Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours)

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® Photoshop® 7 in 24 Hours......Page 2 Copyright © 2002 by Sams Publishing......Page 3 Contents at a Glance......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 About the Author......Page 17 Tell Us What You Think!......Page 19 Introduction......Page 20 Finding Your Way Around......Page 22 The Toolbox......Page 25 Tool Options Bar......Page 30 What’s on the Menus?......Page 31 Setting Preferences......Page 37 Q&A......Page 38 Exercises......Page 39 Working with Files......Page 40 Saving Your Work......Page 46 Undoing and Redoing......Page 50 Q&A......Page 51 Exercises......Page 52 The Selection Tools......Page 54 The Selection Menu......Page 61 Selecting Large Areas......Page 63 Cutting and Copying......Page 65 Quiz......Page 68 Exercises......Page 69 Resizing......Page 70 Rotating......Page 73 Flipping......Page 78 Selection Transformations......Page 79 Summary......Page 83 Quiz......Page 84 Exercises......Page 85 HOUR 5 Color Modes and Color Models......Page 86 Color Models......Page 87 The Modes and Models of Color......Page 91 Q&A......Page 99 Exercises......Page 100 HOUR 6 Adjusting Color......Page 102 Adjusting by Eye with Variations......Page 103 Making Other Adjustments......Page 107 Adjustment Layers......Page 116 Channels......Page 117 Q&A......Page 118 Quiz......Page 119 Exercises......Page 120 HOUR 7 Paintbrushes and Art Tools......Page 122 The Brushes Palette......Page 123 Brushes......Page 128 Quiz......Page 136 Exercises......Page 137 Foreground and Background Colors......Page 140 Selecting Colors......Page 141 Blending Modes......Page 150 Q&A......Page 154 Exercises......Page 155 Smudges......Page 156 Focus Tools......Page 158 The Toning Tools......Page 163 Q&A......Page 166 Quiz......Page 167 Exercises......Page 168 HOUR 10 Advanced Painting Techniques......Page 170 Simulating Different Media......Page 171 Summary......Page 187 Q&A......Page 188 Exercises......Page 189 HOUR 11 Layers......Page 190 Using the Layers Palette......Page 191 Working with Multiple Layers......Page 198 Q&A......Page 204 Exercises......Page 205 HOUR 12 Using Masks......Page 206 Applying Masks......Page 207 Using Quick Mask......Page 208 Layer Masks......Page 211 Q&A......Page 218 Quiz......Page 219 Exercises......Page 220 HOUR 13 Paths......Page 222 Creating Paths......Page 223 Editing Paths......Page 231 Using Paths......Page 233 Q&A......Page 238 Exercises......Page 239 Sharpen Filters......Page 240 Blur Filters......Page 245 Fading Filters......Page 251 Q&A......Page 252 Quiz Answers......Page 253 Exercises......Page 254 HOUR 15 Filters to Make Your Picture Artistic......Page 256 Artistic Filters......Page 257 Brush Strokes......Page 267 Sketch Filters......Page 272 Summary......Page 276 Quiz......Page 277 Exercises......Page 278 HOUR 16 Filters to Distort and Other Funky Effects......Page 280 Distort Filters......Page 281 Pixelate Filters......Page 288 Stylize......Page 291 Combining Filters......Page 295 Summary......Page 299 Quiz......Page 300 Exercises......Page 301 HOUR 17 Adding Type to Pictures......Page 302 The Type Tools......Page 303 Setting Type......Page 307 Creating Drop Shadows......Page 309 Cutting and Filling Type......Page 314 Adding Glows......Page 317 Creating Bevel and Emboss Effects......Page 318 Warping Text......Page 319 Checking Your Spelling......Page 320 Summary......Page 321 Quiz......Page 322 Exercises......Page 323 HOUR 18 Special Effects and Useful Tricks......Page 324 Glows......Page 325 Lighting Effects......Page 327 Reflections......Page 331 Notepad......Page 335 Contact Sheets and Picture Packages......Page 336 Working Efficiently......Page 339 Q&A......Page 340 Quiz......Page 341 Exercises......Page 342 HOUR 19 Photoshop Plug-Ins and Add-Ons......Page 344 How to Install Plug-Ins......Page 345 Alien Skin’s Eye Candy......Page 346 Kai’s Power Tools......Page 349 Auto FX Photo/Graphic Edges......Page 351 Vivid Details Test Strip......Page 353 Andromeda......Page 354 Summary......Page 355 Exercises......Page 356 Sources for Images......Page 358 Making One Picture from Two......Page 360 Realistic Composites......Page 364 Replacing a Background......Page 367 Composites from Nothing......Page 370 Summary......Page 372 Quiz......Page 373 Exercises......Page 374 Easy Fixes......Page 376 Using the Eyedropper......Page 380 Using the Clone Stamp......Page 382 Healing Brush and Patch Tools......Page 383 Cleaning Up a Picture, Step by Step......Page 384 Applying Tints......Page 389 Vignetting......Page 393 Summary......Page 394 Quiz......Page 395 Exercises......Page 396 Color Retouching......Page 398 Removing......Page 408 Summary......Page 411 Quiz......Page 412 Exercises......Page 413 HOUR 23 Printing......Page 414 Choosing a Printer......Page 415 Preparing to Print......Page 417 Printing the Page......Page 422 Preparing the Image......Page 425 Papers......Page 429 Q&A......Page 430 Quiz Answers......Page 431 Exercises......Page 432 HOUR 24 Photoshop for the Web......Page 434 Jumping into ImageReady......Page 435 File Formats and File Size......Page 436 Preparing Backgrounds......Page 441 Building Animations......Page 443 Web Photo Gallery......Page 444 Creating Slices......Page 446 Creating a Rollover Effect......Page 447 Making Pages Load Faster......Page 450 Q&A......Page 451 Quiz Answers......Page 452 Exercises......Page 453 APPENDIXA Photoshop 7 Palette Quick Reference......Page 454 Navigator Palette......Page 455 Info Palette......Page 456 Color Palette......Page 457 Swatches Palette......Page 458 Styles Palette......Page 459 History Palette......Page 460 Actions Palette......Page 461 Layers Palette......Page 462 Channels Palette......Page 463 Paths Palette......Page 464 INDEX......Page 466 The quick and easy way to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop! Photoshop continues to be #1 digital image editing tool. Carla Rose has a loyal following, excellent rapport with readers, and the demonstrated ability to teach the most important features of a complicated product to the beginner. Day and date with the next version of Photoshop, due out in March/April 2002. Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop X is an easily accessible tutorial that uses a friendly, conversational approach to teach readers the basics. Photoshop is an immense tool and can be intimidating for the beginning user, but the book makes it easy to learn the basic techniques involved in creating and manipulating images with Photoshop. The next version of Photoshop, due out in March/April 2002, has many significant new features, including a new painting engine, more editing features, and compliance with Mac OS X. Previously announced in 4/2002 catalog. Carla Rose has authored or co-authored more than two dozen computer books, including Maclopedia and Sams Teach Yourself Digital Photography in 14 Days, as well as books on desktop publishing, telecommunications, and more. She is a contributing editor for Photoshop User magazine and has written for publications ranging from the Atlantic Fisherman to Adobe Magazineto The New Yorker.

Adobe Photoshop is the world's leading image manipulation software. Used by both professional and amateur graphic designers, it is the de facto standard for print Web publishing.

• New painting engine;
• Image browser;
• Enhanced Web workflow;
• More editing features;