Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers In memory of my mother Marjorie Evening Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Contents Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers A professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC Martin Evening Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers Focal Press An imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn MA 01801-2041 First published 2002 The right of Martin Evening to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP. 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Contents v Contents Introduction xiii Acknowledgments xv Getting started xvi What’s new in Photoshop 7.0 xvi Mac OS X and Windows XP support xvii File Browser xvii Healing brush and patch tool xviii Brushes engine xviii Interface refinements xviii Automation xix Auto Color xix Filter menu xx Web features xx Extras xx Chapter One – Digital Capture 1 Structure of a digital image 2 Scanners 4 What to look for in a scanner 6 Resolution 6 Dynamic range 7 Bit depth 8 Scanning speed 8 Software 10 Visual assessment 10 Purchasing bureau scans 10 Kodak Photo CD and Picture CD 11 Image quality 11 Optimum Photo CDs 13 Opening a Photo CD image 13 In conclusion 14 Digital cameras 15 Consumer cameras 15 35 mm SLR features 16 Hot mirror filters 17 Medium format CCD cameras 18 Making every pixel count 20 Scanning backs 23 Is it time to go digital? 24 Camera software and storage 25 Conclusion 27 Chapter Two – Resolution 28 Pixels versus vectors 29 Terminology 31 Repro considerations 33 Inkjet output resolution 34 Creating a new document 35 Altering the image size 35 Practical conclusions 39 i Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers vi Chapter Three – Configuring Photoshop 40 Buying a system 41 Monitor display 42 Video cards 43 Extras 43 Retailers 44 Improving Photoshop performance 45 Chip speed 45 Chip acceleration 46 RAM memory and scratch disks 46 Clearing the Photoshop memory 49 Configuring the RAM memory settings (Macintosh OS 9) 49 Configuring the RAM memory settings (Windows and Mac OS X) 49 Photoshop and Mac OS X 50 Installing Mac OS X and Photoshop 51 Shared and non-shared items 52 Windows XP 52 Office environment 53 System software 54 Chapter Four – Color Management 55 The need for color management 55 Why not all RGB spaces are the same 56 The way things were 57 CMYK color management 58 RGB devices 58 Not all RGB color devices are the same 59 ICC profiled color management 59 Switching on Photoshop ICC color management 63 Monitor profiling 63 Monitor calibration 64 Mac OS X calibration 65 Contrast and brightness 65 Neutralizing the color 66 Target Gamma 66 White point 67 Conclusion 67 Calibrating a PC monitor with Adobe Gamma 68 The value of a calibrated display 69 The Photoshop color engine 69 The profiled approach 71 The versatility of RGB 72 Choosing an RGB work space 73 Apple RGB 74 sRGB IEC-61966-2.1 74 ColorMatch RGB 74 ProPhoto RGB 74 Adobe RGB (1998) 74 The ideal RGB working space 75 Photoshop color management interface 76 The Color Settings 76 Color management policies 77 Managing the Color Settings 80 Profile conversions 81 Converting to the work space 83 i Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Contents vii Handling Grayscale 84 Handling legacy files 85 Advanced color settings 87 Blend RGB colors using gamma 88 Desaturate monitor colors 89 Customizing the RGB and work space gamma 89 RGB to CMYK 90 CMYK setup 91 Advanced CMYK settings 91 Conversion options 91 Rendering intent 93 Black Point Compensation 94 Use Dither (8-bit per channel images) 94 Creating a custom CMYK setting 94 Ink Colors 95 Dot gain 96 Separation options 97 Black generation 98 Opening CMYK and Lab files 98 Information palette 99 The ICC color managed workflow 101 Chapter Five – File Management and Output 102 RGB output to transparency and print 103 CMYK output 104 Fine art printing 104 Inkjet CMYK output 105 Inkjet media 105 The ideal inkjet 106 Photoshop print controls 107 Color proofing for press output 108 Targeted CMYK printing 111 Soft proofing 112 Simulate Paper White and Ink Black 113 PostScript printing 114 Quantity printing 115 Stormy waters 116 Storing digital files 116 Image database management 117 The File Browser 118 Renaming in the File Browser 120 The future of image asset management 121 Bureau checklist 122 Image protection 123 Chapter Six – The Work Space 125 Photoshop preferences 125 Saving files 127 Display & Cursors 130 Transparency & Gamut 131 Units & Rulers 131 Guides, Grid & Slices 132 Plug-ins & Scratch Disks 133 Memory & Image Cache 134 i Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers viii Image window 135 Title bar proxy icons (Macintosh) 136 Preview box options 136 Managing document windows 136 Rulers, Guides & Grid 137 ‘Snap to’ behavior 138 The Photoshop palettes 138 Palette docking 139 Workspace settings 140 File Browser 141 Navigator 142 Info 142 Tool Options bar 143 Tool Presets 144 Character 144 Paragraph 145 Brushes 145 Brushes palette 145 Styles 148 Swatches 148 Color 148 Preset Manager 148 Actions 149 History 150 Layers 150 Channels 151 Paths 151 Tools palette 152 Selection tools 153 Modifier keys 155 Lasso: freehand/polygon/magnetic 157 Move tool 160 Crop tool 161 Slicing tools 164 The paint tools 164 Healing brush/Patch tool 164 Brush 165 Pencil 165 Clone stamp/Pattern stamp 165 History brush 166 History brush and Snapshot 166 History and memory usage 168 Non-linear history 169 Art history brush 170 Eraser/background eraser/magic eraser 171 The Extract command 173 Gradients 174 Noise gradients 176 Paint bucket 177 Focus: blur/sharpen/smudge 177 Toning: dodge/burn/sponge 178 Pen and path drawing 179 Type tool 179 Shape tools 180 Annotation tools 180 Eyedropper/color sampler 181 i Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Contents ix Measure 182 Navigation tools – hand and zoom 182 Foreground/background colors 183 Selection mode/Quick mask 183 Screen display 183 Jump to button 184 Summary 184 Chapter Seven – File Formats 185 TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) 186 EPS 188 DCS 189 Photoshop PDF 189 PDF security 192 Importing multi-page PDF files 192 PICT 193 JPEG 193 File formats for the Web 195 Other file formats for the Internet 195 GIF 196 Save for Web 198 PNG (Portable Network Graphics) 203 IVUE 204 FlashPix 204 Future of electronic publishing 204 Chapter Eight – Basic Image Adjustments 205 Cropping 205 Orientation and canvas 207 Precise image rotation 208 Big data 208 Perspective cropping 209 Image analysis 210 Levels adjustments 211 Specular highlights 213 Assigning shadow and highlight points 216 Unsharp masking 217 Sharpening for repro 218 Amount 218 Radius 220 Threshold 220 Selective sharpening 220 Chapter Nine – Color Adjustments 222 Hue/Saturation 222 Color balancing with Levels 226 Variations 227 Auto adjustments 227 Color Balance 229 Variations 229 Curves adjustments 229 Arbitrary Map mode 235 Replace Color 236 Color Range 238 i Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... feature is the inclusion of some of the book tutorials in movie form on the CD-ROM From my own experience, movies are a helpful way to learn and assimilate Photoshop techniques Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for Photographers was first published in October 1998 This and the subsequent Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0 for Photographers were bestselling Photoshop titles on the Amazon.com book selling lists in the United... ‘PHOTOS’ and open the files directly in Photoshop These PICT format images (for TV monitor display) are not suited for reprographic output as the highlight tones tend to be clipped 13 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers • • • • • Insert the Photo CD disc into the CD-ROM drive With Photoshop loaded, open the image required... size and alignment The document window will display the size dimensions in the status box and you can create a new document from a custom preset document size (and create your own document size presets) Automation Photoshop 7.0 fully supports automated system scripting This will enable the geekier users among us to write scripts that operate actions from outside of Photoshop to perform discrete image... is new in this latest version of Photoshop What’s new in Photoshop 7.0 Whenever a new full version of Photoshop is released there is a predictable debate over whether the new program justifies being classed as a full upgrade or not But whatever the pundits and critics like myself write, it is going to be the Photoshop customers who will ultimately decide if Photoshop 7.0 makes the grade or not Speaking... images, but the Pattern Maker can also be used to produce interesting pattern tiles that work for larger images as well Web features More web features have been added to Photoshop 7.0 and ImageReady™ 7.0 In the Photoshop Save for Web dialog you can save customized SFW settings, specify knockout transparency for one or more colors in a web graphics element and create partial transparency effects You... bits per channel in Photoshop The histogram after adjusting the Levels will look smooth as shown here, meaning there is no tonal information lost 9 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers Software The scanner will be supplied with driver software that controls the scanner The scanner driver may be in the form of a stand-alone... anticipated features of Photoshop 7.0 While at the same time, PC users now have support for the Windows XP operating system, and I’ll be writing more about this in Chapter Three Mac OS X is based on a UNIX core and although UNIX has been around for a long time, the last time it was supported by Photoshop was in version 3.0 So a lot of engineering time had to be devoted to updating the Photoshop 7.0 code in order... photographs The File Browser is a very welcome addition for Photoshop, as we are now able to quickly see large image thumbnails and previews Images can be ranked according to preference plus you can rotate and batch rename selected images from within the browser interface And since Photoshop 7.0 features XMP (eXtensible Markup Platform) support for embedding metadata, you can view all the associated... this watermark Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers Profile, Clair Rawlings, Herb Paynter, Red or Dead Ltd, Eric Richmond, Andrew Rodney, Schwarzkopf Ltd, Michael Smiley, The Smithsonian Institution, Susanne Sturton, Paul Smith, Martin Soan, Storm, Tapestry, Tresemme, gJim Williams, Russell Williams, Mark Williford and YU salon And lastly, thanks to friends and family My late mother for all her love... 16-bit per channel images xix Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers Filter menu The Adobe filter plug-in previews have all been enlarged to twice their previous size This will make it easier to evaluate the final outcome before applying a filter and visualize what the image will look like at different filter settings The Liquify . watermark. Adobe Photoshop 7. 0 for Photographers Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop 7. 0 for Photographers In. 1 70 Eraser/background eraser/magic eraser 171 The Extract command 173 Gradients 174 Noise gradients 176 Paint bucket 177 Focus: blur/sharpen/smudge 177 Toning: