Photoshop 4 for Windows for dummies Book

Introduction

Why a Book . . . For Dummies?

Don't You Have Another Photoshop Book?

What's in This Book?

Part I: What the . . . ? Aagh, Help Me!

Part II: The Care and Feeding of Pixels

Part III: Tiptoe through the Toolbox

Part IV: Select before You Correct

Part V: So, You Say You're Serious about Image Editing

Part VI: The Part of Tens

What's with All the Margin Icons?

Where Do I Go Now?

How to Bug Me

Part I: What the . . . ? Aagh, Help Me!

Chapter 1: Meet Dr. Photo and Mr. Shop

The Bland but Kindly Dr. Photo

The Ghastly but Dynamic Mr. Shop

The Two Phunctions of Photoshop

Painting without the mess

Editing existing image detail

It's New! It's Improved!

Where Do I Find Images to Abuse?
Chapter 2: Canvassing the On-Screen Canvas

Giving Photoshop the Electronic Breath of Life

Making Sense of the Mouse and the Cursor

Working with Windows

Maneuvering through Menus

Talking Back to Dialog Boxes

Playing Around with Palettes

Opening Up Your Toolbox
Chapter 3: Now the Fun Really Begins

Don't Just Sit There, Open Something

Opening a non-Photo CD image

Opening a Kodak Photo CD image

I Want to Start from Scratch!

Behold the Image Window

The Screen Is Your Digital Oyster

Using the hand tool

Using keyboard shortcuts

Zooming in and out on your work

The zoom tool

The View commands

The magnification box

Navigating by palette

Filling up the screen with your image

Tools for the Terribly Precise

Switching on the rulers

Using guides

Turning on the grid

Part II: The Care and Feeding of Pixels

Chapter 4: Sizing Up Your Image

Welcome to Pixeltown

Screen Pixels versus Image Pixels

Image Size, Resolution, and Other Tricky Pixel Stuff

Resolving resolution

Changing pixel dimensions

Changing the physical dimensions of the image

Keeping things proportionate

Using the Image Size dialog box safely

What Does This Canvas Size Command Do?
Chapter 5: Auntie Em versus the Munchkins (Death Match)

Ready, Set, HeadStart

Looking at Color in a Whole New Light

Surfing the color channels

Mixing red, green, and blue to create color

Using the Channels palette

Being Your Own L.J. Grand Master Funky Glow

Juggling foreground and background colors

Defining colors

Using the Color palette

Lifting colors with the eyedropper tool

Going Grayscale

The road to grayscale

More grayscale tips from Auntie Em

Chapter 6: Save Before You Say Good Night

Ready, Set, HeadStart

Save an Image, Save a Life

Saving for the very first time

Join the frequent-saver program

Creating a backup copy

Photoshopper's Guide to File Formats

What is a file format, anyway?

JPEG: The space saver

TIFF: The great communicator

GIF: For Webbies only

EPS: The 1 percent solution

BMP: The wallpaper format

What format to use when

Good Night, Image, Don't Let the Programming Bugs Bite
Chapter 7: Going to Hard Copy

This May Be All You Need to Know

Choosing a Printer and Paper Size

Getting Image and Paper in Sync

Sending the Image to the Printer

Printing CMYK Color Separations

Part III: Tiptoe through the Toolbox

Chapter 8: Paint Me Young, Beautiful, and Twisted

Doodling with the Pencil, Paintbrush, and Airbrush

Performing Special Painting-Tool Tricks

Choosing Your Brush

Switching the brush size

Making your own brush

Going nuts with the Brushes palette

Exploring More Painting Options

Ogling the Options palette

Experimenting with brush modes

Chapter 9: Making a Mockery of Reality

Trimming Excess Gunk Off the Edges

The sharp edges of the crop tool

More good news about cropping

Touching Base with Retouching Tools

What do the editing tools do, exactly?

Uncovering hidden editing tools

Smudging Away Imperfections

Smearing with style

Smudge-specific controls

All Them Other Edit Tools

Focusing from the hip

Dodge? Burn? Those are opposites?

Playing with the Color knob

Chapter 10: Cleaning Up Goobers

Using the Dust & Scratches Command

Previewing the filter effects

Specifying the size of the speck

Spot Cleaning Your Image with TLC

Stamping out splatters

Performing more magic with the rubber stamp

Chapter 11: Turning Back the Digital Clock

Nuking the Last Operation

Doing the Undo

Undo limitations

The Amazing Powers of the Eraser

Erasing to the last-saved version

Adjusting your eraser

Why won't the eraser work?

Abandoning Edits En Masse

Capturing the Moment

Part IV: Select before You Correct

Chapter 12: The Great Pixel Roundup (Yee Ha)

Learning the Ropes

Getting to the Tools

Throwing Lassos

Using the regular lasso

Drawing straight-sided selections

Exploring your lasso options

Selecting Rectangles, Squares, Ellipses, and Circles

Grabbing a square or circle

Getting even more control over selections

Drawing from the center out

Wielding the Wand

'Scuze me while I click the sky

Teaching the wand tolerance

Selecting with the Better Magic Wand

Strolling through the Color Range

Broadening your color base

Chapter 13: More Fun with Selections

The Wonders of Deselection

Selecting Everything

Selective Arithmetic

Adding and subtracting from a selection

The intersection of selection and selection

Avoiding keyboard collisions

Automatic Selection Discombobulators

Extending the magic wand

Swapping what's selected for what's not

Making the selection fuzzy around the edges

Border, Smooth, and the rest

Moving and Cloning Selections
Chapter 14: Coloring inside the Lines

Put Down Newspaper Before You Paint

Dribbling Paint from a Bucket

Applying Color to Selection Innards

Fill, I Command You!

Select your stuffing

How not to mix colors

The Ever-Changing Color Sea

Checking out the gradient tool

Changing the way of the gradient

Choosing between linear and radial

Selecting your colors

Becoming a gradient wizard

Changing, adding, and deleting colors

Changing the transparency

Your Image Needs Strokes, Too

How the border rides the track

Mix your stroke after you press Enter

Part V: So, You Say You're Serious about Image Editing

Chapter 15: Layers upon Layers upon Layers

Pasting Images Together

Exploring floating selections

Setting a floater down

Turning a selection into a layer

Filling a selection with a selection

Resizing an Image to Match Its New Home

Excuse Me, but What's a Layer?

Finding your way around the Layers palette

Moving and manipulating layers

Flattening and merging layers

Tending Your Many Splendid Blends

Fooling with layer opacity

Playing around with blend modes

Erasing holes in layers

Creating an image like Color Plate 15-1

Chapter 16: Digital Graffiti

Two, Two, Two Types of Text

Putting Your Words On-Screen

Typing what must be typed

Changing how the type looks

Previewing a few formatting attributes

Bringing text and image together

Declaring Open Season on Type

Tracing outlines around your letters

Adding shadows behind your letters

Turning your letters into ghosts of their former selves

Moving and Deleting Characters
Chapter 17: Forays into Filters

A Few Fast Filter Facts

How to Fortify Those Wishy-Washy Details

The single-shot sharpeners

Unsharp Mask: The filter with a weird name

Inside the "Supersharpen" dialog box

Some sharpening scenarios

Myopia Adds Depth

Choosing your blur

Creating motion and puzzle pieces

Filter Potpourri

Giving your images that gritty, streetwise look

Stamping your image in metal

Merging colors in flaky images

Chapter 18: Drawing Color from a Dreary Wasteland

The Color-Correction Connection

Your friends Auto Levels, Levels, and Variations

The other color correctors (boo, hiss)

Leveling the Contrast Field

Leveling on a layer

Making friends with the Levels dialog box

Brightness and contrast as they should be

Variations on a Color Scheme

Turning plain old color into Technicolor

It sure feels good to remove that color cast

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Ten Tricky Techniques to Assign to Memory

Displaying and Hiding the Toolbox and Palettes

Changing the Way a Tool Works

Scrolling and Zooming

Changing the Brush Size

Changing Opacity

Creating Straight Lines

Adding to and Subtracting from Selection Outlines

Moving, Nudging, and Cloning

Filling a Selection

Making, Switching, and Selecting Layers

So Many Shortcuts, So Little Time
Chapter 20: Ten Amusing Ways to Mess Up a Loved One's Face

Pinching the Face Inward

Bending the Face Outward

Twisting the Face around a Taffy Pull

Melting the Face into a Heap of Goo

Giving the Face a Bath

Stretching the Face This Way and That

Applying the Nuclear Sunburn Effect

Applying the I-Don't-Know-What-It-Is Effect

Stamping the Face in a Marble Haze

Effecting a Total Molecular Breakdown

Framing the Goofy Pose
Chapter 21: Ten Things to Do with Your Photoshop Masterpiece

Printing and Dispersing

Framing Your Work of Art

Placing the Image into PageMaker or QuarkXPress

Placing the Image into Illustrator, FreeHand, or CorelDRAW

Pasting the Image into Persuasion or PowerPoint

Making a Desktop Pattern in Windows 95

Turn Your Face into a Mouse Pad

Engaging in Tag-Team Editing

Posting the Image over the Internet or an Online Service

Adding It to Your Private Collection

Appendix A: How to Install Photoshop

Putting Photoshop on Your Hard Disk

Ready, Set, HeadStart

What's This QuickTime Thing?

Installing Adobe Type Manager
Appendix B: Photo Credits
Index
Coupons
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