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Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2

ISBN: 0321335392
EAN: 2147483647

Year: N/A
Pages: 161

Authors: Conrad Chavez

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• Working Smart in ADOBE Photoshop CS2
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Introduction
• How This Book Is Organized
• Tips for Reading This Book
• Special Thanks
• Chapter one. Optimizing Your Computer for Photoshop
• The Processor
• RAM
• Advanced RAM Tweaks
• Using More than 2GB of RAM
• Hard Disks
• Monitors and Video Cards
• Other Ways to Optimize Your Computer
• Activation: Using Photoshop on Multiple Computers
• From Beginner to Expert
• Chapter two. Optimizing Your Workspace
• Arranging Palettes
• Saving Your Palette Arrangements
• Optimizing for Small Monitors
• Optimizing for Multiple Monitors
• Editing Keyboard Shortcuts
• Editing Menus
• Saving Your Workspaces
• Arranging Document Windows
• Chapter three. Optimizing Yourself
• Getting Around Efficiently
• Get the Most from Keyboard Shortcuts
• Shortcuts for Entering Numbers and Text
• Using Context Menus
• It s All in Your Mind
• Chapter four. Getting Ahead with Presets and Saved Settings
• Creating and Using Your Own Tool Presets
• Kinds of Presets
• Viewing All Tool Presets at Once
• Viewing and Managing All Presets at Once
• Using Adobe PDF Presets
• Loading and Saving Settings
• Chapter five. Creating How-To Tutorials and Tips
• What s the Idea Behind How-To Topics?
• Using a How-To Topic
• Making Your Own How-To Topic
• Distributing How-To Topics
• Chapter six. Working with Adobe Bridge
• How Can Adobe Bridge Help?
• Making Bridge Equal to Your Tasks
• Annotating Files in Bulk
• Batch Processing and Automating with Bridge
• Walking Through a Batch Process
• Chapter seven. Opening the Right Files Quickly
• Finding Files Fast
• Saving Searches as Collections
• Tuning Your Selections
• Opening Multiple Files
• Chapter eight. Positioning Precisely
• Tweaking Units of Measure
• The Grid and Guides
• Aligning and Distributing Layers
• Positioning Example: a Web Page
• Chapter nine. Smarter Selections
• Marquee and Lasso Tools
• Selecting Based on Tone or Color
• Selecting by Drawing a Path
• Combining Selections
• Chapter ten. Working Efficiently with Layers
• Creating Bitmap Layers
• Selecting Layers
• Adjustment Layers
• Layer Groups
• Shape Layers
• Smart Objects
• Layer Comps
• Chapter eleven. Correcting Many Images Quickly
• Transferring Adjustment Layers
• Transferring Camera Raw Adjustments
• Chapter twelve. Accelerating Appearances with Layer Styles
• When to Use Layer Styles
• Adding a Layer Style to a Layer
• Using the Layer Style Dialog Box
• Applying a Layer Style to Other Layers
• Scaling a Layer Style
• Chapter thirteen. Adding Transparency to Layers and Documents
• Seeing Transparency
• Choosing the Right Transparency Method
• Setting Opacity
• Making Masks
• Using Blending Modes for Transparency Effects
• Making Transparent Backgrounds for Other Programs
• Chapter fourteen. Rewriting History
• Undoing and Redoing
• Using the History Palette Productively
• Keeping a History Log
• Chapter fifteen. Saving Documents Productively
• Saving a Master Document for Flexibility
• Saving for Specific Media
• Using the Save as a Copy Feature
• Playing Nice with Other Programs
• Chapter sixteen. Printing Right the First Time
• Previewing Print Size
• Previewing Print Colors by Soft-Proofing
• Chapter seventeen. Saving Time with Actions
• Loading Actions
• Running Actions
• Planning an Action
• Creating Actions
• Editing Actions
• Enhancing Your Actions
• Links About Actions
• Chapter eighteen. Batch Processing and Droplets
• Using the Image Processor
• Using the Batch Dialog Box
• Batch Processing Examples
• Using Droplets for Instant Batch Processing
• Chapter nineteen. Automating with Scripts
• Scripting Languages You Can Use
• Running Scripts
• How Scripting Works
• Scripting Resources
• Example: Creating and Installing a Simple Script
• Chapter twenty. Generating Data-Driven Graphics
• Creating the Template
• Defining Variables for Layers
• Creating a Data Set
• Generating the Final Documents
• Chapter twenty-one. Using Photoshop with the Adobe Creative Suite
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Acrobat and PDF
• Adobe GoLive
• Adobe Bridge
• Chapter twenty-two. Jumping Directly to Other Programs
• Jumping Between Photoshop and ImageReady
• Jumping to Other Graphics Programs
• Index
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