Adobe Photoshop 6.0 User Guide

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iv CONTENTS Enhanced layer management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Expanded text features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Preset Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Other new and enhanced features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Looking at the Work Area Chapter 1 Using the toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using the tool options bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Using context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Viewing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Correcting mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Reverting to any state of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Duplicating images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Using rulers, the measure tool, guides, and the grid . . . . . 74 Working with Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Displaying status information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Displaying file and image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Annotating images (Photoshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Jumping between applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Previewing an image in a browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Managing libraries with the Preset Manager (Photoshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Setting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Resetting all warning dialogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Monitoring operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Closing files and quitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady Chapter 2 About bitmap images and vector graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 About image size and resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Changing image size and resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Scanning images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Creating new images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Opening and importing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Placing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Managing files with WebDAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Working with Color Chapter 3 Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop) About color modes and models (Photoshop) . . . . . . . . . . 109 Color gamuts (Photoshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Adjusting the monitor display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Channels and bit depth (Photoshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Converting between color modes (Photoshop) . . . . . . . . 117 Converting to indexed color (Photoshop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Applying colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Making color and tonal adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Chapter 4 Why colors sometimes don’t match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 About color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Do you need color management? Creating a viewing environment for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Setting up color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Using predefined color management settings . . . . . . . . . 124 Customizing color management settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Specifying working spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Specifying color management policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Customizing advanced color management settings . . . 130 Saving and loading color management settings Synchronizing color management between . . . . . . . 130 applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Soft-proofing colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Changing the color profile of a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Embedding profiles in saved documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Obtaining, installing, and updating color profiles . . . . . . 134 Creating an ICC monitor profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Selecting Chapter 5 About selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Making pixel selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Adjusting pixel selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Softening the edges of a selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Moving, copying, and pasting selections and layers . . . . 149 Working with snap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 v
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Page 6 and 7: vi CONTENTS Saving and loading sele
Page 8 and 9: viii CONTENTS Creating Animations (
Page 11 and 12: Getting Started elcome to the Adobe
Page 13 and 14: Using Web resources If you have an
Page 15: Classroom in a Book Is the official
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Page 42 and 43: 32 Adobe Photoshop Basics Preparing
Page 44 and 45: 34 Adobe Photoshop Basics • Using
Page 49 and 50: What’s New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0
Page 51 and 52: Storage of custom shapes Once you
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Produce superb Web graphics Enhance
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Enhanced support for image maps and
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Master Photoshop more quickly Strea
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Expanded text features Photoshop 6.
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Preset Manager The new Preset Manag
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Chapter 1: Looking at the Work Area
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The Other Cursors options control t
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• (ImageReady) To show or hide op
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4 To save the current list as a lib
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Changing the screen display mode Th
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• Choose View > Zoom In to magnif
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• Select the area you want to res
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To delete all of an image’s state
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To rename a snapshot: Double-click
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Using the measure tool (Photoshop)
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To remove guides from the image: Do
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• Document Profile to display the
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Adding notes and audio annotations
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Jumping between Photoshop and Image
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(ImageReady) To specify a browser t
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dialog boxes that can be opened thr
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Chapter 2: Getting Images into Phot
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Image resolution The number of pixe
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1-by-1-inch, 100-ppi image and so h
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Changing the pixel dimensions of an
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Determining a recommended resolutio
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• (Photoshop) To base the image s
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You can also bring PDF data into Ph
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To place a PDF, Adobe Illustrator,
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Chapter 3: Working with Color Famil
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RGB images use three colors, or cha
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Although Grayscale is a standard co
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Making previews display more quickl
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Converting between bit depths A 16-
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Chapter 4: Producing Consistent Col
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Color Management Off Uses passive c
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It’s important to save your custo
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The availability of options for Pro
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Synchronizing color management betw
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• Simulate Ink Black to preview,
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damaging “corrections” to an al
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Chapter 5: Selecting To modify part
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6 Do one of the following to make a
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4 For the magnetic lasso tool (Phot
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6 Adjust the selection: • To add
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To select the unselected parts of a
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Moving, copying, and pasting select
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In the Layers palette, the layer th
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To choose options from the Snap To
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To extract an object, you use tools
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162 CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing A
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252 CHAPTER 9 Using Type About usin
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256 CHAPTER 9 Using Type When file
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Chapter 10: Designing Web Pages Ado
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layer-based slices. Auto-slices are
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Viewing slices You can view slices
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To select multiple slices (Photosho
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To delete all user-slices and layer
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To assign link information to an Im
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Layer-based image map areas Are cre
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Selecting image maps You select ima
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Distributing tool-based image maps
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in the previous state. You can then
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• Custom to define a new rollover
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You can also copy frames from the A
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Chapter 11: Creating Animations (Im
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In the Animation palette, the curre
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The term “tweening” is derived
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Keep in mind that some changes you
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To flatten frames into layers: In t
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To save an animation as an animated
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Chapter 12: Optimizing Images for t
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To restore an optimized version of
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transparency and you do not know th
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Using named optimization settings Y
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Setting optimization options for GI
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Setting optimization options for PN
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• Choose Regenerate from the Opti
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Using channels to modify dithering
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To select a color reduction algorit
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Including transparency in a color t
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To shift colors to the closest Web
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To build a master palette, you add
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To copy a color as a hexadecimal va
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To create hard-edged transparency i
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The Dither percentage controls the
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dot gain using the settings in the
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5 For a color separation, choose fr
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About duotones Duotones are used to
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Specifying overprint colors Overpri
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Printing color separations When wor
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Index A a component 112 Accurate Sc
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Black Matte 145 bleeds 378 Blend Cl
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locking colors in 335 master palett
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dpi (dots per inch) 94 drawing cons
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hard-edged transparency 340 Help 2
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lasso tools 139, 141 Lasso Width op
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Match Layer Across States command 2
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Paste Slice command 279 pasting dec
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converting colors to 133 customizin
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Select All Colors command 334 Selec
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saving 358 viewing in Open dialog b
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Production Notes This book was crea
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