Advanced Photoshop CS3 Training DVD

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1. What Photoshop Can Do

• Welcome to Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: The Essentials
• Introducing Photoshop
• Combining one image with another
• Adjusting colors
• Cloning trees
• Adding a couple of adjustment layers
• Creating a dark and stormy sky
• Sharpening the focus of the image
• Cropping artwork
• Adding text

2. Setting Up Shop

• Open, navigate, set up
• Opening an image
• Opening multiple images
• Adding file info
• Tiling and scrolling
• Zooming shortcuts
• Using the Zoom tool
• The Navigator palette
• Nudging the screen image
• Scroll wheel tricks
• Setting preferences
• Color settings
• Custom keyboard shortcuts
• Remapping keyboard shortcuts
• Organizing the palettes
• Saving your workspace
• Cycling between screen modes

3. The New and Improved Bridge

• The Bridge turns two
• Introducing the Bridge
• Managing image thumbnails
• Rotations, ratings, and labels
• The new Filter panel
• Moving, copying, and deleting images
• Batch renaming
• Customizing and saving the workspace
• Loupe, compare, and stack
• Previewing images in the Slideshow mode
• Color management and cache

4. Basic Color Adjustment

• ''Color Correction'' is so un-P.C.
• Color Balance vs. Variations
• The Variations interface
• Color primaries and complements
• Correcting the color cast
• Fading an adjustment
• Closing the exercise file
• Adjusting hue and saturation
• Changing yellow paint to red
• Selectively adjusting hues
• Refining your color range

5. Shadows, Highlights, and Midtones

• Brightness and Contrast
• Levels of luminance
• Bad old Brightness/Contrast
• Good new Brightness/Contrast
• The Auto commands
• How the Auto commands work
• A first look at Levels
• Modifying a histogram
• Channel-by-channel adjustments
• Boosting the saturation
• When Levels fail
• A first look at Curves
• Super useful curve-editing tricks
• Correcting the composite image
• Neutralizing the pink pachyderm
• The Shadow/Highlight filter
• Adjusting the Radius and Tonal Width

6. Image Size and Resolution

• Imaging fundamentals
• The big pixel puzzle
• The Image Size command
• Selecting an interpolation option
• Upsampling versus
• Changing the print resolution
• Downsampling your artwork
• How do you make a small image big?

7. Cropping and Straightening

• Frame wide, crop tight
• Crop tool presets
• Drawing a freeform crop
• The Crop command
• Auto Crop & Straighten
• Straightening an image with the Ruler tool
• Perspective cropping

8. Making Selections

• Flowers and saw blades
• Meet the Selection tools
• The Magic Wand tool
• Tolerance and other options
• Grow, Similar, and Inverse
• The Quick Selection tool
• The Marquee and Lasso tools
• Using Refine Edge to preview a selection
• The Refine Edge slider options
• Saving a selection
• Using the Move tool

9. Replacing, Retouching, and Editing

• Toilsome artistic labor
• Why red-eye happens
• Using the Red-Eye tool
• The Color Replacement tool
• Replacing colors with lighter shades
• Brightening teeth with the Dodge tool
• Removing plaque with the Sponge tool
• Spot-healing blemishes
• Using the Standard Healing brush
• Healing large areas with the Patch tool
• Viewing the source as an overlay
• Painting straight segments
• Fading a brushstroke
• Aligning multiple brushstrokes
• Painting inside a selection
• The new Clone Source palette
• Adding drama with the Toning tools
• Merging history states

10. Masking Essentials

• Welcome to Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Beyond the Basics
• Selecting glass and water
• Establishing a base layer
• The Color Range command
• Selecting sparkles
• Setting sparkles to Screen
• Selecting and compositing hair
• When Color Range falls short
• Selecting a base channel
• Enhancing the channel's contrast
• Dodging the highlights
• Putting the mask in play
• Reducing the edge fringes
• Adding a layer mask
• Creating a gradient quick mask
• Blurring the layer mask
• And that's just the beginning...

11. Sharpening Focus

• Edge-enhancement parlor tricks
• The subterfuge of sharpness
• The single-shot sharpness
• Unsharp Mask
• Understanding the Radius value
• Gauging the best settings
• Sharpening the luminance data
• USM vs. Smart Sharpen
• Smart Sharpen's Remove settings
• High-resolution sharpening
• Leave More Accurate off!
• Turn More Accurate on
• The Advanced options
• Saving Smart Sharpen settings
• Accounting for camera shake

12. Blurring and Averaging

• Why the heck would you blur?
• The "bell-shaped" Gaussian Blur
• The Linear Box Blur
• Median and its badly named progeny
• Surface Blur and the rest
• The Motion Blur filter
• The Radial Blur variations: Spin and Zoom
• The Captain Kirk-in-love effect
• Averaging skin tones
• Addressing the stubborn patches
• Combining Gaussian Blur and Average
• Blurring surface details
• Smoothing blemishes while matching noise
• Reducing digital noise
• Smoothing out JPEG artifacts

13. Layer Essentials

• Behold, the layered composition
• The Layers palette
• Enlarging the hand
• Erasing with a layer mask
• Moving a layer
• Combining layers into a clipping mask
• Hair and stacking order
• Adding a frame and expanding the canvas
• Adding a vignette

14. Groups and Layer Comps

• Organization: It sounds dull, but it rocks
• The terrible battle
• Assembling the base composition
• Adding adjustment layers
• Creating a layer group
• Grouping selected layers
• Making the TV lines
• Introducing layer comps
• Saving your own layer comps
• Final footnotes

15. Opacity and Blend Modes

• Parametric operations
• The power of blend modes
• Changing the Opacity value
• Opacity vs. Fill Opacity
• Meet the blend modes
• Blend mode shortcuts
• The darkening modes
• Tempering a Burn effect with the Fill value
• Saving a blended state
• The lightening modes
• The contrast modes
• The comparative modes
• The composite (HSL) modes
• The brush-only modes
• Blending groups

16. Transform, Warp, and Liquify

• At this point, there is a great shift...
• Messing with the masters
• Scaling a layer to fit a composition
• Merging clock face and cardinal
• Rotating the minute hand
• Replaying the last transformation
• Second hand and shadows
• Series duplication
• Skews and perspective-style distortions
• The envelope-style Warp function
• Introducing the Liquify command
• Adjusting the brush settings
• Viewing layers and the mesh
• Incrementally undoing undesirable effects
• Twirl, pucker, and bloat
• Push, mirror, and turbulence
• Protecting regions with a mask
• Applying a digital facelift
• Saving and loading mesh settings

17. Vanishing Point 2.0

• Planes and perspective
• The Blue Gallery
• Introducing Vanishing Point 2.0
• Drawing out perpendicular planes
• Exporting the gridlines to a layer
• Cloning an image from one plane to another
• Blending the image into its new home
• Healing away the sockets
• Importing a new image
• Masking and shading the image
• Flat in, perspective out
• Adding perspective type
• Swinging planes to custom angles
• Wrapping art around multiple surfaces

18. Creating and Editing Text

• Type: The great imaging exception
• Creating an independent text layer
• Editing vector-based text
• Working with area text
• Resizing the text frame
• Obscure but important formatting options
• Text editing tricks and shortcuts
• Adding a ghostly cast shadow
• Backlighting the text
• Creating type on a path
• Pasting text along the bottom of a circle
• Flip and baseline shift
• Warping text
• Scaling the warped text to taste

19. Layer Effects and Styles

• Welcome to Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Advanced Techniques
• Introducing layer styles
• Color the hands, crop the sky
• The Layer Express
• Crafting a drop shadow
• Adding a directional glow
• Colorizing a layer
• Replicating layer effects
• Editing effects, one layer at a time
• Layer styles as artistic media
• Painting with layer styles
• Reconstructing the illustration
• Master opacity and clip blending
• Saving a layer style
• Fixing broken styles with Global Light

20. Vector-Based Shapes

• Pixels common, vectors strange (but cool)
• Font substitution and conversion
• The benefits of vectors
• Upsampling pixels vs. scaling vectors
• Vitruvian Man, king of the vectors
• Drawing a shape layer
• Filing and stroking a shape
• Drawing an inset shape
• The compound shape options
• Polygons and starfish
• Deleting path outlines
• Drawing an arrow line
• Combining vector and layer masks
• Drawing custom shapes
• Crafting an underpants tool
• Rasterizing and painting the shape's fill

21. Using Adjustment Layers

• A layer of color adjustment
• Creating an adjustment layer
• To mask or not to mask?
• The new Black & White command
• Tinting a monochrome photo
• Making a true duotone with Gradient Map
• Adjustment layers as creative tools
• Inverting and brightening the background
• Blurring live, editable type
• Hue, saturation, and darkness
• Filling type with a color adjustment
• Using one adjustment to modify another
• Breathing color into the title
• The Hue/Saturation humanoid

22. Smart Objects

• Less smart, more magic
• The holiday composition
• Placing a Smart Object
• Non-destructive transformations
• Converting a layer to a Smart Object
• Non-destructive warping
• Changing all the snowflakes to stars
• Revising the stars
• Placing a vector illustration
• Replacing pixels with vectors
• Rasterizing a vector Smart Object
• Swapping one Smart Object for another
• The multilayer Smart Object bug

23. Non-Destructive Smart Filters

• A terrific use for Smart Objects
• Applying a smart filter
• Changing filter and blending settings
• Heaping on multiple smart filters
• Editing early filters in the stack
• Masking smart filters
• A use for nested Smart Objects
• The Shadows/Highlights filter
• Making pixel-level edits
• Creating a parametric wonderland
• Working with the Filter Gallery
• Experimenting with creative filters
• Swapping Filter Gallery filters
• Mixing all varieties of parametric effects
• Applying a smart filter to live type
• Smart filters vs. layer effects
• Choking the letters with Maximum
• Duplicating a smart filter
• Enhancing a filter with a layer effect

24. Working with Camera Raw

• What's new in Camera Raw 4?
• Opening Camera Raw 4
• The Camera Raw 4 interface
• Adjusting the white balance
• Saving your changes
• Using the exposure controls
• Automatic exposure adjustments
• The new and improved clipping warnings
• Vibrance and Saturation
• The new Tone Curve adjustment sliders
• The absolutely amazing HSL controls
• Mapping colors to black and white
• Colorizing with the Split Toning options
• The nondestructive Retouch tool
• Opening JPEGs and TIFFs in Camera Raw
• Camera Raw Smart Objects

25. Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and Photomerge

• Another rotten feature much improved
• The Auto-Align Layers command
• Setting weighted Opacity values
• Masking the couples together
• Cropping the composition
• The Load Files into Stack script
• Auto-aligning a panorama
• The Auto-Blend Layers command
• What to do when Auto-Align fails
• The new Photomerge command
• Fixing Photomerge problems

26. Recording and Playing Actions

• Take action today, save effort tomorrow
• Creating an action
• Recording operations
• Reviewing and editing an action
• Playing an action
• Saving and loading actions
• Recording the best chrome effect ever
• Adding and deleting steps
• Recording layer changes
• Completing and testing the action

27. Printing and Packaging

• Print one image, print it well
• The subjective color-matching image
• Gauging the print size
• Scale, position, and page orientation
• The Output options
• The Color Management options
• Printing a contact sheet
• Packaging multiple pictures on a page

Conclusion

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