Adobe Photoshop 6.0 User Guide 6
User Manual: adobe Photoshop - 6.0 - User Guide Free User Guide for Photoshop Software, Manual
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- Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- Adobe Photoshop Basics
- Using tools and palettes
- Opening images in Photoshop and ImageReady
- Streamlining your workflow
- Making tonal and color adjustments
- Retouching images
- Making pixel selections
- Making edits
- Using layers
- Compositing images
- Painting
- Drawing shapes
- Creating type
- Editing type
- Designing Web graphics
- Creating animations (ImageReady)
- Optimizing Web graphics
- What’s New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0
- Superb vector support
- Enhanced vector output
- Layer styles
- Interactive image warping
- Enhanced slicing capabilities
- Enhanced support for image maps and rollovers
- Weighted optimization
- Improved Web workflow
- Streamlined interface
- Enhanced layer management
- Expanded text features
- Preset Manager
- Other new and enhanced features
- Looking at the Work Area
- Using the toolbox
- Using the tool options bar
- Using palettes
- Using context menus
- Viewing images
- Correcting mistakes
- Reverting to any state of an image
- Duplicating images
- Using rulers, the measure tool, guides, and the grid
- Working with Extras
- Displaying status information
- Displaying file and image information
- Annotating images (Photoshop)
- Jumping between applications
- Previewing an image in a browser
- Managing libraries with the Preset Manager (Photoshop)
- Setting preferences
- Resetting all warning dialogs
- Monitoring operations
- Closing files and quitting
- Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady
- Working with Color
- Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop)
- Why colors sometimes don’tmatch
- About color management
- Do you need color management?
- Creating a viewing environment for color management
- Setting up color management
- Using predefined color management settings
- Customizing color management settings
- Specifying working spaces
- Specifying color management policies
- Customizing advanced color management settings
- Saving and loading color management settings
- Synchronizing color management between applications
- Soft-proofing colors
- Changing the color profile of a document
- Embedding profiles in saved documents
- Obtaining, installing, and updating color profiles
- Creating an ICC monitor profile
- Selecting
- About selections
- Making pixel selections
- Adjusting pixel selections
- Softening the edges of a selection
- Moving, copying, and pasting selections and layers
- Working with snap
- Saving and loading selections
- Deleting selections
- Removing fringe pixels from a selection (Photoshop)
- Extracting objects from their background (Photoshop)
- Drawing and Editing
- About drawing and painting
- Drawing shapes and paths
- Using the shape tools
- Using the pen tools (Photoshop)
- Drawing overlapping shapes (Photoshop)
- Using the Paths palette (Photoshop)
- Editing paths (Photoshop)
- Managing paths (Photoshop)
- Converting between paths and selection borders (Photoshop)
- Adding color to paths (Photoshop)
- Transforming and retouching
- Using Channels and Masks
- About channels
- Using the Channels palette (Photoshop)
- Managing channels (Photoshop)
- Mixing color channels (Photoshop)
- Adding spot colors (Photoshop)
- Using channel calculations to blend layers and channels (Photoshop)
- About masks (Photoshop)
- Creating temporary masks in Quick Mask mode (Photoshop)
- Storing masks in alpha channels
- Using Layers
- About layers
- About layer sets
- Using the Layers palette
- Creating a layered image
- Grouping layers into sets
- Moving and aligning the contents of layers
- Editing layers
- Creating clipping groups
- Specifying layer properties
- Using the Layer Style dialog box (Photoshop)
- Setting layer blending options
- Using layer styles
- Customizing layer styles
- Creating and editing contours (Photoshop)
- Hiding portions of a layer
- Using adjustment layers or fill layers (Photoshop)
- Managing layered images
- Using Type
- Designing Web Pages
- About designing Web pages with Photoshop and ImageReady
- Creating and viewing slices
- Selecting and modifying slices
- Specifying slice options
- Creating and viewing image maps (ImageReady)
- Selecting and modifying image maps (ImageReady)
- Specifying image map options (ImageReady)
- Selecting an image map type (ImageReady)
- Working with rollovers (ImageReady)
- Creating Web photo galleries (Photoshop)
- Creating Animations (ImageReady)
- Optimizing Images for theWeb
- About optimization
- Viewing images during optimization
- Choosing a file format for optimization
- Optimizing images
- Using weighted optimization
- Optimizing colors in GIF and PNG-8 images
- Working with hexadecimal values for color
- Making transparent and matted images
- Previewing and controlling dithering
- Setting optimization preferences (ImageReady)
- Using a droplet to automate optimization settings (ImageReady)
- Saving optimized images
- Setting output options
- Creating background images
- Saving and Exporting Images
- Printing (Photoshop)
- About printing
- Printing images
- Positioning and scaling images
- Setting output options
- Selecting halftone screen attributes
- Printing part of an image
- Choosing a print encoding method
- Printing vector graphics
- Using color management when printing
- Printing with Adobe PressReady
- Creating color traps
- Printing duotones
- Printing color separations
- Automating Tasks
- Index
- Production Notes