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Photoshop CS6
The book that should have been in the box®

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Photoshop CS6
The book that should have been in the box®

Lesa Snider

Beijing | Cambridge | Farnham | Köln | Sebastopol | Tokyo

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Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual
by Lesa Snider

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Contents
Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
The Missing Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What’s New in Photoshop CS6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Part One: The Basics


Chapter 1:

Photoshop CS6 Guided Tour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Meet the Application Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The Almighty Options Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Swapping Screen Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Changing Photoshop’s Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Working with Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Customizing Your Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Tools Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Common Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The Power of Undo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Changing How Far Back You Can Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Turning Back Time with the History Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The History Brush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Revert Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Tweaking Photoshop’s Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

File Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Cursors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Transparency and Gamut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Units and Rulers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Guides, Grid, and Slices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Working with Presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Sharing Presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Chapter 2:

Opening, Viewing, and Saving Files.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Creating a New Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Photoshop’s Ready-Made Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Setting Size and Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Choosing a Color Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Choosing a Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Advanced Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Saving Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
File Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Opening an Existing Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The Open Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Opening Files as Smart Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Opening Recent Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Working with PDFs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Working with Scanned Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Working with Raw Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Duplicating Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Changing Your View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Zooming In and Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Moving Around in an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Getting Oriented with the Navigator Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Rotating Your Canvas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Arranging Open Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Guides, Grids, and Rulers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rulers and Guiding Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Ruler Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71



Chapter 3:

Layers: The Key to Nondestructive Editing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Layer Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Layers Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Activating Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Adding New Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Hiding and Showing Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Restacking Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Duplicating and Deleting Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Copying and Pasting Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Filling a Layer with Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Tweaking a Layer’s Opacity and Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Resizing and Rotating Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Moving and Aligning Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Managing Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Naming and Color Coding Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Linking and Locking Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Grouping Layers into Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Layer Comps: Capturing Different Document Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

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Rasterizing Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Merging Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Layer Blending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Layer Masks: Digital Masking Tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Adding Layer Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using Layer Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Editing a Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Using Smart Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Creating Smart Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Managing Smart Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Layer Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Managing Layer Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The Styles Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135



Chapter 4:

Selections: Choosing What to Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Selection Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Meet the Marching Ants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Selecting by Shape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
The Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
The Single Row and Column Marquee Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The Vector Shape Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Selecting by Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The Quick Selection Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The Magic Wand Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
The Color Range Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
The Background and Magic Erasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Selecting Irregular Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
The Lasso Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Selecting with the Pen Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Creating Selections with Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Using the Selection Tools Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Modifying Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Refining Edges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Fixing Edge Halos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Creating a Border Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Transforming a Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Using Quick Mask Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Moving Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Saving a Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Filling a Selection with Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Stroking (Outlining) a Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186


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Part Two: Editing Images


Chapter 5:

Controlling Color with Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
How Color Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
RGB Mode vs. CMYK Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
The Channels Panel and You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Meet the Color Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
RGB Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
CMYK Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Spot Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Lab Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Multichannel Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Single-Channel Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
The Mighty Alpha Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Creating an Alpha Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Editing Alpha Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Loading an Alpha Channel as a Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Deleting Alpha Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Basic Channel Stunts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Selecting Objects with Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Creating a Silhouette Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Lightening and Darkening Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Combining Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Sharpening Individual Channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216



Chapter 6:

Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Cropping Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
The Rule of Thirds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Creative Cropping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
The Crop Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Cropping with Selection Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Trimming Photos Down to Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Cropping and Straightening Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Cropping and Straightening in Camera Raw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Resizing Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Pixels and Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
The Mighty Image Size Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Resizing Images for Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Resizing for Email and the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Resizing Web Images for Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Resizing Images for Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Resizing Smart Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Automated Resizing with the Image Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Resizing the Canvas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Content-Aware Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254


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Rotating and Distorting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Simple Rotations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
The Transformers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259


Chapter 7:

Combining Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Cut It Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Pasting into a Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Sky Swapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Fading Images Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Soft Erasers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Soft Brushes and Layer Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Gradient Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Layer Blend Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Normal and Dissolve Blend Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Darken Blend Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Lighten Blend Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Lighting (Contrast) Blend Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Comparative Blend Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Hue Blend Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Zapping Backgrounds with Blending Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Auto-Aligning Layers and Photomerge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Building Panoramas with Photomerge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Auto-Blending Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Cloning Between Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Combining Vectors and Rasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Mapping One Image onto Another. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307



Chapter 8:

Draining, Changing, and Adding Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Draining Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Black & White Adjustment Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Gradient Map Adjustment Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
The Lightness Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Going Grayscale in Camera Raw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Partial Color Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Fading Color to Black and White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
High-Contrast Black and White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
The High-Key Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Delicious Duotones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Changing Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Hue Blend Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Replacing Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Selective Color Adjustment Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Matching Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Photo Filter Adjustment Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340


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Posterizing: Your Ticket to Cartoon Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Inverting Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Adding Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Colorizing Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Adding Solid Blocks of Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Building a Better Sunrise (or Sunset). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348


Chapter 9:

Correcting Color and Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Quick Fixer-Uppers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Fixing Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Fixing Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Correcting Images in Camera Raw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Changing White Balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Fixing Exposure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Making Colors Pop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Camera Raw’s Adjustment Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Camera Raw’s Graduated Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
More Fun with Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Using Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Histograms: Mountains of Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
The Levels Sliders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
The Levels Eyedroppers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Correcting by the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Color-Correcting Skin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Working with Curves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Changing Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Creating High Dynamic Range Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Making Colors Pop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Intensifying Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Adjusting Hue/Saturation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Adding Lab Pop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Rescuing the Unfixables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Chapter 10:

Changing Reality: Removing and Repositioning. . . . . . . . . 409
The Great Healers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
The Spot Healing Brush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Using Content-Aware Fill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
The Healing Brush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
The Patch Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Zapping Shines and Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Whitening Teeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Super Slimmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Fixing Flabby Chins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Liquifying Bulges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
Slimming with the Free Transform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

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Skin Softeners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Selective Blur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Easy Glamour Glow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Softening Wrinkles with Faux Dodge and Burn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Show-Stopping Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Enhancing Eyes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Fixing Red-Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Fixing Animal White-Eye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Other Creative Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Repositioning and Recomposing with Content-Aware Move. . . . . . . . . 447
Reshaping Objects with Puppet Warp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448


Chapter 11:

The Art of Sharpening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
What Is Sharpening?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Basic Sharpening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Sharpening with Unsharp Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
The Smart Sharpen Filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Sharpening with the High Pass Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Sharpening Layered Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Sharpening Part of an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Advanced Sharpening Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Creating an Edge Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Sharpening in Camera Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Global Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Local Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Part Three: The Artistic Side of Photoshop
Chapter 12:

Painting in Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Color Theory: The Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Selecting a Color Scheme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
Using a Color Wheel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486
Using the Kuler Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Other Color Scheme–Generating Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Choosing Individual Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
The Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
The Eyedropper Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Loading Color Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
The Swatches Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
The Color Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
(Re)Introducing the Brush Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Controlling the Brush Cursor’s Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Meet the Mixer Brush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Painting from Scratch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Loading More Built-in Brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
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Customizing Brushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Brush Tip Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Shape Dynamics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Scattering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Dual Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Color Dynamics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Brush Pose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Wet Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Build-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Protect Texture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Suggested Brush Customizations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Defining a New Brush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Installing New Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Chapter 13:

Drawing with the Vector Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Photoshop’s Drawing Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536
Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Drawing Straight Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Drawing Curved Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Converting Anchor Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Path Drawing Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
Saving Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Drawing with the Shape Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

Using the Shape Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Drawing Multiple Shapes on One Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Using Custom Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
Editing Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
Adding, Deleting, and Converting Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
Selecting and Moving Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Making Paths Intersect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Adding a Stroke to a Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
Filling a Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Making Selections and Masks with Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Making a Path from a Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Making a Clipping Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Using Vector Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Chapter 14:

Creating Artistic Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Typography 101. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
The Face of Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
Creating and Editing Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

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Point Text vs. Paragraph Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
Moving Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Highlighting Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
Resizing Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
Creating a Hollow Text Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590
Creating Text on a Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Filling a Shape with Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Warping Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Using Find and Replace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Formatting with the Options Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
The Character Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
The Paragraph Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
Special Text Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Faded Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Stroked Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
Texturizing Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Placing a Photo Inside Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Converting Text to a Shape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
More Typographic Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Chapter 15:

The Wide World of Filters.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
The Joy of Smart Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
A Filters Tour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Adaptive Wide Angle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Lens Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
Liquify. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
Oil Paint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
Vanishing Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Artistic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
Blur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Brush Strokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Distort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Pixelate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Render. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Sharpen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Sketch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Stylize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Digimarc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Browse Filters Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

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Part Four: Printing and the Web
Chapter 16:

Photoshop and Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
The Challenge of WYSIWYG Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Understanding Color Gamuts and Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Calibrating Your Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
Resizing and Formatting Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Printer-Friendly File Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Resizing and Saving as a TIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
Resizing and Saving as a PDF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Printing on an Inkjet Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
Printing on a Commercial Offset Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
Converting RGB Images to CMYK Using Built-In Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . 693
Custom RGB to CMYK Profile Conversions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
Using Spot Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
Printing Duotone (Multitonal) Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
Printing Color Separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
Proofing Images Onscreen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706
Printing Proofs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708
Printing on a Digital Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710
Printing RGB Images on a Digital Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
Printing CMYK Images on a Digital Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
Printing Spot Colors on a Digital Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
Printing Multiple Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712
PDF Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712
Contact Sheet II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712
Recap: Stress-Free Printing Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Chapter 17:

Photoshop and the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
Creating Web- and Email-Friendly Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
Resizing an Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718
Choosing the Best File Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721
Saving and Compressing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Animating a GIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Editing Your Animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733
Saving Your Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Designing a Website Favicon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735
Creating Web Page Mockups and Image Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737
Slicing an Existing Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738
Modifying Slices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740
Saving Slices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744
Protecting Your Images Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
Embedding Copyright Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
Watermarking Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
Building Online Photo Galleries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

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Part Five: Photoshop Power
Chapter 18:

Working Smarter with Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753
The Actions Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754
Using Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
Creating Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
Running Actions on a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761
Managing Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765
Editing Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
Creating Droplets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
Sharing Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769
Loading Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Saving Actions as a Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769



Chapter 19:

Beyond Photoshop: Plug-Ins.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
Adding and Removing Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772
Managing Plug-Ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774
Noise Reducers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
Noiseware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
Dfine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
Noise Ninja. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
Making Selections and Masking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777
Fluid Mask. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777
Perfect Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778
Color Correction and Enhancement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778
Viveza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778
Color Efex Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779
Perfect Portrait. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780
PhotoTune. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781
PhotoTools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782
Miscellaneous Plug-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782
Silver Efex Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783
Perfect Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783
HDR Efex Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784
Eye Candy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784
SiteGrinder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784
Dashboard Pro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784




Chapter 20:

Photoshop and Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785
Creating Your First Video Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786
Opening and Importing Video Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788
Videos as Smart Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790
Meet the Timeline Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790
Editing Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791
Changing Clip Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791
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Adding Transitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793
Splitting and Removing Sections from Video Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795
Adding Text, Logos, and Still Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798
Adding and Controlling Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799
Animating Objects and Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
Creating and Deleting Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
Editing and Copying Keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803
Choosing an Interpolation Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803
Animating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804
Animating Masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
Rotoscoping and Onion Skins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806
Global Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807

Adding Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809
Adding Fill and Adjustment Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
Adding a Color Tint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Changing Fill and Adjustment Layers’ Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
Adding Layer Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
Using Smart Filters with Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814
Cloning and Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
Exporting Videos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
Using Your Project in Other Video Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
Additional Video Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
Chapter 21:

Using Adobe Bridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Browsing through Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820
Importing and Managing Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
Review Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
Sorting and Filtering Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
Grouping Images into Collections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827
Grouping Images into Stacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
Opening Images in Camera Raw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830
Showing Off Your Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
Making a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
The Export Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
Exporting Images as PDFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834
Making a Web Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
Using Mini Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

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Part Six: Appendixes
Appendix A:

Installing Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
see www.missingmanuals.com/cds

Appendix B:

Troubleshooting and Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
see www.missingmanuals.com/cds

Appendix C:

Photoshop’s Tools Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
see www.missingmanuals.com/cds

Appendix D:

Photoshop Menu by Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
see www.missingmanuals.com/cds
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839

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Foreword
In the short but crowded history of consumer technology, only two products ever
became so common, influential, and powerful that their names became verbs.
Google is one.
Photoshop is the other.
(“Did you Google that guy who asked you out?” “Yeah—he’s crazy. He Photoshopped
his last girlfriend out of all his pictures!”)
It’s safe to say that these days, not a single photograph gets published, in print or
online, without having been processed in Photoshop first. It’s usually perfectly innocent stuff: a little color adjustment, contrast boosting, or cropping.
But not always. Sometimes, the editing actually changes the photo so that it no
longer represents the original, and all kinds of ethical questions arise. Remember
when TV Guide Photoshopped Oprah’s head onto Ann-Margaret body? When
Time magazine darkened O.J. Simpson’s skin to make him look more menacing on
the cover? Or when National Geographic moved two pyramids closer together to
improve the composition?
Well, you get the point: Photoshop is magic. Thanks to Photoshop, photography is
no longer a reliable record of reality.
And now, all that magic is in your hands. Use it wisely.
Trouble is, Photoshop is a monster. It’s huge. Just opening it is like watching a
slumbering beast heave into consciousness. Dudes: Photoshop has over 500 menu
commands.
In short, installing Photoshop is like being told that you’ve just won a 747 jumbo jet.
You sit down in the cockpit and survey the endless panels of controls and switches.
Now what?
You don’t even get a printed manual anymore.
If there were ever a piece of software that needed the Missing Manual treatment, it
was Photoshop. And yet, despite having published over 100 books since I started

this series in 1999, we had never tackled Photoshop. It was the elephant in the room
for all those years, and it had been bugging me.
Frankly, we were terrified.
But no longer. In 2009, the beast was tamed at last by its new master, Lesa Snider: a
natural-born Missing Manual author with Photoshop credentials as long as your arm.

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She had worked on Missing Manuals, side by side with me in my office, for four years,
in all kinds of editorial and production capacities. And when she wasn’t at my place,
she was out in the real world, teaching Photoshop seminars, writing Photoshop howto articles for the Web, retouching hundreds of photos in Photoshop, and eventually
becoming a Photoshop master (which I would define as “anyone who knows what
more than 50 percent of those 500 menu commands actually do”).
The result of all that training was that the Missing Manual mantra ran through her
blood: Make it clear, make it entertaining, make it complete (hence the thickness of
the book in your hands). And above all, don’t just identify a feature: Tell us what it’s
for. Tell us when to use it. (And if the answer is, “You’ll never use it,” tell us that, too.)
The resulting Missing Manual about Photoshop was a critical and popular hit. Two
editions later, Lesa is back, thank heaven, with a new edition to demystify Photoshop CS6.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that this book isn’t for everybody. In fact, it’s aimed
primarily at two kinds of people: Photoshop beginners and Photoshop veterans.
But seriously, folks. If you’re new to Photoshop, you’ll find patient, friendly introductions to all those nutty Photoshoppy concepts like layers, color spaces, image
resolution, and so on. And, mercifully, you’ll find a lot of loving attention to a timehonored Missing Manual specialty—tips and shortcuts. As Photoshop pros can tell
you, you pretty much have to learn some of Photoshop’s shortcuts, or it will crush
you like a bug.

On the other hand, if you already have some Photoshop experience, you’ll appreciate
this book’s coverage of CS6’s new features. Some of them are pretty sweet indeed.
(Content-Aware Move, tilt-shift blurring, text styles, video editing—mmm.)
Heck, you might need this book just to find your way around Photoshop’s massively
redesigned interface. It’s quite a bit different. It’s like coming home from college to
discover that your parents redecorated your room without telling you.
In any case, get psyched. You now have both the most famous, powerful, magical
piece of software on earth—and an 800-page treasure map to help you find your way.
The only missing ingredients are time, some photos to work on, and a little good
taste. You’ll have to supply those yourself.
Good luck!
——David Pogue

David Pogue is the weekly tech columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning
TV correspondent (CBS News and NOVA on PBS), and the creator of the Missing
Manual series.

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The Missing Credits
About the Author
Lesa Snider is on a mission to teach the world to create—and
use!—better graphics. She’s an internationally acclaimed
speaker; stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com (www.lesa.in/istockdeal ); as well as the founder of
the creative tutorial site PhotoLesa.com. Lesa is the author of

many video-training workshops (www.lesa.in/clvideos) and the
coauthor of iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual. She writes a regular
column for Photoshop User, Elements Techniques, and Macworld
magazines, and contributes frequently to Design-Tools.com and
PlanetPhotoshop.com. Lesa is also a long-time member of the
Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors and can be spotted teaching at many
other conferences around the globe. She also teaches Advanced Photoshop for the
international graphic design school, Sessions.edu. You can connect with her online
on Facebook (www.facebook.com/PhotoLesa), YouTube (www.lesa.in/ytvideochannel),
Twitter (@PhotoLesa), and www.PhotoLesa.com.
During her free time, you’ll find Lesa carving the twisties on her sportbike, dressed
up in her Star Trek best at a sci-fi convention, or hanging with fellow Apple Mac
enthusiasts. Lesa is a proud member of the BMWMOA, F800 Riders Club, and the
Colorado Mac User Group (www.CoMUG.com) a.k.a. the Boulder Mac Maniacs. Email:


About the Creative Team
Dawn Mann (editor) is associate editor for the Missing Manual series. When not
working, she hikes, beads, and causes trouble. Email:
Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where
she works as a production editor. When not ushering books through production,
she’s writing and baking whatever she can think up. Email:
Julie Van Keuren (copy editor) quit her newspaper job in 2006 to move to Montana
and live the freelancing dream. She and her husband, M.H. (who is living the novelwriting dream), have two sons, Dexter and Michael. Email:

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Ron Strauss (indexer) is a full-time freelance indexer specializing in IT. When not
working, he moonlights as a concert violist and alternative medicine health consultant. Email:
Charles Holt (technical reviewer) is an aerodynamic man of random talents. He’s
created computer games, ghost-written parts of a book about tea, and won a ukulele
design contest. He currently works with his wife, Melissa, as an Apple Consultant in
beautiful Colorado (www.PEBMAC.com), but he dreams of once again snorkeling
in Napili Bay.
Shangara Singh (technical reviewer) is the author of the popular exam aids for
Photoshop and Lightroom—study guides for people who want to become an Adobe
Certified Expert—published by Examaids.com. He has also authored a keyword
hierarchy for stock photographers (Keyword-Catalog.com) and has his own stock
photo website: SensaStockImages.com.

Acknowledgements
This book is dedicated to my beloved cat of 16 years, Sylvester, who returned to The
Realm of Feline Gods during the creation of this edition. His laid-back nature and
unconditional love will remain with me always.
I’d like to express galactic thanks to iStockphoto.com for providing most of the
imagery you see throughout this book: An image really is worth a thousand words
(if you ever need high-quality, affordable graphics, visit www.lesa.in/istockdeal). A
big hug and thanks to David Pogue who roped me into this project and so graciously
wrote the foreword for this book. To Jeff and Scott Kelby for believing in me and
nurturing my career in immeasurable ways throughout many years. To Derrick Story
for his wisdom and guidance before I got started on this project, and a great big
jug of Umbrian vino rosso to Dawn Mann for editing this book and keeping me on
track. Her input has made me a better writer and for that I will forever be grateful!
To my brilliant tech-editors, Shangara Singh and J. Charles Holt, whose expertise
and watchful eyes helped create the best Photoshop book yet.

Special thanks to Jeff Gamet (www.macobserver.com) for keeping me sane and helping with the first edition, to Richard Harrington (www.photoshopforvideo.com) for his
help on the actions chapter, to Taz Tally (www.taztallyphotography.com) for helping
with the print chapter, to Marcus Conge (www.digitalmanipulation.com) and Bert
Monroy (www.bertmonroy.com) for their help with all things 3-D and vector-related,
and to the brilliant Veronica Hanley who helped make the drawing chapter make sense
to mere mortals. To Deborah Fox (www.deborahfoxart.com) for the beautiful art in
the painting chapter, to Tanya and Richard Horie (for their expert advice on the painting chapter and brush customization options), to Karen Nace (www.karennace.com)
for her HDR and wide-angle photography, and to Tony Corbell (www.corbellproductions.com) for his guidance on the plug-ins chapter. And without the determination
of Jay Nelson (www.design-tools.com) and the expertise of Rod Harlan (www.dvpa
.com), the new video chapter would not exist.
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To my esteemed colleagues—and good friends—Andy Ihnatko, Ben Willmore, Peter
Cohen, Kevin Ames, Dave Cross, Larry Becker, Jack Davis, Gary-Paul Prince, Terry
White, Dave Moser, Matt Kloskowski, and Eddie Tapp who all expressed how very
proud of me they are and who each, in their own special way, convinced me I could
survive writing (and subsequently updating) a book of this magnitude.
Last but not least, buckets of appreciation to my friends and neighbors who continually gave their support—or a cocktail!—when I needed it most: Carol Morphew,
Elsbeth Diehl, Leslie Raguso, Kathryn Kroll, Ruth Lind, Leslie Fishlock, Melissa Olilla,
Erica Gamet, Kirk Aplin, Lorene Romero, and most importantly, Fran Snider, the best
mama a girl could have (wish Daddy could’ve held this book!). To my true love, Jay
Nelson, whose respect, support, and caring nature makes me strive to be a better
person every single day, and to our beautiful cat, Samantha, who forced me to get
out of my pretty purple Aeron chair and play The Laser Pointer Game with her at
exactly 5:15 pm each day.

May the creative force be with you all!
——Lesa Snider

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Introduction

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ongratulations on buying one of the most complicated pieces of software ever
created. Fortunately, it’s also one of the most rewarding. No other program on
the market lets you massage, beautify, and transform your images like Photoshop. It’s so popular that people use its name as a verb: “Dude, you Photoshopped
the heck out of her!” You’d be hard-pressed to find a published image that hasn’t
spent some quality time in this program, and those that didn’t probably should have.
The bad news is that it’s a tough program to learn; you won’t become a Photoshop
guru overnight. Luckily, you hold in your hot little hands a book that covers the
program from a practical standpoint, so you’ll learn the kinds of techniques you can
use every day. It’s written in plain English for normal people, so you don’t have to
be any kind of expert to understand it. You’ll also learn just enough theory (where
appropriate) to help you understand why you’re doing what you’re doing.
 Note  This book focuses primarily on the standard edition of Photoshop CS6. Adobe also offers Photoshop

CS6 Extended, which costs more and offers extra features primarily designed for folks who work in 3D, as well as
fields like architecture and medical science.


What’s New in Photoshop CS6
Adobe has added some amazing new features to Photoshop and incorporated
many items that have been on customers’ wish lists for years (such as being able
to change the blend modes of several layers at once and create dashed and dotted

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