Photoshop CS

Welcome to the incredible world of Photoshop! I use this program every day and it never ceases to amaze me. Photoshop is like one of those #8220;learn a new word every day#8221; calendars. I always discover something new...

Technique 1: Organizing Image Files and Managing Projects Save Time By Maintaining projects Navigating the File Browser Organizing your images Adding virtual notes and voice messages Before yo...

Technique 2: Creating Custom Palette Groups and Workspaces Save Time By Saving palette locations Creating palette groups Selecting palettes for specific tasks Customizing workspaces When you op...

Technique 3: Assigning Custom Keyboard Shortcuts Save Time By Creating your own shortcuts that work for you Creating and deleting shortcut sets Printing out a list of shortcuts available in a shortcut se...

Technique 4: The Last Word about Color Management Save Time By Calibrating your monitor Setting a color working space Setting color management policies Handling color space conversion When I tr...

Technique 5: Making Image Editing Easier Save Time By Discovering the Navigator palette Zooming in and out Viewing an image in multiple windows The other day my little 2-year-old son was using a mag...

Technique 6: Creating Your Own Tool Presets Save Time By Using tool presets Loading a preset library Customizing tool presets Saving tool presets Photoshop comes with many features that help yo...

Technique 7: Moving Back in Time: Getting Rid of Mistakes Save Time By Creating duplicates Reverting and undoing Backing up Using the History palette Sometimes you make little mistakes, sometim...

Technique 8: Creating Actions Save Time By Creating action sets Recording and playing actions Getting rid of actions you don#8217;t need Loading action set libraries What happens when you want...

Technique 9: Automating Photoshop Functions Save Time By Letting Photoshop rename a folder of files Automating actions Using droplets This technique focuses on ways that you can modify batches of...

Technique 10: Importing Images Using a Scanner Save Time By Understanding resolution issues Scanning one or more images at a time Dividing multiple scans Better quality and good prices are making pe...

Technique 11: Getting Professional Results with the Camera Raw Format Save Time By Opening photos using the Raw format Selecting settings for great results Saving your Camera Raw image This techniqu...

Technique 12: Using Tablets and Pressure-Sensitive Devices Save Time By Choosing a tablet Configuring stylus settings Practicing with your tablet Whether you#8217;re a Photoshop professional or h...

Technique 13: Printing to a Desktop Printer Save Time By Solving resolution issues Selecting the right printer Setting printing options Have printer, will print, right? Well, maybe. When everything...

Technique 14: Getting Files Ready for Offset Printing Save Time By Selecting prepress settings Soft proofing your project Checking for out-of-gamut colors Adding spot color channels Photoshop...

Technique 15: Working with and Organizing Layers Save Time By Color coding layers Locking layers Creating layer sets Layers are one of Photoshop#8217;s fundamental building blocks. You simply can#82...

Technique 16: Getting to Know Layer Comps Save Time By Creating layer comps Sifting through layer comps Updating layer comps When working for clients, I often create several versions of a layout or...

Technique 17: Enhancing Images with Blending Modes Save Time By Applying luminosity Fading filter effects Creating grainy shadows This technique zeroes in on another powerful Photoshop feature #8212...

Technique 18: Transforming Images, Layers, and Selections Save Time By Flipping layers horizontally and vertically Rotating and skewing Using the Free Transform command Transformation is one of thos...

Technique 19: Going Transparent with Opacity and Fill Save Time By Lowering Opacity and Fill Blending layers together Have you ever seen an advertisement where a ghost appears to hover in the background...

Technique 20: Creating Great Effects with Layer Styles Save Time By Adding bevels Applying inner and outer glows Creating a color overlay Adding strokes Layer styles are really fabulous. With a...

Technique 21: Recoloring with Fill Layers Save Time By Applying a fill layer Cheating using Hue/Saturation One day, you#8217;re working on an advertising project for a client who just has to include a p...

Technique 22: Working with Adjustment Layers Save Time By Applying adjustment layers Adjusting the adjustments Using Photoshop cs, you can change the color and tone of an image for correction purposes...

Technique 23: Everything You Ever Needed to Know about Creating Brushes Save Time By Making brushes with the Brushes palette Saving brush presets Loading brush libraries Brushes, brushes everywhere!...

Technique 24: Creating a Painting by Using an Image Save Time By Preparing the canvas Selecting brushes and painting Adding canvas texture As you can imagine, almost as many ways of painting in Phot...

Technique 25: Painting Back in Time Save Time By Using the History palette Painting to a previous history state Only with a time machine or with Photoshop can you paint backward through history. Thanks...

Technique 26: The Big Color Swap Meet Save Time By Selecting a color source Applying the source colors to the target image Suppose you#8217;re designing a family Web site and you have five photographs o...

Technique 27: Recoloring with Gradients Save Time By Applying a gradient map Using blending modes In Photoshop, a gradient is a smooth transition from one color to another, or from a color to transparenc...

Technique 28: Creating Custom Patterns Save Time By Using textures Using the Pattern Maker filter Patterns are fantastic! You can use them to create backgrounds, add texture, fill layers, even stamp and...

Technique 29: Filling and Painting with Patterns Save Time By Filling layers Jazzing up type Painting pictures Photoshop is a great tool for generating and applying patterns. You can apply patterns...

Technique 30: Enhancing Tone and Color Overview Not every photograph is perfect. Some are underexposed, others are overexposed, while some are a tad too red or blue. Whatever you see as the problem with a photograph...

Technique 31: Be Your Own Plastic Surgeon Save Time By Quickly cleaning up wrinkles and blemishes Performing a speedy nose job No one has perfect skin. No one has a perfect body. Not even the perfect loo...

Technique 32: Getting Rid of Red Eye Save Time By Getting to know the Color Replacement tool Using the Color Replacement tool How many times have you taken a wonderful photograph, only to see a red glo...

Technique 33: Adding Professional Photo Filter Effects Save Time By Using the Photo Filter command Making photos look like sepia prints Professional photographers use filters #8212; thin lenses that...

Technique 34: Creating Grayscale Images: Your Choices and the Results Save Time By Checking out grayscale options Doing the conversion Fine black and white photographs can be truly wonderful. If you#8217...

Technique 35: Coloring and Tinting Black and White Photographs Save Time By Tinting photographs Brushing in color using history Creating duotones Ever since photography was created, folks have been...

Technique 36: Stitching Photos to Create Panoramas Save Time By UsingPhotomerge Stitching photos Have you ever taken several photographs across a wide panorama and wanted to seamlessly put them together?...

Technique 37: Accenting with Sharpening or Blurring Save Time By Sharpening and adding glows Blurring to create selective focus Folks are always surprised when I suggest blurring portions of an image to...

Technique 38: Painting Watercolors with Filters Save Time By Applying filters Adjusting blending modes and opacities Filters are one of Photoshop#8217;s great features. They give you so much with just a...

Technique 39: Making Images Look Like Pressed Tin Save Time By Applying the Emboss and Bas Relief filters Adjusting blending modes and opacities Back in the early part of the previous century, pressed ti...

Technique 40: Creating Photo Silkscreens Save Time By Equalizing the Green and Blue channels Applying the High Pass and Median filters Andy Warhol created a revolution in the art world when he took the p...

Technique 41: Sketching with Filters Save Time By Blending layers Applying color to sketches Several of the filters on the Sketch menu imitate different drawing media, including charcoal, chalk and charc...

Technique 42: I#8217;ve Been Framed! Save Time By Coloring your frames with fill layers Applying layer masks and filters Frames add the finishing touch to any image, be it a real-world photograph or pain...

Technique 43: Dunking Images in Liquid Save Time By Creating liquid by using filters Using the Hard Light blending mode Here it is. The big kahuna of filter techniques. You have to get through lots of st...

Technique 45: Knock-Out Type Save Time By Using the Type Mask tools Applying layer masks I#8217;m sure that you#8217;ve seen advertisements in newspapers or magazines where some large type looks like it...

Technique 46: Pouring Liquid Metals Save Time By Using extreme curves Applying filters Real world metal is shiny, reflective, and lustrous. It has depth and can even look heavy. How do you create the app...

Technique 47: Going Up in Flames Save Time By Applying filters Liquifying type Burn, baby, burn! Fire is such a primeval force. Volcanoes erupt spewing rock that#8217;s so hot it#8217;s literally on fire...

Technique 48: Going Translucent: Clear Type and Jelly Type Save Time By Applying layer styles Changing Fill opacity Some of the most powerful graphic effects with type involve manipulating clear #8212; o...

Technique 49: Working with Layer Masks Save Time By Creating layer masks Editing layer masks Layer masks are great! They#8217;re simple to use and very powerful, but people don#8217;t use them enough. Fo...

Technique 50: Using Layer Masks to Create Fade Ins and Outs Save Time By Using layer masks Applying gradients to layer masks Using the Opacity or Fill slider on the Layers palette can make an entire laye...

Technique 51: Grouping Layers into Clipping Masks Overview You#8217;ve probably seen a matted picture in a frame. The opening in the matting can be shaped like a rectangle, or if it#8217;s fancy, like an oval or hea...

Technique 52: Working with Channels Save Time By Using the Channels palette Viewing and correcting individual channels Many folks who use Photoshop think that channels are somehow mysterious, dangerous,...

Technique 53: Individual Channel Adjustments Save Time By Adjusting color and tone channel by channel Applying filters channel by channel Sometimes adjusting the tone or color in an image just doesn#8217...

Technique 54: Mixing Color with Channels Save Time By Replacing color channels Applying the Channel Mixer command If you ever wanted to recolor an image but found that you lost detail when using the Phot...

Technique 55: Getting to Know ImageReady Save Time By Understanding the interface and tools Previewing graphics in a browser ImageReady, Photoshop#8217;s sister program, is the place to go when you wan...

Technique 56: Slicing Web Graphics Save Time By Creating slices Converting and resizing slices Slices are a really important part of creating Web graphics using ImageReady. You can use slices to speed u...

Technique 57: Optimizing and Saving Images for the Web Save Time By Optimizing images in GIF or JPEG file format Creating Droplets to speed optimization When you create an image that you want to save fo...

Technique 58: Creating Image Maps Save Time By Designating hotspots Assigning URLs Image maps designate where specially selected areas, or hotspots, appear on an image in a Web page. Each hotspot is link...

Technique 59: Making Your Graphics Rollover Save Time By Creating substitution rollovers Creating rollovers by using a secondary graphic Almost any Web page that you visit on the World Wide Web these da...

Technique 60: Making GIF Animations Save Time By Moving graphics across the Web page Making text fade in and out When you make a GIF animation, images contained in frames play back in a specific order a...

Technique 61: Creating Background Tiling for Web Pages Save Time By Creating tiles Previewing tiles as a background in ImageReady When you use a tile to create a background in a Web page, the small tile...

Technique 62: Installing Plug-Ins Save Time By Installing plug-ins Using plug-ins Plug-ins extend the functionality of Photoshop in a seamless way. Plug-ins are integrated right into the Photoshop enviro...

Technique 63: Enhancing Your Images with Auto FX Software Save Time By Working with lighting Adjusting tone and color Auto FX Software has created some amazing products that you can use to expand Photosh...

Technique 64: Loading New Libraries Save Time By Loading libraries that ship with Photoshop Download libraries from the Web Photoshop ships with many libraries #8212; such as brushes, styles, and gradien...

Color Insert Painting on a Photo Color Plate 24-1 Thanks to Photoshop#8217;s capabilities, Technique 24 uses a photograph as if it were wet paint. The first step in painting on a photograph is to prepare the #822...