Al Ward's Photoshop Productivity Toolkit

Over 600 Time-Saving Actions

Al Ward

144 pages, parution le 12/08/2004

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Résumé

Get Better Results, Save Precious Time, and Focus on What You Really Want to Do

Photoshop puts an astonishing amount of power in your hands. But that power comes at a price: it's easy to get lost in the program's complexity and spend far too much time on repetitive tasks when you could be focusing on creative work. The secret is to do what power users do-let Photoshop's automation features handle the monotonous work and free up your valuable time.

This unrivaled resource from actions guru Al Ward supplies you with over 600 Photoshop actions that you can instantly apply to your work. Tackling basic to complex processes, the actions on the CD allow you to automate routine production tasks, make color and tone enhancements, apply artistic effects, and much more-most of the time with just one click. Al also teaches you how to customize and create new Photoshop actions to suit your precise needs.

Here's just a sample of what Al Ward's Photoshop Productivity Toolkit can do for you:

Correct color casts to restore natural tones
Sharpen photos to prepare them for print
Apply various aging techniques, from sepia toning to advanced wear and tear
Convert your photos to line art, oil paintings, clip art, and watercolors
Add impact to images with selective softening and focusing
Apply warp effects directly to text
Make stunning black-and-white images
Add borders, frames, and drop shadows
Resize images for different uses
Generate instant contact sheets
Format art for use on CD labels
And much, much more!

L'auteur - Al Ward

Al Ward is a prominent member of the Photoshop community and a certified Photoshop addict. His website, actionfx.com, supplies Photoshop users with treasured actions and information. He authored Photoshop for Right-Brainers: The Art of Photo Manipulation, contributed to other Photoshop books, and has written for Photoshop User Magazine and websites such as Planet Photoshop and Photoshop Café. Al serves as the official actions guru for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and is currently a featured writer for Graphics.com and the NAPP's PhotoshopUser.com.

Sommaire

Chapter 1: What Actions Are Made Of
- Why Automate?
- The Actions Palette
- Batch Processing and Droplets
Chapter 2: Actions in Action
- Loading Actions
- Saving Actions
- Playing Actions
- Editing Actions
Chapter 3: Creating and Using Actions
- Recording an Action: From Start to Finish
- Stops
- Teaching Actions to Call Other Actions
- Batch Processing: From Start to Finish
- Creating and Applying Droplets
- Testing and Troubleshooting Actions
- You're Well Equipped!
Chapter 4: Other Action Tidbits
- Platform and Photoshop Version Compatibility
- Additional Action Tips
- Using Actions as Learning Tools
- Actions and Camera Raw Files
- Online Resources for Actions
Appendix: Guide to the Toolkit CD
- Actions from the Book
- Photo: Aging
- Photo: Artistic
- Photo: Color Correction
- Photo: Enhancement
- Photo: Layout
- Production
- Typography
- Additional Plug-Ins and Add-Ons
- Third-Party Actions, Add-Ons, and Stock Images

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Sybex
Auteur(s)	Al Ward
Parution	12/08/2004
Nb. de pages	144
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	430g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780782143348
ISBN13	978-0-7821-4334-8