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- Legal notices
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What's new
- New features summary
- Artboards
- Creative Cloud Libraries
- Adobe Stock
- Design Space (Preview)
- Export artboards, layers, and more
- Layer Styles
- Device Preview and the Preview CC companion app
- Blur Gallery | Restore noise in blurred areas
- Glyphs panel
- Camera Raw | What's new
- 3D printing
- 3D imaging
- UI toolkit for plug-ins and scripts
- Other enhancements
- What's changed
- New features summary
- Chapter 2: Creative Cloud and Photoshop
- Chapter 3: Companion apps to Photoshop
- Chapter 4: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Using tools
- Tool galleries
- Touch gestures
- Technology previews
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Keys for selecting tools
- Keys for viewing images
- Keys for Puppet Warp
- Keys for Refine Edge
- Keys for the Filter Gallery
- Keys for Liquify
- Keys for Vanishing Point
- Keys for the Camera Raw dialog box
- Keys for the Black-and-White dialog box
- Keys for Curves
- Keys for selecting and moving objects
- Keys for transforming selections, selection borders, and paths
- Keys for editing paths
- Keys for painting
- Keys for blending modes
- Keys for selecting and editing text
- Keys for formatting type
- Keys for slicing and optimizing
- Keys for using panels
- Keys for the Actions panel
- Keys for adjustment layers
- Keys for the Animation panel in Frames mode
- Keys for the Animation panel in Timeline Mode (Photoshop Extended)
- Keys for the Brush panel
- Keys for the Channels panel
- Keys for the Clone Source panel
- Keys for the Color panel
- Keys for the History panel
- Keys for the Info panel
- Keys for the Layers panel
- Keys for the Layer Comps panel
- Keys for the Paths panel
- Keys for the Swatches panel
- Keys for 3D tools (Photoshop Extended)
- Keys for measurement (Photoshop Extended)
- Keys for DICOM files (Photoshop Extended)
- Keys for Extract and Pattern Maker (optional plug-ins)
- Function keys
- Undo and history
- How to tune Photoshop for peak performance
- Panels and menus
- Preferences
- Key shortcuts
- Run Photoshop in 32-bit mode (64-bit Mac OS only)
- Rulers
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Positioning elements with snapping
- Positioning with the Ruler tool
- Grid and guides
- Presets
- Specifying columns for an image
- Show or hide non-printing Extras
- Placing Photoshop images in other applications
- Placing files
- Plug-ins
- Metadata and notes
- Memory and performance
- Chapter 5: Web, screen, and app design
- Artboards
- Device Preview
- Export artboards, layers, and more
- Design Space (Preview)
- Copy CSS from layers
- Working with web graphics
- Slicing web pages
- Modifying slice layout
- HTML options for slices
- Creating web photo galleries
- Optimizing images
- Output settings for web graphics
- Web graphics optimization options
- Chapter 6: Image and color basics
- Resizing images
- Image essentials
- Image size and resolution
- Acquiring images from cameras and scanners
- Creating, opening, and importing images
- Viewing images
- Viewing multiple images
- Choosing colors
- Image information
- High dynamic range images
- Customizing color pickers and swatches
- Customizing indexed color tables
- Converting between color modes
- Color and monochrome adjustments using channels
- Color modes
- About color
- Choosing colors in the Color and Swatches panels
- Blending modes
- Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG
- Adding a conditional mode changeto an action
- Convert an image to Bitmap mode
- Merging images to HDR
- Chapter 7: Layers
- Layer basics
- Work with Smart Objects
- Understanding Smart Objects
- Create embedded Smart Objects | CC, CS6
- Create Linked Smart Objects | Photoshop CC
- Convert an embedded Smart Object to a Linked Smart Object
- Filter the Layers panel by Smart Objects | Photoshop CC
- Duplicate an embedded Smart Object
- Edit the contents of a Smart Object
- Replace the contents of a Smart Object
- Convert an embedded or linked Smart Object to a layer
- Export the contents of an embedded Smart Object
- Generate image assets from layers
- Managing layers
- Selecting, grouping, and linking layers
- Applying Smart Filters
- Masking layers
- Revealing layers with clipping masks
- Layer effects and styles
- About layer effects and styles
- Apply preset styles
- Layer Style dialog box overview
- Apply or edit a custom layer style
- Layer style options
- Modify layer effects with contours
- Set a global lighting angle for all layers
- Display or hide layer styles
- Copy layer styles
- Scale a layer effect
- Remove layer effects
- Convert a layer style to image layers
- Create and manage preset styles
- Layer comps
- Nondestructive editing
- Moving, stacking, and locking layers
- Masking layers with vector masks
- Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries
- Layer opacity and blending
- Knockout to reveal content from other layers
- Editing layer masks
- Create and manage layers and groups
- Combining multiple images into a group portrait
- Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers
- Align and distribute layers
- Layers 101
- Chapter 8: Selecting
- Making selections
- Select the image areas in focus
- Adjusting pixel selections
- Move, hide, or invert a selection
- Adjust selections manually
- Expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
- Create a selection around a selection border
- Expand a selection to include areas with similar color
- Clean up stray pixels in a color-based selection
- Refine selection edges
- Soften the edges of selections
- Remove fringe pixels from a selection
- Moving, copying, and deleting selected pixels
- Saving selections and alpha channel masks
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Selecting with the marquee tools
- Selecting a color range in an image
- Making quick selections
- Extract an object from its background
- Duplicate, split, and merge channels
- Create a temporary quick mask
- Channel calculations
- Channel basics
- Refine a selection
- Selecting areas of a photo
- Chapter 9: Image adjustments
- Perspective Warp
- Reduce camera shake blurring
- Images suitable for camera shake reduction
- Use automatic camera shake reduction
- Use multiple blur traces for camera shake reduction
- Create and modify blur traces
- Resize/reposition the boundaries of the current region in focus
- Have Photoshop suggest a new region for blur estimation
- Manually select a new image region
- Create a blur trace using the Blur Direction Tool
- Modify a blur trace using the Detail loupe
- Preview and apply multiple blur traces
- Preview and compare the results of two blur traces
- Duplicate a blur trace
- Reuse blur traces
- Advanced blur trace settings
- Export color lookup tables
- Adjust image sharpness and blur
- Understanding color adjustments
- Levels adjustment
- Convert a color image to black and white
- Viewing histograms and pixel values
- Targeting images for press
- Matching, replacing, and mixing colors
- Making quick tonal adjustments
- Curves adjustment
- Applying special color effects to images
- Applying the Color Balance adjustment
- Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment
- Adjust shadow and highlight detail
- Adjustment and fill layers
- Adjusting image color and tone
- Adjusting hue and saturation
- Adjust HDR exposure and toning
- Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers
- Auto color corrections
- Using adjustment layers
- Dodge or burn image areas
- Chapter 10: Camera Raw
- New Features Summary
- Introduction to Camera Raw
- Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw | Photoshop CC
- How to make non-destructive edits using Camera Raw
- Radial Filter in Camera Raw
- Enhanced Spot Removal Tool in Camera Raw | Photoshop CC
- Make color and tonal adjustments in Camera Raw
- Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw
- Make local adjustments in Camera Raw
- Rotate, crop, and adjust images in Camera Raw
- Navigate, open, and save images in Camera Raw
- Adjust color rendering for your camera in Camera Raw
- Manage Camera Raw settings
- Process versions in Camera Raw
- Sharpening and noise reduction in Camera Raw
- Correct lens distortions in Camera Raw
- Camera Raw 7 plug-in
- Enhancing Raw images
- Chapter 11: Repair and restoration
- Content-Aware Patch and Move
- Retouching and repairing images
- Correcting image distortion and noise
- Using Content-Aware Patch
- Using Content-Aware Move and Extend
- Chapter 12: Reshaping and transforming
- Transforming objects
- Adjusting crop, rotation, and canvas
- Crop and straighten photos
- Content-aware scaling
- Create panoramic images with Photomerge
- Free transformations of images, shapes, and paths
- Warp images, shapes, and paths
- Vanishing Point
- Vanishing Point dialog box overview
- Work in Vanishing Point
- Export measurements, textures, and 3D information
- About perspective planes and the grid
- Define and adjust perspective planes in Vanishing Point
- Render grids to Photoshop
- About selections in Vanishing Point
- Fill selections with another area of an image
- Copy selections in Vanishing Point
- Paste an item into Vanishing Point
- Paint with a color in Vanishing Point
- Paint with sampled pixels in Vanishing Point
- Measure in Vanishing Point (Photoshop Extended)
- Liquify filter
- New Crop tool
- Wide-angle lens correction
- Correcting perspective
- Straightening a crooked image
- Chapter 13: Drawing and painting
- Modify shapes
- About drawing
- Drawing shapes
- Painting tools
- Creating and modifying brushes
- Erasing parts of an image
- Gradients
- Filling and stroking selections, layers, and paths
- Drawing with the Pen tools
- About the Pen tools
- Draw straight line segments with the Pen tool
- Draw curves with the Pen tool
- Finish drawing a path
- Draw with the Freeform Pen tool
- Draw straight lines followed by curves
- Draw curves followed by straight lines
- Draw two curved segments connected by a corner
- Draw using the magnetic pen options
- Managing pattern libraries and presets
- Managing paths
- Painting stylized strokes with the Art History Brush
- Painting with a pattern
- Painting with the Mixer Brush
- Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
- Editing paths
- Path segments, components, and points
- Select a path
- Reorder paths
- Duplicate paths
- Adjust path segments
- Add or delete anchor points
- Convert between smooth points and corner points
- Adjust path components
- Change the overlap mode for the selected path component
- Show or hide the selected path component
- Move a path or path component
- Reshape a path component
- Merge overlapping path components
- Copy a path component or path
- Copy path components between two Photoshop files
- Delete a path component
- Align and distribute path components
- Drawing or painting with a graphics tablet
- Creating textured brushes
- Creating patterns
- Converting between paths and selection borders
- Brush presets
- Adding dynamic elements to brushes
- Adding color to paths
- Vector Shapes
- New shape, type, and design tools
- Chapter 14: Text
- Formatting Characters
- Select characters
- Character panel overview
- About Dynamic Shortcuts
- Specify type size
- Change the type color
- Change the color of individual letters
- Underline or strike through text
- Apply all caps or small caps
- Specify superscript or subscript characters
- Character styles | CC, CS6
- Specifying default type styles | Creative Cloud only
- Formatting paragraphs
- Format paragraphs
- Paragraph panel overview
- Specify alignment
- Specify justification for paragraph type
- Adjust word and letter spacing in justified text
- Indent paragraphs
- Adjust paragraph spacing
- Specify hanging punctuation for Roman fonts
- Adjust hyphenation automatically
- Prevent words from breaking
- Composition methods
- Paragraph styles | CC, CS6
- Asian type
- Display and set Asian type options
- Reduce spacing around Asian type characters
- Specify how leading is measured in Asian type
- Use tate-chu-yoko
- Align Asian characters with mojisoroe
- Specify left and right underlining with Asian type
- Set Asian OpenType font attributes
- Asian OpenType options
- Choose a mojikumi set
- Set kinsoku shori options
- Specify a burasagari option
- Creating type
- Editing text
- Creating type effects
- Arabic and Hebrew type | CC, CS6
- Line and character spacing
- Formatting Characters
- Chapter 15: Video and animation
- Video editing | CC, CS6
- Editing video and animation layers
- Video and animation overview
- Saving and exporting video and animations
- Video and animation export formats
- Optimize animation frames
- Flatten frames into layers
- Export video files or image sequences
- QuickTime export file formats (Photoshop Extended CS5)
- Understanding QuickTime key frames
- 3G export settings (Photoshop Extended CS5)
- FLC export settings (Photoshop Extended CS5)
- Specify AVI export settings (Photoshop Extended CS5)
- DV Stream export settings (Photoshop Extended CS5)
- Image sequence settings for QuickTime export (Photoshop Extended CS5)
- Specify MPEG-4 export settings (Photoshop Extended)
- Specify QuickTime Movie settings (Photoshop Extended CS5)
- Previewing video and animations
- Painting frames in video layers
- Importing video files and image sequences
- Creating timeline animations
- Creating frame animations
- Frame animation workflow
- Add frames to an animation
- Select animation frames
- Edit animation frames
- Unifying layer properties in animation frames
- Copy frames with layer properties
- Create frames using tweening
- Add a new layer for each new frame
- Hide layers in animation frames
- Specify a delay time in frame animations
- Choose a frame disposal method
- Specify looping in frame animations
- Delete an entire animation
- Creating images for video
- Video workflow
- Chapter 16: Filters and effects
- Blur Gallery
- Filter basics
- Filter effects reference
- Add Lighting Effects
- Apply the Lighting Effects filter
- From an Expert: Lighting Effects tutorials
- Lighting Effects types
- Adjust a Point light in the preview window
- Adjust an Infinite light in the preview window
- Adjust a Spot light in the preview window
- Lighting Effects presets
- Add or delete a light
- Create, save, or delete a Lighting Effects preset
- Apply a Texture channel
- Adaptive wide angle filter
- Oil Paint filter
- Smudge image areas
- Applying specific filters
- Chapter 17: Saving and exporting
- Supported file formats
- Saving PDF files
- About Photoshop PDF format
- Save in Photoshop PDF format
- Adobe PDF presets
- About PDF/X and PDF/A standards
- PDF compatibility levels
- General options for Adobe PDF
- Compression and downsampling options for Adobe PDF
- Color management and PDF/X options for Adobe PDF
- Adding security to PDF files
- Save an Adobe PDF preset
- Load, edit, or delete Adobe PDF presets
- Saving images
- Saving files in graphics formats
- File formats
- Choosing a file format
- About file compression
- Maximize compatibility for PSD and PSB files
- Photoshop format (PSD)
- Photoshop 2.0 format
- Photoshop DCS 1.0 and 2.0 formats
- Photoshop EPS format
- Photoshop Raw format
- Digital Negative format (DNG)
- BMP format
- Cineon format
- DICOM format
- GIF
- IFF
- JPEG format
- Large Document Format (PSB)
- OpenEXR format
- PCX
- PICT File
- PICT Resource
- Pixar format
- PNG format
- Portable Bit Map format
- Radiance format
- Scitex CT
- Targa
- TIFF
- WBMP format
- Digimarc copyright protection
- Chapter 18: Printing
- Chapter 19: Automation
- Photoshop UI toolkit for plug-ins and scripts
- Scripting
- Recording tools in actions | CC, CS6
- Processing a batch of files
- Playing and managing actions
- Creating actions
- Creating data-driven graphics
- Adding conditional actions | CC, CS6
- About actions and the Actions panel
- Batch Actions
- Chapter 20: 3D and technical imaging
- 3D painting
- Available 3D painting methods
- Some tips to paint 3D models
- Paint an object in the Live 3D Painting mode | Photoshop CC
- Switch to the Projection Painting mode | Photoshop CC
- Paint a 3D model texture | CS6
- Target a texture type for painting | Photoshop CC
- Paint in the unlit mode | Photoshop CC
- Reveal surfaces to paint on
- Set the paint falloff angle
- Identify paintable areas
- 3D panel enhancements | Photoshop CC
- Essential 3D concepts and tools
- 3D workflow | CC, CS6
- 3D features | Creative Cloud-only
- 3D panel targets scene elements
- Properties panel provides contextual settings
- Move tool consolidates object and camera adjustments
- On-image controls directly edit elements
- Create and adjust 3D extrusions
- Define ground planes for imported objects
- Make paths from 3D layers
- Merge multiple 3D layers
- 3D rendering and saving
- Photoshop and MATLAB (Photoshop Extended)
- Measurement (Photoshop Extended)
- Image Stacks (Photoshop Extended)
- DICOM files (Photoshop Extended)
- Creating 3D objects and animations
- Counting objects in an image (Photoshop Extended)
- Combining and converting 3D objects
- 3D texture editing
- 3D panel settings
- 3D panel overview
- Display the 3D panel
- Filter the 3D options displayed
- Show or hide a 3D mesh or light
- Access settings for the 3D scene
- Access settings for a mesh, material, or light
- Expand or collapse materials for a mesh
- View the ground plane
- Show or hide light guides
- Outline the selected material or mesh in the document window
- 3D Scene settings
- 3D Mesh settings
- 3D Materials settings
- 3D Lights settings
- 3D panel overview
- New 3D reflections and dragable shadows
- Streamlined 3d controls
- 3D painting
- Chapter 21: Color management
- Understanding color management
- Keeping colors consistent
- Color settings
- Working with color profiles
- About color profiles
- About monitor calibration and characterization
- Calibrate and profile your monitor
- Install a color profile
- Embed a color profile
- Embed a color profile (Acrobat)
- Changing the color profile for a document
- Assign or remove a color profile (Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Assign or remove a color profile (InDesign)
- Convert document colors to another profile (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to Multichannel, Device Link, or Abstract color profiles (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to another profile (Acrobat)
- Color-managing documents for online viewing
- Color-managing documents when printing
- About color profiles
- About monitor calibration and characterization
- Calibrate and profile your monitor
- Install a color profile
- Embed a color profile
- Embed a color profile (Acrobat)
- Changing the color profile for a document
- Assign or remove a color profile (Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Assign or remove a color profile (InDesign)
- Convert document colors to another profile (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to Multichannel, Device Link, or Abstract color profiles (Photoshop)
- Convert document colors to another profile (Acrobat)
- Color-managing imported images
- Proofing colors