Gavin Cromhout julie Hatton Martin jacobsen Adam juniper Vikas Shah. APress Media, LLC

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2 Gavin Cromhout julie Hatton Martin jacobsen Adam juniper Vikas Shah APress Media, LLC

3 2003 Apress Originally published by friends of ED in 2003 Credits All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. The authors and publisher have made every effort in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors. friends of ED nor its dealers or distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused either directly or indirectly by this book. First Printed March 2003 Authors Gavin Cromhout julie Hatton Martin jacobsen Adam Juniper Vikas Shah Managing Editor Sonia Mullineux Indexer Simon Collins Cover Design Katy Freer Commissioning Editor Adam juniper Editor Gavin Wray Project Manager Jenni Harvey Graphic Editor Ty Bhogal Proof Readers Simon Collins jenni Harvey Trademark Acknowledgements friends of ED has endeavored to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, friends of ED cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI /

4 At friends of ED our mission is to unleash your digital creativity, providing technical know-how and inspiration in equal measure. With our Zero to Hero series we've gone one better - we'll take you further, faster. Zero to Hero is more than just a catchy slogan and an endless opportunity for gimmicks, puns and graphical representations of phone booths, tights, and capes. It's a style of learning designed by friends of ED to reach beyond dry technical explanations and dusty old authors who wouldn't know good design if it slapped them round the face with a wet fish. You can either first learn everything you need about Photoshop 7, or dive straight into the inspirational 'Hero' chapters and refer back if you get stuck. The authors of the Hero chapters are Photoshop trailblazers from the friends of ED pool of talent. They've each been given a different brief and a lot of freedom. They'll show how you can achieve professional results with this remarkable program - how you too can be a Photoshop Hero. And when you're done, you'll be ready to wear your underwear outside of your pants, metaphorically speaking of course. We'll not only unlock the toolset for you, we'll also feed your imagination - that's a promise. So, what are you waiting for?

5 About the Authors Gavin Cromhout Currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Unfortunately, he has formal training in art from the University of Cape Town. Unfortunate for his lecturers. that is. Gavin works as a web designer and digital photographer at Lodestone ( He has contributed to seven other books. one of which even has him turning his one ex-girlfriend into a lizard. Ah, the life of the designer. You can catch up with him at gavin@lodestone.co.za. julie Hatton julie always had an interest in photography, and when she first saw Adobe Photoshop she was hooked immediately. She did a college course in Photography and Digital Imaging, giving her the incentive she needed to spend hours in front of the computer massacring her photographs. julie eventually got a job designing ads for a local newspaper; good experience but awful pay and conditions, which led to other jobs, including web design. At the same time. julie set up her own website with some photographs ( and a website offering design work and training. Amazingly people started to find her (then quite awful and unpromoted) websites and began to offer her work. so she started working for herself part-time. She now works almost full-time. providing customized training for various design applications ( occasionally design work or photo retouching, and various other things (like writing for friends of ED!). julie would like also like to thank her husband john. Martin Gammelsaeter jacobsen Martin came from a good home and had a decent upbringing, and as such little blame can be put on his parents when has spent most of his time less than two metres away from his beloved Powerbook, occasionally trying to work for a living for clients such as we try to find out what went wrong. After some time spent actively trying not to become an educated child-care worker and pedagogue. he did anyway as a National Officer for a Youth NGO. During his time with this organization, he came to function as the in-house marketing department on the grounds that he understood how Photoshop worked. After some time they had to part company because they really needed a national officer more than they needed someone who spends hours on making the instructional posters for conventions look good. Since then Martin Universal Records and the Norwegian Broadcasting Company * NRK, and can barely remember the last time he had a love life. Adam Juniper Adam can only be described as having drifted in the general direction of Photoshop from what was to have been a glittering career in journalism. Well. that's what he tells his friends anyway, because the amount of time he spends staring into computer screens is probably a bit sad. Anyway. in reality, that interest in the printed word led Adam to friends of ED - where no one looks at you oddly for enjoying playing with Photoshop. From there it was only a short step from game-keeper to poacher (well, editor to author). Some people get all the breaks, eh? Oh, and Adam doesn't have his own website., , Vikas Shah Vikas is Founder & Chairman of Ultima Group ( a leading multi-award-winning design agency, established in 1994 in Manchester (UK) with clients worldwide including Nike. Unilever. The Queen's Golden jubilee (String of Pearls Festival), and Sage Software. He is also an accomplished designer and manager, holding an associateship at the Chartered Management Institute and winning a semi-finalist position in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Vikas has been involved in photography and creative direction for over eight years and regularly lectures and speaks at schools. universities and events around the country. as well as writing for magazines and publishers. His works have also been featured in two exhibitions in the UK. Vikas's photographic portfolio can be seen at Vikas is also co-founder of egorush@ Society Review ( a major digital arts project showcasing the works of some of the world's top photographers and digital artists. EgoRush has been featured in media around the world, and now receives in excess of one million hits per month.

6 Table of contents Zero 1 How to use this book... 2 Mac or PC?....3 Styles... 3 Download....4 Support... 4 A bit of theory....5 Color theory....5 Alpha... 6 Printing... 7 ICC color profiles... 7 Resolution... 8 On with the show Toolbox Tool Options bar Palette Well Palettes File Browser Brushes palette Navigator palette Info Color palette Swatches palette Styles palette History palette Actions palette Tools presets Layers palette Channels palette Paths palette Preferences File format A quick go? Before we go on Chapter Zero: A welcoming lookaround, to give you a feel for the book (and Photoshop, of course) 1 Colors and corrections 23 Rotating Cropping Crop and rotate Cropping to a specified size Image enhancement and color correction Color profiles Chapter 1: Changes to the whole image, including cropping, color correction and a tiny bit of theory

7 Brightness and contrast Levels Curves Saving your settings Eyedroppers Color values and the Info palette Artificial light color casts Tinting and color distortion Color reproduction issues Proof colors Gamut warning Filters Moving on Painting and restoring 41 Brushes and painting tools Brushes and pencils Making your own brushes Properties Fills, patterns and gradients Color palette Color picker Oooh! I like that one! Pattern fills Making patterns Gradients in Photoshop Image manipulation Patching Healing : 56 Cloning Digital darkroom Dodge and Burn The Sponge tool Blurring, sharpening and smudging Conclusion Chapter 2: Painting and drawing with the brush tools, and convincing photographic manipulation 3 Selections 61 Selection tools Selecting basic shapes Rectangular Marquee tool Chapter 3: Selecting objects so that you can edit parts of your work individually

8 Table of contents ir Other Marquee tools Whole image Selecting complicated shapes Freehand selection Polygonal Lasso Magnetic Lasso Selecting by color Troublesome extractions Working with selections Hide the selection outline Move the selection boundary Editing and modifying selections Adding selections Subtracting selections Intersections Moving the boundaries Moving and shaking Moving selections across images Selections Layers 79 Layers: the concept Layers palette Naming layers Delete a layer Locking layers Modifying the Layers palette Layer sets The background layer Transparency and opacity Altering layers Moving the content of a layer Transforming single layers Transforming multiple layers Depth of field Layer styles Layer blending modes Adjustment layers Editing an adjustment layer Layer groups Masking Filtering a mask Remove a layer mask Montage Chapter 4: Everything there is to know about using layers to edit your images, Including creating a montage, masking and nondestructive editing

9 Preparation Adding images When and how to flatten layers Flatten image Merge layers Saving layered files Phew! Text and vector tools 107 Introducing vectors Vector masks Shape tools Simple shapes Vector drawing The Pen tool The Freeform Pen tool Vector selection tools Using paths Filling and stroking Selections Put it all together Writing text Captioning Words from pictures Formatting text Characters Spelling Paragraphs Text warping Chapter 5: Learn how to create vector graphics which scale without loss of quality, and add formatted and stylish text to your work 6 Output 131 Photoshop document files Other file formats Saving TIFF files Compression Saving for the web lmageready Slices Animation Rollovers Image maps Chapter 6: Output your work to web and print

10 Table of contents ir Photoshop actions Batch actions Printing Print preview Channels for pre-press When all is said and done Filters and effects 151 Getting started with filters Sharpness and focus Sharpen Blur Room Artistic Blur Brush Strokes Distort Noise Pixelate Render Sharpen Sketch Texture Video Other Effective filters Liquify Pattern Maker Final word Chapter 7: All the filters and effects you'll ever need Hero 1 Photo restoration 177 Preparation Readying your weapon Cloning Problems Facing facts Tidying up Finished job Hero 1: A complete restoration project on this ragged photo

11 Hero 2 Magazine cover 191 Magazine basics Branding Key elements Message Artwork selection The brief Artwork acquisition Set up your workspace Image setup Resolution and crop Retouching Levels Brightness/Contrast Color balance Magazine logo Border Bevel Outer glow Corner flash Cover text Cover typography Barcode Edition and pricing Extraction effect Stain removal The perfect sky Method 1: Lasso Method 2: Extraction Output Conclusion Hero 2: Create a complete magazine cover Hero 3 Web portolio 213 Template-based portfolio Professional portfolio Assembling the graphics Cutting things up lmageready Rollovers Optimizing Index 231 Hero 3: Design a stylish website from scratch, with an image gallery and rollovers