Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- What's different in this book -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Photoshop fundamentals -- Photoshop installation -- New Welcome experience -- The Photoshop interface -- Creating a new document -- Tabbed document windows -- Managing document windows -- Synchronized scroll and zoom -- Image document window details -- Title bar proxy icons (Mac only) -- Info panel status information -- Rulers, Guides &amp -- Grid -- Additional Guides features -- New Guide Layout dialog -- New Guides from Shapes -- 'Snap to' behavior -- Pixel Grid view -- The Photoshop panels -- Panel arrangements and docking -- Panel positions remembered in workspaces -- Customizing the menu options -- Customizing the keyboard shortcuts -- Task-based workspaces -- Working with a dual display setup -- Automating Photoshop -- Photoshop CC Tools panel -- Options bar -- Tool Presets -- Selection tools -- Color Range -- Adjustable tone ranges -- Modifier keys -- Painting tools -- On-the-fly brush changes -- On-screen brush adjustments -- Brush panel -- Brush panel options -- Pressure sensitive control -- Brush tool presets -- Mixer brush -- Bristle tip brush shapes -- Load/Replace Swatches from HTML -- Hex Field -- Adobe Color Themes panel -- Setting a custom background color -- Automatically add colors to the Swatches panel -- Tools for filling -- Tools for drawing -- Image editing tools -- Move tool -- Layer selection using the move tool -- Navigation and information tools -- Zoom tool shortcuts -- Hand tool -- Bird's-eye view -- Flick panning -- Windows Multi-touch support -- Eyedropper tool -- Ruler tool -- Rotate view tool -- Notes tool -- Count tool -- Screen view modes -- Working with Layers -- Preset Manager -- History -- The History panel -- History settings and memory usage -- History brush -- Use of history versus undo.

Snapshots -- Non-linear history -- When files won't open -- Save often -- Background Saving -- Normal saves -- Using Save As… to save images -- File formats -- Photoshop native file format -- Smart PSD files -- Large Document (PSB) format -- TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) -- Pixel order -- Byte order -- Save Image Pyramid -- TIFF compression options -- Flattened TIFFs -- JPEG -- PNG -- Photoshop PDF -- Adobe Bridge CC -- The Bridge interface -- Making Bridge CS6 work with Photoshop CC -- Custom work spaces in Bridge -- Opening files from Bridge -- Slideshows -- Camera Raw -- DNG and transparency support -- Opening photos from Bridge via Camera Raw -- Splash screen -- 2 Camera Raw image processing -- Camera Raw advantages -- The new Camera Raw workflow -- Does the order matter? -- Raw capture -- JPEG capture -- Editing JPEGs and TIFFs in Camera Raw -- Alternative Raw processors -- Camera Raw support -- DNG compatibility -- Basic Camera Raw image editing -- Working with Bridge and Camera Raw -- General controls for single file opening -- Full size window view -- General controls for multiple file opening -- Preview controls -- Checkpoints -- Preview preferences -- Workflow options -- CMYK Proofing -- Output proofing and the computer display -- Saving soft proofed raw files as smart objects -- Summary of the proposed soft proofing workflow -- Opening raw files as Smart Objects -- Saving photos from Camera Raw -- Saving a JPEG as DNG -- Resolving naming conflicts -- Color space and image sizing options -- Altering the background color -- The histogram display -- Digital camera histograms -- Interactive histogram -- Image browsing via Camera Raw -- Camera Raw preferences -- Default Image Settings -- Camera Raw cache -- DNG file handling -- JPEG and TIFF handling -- Performance: Accelerated graphics (GPU) -- Graphics card compatibility -- Scrubby zoom.

Camera Raw cropping and straightening -- How to straighten and crop -- Basic panel controls -- White balance -- Using the white balance tool -- Localized white balance measurements -- Independent auto white balance adjustments -- Process Versions -- The Process 2012 tone adjustment controls -- Exposure -- Contrast -- Highlights and Shadows -- Whites and Blacks -- Suggested order for the Basic panel adjustments -- Preserving the highlight detail -- When to clip the highlights -- How to clip the shadows -- Shadow levels after a conversion -- Digital exposure -- How Camera Raw interprets the raw data -- Basic panel image adjustment procedure -- Auto tone corrections -- Auto Whites and Blacks sliders -- Camera-specific default settings -- Clarity -- Negative clarity -- Vibrance and Saturation -- Tone Curve panel -- Point Curve editor mode -- RGB Curves -- Correcting a high contrast image -- HSL/Grayscale panel -- Recovering out-of-gamut colors -- Adjusting the hue and saturation -- Lens Corrections panel -- Accessing and creating custom lens profiles -- Lens Corrections: Color tab -- Chromatic aberration -- Defringe sliders -- The Defringe controls in use -- Eyedropper tool mode -- Localized adjustments: Defringe slider -- Lens Corrections: Manual tab -- Upright corrections -- Synchronizing Upright settings -- Transform controls -- Lens Vignetting controls -- Effects panel -- Post Crop Vignetting control -- Post Crop Vignette style options -- Highlights slider -- Adding Grain effects -- Dehaze slider -- Camera Calibration panel -- New Camera Raw profiles -- Camera look settings profiles -- Custom camera profile calibrations -- DNG Profile Editor -- Camera Raw as a Photoshop filter -- Spot removal tool -- Creating circle spots -- Synchronized spotting with Camera Raw -- Spot removal tool feathering -- Spot removal tool fine-tuning -- Visualize spots.

Creating brush spots -- Deleting spots -- Red eye removal -- Red eye: pet eye removal -- Localized adjustments -- Adjustment brush -- Initial Adjustment brush options -- Brush settings -- Adding a new brush effect -- Resetting adjustments -- Adjustment brush duplication -- Editing brush adjustments -- Previewing the brush stroke areas -- Auto masking -- Darkening the shadows -- Hand-coloring in Color mode -- Graduated filter tool -- Graduated color temperature adjustment -- Radial filter adjustments -- Fill to document bounds -- Modifying graduated and radial filter masks -- Correcting edge sharpness with the Radial filter -- Camera Raw settings menu -- Export settings to XMP -- Update DNG previews -- Load Settings… Save Settings -- Camera Raw defaults -- Presets panel -- Saving and applying presets -- Copying and synchronizing settings -- Synchronizing different process versions -- Legacy presets -- Working with Snapshots -- DNG file format -- The DNG solution -- DNG compatibility -- Saving images as DNG -- Lossy DNG -- DNG Converter -- 3 Sharpening and noise reduction -- When to sharpen -- Why one-step sharpening is ineffective -- Capture sharpening -- Capture sharpening for scanned images -- Process versions -- Improvements to Camera Raw sharpening -- Sample sharpening image -- Detail panel -- Sharpening defaults -- The sharpening effect sliders -- Amount slider -- Radius slider -- The suppression controls -- Detail slider -- Interpreting the grayscale previews -- Radius and Detail grayscale preview -- Masking slider -- Masking slider example -- Some real world sharpening examples -- Sharpening portrait images -- Sharpening landscape images -- Sharpening a fine-detailed image -- How to save sharpening settings as presets -- Capture sharpening summary -- Selective sharpening in Camera Raw -- Negative sharpening -- Extending the sharpening limits.

How to apply localized sharpening -- Negative sharpening to blur an image -- Noise removal in Camera Raw -- Process Versions and noise reduction -- Removing random pixels -- Detail panel Noise Reduction sliders -- Color noise -- Non-raw image noise reduction -- Color Smoothness slider -- Adding grain to improve appearance of sharpness -- Localized noise reduction in Camera Raw -- Localized moiré removal in Camera Raw -- Localized sharpening in Photoshop -- Smart Sharpen filter -- Basic Smart Sharpen mode -- Advanced Smart Sharpen mode -- Removing Motion Blur -- Shake Reduction filter -- The Shake Reduction controls -- Repeat filtering -- Smart object -- Blur direction tool -- How to get the best results -- Creating a depth of field brush -- 4 Image editing essentials -- Pixels versus vectors -- Photoshop as a vector program -- Image resolution terminology -- ppi: pixels per inch -- lpi: lines per inch -- dpi: dots per inch -- Desktop printer resolution -- Altering the image size -- Image interpolation -- Nearest Neighbor (hard edges) -- Bilinear -- Bicubic (smooth gradients) -- Bicubic Smoother (enlargement) -- Bicubic Sharper (reduction) -- Bicubic Automatic -- Preserve Details (enlargement) -- Photoshop image adjustments -- The image histogram -- The Histogram panel -- Basic Levels editing and the histogram -- Bit depth -- 8-bit versus 16-bit image editing -- 16-bit and color space selection -- Comparing 8-bit with 16-bit editing -- The RGB edit space and color gamut -- Direct image adjustments -- Adjustment layers approach -- Adjustments panel controls -- Properties panel controls -- Maintaining focus in the Properties panel -- Levels adjustments -- Analyzing the histogram -- Curves adjustment layers -- On-image Curves editing -- Removing curve points -- Using Curves in place of Levels -- Output levels adjustments.

Luminosity and Color blending modes.

This guide covers all the tools and techniques photographers and professional image editors need to know when using the 2015 release of Photoshop CC, from workflow guidance to core skills to advanced techniques for professional results.

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