1: Color Management

Launching Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Photoshop color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Introduction to color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Calibrating your display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Choosing a color space for Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Synchronizing color settings among Creative Suite
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Customizing the color policies for Photoshop . . . . . 10
Installing and saving custom color settings . . . . . . 11
Acquiring printer profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Changing a document's color profile . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2: Creating Files

Calculating the correct file resolution . . . . . . . . . . 13

Creating a new, blank document ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Creating document presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Editing 16-bit files in Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Saving your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Using the Status bar ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Ending a work session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3:Bfidge
Launching Adobe Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Downloading photos from a camera . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Features of the Bridge window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Choosing a workspace for Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Previewing images in Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Opening files from Bridge into Photoshop . . . . . . . . 34

Customizing the Bridge window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Saving custom workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Resetting the Bridge workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Assigning keywords to files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Rating and labeling thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Rearranging and sorting thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Filtering thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Using thumbnail stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Managing files using Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Searching for files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Creating and using collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using Mini Bridge * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Exporting the Bridge cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4: Camera Raw
Why use Camera Raw? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Opening photos into Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

The Camera Raw tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Cropping and straightening photos . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Choosing default workflow settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the Camera Raw tabs ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the Basic tab ‘K’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the Tone Curve tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the Detailtab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using the HSL/Grayscale tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the Adjustment Brush tool ‘I’ . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the Split Toning tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Using the Effects tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Graduated Filter tool ‘I’ . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Using the Spot Removal tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Saving and applying Camera Raw settings . . . . . . . . 81

Synchronizing Camera Raw settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Converting, opening, and saving

Camera Raw files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5: Workspaces
Using the Application frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Tiling multiple documents ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Changing the zoom level ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Rotating the canvas view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Changing the screen mode ‘I’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Choosing a workspace ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Configuring the panels ‘I’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Saving custom workspaces * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Resetting workspaces ‘K’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Using the Options bar ‘K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6: Panels
The Photoshop panel icons ‘A’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
The Photoshop panels that are used in

this book ~k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Managing presets via the pickers and panels. . . . . 116

Exporting and importing presets ‘K’ . . . . . . . . . . 118

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