PhotoShop Shop Manual

This detailed reference features an intensive walk-through of Photoshop's entire interface. Every tool and command, every last button and box is accompanied by a description of its proper use and recommended settings. Wherever appropriate, detailed lists of avoidable mistakes and special issues flesh out a topic's realistic production-oriented context. Additionally, 12 appendices list over 170 complex techniques expected of today's graphics professional — from creating detailed masks to advanced color editing.

Rigidly organized for fast and easy use, The Photoshop 6 Shop Manual features individually numbered topics, encyclopedia-style footers, a special Issues Index, and hundreds of cross-references that enable you to intuitively explore the cause-and-effect relationships that permeate the use of this powerful software.

This book contains no tutorials. It doesn't hold your hand or strive to entertain you with witty asides. Like you, the author uses Photoshop for a living. When the clock is ticking, he knows you don't want to flip through page after page of unnecessary text for the information you need. He presents the facts — and only the facts — so you can get in, get out, and get back to work.

Any serious Photoshop user will find this book an invaluable resource.

Contents

SECTION 1. TOOLS.

• 1. Selection Tools.
• 2. The Paint Tools.
• 3. The Vector Tools.
• 4. The Special Tools.
• 5. The Color Tools.
• 6.Quick Mask Tools.
• 7. View Controls.
• 8. File Menu.
• 9. The Edit Menu.
• 10. Image Menu.
• 11. Layer Menu.
• 12. Select Menu.
• 13. Filter Menu.
• 14. View Menu.
• 15. Navigator Palette.
• 16. The Info Palette.
• 17. Color Palette.
• 18. Swatches Palette.
• 19. Styles Palette.
• 20. History Palette.
• 21. Actions Palette.
• 22. Layers Palette.
• 23. Channels Palette.
• 24. Paths Palette.
• 25. Character Palette.
• 26. Paragraph Palette.

• 27. Selection.
• 28. Painting.
• 29. Pattern & Fill.
• 30. Type.
• 31. File Conversion.
• 32. Line Art Editing.
• 33. Halftone Adjustment.
• 34. Color Adjustment.
• 36. Retouching.
• 37. Colorizing.
• 38. Image Blending.
• 39. Path Editing.
• 40. Silhouetting.
• 41. Custom Ink.
• 42. Cropping & Resizing.
• 43. Selective Reversion.
• 44. Automation.
• 45. Web-Optimizing.
• Appendix A. Every keyboard shortcut available in Photoshop.