sharpen

filter and smart filters

• Lesson 8: Distortions, including the Free Transform, Liquify,

and new Puppet Warp commands, and content-aware scaling

• Lesson 9: Professional photographic tools, including Adobe

Camera Raw, Photomerge, and HDR Pro

• Lesson 10: Masking functions, including the Color Range

command, the Calculations function, the pen tool, and the

Channels panel

• Lesson 11: Text and shape layers, including the type and shape

tools, the Character and Paragraph panels, custom shapes, type

on a path, and the Warp Text dialog box

• Lesson 12: Output functions, including Save for Web and

De-vices, the Print and Color Settings commands, print quality,

the Custom CMYK option, dot gain, and packaging images in

a PDF document from the Bridge

Figure 11

Video Lesson 10: Masking Video Lesson 11: Creating Vector Art Video Lesson 12: Exporting for the Web Video Lesson 4: Brushes and Painting Video Lesson 5: Layer Manipulations Video Lesson 6: Color Adjustments

Note that this book does not address every feature in Photoshop, including the following: the Actions panel; changing pixel aspect ratio for video; or any of the 3-D, video, medical, and architectural features available in Photoshop CS5 Extended but absent from the more affordable standard edition of the software.

ductions provides the best learning experience of any Photoshop training resource on the market

Lesson

1

OPEn AnD ORgAnIzE

feaR IS a great motivator And the good folks at Adobe

must agree Otherwise, why would they have created Photoshop,

a program seemingly designed to frighten and intimidate?

Why did they make the program vast and complicated, with

redundant options, misleading commands, and downright

ritualistically obscure functions, all devoted to the seemingly

prosaic task of changing the color of a few pixels? And why is

Photoshop so intent upon revealing the complexities of color

corrections, image manipulations, and brushstrokes instead

of hiding them, the way other computer applications do?

The answers are as numerous as Photoshop’s features As

much as I love Photo shop—call me sick, but as much as a

man can love a retail computer application, I this

one—I’m the first to admit that virtually every feature

re-quires a separate defense Thankfully, the pain of learning

this vast and at times ungainly behemoth is its own reward

Mastering a powerful tool such as Photoshop focuses the

mind It toughens the spirit And in time, it transforms you

into an image warrior

This book takes you on that journey of pain and

reward Sure, there may be occasional times when you’ll

wonder if Photoshop is Adobe’s idea of the Nine Circles of

Hell But just as Dante emerged from the lowest circle by

climbing down the very Devil himself, we’ll conquer

Pho-toshop by descending directly into it and coming out the

other side We will make peace with Photoshop through

understanding, the understanding borne by knowledge, the

knowledge wrought by experience In time, you (like me)

will be sick with your for Photoshop Perhaps

not as sick as Figure 1-1, but sick nonetheless That is to say,

aBOut thIS leSSOn

Before you can use the vast array of tools and functions inside Photoshop, you must know how to find and open the image you want, and that means organizing your image files in the Bridge As glad fortune would have it, that’s precisely what this lesson is about

In the following exercises, you’ll learn how to:

• Open an image on screen page 5

• Use the improved Adobe Bridge to preview and organize your digital images page 10

• Determine how a photograph was captured, and add copyright information and keywords page 25

• Rename multiple images in one fell swoop page 32

video lesson 1: Browsing in the Bridge

The Adobe Bridge, a companion application that

comes with Photoshop CS5, is the best place to get

organized and oriented Besides easily finding the

file you want to open in Photoshop, you can sort,

preview, examine, group, and compare your photos

in the Bridge And with Bridge CS5's new Export

panel, you can save an entire folder's worth of raw

format files as JPEGs for easy portability

To get your bearings in the Bridge, visit www.oreilly.

com/go/deke-PhotoshopCS5 Click the Watch

but-ton to view the lesson online or click the

Down-load button to save it to your computer During the

video, you'll learn these shortcuts:

Open an image file Ctrl+O (that's the letter O) �-O (that's the letter O)

Zoom in or out Ctrl+ (plus), Ctrl+ (minus) �- (plus), �- (minus)

Expand a stack to see all the photos Ctrl+� �-�

View a full-screen preview spacebar spacebar

Before beginning the exercises, make sure

you’ve downloaded the lesson files from

www.oreilly.com/go/Deke-PhotoshopCS5,

as directed in Step 2 on page xvi of the

Preface This means you should have a

folder called Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1 on

your desktop (or whatever location you

chose) We’ll be working with the files

in-side the Lesson 01 subfolder.

Project files

What Is Photoshop?

Photoshop, as the fellow says, is an image editor It lets you open

an image—whether captured with a scanner or a digital camera

or downloaded from the Web—and change it You can adjust the

brightness and color, sharpen the focus, retouch a few details, and

do scads more When you’re finished, you can save your changes,

print the result, attach it to an email, post it to your blog, whatever

If you can imagine doing something to an image, Photoshop can

do it It’s that capable

But it doesn’t end there You can also use Photoshop to enhance

artwork that you’ve scanned from a hand drawing or created with

another graphics program If you’re artistically inclined, you can

start with a blank document and create a piece of artwork from

scratch If that’s not enough, Photoshop offers a wide variety of

illustration tools, special effects, and text-formatting options, from

placing type on a path to checking your spelling

Opening an Image

Like every other major application on the face of the planet,

Photo-shop offers an Open command in the File menu Not surprisingly,

you can use this command to open an image saved on your hard

disk or some other media But Photoshop offers a better way to open

files: the Adobe Bridge I’ll be showing you several ways to use this

independent and powerful application throughout this lesson The

following steps explain the basics:

1 Start the Bridge. Assuming that Photoshop is

run-ning (see Step 6 on page xviii of the Preface), click the

icon in the application bar or choose File→Browse

in Bridge Both icon and command appear in Figure 1-2 (The

application bar sits to the right of the menu bar on the PC and

below it on the Mac I show it above the menu bar in the

fig-ure so you can see the details better.) A few moments later, the

Adobe Bridge will come into view

2 Navigate to the McClelland Boys folder. The Bridge window

is, by default, divided into five main panels: two on the left,

the large content browser in the middle, and two more on the

right, each labeled black in Figure 1-3 on the following page

(Blue-green labels show ancillary options.) The top-left section

contains tabs that let you switch between the Favorites and

Folders panels The Favorites panel gives you instant access

to commonly used folders, as well as a few places that Adobe

Application bar

Figure 1-2

thinks you’ll find useful The Folders panel lets you navigate to

a specific folder on your hard disk or other media that contains the file or files you want to open With that in mind, here’s what

I want you to do:

• Click the Folders tab in the top-left corner of the window to

access the folder tree, thus termed because it branches into

folders and subfolders

• Scroll to the top of the list until you find the blue Desktop

icon (This assumes you installed the lesson files on the top, per my instructions in Step 2 on page xvii of the Preface.)

desk-• See the gray “twirly” triangle (�) in front of the word top? Click it to expand (or twirl open) the desktop and reveal

Desk-the folders on your computer’s desktop

• Locate the folder called Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1 (they should

appear in alphabetical order) and click its � to expand it

• Click the � in front of the Lesson 01 folder.

Shortcut buttons

Compact mode

Thumbnail previews

Metadata, keywords ,

Panel dividers

Back/forward

Parent folders/favorites

Thumbnail, details, list views Lock to thumbnail grid

Thumbnail size slider bar

Sort/filter options Open in Camera Raw

Recent file/folder Get photos Return to Photoshop

Figure 1-3

Step 2 Step 3

• You’ll see a folder called McClelland Boys,

be-cause these are photos I took while out with

my kids Click that folder to fill the content

browser with a collection of eighteen tiny

photographic thumbnails, as in Figure 1-3.

To change the size of the thumbnails, drag the slider

triangle in the bottom-right corner of the window

(labeled Thumbnail size slider bar in Figure 1-3).

3 Select a thumbnail. Locate and click the

file called Butterflying_03.jpg, highlighted in

Figure 1-4 (Some of these images were captured

and automatically named by a digital camera,

hence their cryptic filenames.) This activates the

image and displays it in the Preview panel on

the right side of the Bridge window

To see more detail, enlarge the Preview panel by

dragging the vertical and horizontal panel dividers

that separate the five panels

4 Double-click the thumbnail. Double-click the

thumbnail in the Content panel, and choose

File→Open or press Ctrl+O (�-O on the Mac)

The Bridge hands off the image to Photoshop,

which in turn loads the photo I turned off Open

Documents as Tabs (see page xxi of the Preface), so

for me the photo appears in a new image

win-dow, as in Figure 1-5

P e a R l O f W I S D O m

The title bar or tab lists the name of the image and

magnification level followed by a color notation, RGB/8*

These six characters convey three pieces of information

RGB tells you that you’re working with the three primary

colors of light—red, green, and blue—the standard for

scanners and digital cameras Next, /8 lets you know that

the image contains 8 bits of data for each of the red,

green, and blue color channels, which permits the image

to include any of 16.8 million colors Finally, the asterisk

(*) alerts you that you’re working in a color environment

other than the one you specified in the Color Settings

dialog box (see Step 7, page xix) The upshot: Photoshop is

aware of this image’s specific needs and is doing its best to

accommodate them, thus ensuring accurate color

Color notation in parentheses Independent window (better for grabbing screen captures)

Figure 1-4

Figure 1-5

Interface and Image Window

As with most computer applications, bossing around

Photo-shop is a matter of clicking and dragging inside the program’s

interface Labeled in the figure below (which features an

evoca-tive photograph by Aleksandra Alexis from the iStockphoto

image library), the key elements, in alphabetical order, of

the not particularly revamped Photoshop CS5 interface are:

• Application bar: The application bar provides access to

the Bridge, navigation functions, and window viewing

controls Under Windows, the application bar is located

to the right of the menu bar

• Cursor: The cursor (sometimes called the pointer) is your

mouse’s on-screen representative It moves as your mouse

moves and changes to reflect the active tool or operation

Keep an eye on it and you’ll have a better sense of where

you are and what you’re doing

• Docking pane: A docking pane contains many panel

groups, stacked one above the other Drag a panel tab (or

the blank area next to a tab) and drop it onto a docking

pane to add a panel to the stack Drop a panel next to an existing pane to begin a new pane Click the dark gray bar at the top of the pane to collapse the pane You can also drag the dark gray bar to move the pane

• Image window: Each open image appears in a separate

window, thus permitting you to open multiple images at once In Photoshop, the image window is your canvas This is where you paint and edit with tools, apply com-mands, and generally wreak havoc on an image

• Menu bar: Click a name in the menu bar to display a list

of commands Click a command in order to choose it A command followed by three dots (such as New…) displays

a window of options called a dialog box Otherwise, the

command works right away

• Options bar: The settings here modify the behavior of

the active tool The options bar is context sensitive, so

you see a different set of options each time you switch to

a different tool If the options bar somehow disappears, you can restore it by pressing the Enter or Return key

Panel icons

Panel group

• Panels: A panel (formerly called a palette) is a window

of options that remains visible regardless of what you’re

doing To switch between panels in a side-by-side group,

click a named tab You can move a panel out of a group

by dragging its tab Click the tiny in the top-right

corner of a panel to bring up the panel menu.

Drag the left edge of any panel to make the entire panel

wider or narrower

• Panel group: Drag a panel and drop it onto another panel

to group them so that their tabs appear side-by-side

(such as the Layers, Channels, and Paths group) Drag

the blank gray area to the right of the tabs to move the

entire group Click the blank area to collapse the group

so you see only tabs Click again to expand the group

• Panel icons: When you collapse a docking pane,

Photo-shop shows its panel as icons Click an icon to

tempo-rarily display the panel Click again to hide it Drag the

left edge of the pane to show or hide panel names next

to the icons

• Screen mode: Click the final icon in the application bar

(this icon used to be at the bottom of the toolbox) and

select an option, or press the F key to cycle between three

variations of the image window An open image may

appear in a tabbed or an independent window, fill the

entire screen, or further encroach on screen real estate

by squeezing out the menu bar Press Shift+F to cycle

backward between modes

• Scroll bars: Only so much of an image can fit in the image

window at once In the standard screen mode, the scroll

bars let you pan the image horizontally or vertically to

display hidden areas If a scroll bar is empty, the screen

is zoomed out far enough for you to see the entire width

or height of the image For more information on

zoom-ing and scrollzoom-ing, watch Video Lesson 1, “Browszoom-ing in

the Bridge,” introduced on page 4)

• Shortcut menu: Right-click to display a shortcut menu

of options for the active tool If your Mac intosh mouse

doesn’t have a right mouse button (older mice from Apple don’t), press the Control key and click Photoshop pro-vides shortcut menus in the image window and inside many panels When in doubt, right-click

• Size box: When working with a free-floating image

win-dow, you can drag the bottom-right corner to make the window bigger or smaller When working with a tabbed window, the size box does not function

• Status bar: The bottom-left corner of each and every

image window sports a status bar that includes a zoom value, the file size, a preview box, and a pop-up menu of various preview options The status bar disappears when you enter one of the full-screen modes

• Title tab (or bar): By default, Photoshop CS5 fills the

screen with an image and tops it off with a small tab The tab lists the name of the last saved version of the file

on disk If you haven’t saved the image, it may appear

as Untitled Click a tab to switch between open images

Drag a tab and drop it away from the options bar to ate a free-floating window topped by a title bar Drag that title bar onto a tab, or to the top, bottom, or side of the image area to restore the window to the tabbed treatment

cre-• Toolbox: The toolbox provides access to Photoshop’s

selection and editing tools, as well as common color trols Click an icon to select a tool and then use the tool

con-in the image wcon-indow A tool icon with a triangle (◢) in the bottom-right corner indicates that many tools share

a single slot Click and hold such an icon to display a flyout menu of alternates Or press the Alt (or Option) key and click an icon to cycle between tools

Press the Tab key to hide the toolbox, options bar, and all panels Press Tab again to bring them back To hide or show the panels independently of the toolbox and options bar, press Shift+Tab Hover your cursor over the right edge

of the screen to temporarily see the panel when hidden

Organizing and examining Photos

A cynic might argue that the first incarnation of the Creative Suite was largely a marketing scheme designed to get Photoshop users

to take up excellent but less popular products such as Illustrator and InDesign But over time, the collection has matured, and the standalone Bridge deserves a lot of the credit The Bridge is no mere image opener—in many regards, it’s a full-blown digital asset man- ager In the Bridge, you can review images and illustrations, rotate

them, delete them, move them to different folders, organize them into collections, and flag them for later use You can even preview images at full size, filter which images you see and which you don’t, and group related images into stacks If you have just a few dozen images lying around your hard drive, this may seem like overkill But if you have a few hundred, a thousand, or a hundred thousand, the Bridge is an absolute necessity

P e a R l O f W I S D O m

In many ways, the Bridge is a better and more flexible navigation tool than the Windows or Macintosh operating system Where else can you whip through a folder of images or illustrations and view instantly scalable, high-quality thumbnails? Or rename a group of files in a single operation? It’s a media manager’s dream

To get a sense of what the Bridge can do, including resizing and oritizing thumbnails, try the following steps (These steps assume that the Bridge is set to the Essentials workspace, as it is by default.)

pri-1 Open the Bridge. Click the icon in the application bar Or press the shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+O (or �-Option-O)

2 Navigate to the McClelland Boys folder. Click the

Folders tab in the top-left corner of the Bridge and use the folder

tree to navigate to the McClelland Boys folder Again, it’s inside

the Lesson 01 folder inside Lesson Files-PsCS5 1on1.

3 Enlarge the thumbnails. By default, the thumbnails in the content browser are tiny That’s great for assessing the broad contents of a folder but less than optimal when gauging the images’ appearance To increase the size of the thumbnails, drag the slider triangle in the bottom-right corner of the window, which I’ve circled in orange in Figure 1-6

Alternatively, you can zoom thumb nails from the keyboard After selecting a thumbnail, press Ctrl+ (or �- ) to make the thumbnails larger; press Ctrl+ (�- ) to make them smaller The maximum thumbnail size is 1024 pixels in either direction

Figure 1-6