Photoshop CC Bible

Lisa DaNae Dayley, Brad Dayley

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781118643693
• eBook ISBN: 9781118643778
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Desktop Applications
• Index: Computer Science

The one reference book every Photoshop user needs!

Adobe Photoshop is the industry leading image-editing software, and the newest version boasts exciting new features. This must-have comprehensive resource gets you started with the basics and then highlights the latest updates and revisions to the new Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud). You'll learn every aspect of Photoshop CC, from image editing basics to techniques for working with the histogram palette, Lens Blur, Match Color, and the color replacement tool, as well as keyboard shortcuts.

• Explores retouching and color correction, working with Camera Raw images, preparing photos for print or the web, and much more

• Details what beginners need to know and shares intermediate-level information on key tools and procedures

• Delves into techniques for retouching, color-correcting, manipulating, combining images, as well as all the new features and enhancements in the latest version

Photoshop CC Bible is essential reading for everyone from photo hobbyists to professionals in graphic design, publishing, video editing, animation, and broadcasting.

Part I: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop CC

IN THIS PART

Chapter 1
Introducing Adobe Photoshop CC

Chapter 2
Exploring the Photoshop Workspace

Chapter 3
Performing Image Basics

Chapter 4
Understanding Colors, Histograms, Levels, and Curves

Chapter 5
Applying History and Actions

Chapter 6
Using Bridge to Organize and Process Files

Chapter 1:
Introducing Adobe Photoshop CC

In This Chapter

1. Getting acquainted with Photoshop CC
2. Benefitting from Photoshop CC
3. Exploring the new features of Photoshop CC

If you are reading this book, you likely have access to one of the most intricate and extensive software applications available. Don't let that discourage you, though. Adobe Photoshop is also a powerful and extremely fun application to use. With throngs of fans all over the globe, over the years, Photoshop has become the pinnacle software application for image editing. In fact, if you look up Photoshop at www.wiktionary.org, you will find the term photoshop listed as a verb meaning, “to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph.”

Photoshop draws such a big crowd because it provides amazing results when you are editing images and yet is fairly intuitive to use such that even casual users can get pretty good results without much effort. In addition, as digital imaging has advanced over the years, Photoshop has kept pace and even led the advancements in many areas.

The chapter introduces Photoshop CC, shows you when to use it, and discusses the new features that have been added since version CS6. Chapter 2 dives into the details of the Photoshop application workspace.

Discovering the Versatile World of Photoshop

The simplest description of Photoshop is “a digital image-editing application.” Photoshop provides the standard color- and lighting-correction capabilities historically associated with photo editing, but it also provides filtering, painting, masking, layering, and many more tools that allow you to take image editing to the next level.

The following sections discuss how Photoshop interacts with the Creative Cloud, as well as how you can use Photoshop on its own and with other applications. The purpose of these chapters is to give you a glimpse of what Photoshop is used for before showing you how to use it. Of course, the only real way to understand the capabilities of Photoshop is to delve into them as you follow along with the next 30 chapters in this book.

Introducing Photoshop Creative Cloud Interaction

The CC in Photoshop CC stands for Creative Cloud. The Adobe Creative Cloud is an online service that provides file storage, application access, and several other developing features. With Photoshop CC, Adobe has moved away from a traditional software package such as the Creative Suite and into a subscription-based method where you subscribe for monthly access to the creative applications.

Many people are asking the question, “So what does the Creative Cloud really mean for a Photoshop user?” It is really not all that complicated. The Creative Cloud has some advantages and one big disadvantage. One disadvantage is that you can no longer buy a Photoshop license and have the software indefinitely. Another disadvantage is the functionality such as syncing settings to the cloud is impeded if you don't have an Internet connection. Also, for continued access to the software, you will need to keep up a subscription to the Creative Cloud.

The advantages of the Creative Cloud and the interaction points with Photoshop are broken down into the following list:

• Installation. Rather than getting a license with a set of DVDs in a box, you subscribe to the Creative Cloud, which allows you to download and install the application. During the installation, you need to be logged into the Creative Cloud to validate your subscription.

• Signing in and out. Selecting Help
  
  Sign In logs you into your Creative Cloud account. This enables you to synchronize your settings between computers and store files in your Creative Cloud account. Selecting Help
  
  Sign Out logs you out of the Creative Cloud, which is extremely useful if you are sharing the computer with someone else because they can then log into their own account to synchronize settings and files.

• Synchronizing settings. Photoshop allows you to synchronize settings and other data such as preferences, swatches, shapes, patterns, tool presets, and brushes to and from your Creative Cloud account. I love this feature because it means I don't have to set everything up again if I move to a new computer or have to re-install Photoshop. Photoshop allows you to synchronize the settings by selecting Edit ➪ Sync Settings
  
  Sync Settings Now from the main menu or from an icon in the bottom frame of the document window. You can also configure which settings should be synchronized in the Preferences dialog box, which we discuss in Chapter 2.

• Online storage. Adobe provides online storage with your Creative Cloud account. This allows you to upload project files you are working on or have completed to an online location that you can access from anywhere.

• Sharing files on Behance. Behance is an online p...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Credits
• About the Authors
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop CC
• Part II: Working with Camera Raw Images
• Part III: Working with Selections, Layers, and Channels
• Part IV: Enhancing, Correcting, and Retouching Images
• Part V: Using Paint, Paths, Shapes, and Text Tools
• Part VI: Creating Artistic Effects
• Part VII: Working with 3-D Images
• Part VIII: Working with Video and Animation
• Part IX: Using Advanced Output Techniques
• Part X: Appendixes