Document Outline

• Contents
• Chapter 1: Getting started
  • Installation
    • Requirements
    • Install the software
    • Activate the software
    • Register
    • Read Me
  • Adobe Help
    • Adobe Help resources
    • Using Help in the product
  • Resources
    • Adobe Video Workshop
    • Photoshop CS3 videos
    • Extras
    • Bridge Home
    • Adobe Design Center
    • Adobe Developer Center
    • Customer support
    • Downloads
    • Adobe Labs
    • User communities
  • What’s new?
    • Productivity enhancements
    • Image editing improvements
    • Compositing enhancements
    • 3D and motion advances
    • Comprehensive image analysis
• Chapter 2: Workspace
  • Workspace basics
    • Workspace overview
    • Customize the workspace
    • Save, delete, and switch between workspaces
    • Display or hide tool tips
    • Adobe Bridge
  • Palettes and menus
    • Enter values in palettes, dialog boxes, and the options bar
    • About pop-up sliders
    • About scrubby sliders
    • Working with pop-up palettes
    • Display context menus
    • Define a set of menus
    • Delete a set of menus
    • Temporarily show hidden menu items
    • Turn menu colors on or off
  • Tools
    • About tools
    • Selection tools gallery
    • Crop and slice tools gallery
    • Retouching tools gallery
    • Painting tools gallery
    • Drawing and type tools gallery
    • Annotation, measuring, and navigation tools gallery
    • Use a tool
    • Cycle through hidden tools
    • Change tool pointers
    • Using the options bar
    • Create and use tool presets
  • Viewing images
    • Change the screen mode
    • View another area of an image
    • Use the Navigator palette
    • Zoom in or out
    • View images in multiple windows
    • Match locations in images
    • Match zoom and locations in images
    • Work with the Info palette
    • Display file information in the document window
    • Duplicate an image
  • Rulers, the grid, and guides
    • About rulers
    • Change a ruler’s zero origin
    • Change the unit of measurement
    • Specify columns for an image
    • Position with the Ruler tool
    • Position with guides and the grid
    • Use snapping
    • Show or hide Extras
  • Work with the Preset Manager
    • About the Preset Manager
    • Load a library of preset items
    • Manage preset items
  • Preferences
    • About preferences
    • Open a preferences dialog box
    • Restore all preferences to default settings
    • Disable and enable warning messages
    • Specify a legacy serial number
  • Plug-ins
    • About plug-in modules
    • Install a plug-in module
    • Select an additional plug-ins folder
    • Suppress the loading of plug-ins
    • View information about installed plug-ins
  • Recovery and undo
    • Use the Undo or Redo commands
    • Revert to the last saved version
    • Restore part of an image to its previously saved version
    • Cancel an operation
    • Receive notification when an operation is completed
    • Work with the History palette
    • Make a snapshot of an image
  • Memory and performance
    • Allocate RAM to Photoshop
    • Assigning scratch disks
    • Change the scratch disk assignment
    • Enable 3D Acceleration (Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Extended)
    • Specify history and cache settings
    • Free memory
• Chapter 3: Opening and importing images
  • Photoshop images
    • About bitmap images
    • About vector graphics
    • Combining vector graphics and bitmap images
    • Color channels
    • Bit depth
    • Convert between bit depths
  • Image size and resolution
    • About pixel dimensions and resolution
    • File size
    • About monitor resolution
    • About printer resolution
    • Resampling
    • Change pixel dimensions of an image
    • Change the print dimensions and resolution
    • Determine a suggested resolution for an image
    • View the print size on-screen
  • Acquiring images from cameras and scanners
    • Acquiring digital images from cameras
    • Import images from a digital camera using WIA (Windows only)
    • Importing scanned images
  • Creating, opening, and importing images
    • Create a new image
    • Adobe Version Cue
    • Open files
    • Open PDF files
    • Open an EPS file
    • Open a Photo CD file
    • Import PICT files and resources (Mac OS)
  • Placing files
    • About placing files
    • Place a file in Photoshop
    • Place PDF or Illustrator files in Photoshop
    • Paste Adobe Illustrator art into Photoshop
  • High dynamic range images
    • About high dynamic range images
    • Merge images to HDR
    • Adjust dynamic range view for HDR images
    • Convert from 32 bits to 8 or 16 bpc
    • About the HDR Color Picker (Photoshop Extended)
    • Paint on HDR images (Photoshop Extended)
• Chapter 4: Camera Raw
  • Introduction to Camera Raw
    • About camera raw files
    • About Camera Raw
    • About the Digital Negative (DNG) format
    • Processing images with Camera Raw
    • Camera Raw dialog box overview
    • Work with the Camera Raw cache in Bridge
  • Navigating, opening, and saving images
    • Process, compare, and rate multiple images in Camera Raw
    • Automating image processing with Camera Raw
    • Open images in Camera Raw
    • Save a camera raw image in another format
  • Making color and tonal adjustments in Camera Raw
    • Using histogram and RGB levels in Camera Raw
    • Preview highlight and shadow clipping in Camera Raw
    • White balance controls in Camera Raw
    • Adjust tone in Camera Raw
    • Fine-tune tone curves in Camera Raw
    • Clarity, Saturation, and Vibrance controls in Camera Raw
    • HSL / Grayscale controls in Camera Raw
    • Tone a grayscale image in Camera Raw
    • Adjust color rendering for your camera in Camera Raw
    • Compensate for chromatic aberration in Camera Raw
    • Compensate for lens vignetting in Camera Raw
  • Modifying images with Camera Raw
    • Rotate images with Camera Raw
    • Straighten images in Camera Raw
    • Crop selected images in Camera Raw
    • Remove red-eye in Camera Raw
    • Retouch images in Camera Raw
    • Adjust sharpening in Camera Raw
    • Reducing noise in Camera Raw
  • Camera Raw settings
    • Save, reset, and load Camera Raw settings
    • Specify where Camera Raw settings are stored
    • Copy and paste Camera Raw settings
    • Apply saved Camera Raw settings
    • Export Camera Raw settings and DNG previews
    • Camera Raw Workflow options
• Chapter 5: Color
  • About color
    • Understanding color
    • Color models, spaces, and modes
    • Adjusting color hue, saturation, and brightness
  • Color modes
    • RGB Color mode
    • CMYK Color mode
    • Lab Color mode
    • Grayscale mode
    • Bitmap mode
    • Duotone mode
    • Indexed Color mode
    • Multichannel mode
  • Converting between color modes
    • Convert an image to another color mode
    • Add a conditional mode change to an action
    • Convert a color photo to Grayscale mode
    • Convert an image to Bitmap mode
    • Convert a Bitmap mode image to Grayscale mode
    • Convert a grayscale or RGB image to indexed color
    • Customize indexed color tables
  • Choosing colors
    • About foreground and background colors
    • Choose colors in the toolbox
    • Choose colors with the Eyedropper tool
    • Adobe Color Picker overview
    • Choose a color with the Adobe Color Picker
    • Choose web-safe colors
    • Choose a CMYK equivalent for a non-printable color
    • Choose a spot color
    • Change the color picker
    • Color palette overview
    • Select a color in the Color palette
    • Select a color in the Swatches palette
    • Add, replace, and delete color swatches
    • Manage swatch libraries
    • Share swatches between applications
• Chapter 6: Color management
  • Understanding color management
    • Why colors sometimes don’t match
    • What is a color management system?
    • Do you need color management?
    • Creating a viewing environment for color management
  • Keeping colors consistent
    • About color management in Adobe applications
    • Basic steps for producing consistent color
    • Synchronize color settings across Adobe applications
    • Set up color management
    • Change the appearance of CMYK black (Illustrator, InDesign)
    • Managing process and spot colors
  • Color-managing imported images
    • Color-managing imported images (Illustrator, InDesign)
    • Using a safe CMYK workflow
    • Preparing imported graphics for color management
    • View or change profiles for imported bitmap images (InDesign)
  • Color-managing documents for online viewing
    • Color-managing documents for online viewing
    • Color-managing PDFs for online viewing
    • Color-managing HTML documents for online viewing
  • Proofing colors
    • Soft-proofing colors
    • Soft-proof colors
    • Save or load a custom proof setup
    • Soft-proof colors (Acrobat)
  • Color-managing documents when printing
    • Printing with color management
    • Letting the printer determine colors when printing
    • Letting the application determine colors when printing
    • Obtaining custom profiles for desktop printers
    • Color-managing PDFs for printing
  • Working with color profiles
    • About color profiles
    • About monitor calibration and characterization
    • Calibrate and profile your monitor
    • Install a color profile
    • Embed a color profile
    • Embed a color profile (Acrobat)
    • Changing the color profile for a document
    • Assign or remove a color profile (Illustrator, Photoshop)
    • Assign or remove a color profile (InDesign)
    • Convert document colors to another profile (Photoshop)
    • Convert document colors to another profile
  • Color settings
    • Customize color settings
    • About color working spaces
    • Working space options
    • About missing and mismatched color profiles
    • Color management policy options
    • Color conversion options
    • About rendering intents
    • Advanced controls in Photoshop
• Chapter 7: Making color and tonal adjustments
  • Viewing histograms and pixel values
    • About histograms
    • Histogram palette overview
    • View the histogram for a multilayered document
    • Preview histogram adjustments
    • Refresh the histogram display
    • View color values in an image
    • Adjusting color samplers
  • Understanding color adjustments
    • Before making color and tonal adjustments
    • Correcting images
    • Color adjustment commands
    • Make a color adjustment
    • Save and reapply adjustment dialog box settings
    • Correcting Colors in CMYK and RGB
    • Identify out-of-gamut colors
  • Adjusting image color and tone
    • Levels overview
    • Adjust tonal range using Levels
    • Adjust color using Levels
    • Curves overview
    • Adjust color and tonality with Curves
    • Color correct using the eyedroppers
    • Adjust hue and saturation
    • Convert a color image to black and white
    • Improve shadow and highlight detail
    • Add contrast to a photo
    • Adjust Exposure for HDR images
  • Targeting images for press
    • Setting highlight and shadow target values
    • Using Levels to preserve highlight and shadow details for printing
    • To set target values using the eyedroppers
  • Matching, replacing, and mixing colors
    • Match the color in different images
    • Replace the color of objects in an image
    • Mix color channels
    • Make selective color adjustments
  • Making quick image adjustments
    • Change the color balance using the Photo Filter command
    • Apply the Color Balance command
    • Apply the Brightness/Contrast command
    • Apply the Auto Levels command
    • Apply the Auto Contrast command
    • Remove a color cast with Auto Color
    • Set Auto adjustment options
    • Apply the Variations command
    • To use the Equalize command
  • Applying special color effects to images
    • Desaturate colors
    • Invert colors
    • Create a two-value black and white image
    • Posterize an image
    • Apply a gradient map to an image
• Chapter 8: Retouching and transforming
  • Adjusting crop, rotation, and canvas
    • Crop images
    • Transform perspective while cropping
    • Crop and Straighten photos
    • Rotate or flip an entire image
    • Change the canvas size
    • Make a photo frame
  • Retouching and repairing images
    • About the Clone Source palette
    • Retouch with the Clone Stamp tool
    • Set sample sources for cloning and healing
    • Retouch with the Healing Brush tool
    • Retouch with the Spot Healing Brush tool
    • Patch an area
    • Remove red eye
    • Replace color in image areas
    • Smudge image areas
    • Blur image areas
    • Sharpen image areas
    • Dodge or burn areas
    • Adjust color saturation in image areas
  • Correcting image distortion and noise
    • About lens distortion
    • Correct lens distortion and adjust perspective
    • Reduce image noise and JPEG artifacts
  • Adjusting image sharpness and blur
    • Sharpen images
    • Sharpen using Smart Sharpen
    • Sharpen using Unsharp Mask
    • Sharpen selectively
    • Add lens blur
  • Transforming objects
    • Apply transformations
    • Select an item to transform
    • Set or move the reference point for a transformation
    • Scale, rotate, skew, distort, apply perspective, or warp
    • Flip or rotate precisely
    • Repeat a transformation
    • Duplicate an item when transforming it
    • Transform freely
    • Warp an item
  • Liquify filter
    • Liquify filter overview
    • Distortion tools
    • Distort an image
    • Freeze and thaw areas
    • Reconstruct distortions
    • Work with meshes
    • Work with backdrops
  • Vanishing Point
    • About Vanishing Point
    • Vanishing Point dialog box overview
    • Work in Vanishing Point
    • About perspective planes and the grid
    • Define and adjust perspective planes in Vanishing Point
    • About selections in Vanishing Point
    • Fill selections with another area of an image
    • Copy selections in Vanishing Point
    • Paste an item into Vanishing Point
    • Paint with a color in Vanishing Point
    • Paint with sampled pixels in Vanishing Point
    • Measure in Vanishing Point
    • Export measurements, textures, and 3D information
    • Render grids to Photoshop
  • Create panoramic images
    • About Photomerge
    • Take pictures for use with Photomerge
    • Create a Photomerge composition
    • Create a photomerge interactively
• Chapter 9: Selecting
  • Making selections
    • About selecting pixels
    • Select, deselect, and reselect pixels
    • Select with the marquee tools
    • Select with the Lasso tool
    • Select with the Polygonal Lasso tool
    • Select with the Magnetic Lasso tool
    • Select with the Quick Selection tool
    • Select with the Magic Wand tool
    • Select a color range
  • Adjusting pixel selections
    • Move, hide, or invert a selection
    • Adjust selections manually
    • Expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
    • Create a selection around a selection border
    • Expand a selection to include areas with similar color
    • Clean up stray pixels in a color-based selection
    • Refine selection edges
    • Soften the edges of selections
    • Remove fringe pixels from a selection
  • Moving and copying selected pixels
    • Move a selection
    • Copy selections
    • Copy between applications
  • Deleting and extracting objects
    • Remove (cut) an object from a photo
    • Delete selected pixels
    • Extract an object from its background
  • Channels
    • About channels
    • Channels palette overview
    • Show or hide a channel
    • Show color channels in color
    • Select and edit channels
    • Rearrange and rename alpha and spot channels
    • Duplicate channels
    • Split channels into separate images
    • Merge channels
    • Delete a channel
  • Saving selections and using masks
    • About masks and alpha channels
    • Create a temporary quick mask
    • Change Quick Mask options
    • Create and edit alpha channel masks
    • Save and load selections
  • Channel calculations
    • Blending layers and channels
    • Blend channels with the Apply Image command
    • Blend channels with the Calculations command
    • Add and Subtract blending modes
• Chapter 10: Layers
  • Layer Basics
    • About layers
    • Layers palette overview
    • Convert background and layers
    • Create layers and groups
    • Duplicate layers
    • Show or hide a layer, group, or style
    • View layers and groups within a group
    • Sample from all visible layers
    • Change transparency preferences
  • Selecting, grouping, and linking layers
    • Select layers
    • Group and ungroup layers
    • Add layers to a group
    • Link and unlink layers
  • Moving, stacking, and locking layers
    • Change the stack order of layers and groups
    • Show layer edges and handles
    • Move the content of layers
    • Align objects on different layers
    • Distribute layers and groups evenly
    • Automatically align image layers
    • Auto blend layers
    • Rotate a layer
    • Lock layers
  • Managing layers
    • Rename a layer or group
    • Assign a color to a layer or group
    • Rasterize layers
    • Delete a layer or group
    • Export layers
    • Track file size
    • Merge and stamp layers
  • Setting opacity and blending
    • Specify opacity for a layer or group
    • Specify fill opacity for a layer
    • Specify a blending mode for a layer or group
    • Filling new layers with a neutral color
    • Create a knockout
    • Exclude channels from blending
    • Group blend effects
    • Specify a tonal range for blending layers
  • Layer effects and styles
    • About layer effects and styles
    • Apply preset styles
    • Layer Styles dialog box overview
    • Apply or edit a custom layer style
    • Layer style options
    • Modify layer effects with contours
    • Set a global lighting angle for all layers
    • Display or hide layer styles
    • Create and manage preset styles
    • Copy layer styles
    • Scale a layer effect
    • Remove layer effects
    • Convert a layer style to image layers
  • Adjustment and fill layers
    • About adjustment layers and fill layers
    • Create adjustment and fill layers
    • Edit an adjustment or fill layer
    • Merging adjustment layers or fill layers
  • Nondestructive editing
    • About nondestructive editing
    • About Smart Objects
    • Create Smart Objects
    • Duplicate a Smart Object
    • Edit the content of a Smart Object
    • Replace the contents of a Smart Object
    • Export the contents of a Smart Object
    • Convert a Smart Object to a layer
    • About Smart Filters
    • Apply a Smart Filter
    • Edit a Smart Filter
    • Hide Smart Filters
    • Reorder, duplicate, or delete Smart Filters
    • Mask Smart Filters
  • Layer comps
    • About layer comps
    • Create a layer comp
    • Apply and view layer comps
    • Change and update a layer comp
    • Clear layer comp warnings
    • Delete a layer comp
    • Export layer comps
  • Masking layers
    • About layer and vector masks
    • Add layer masks
    • Edit a layer mask
    • Select and display the layer mask channel
    • Disable or enable a layer mask
    • Change the layer mask rubylith color or opacity
    • Add and edit vector masks
    • Unlinking layers and masks
    • Apply or delete a layer mask
    • Load a layer or layer mask’s boundaries as a selection
    • Mask layers with clipping masks
    • Combine multiple images into a group portrait
• Chapter 11: Painting
  • Painting tools
    • About painting tools, options, and palettes
    • Paint with the Brush tool or Pencil tool
    • Paint tool options
    • Paint with a pattern
    • Paint with the Art History Brush
    • Erase with the Eraser tool
    • Change similar pixels with the Magic Eraser tool
    • Change pixels to transparent with the Background Eraser tool
    • Auto Erase with the Pencil tool
    • Changing the brush cursor
  • Brush presets
    • Select a preset brush
    • Change how preset brushes are displayed
    • Load, save, and manage brush presets
    • Create a new preset brush
  • Creating and modifying brushes
    • Brushes palette overview
    • Create a brush tip from an image
    • Create a brush and set painting options
    • Brush tip shape options
    • Adding brush dynamics
    • Brush shape dynamics
    • Brush scattering
    • Textured brush options
    • Dual brushes
    • Color dynamics Brush options
    • Other dynamics brush options
    • Other Brush options
    • Copy textures between tools
    • Clear brush options
    • Set pen sensitivity for graphics tablets
  • Blending modes
    • About blending modes
    • List of blending modes
    • Blending mode examples
  • Gradients
    • Apply a gradient fill
    • Manage gradient presets
    • Gradient Editor overview
    • Create a smooth gradient
    • Specify the gradient transparency
    • Create a noise gradient
  • Filling and stroking selections, layers, and paths
    • Fill with the Paint Bucket tool
    • Fill a selection or layer with a color
    • Fill the work canvas
    • Fill a selection with a pattern
    • Stroke a selection or layer with color
    • Stroke a path with color
    • Draw a circle or square
  • Creating and managing patterns
    • About patterns
    • Define an image as a preset pattern
    • Manage pattern libraries and presets
    • Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
• Chapter 12: Drawing
  • Drawing vector graphics
    • Drawing shapes and paths
    • Drawing modes
  • Drawing shapes
    • Create a shape on a shape layer
    • Draw multiple shapes in a layer
    • Draw a wheel shape
    • Draw a custom shape
    • Save a shape or path as a custom shape
    • Create a rasterized shape
    • Edit shapes
    • Shape tool options
  • Drawing with the Pen tools
    • About the Pen tools
    • Draw straight line segments with the Pen tool
    • Draw curves with the Pen tool
    • Finish drawing a path
    • Draw straight lines followed by curves
    • Draw curves followed by straight lines
    • Draw two curved segments connected by a corner
    • Draw with the Freeform Pen tool
    • Draw using the magnetic pen options
  • Managing paths
    • Paths palette overview
    • Create a new path in the Paths palette
    • Create a new work path
    • Manage paths
  • Editing paths
    • Path segments, components, and points
    • Select a path
    • Adjust path segments
    • Adjust path components
    • Add or delete anchor points
    • Convert between smooth points and corner points
  • Converting between paths and selection borders
    • Convert paths to selection borders
    • Convert a selection to a path
  • Adding color to paths
    • Fill paths with color
    • Stroke paths with color
• Chapter 13: Filters
  • Filter basics
    • Using filters
    • Apply a filter from the Filter menu
    • Filter Gallery overview
    • Apply filters from the Filter Gallery
    • Blend and fade filter effects
    • Tips for creating special effects
    • Improve filter performance
  • Filter effects reference
    • Artistic filters
    • Blur filters
    • Brush Stroke filters
    • Distort filters
    • Noise filters
    • Pixelate filters
    • Render filters
    • Sharpen filters
    • Sketch filters
    • Stylize filters
    • Texture filters
    • Video filters
    • Other filters
    • Digimarc filters
    • Vanishing Point
  • Applying specific filters
    • Load images and textures for filters
    • Set texture and glass surface controls
    • Defining undistorted areas
    • Apply the Dust And Scratches filter
    • Apply the Displace filter
    • Apply the Color Halftone filter
    • Apply the Extrude filter
    • Apply the Trace Contour filter
    • Create a Custom filter
  • Add Lighting Effects
    • Apply the Lighting Effects filter
    • Lighting Effects types
    • Adjust an Omni light
    • Adjust directional light using the preview window
    • Adjust the spotlight using the preview window
    • Lighting Effects styles
    • Add or delete a light
    • Create, save, or delete a Lighting Effects style
    • Use the Texture Channel in the Lighting Effects
• Chapter 14: Type
  • Creating type
    • About type and type layers
    • Entering type
    • Enter point type
    • Enter paragraph type
    • Resize or transform a type bounding box
    • Convert between point type and paragraph type
  • Editing text
    • Edit text
    • Specify curly or straight quotes
    • Apply anti-aliasing to a type layer
    • Check and correct spelling
    • Find and replace text
    • Assign a language for text
    • Change the orientation of a type layer
    • Rasterize type layers
  • Formatting characters
    • About character formatting
    • Select characters
    • Character palette overview
    • About Dynamic Shortcuts
    • Specify type size
    • Change the type color
    • Change the color of individual letters
    • Underline or strike through text
    • Apply all caps or small caps
    • Specify superscript or subscript characters
  • Fonts
    • About fonts
    • Previewing fonts
    • Choose a font family and style
    • Change the font on multiple layers
    • About missing fonts and glyph protection
    • OpenType fonts
    • Apply OpenType features
  • Line and character spacing
    • Set leading
    • Kern and track
    • Shift the baseline
    • Turn fractional character widths off or on
  • Scaling and rotating type
    • Adjust the scale of type
    • Rotate type
    • Rotate vertical type characters
  • Formatting paragraphs
    • Format paragraphs
    • Paragraph palette overview
    • Specify alignment
    • Specify justification for paragraph type
    • Adjust word and letter spacing in justified text
    • Indent paragraphs
    • Adjust paragraph spacing
    • Specify hanging punctuation for Roman fonts
    • Adjust hyphenation automatically
    • Prevent words from breaking
    • Composition methods
  • Creating type effects
    • About type effects
    • Create and edit type on a path
    • Warp and unwarp type
    • Create a work path from type
    • Convert type to shapes
    • Create a type selection border
    • Add a drop shadow to text
    • Fill type with an image
  • Asian type
    • About Asian type
    • Display and set Asian type options
    • Reduce spacing around Asian type characters
    • Specify how leading is measured in Asian type
    • Use tate-chu-yoko
    • Align Asian characters
    • Specify left and right underlining with Asian type
    • Set Asian OpenType font attributes
    • Asian OpenType options
    • Choose a mojikumi set
    • Choose kinsoku shori settings for a paragraph
    • Specify a kinsoku line-breaking option
    • Specify a burasagari option
• Chapter 15: Saving and exporting images
  • Saving images
    • Saving image files
    • Save a file
    • Set file saving preferences
    • Save large documents
    • Testing Photoshop images for mobile devices with Adobe Device Central
    • Create mobile content with Adobe Device Central and Photoshop
  • Saving PDF files
    • Saving files in Photoshop PDF format
    • Save a file in Photoshop PDF format
    • Adobe PDF presets
    • About PDF/X and PDF/A standards
    • PDF compatibility levels
    • General options for Adobe PDF
    • Compression and downsampling options for Adobe PDF
    • Color management and PDF/X options for Adobe PDF
    • Adding security to PDF files
    • Save an Adobe PDF preset
    • Load, edit, or delete Adobe PDF presets
  • Saving and exporting files in other formats
    • Save a file in TIFF format
    • Save a file in JPEG format
    • Save a file in PNG format
    • Save a file in GIF format
    • Save a file in Photoshop EPS format
    • Save a file in Photoshop DCS format
    • Save a file in Photoshop Raw format
    • Save a file in BMP format
    • Save a 16-bits-per-channel file in Cineon format
    • Save a file in Targa format
    • Save a file in JPEG 2000 format (optional Photoshop plug-in)
    • Export layers to files
  • File formats
    • About file formats and compression
    • Maximize compatibility when saving files
    • Photoshop format (PSD)
    • Photoshop 2.0 format
    • Photoshop DCS 1.0 and 2.0 formats
    • Photoshop EPS format
    • Photoshop Raw format
    • Digital Negative format (DNG)
    • BMP format
    • Cineon format
    • DICOM format
    • Filmstrip format
    • GIF
    • IFF
    • JPEG format
    • JPEG 2000 format (Photoshop optional plug-in)
    • Large Document Format
    • OpenEXR format
    • PCX
    • PDF
    • PICT File
    • PICT Resource
    • Pixar format
    • PNG format
    • Portable Bit Map format
    • Radiance format
    • Scitex CT
    • Targa
    • TIFF
    • WBMP format
  • Metadata and annotations
    • About metadata
    • Annotating images
    • Add notes and audio annotations
    • Open and edit annotations
  • Adding and viewing Digimarc copyright protection
    • Read a Digimarc watermark
    • Adding digital copyright information
    • Before adding a digital watermark
    • Embed a watermark
    • Using the Watermark Durability setting
    • Check the signal strength meter
  • Presentations and photo layouts
    • Create a PDF presentation
    • Create a contact sheet
    • Place multiple photos into a picture package
    • Customize a picture package layout
  • Placing Photoshop images in other applications
    • Using Photoshop images in other applications
    • Prepare images for page-layout programs
    • Use Photoshop artwork in Adobe Illustrator
    • Create transparency using image clipping paths
    • Printing image clipping paths
    • Export paths to Adobe Illustrator
    • Link or embed an image using OLE (Windows only)
• Chapter 16: Printing
  • Printing from Photoshop
    • About printing
    • About desktop printing
    • Print images
    • Position and scale images
    • Print part of an image
    • Print vector data
  • Printing with color management
    • Let printer determine printed colors
    • Let Photoshop determine printed colors
    • Print a hard proof
    • Print targets for creating custom profiles
  • Printing images to a commercial printing press
    • Preparing images for press
    • Set output options
    • Selecting halftone screen attributes
    • Define the attributes of a halftone screen
    • Save or load halftone screen settings
    • Print separations from Photoshop
    • Prepare an image with spot channels for printing from another application
    • Change the encoding method
    • Create a color trap
    • Determine scan resolution for printing
  • Printing duotones
    • About duotones
    • Convert an image to duotone
    • Modify the duotone curve for a given ink
    • Specifying overprint colors
    • Adjust the display of overprint colors
    • Saving and loading duotone settings
    • View the individual colors of a duotone image
    • Printing duotones
    • Exporting duotone images to other applications
  • Printing spot colors
    • About spot colors
    • Create a new spot channel
    • Convert an alpha channel to a spot channel
    • Edit a spot channel to add or remove color
    • Change a spot channel’s color or solidity
    • Merge spot channels
    • Adjust overlapping spot colors
• Chapter 17: Web graphics
  • Working with web graphics
    • About web graphics
    • Creating rollovers
    • Export to Zoomify
    • Working with hexadecimal color values
  • Slicing web pages
    • About sliced web pages
    • Slice types
    • Slice a web page
    • Convert auto and layer-based slices to user slices
    • View slices and slice options
  • Modifying slices
    • Select one or more slices
    • Move, resize, and snap user slices
    • Divide user slices and auto slices
    • Duplicate slices
    • Copy and paste a slice
    • Combine slices
    • Change the stacking order of slices
    • Align and distribute user slices
    • Delete a slice
    • Lock all slices
  • Slice output options
    • Display the Slice Options dialog box
    • Specify a slice content type
    • Rename a slice
    • Choose a background color for a slice
    • Assign URL link information to an Image slice
    • Specify browser messages and Alt text
    • Add HTML text to a slice
  • Creating web photo galleries
    • About web photo galleries
    • Create a web photo gallery
    • Making sure that your colors match
    • Web photo gallery options
    • Web photo gallery styles
    • About customizing web photo gallery styles
    • Customize or create a web photo gallery style
    • Web photo gallery style tokens
  • Optimizing images
    • About optimization
    • Save For Web & Devices overview
    • Preview image gamma at different values
    • Optimize an image for the web
    • Save or delete optimization presets
    • Work with slices in the Save For Web & Devices dialog box
    • Compress a web graphic to a specific file size
    • Resize artwork while optimizing
    • Generate CSS layers for web graphics
    • Vary optimization based on a mask
    • Preview optimized images in a web browser
    • Save a file to e-mail
  • Web graphics optimization options
    • Web graphic formats
    • JPEG optimization options
    • GIF and PNG-8 optimization options
    • Optimize transparency in GIF and PNG images
    • View the color table for an optimized slice
    • Customize the color table for GIF and PNG-8 images
    • PNG-24 optimization options
    • WBMP optimization options
    • SWF optimization options (Illustrator)
    • SVG optimization options (Illustrator)
  • Output settings for web graphics
    • Set output options
    • HTML output options
    • Slice output options
    • Background output settings
    • Saving Files output settings
    • Include title and copyright information with an image
• Chapter 18: Video and animation
  • Video and animation in Photoshop
    • About animation
    • About video and video layers in Photoshop Extended
    • Supported video and image sequence formats (Photoshop Extended)
    • Animation palette overview
    • Switch animation modes (Photoshop Extended)
    • Specify timeline duration and frame rate (Photoshop Extended)
  • Creating images for video
    • About creating images for video
    • Aspect ratio
    • Create an image for use in video
    • Load video actions
    • Adjust pixel aspect ratio
    • Prepare images for use in After Effects
  • Import video files and image sequences (Photoshop Extended)
    • Open or import a video file (Photoshop Extended)
    • Import image sequences (Photoshop Extended)
    • Place a video or image sequence (Photoshop Extended)
    • Reload footage in a video layer (Photoshop Extended)
    • Replace footage in a video layer (Photoshop Extended)
  • Interpreting video footage (Photoshop Extended)
    • Interpret video footage (Photoshop Extended)
  • Painting frames in video layers (Photoshop Extended)
    • Paint frames in video layers (Photoshop Extended)
    • Cloning content in video and animation frames (Photoshop Extended)
    • Restore frames in video layers (Photoshop Extended)
    • Managing color in video layers (Photoshop Extended)
  • Editing video and animation layers (Photoshop Extended)
    • Transform video layers (Photoshop Extended)
    • Create new video layers
    • Set a work area (Photoshop Extended)
    • Specify when a layer appears in a video or animation (Photoshop Extended)
    • Remove footage from a layer (Photoshop Extended)
    • Lift work area (Photoshop Extended)
    • Extract work area (Photoshop Extended)
    • Split video layers (Photoshop Extended)
    • Group layers in a video or animation (Photoshop Extended)
    • Rasterize video layers (Photoshop Extended)
  • Creating frame animations
    • Frame animation workflow
    • Add frames to an animation
    • Select animation frames
    • Edit animation frames
    • Changing attributes of layers in animations
    • Copy and paste layers between frames
    • Create frames using tweening
    • Add a new layer every time you create a frame
    • Specify a delay time in frame animations
    • Choose a disposal method
    • Specify looping in frame animations
    • Delete an entire animation
  • Creating timeline animations (Photoshop Extended)
    • Timeline animation workflow (Photoshop Extended)
    • Use keyframes to animate layer properties (Photoshop Extended)
    • Choose interpolation method (Photoshop Extended)
    • Create hand-drawn animations (Photoshop Extended)
    • Insert, delete, or duplicate blank video frames (Photoshop Extended)
    • Specify onion skin settings (Photoshop Extended)
    • Convert frame and timeline animations (Photoshop Extended)
    • Open a multilayer animation
  • Preview video and animations
    • Preview a frame animation
    • Set the timeline area to be previewed (Photoshop Extended)
    • Previewing video or timeline animations (Photoshop Extended)
    • Preview your document on a video monitor
  • Save and export video and animations
    • Video and animation export formats
    • Optimize animation frames
    • Flatten frames into layers
    • Export video
    • Specify QuickTime Movie settings (Photoshop Extended)
    • Export image sequences
    • Alpha channel rendering in video and image sequences (Photoshop Extended)
• Chapter 19: Technical imaging
  • Photoshop and MATLAB (Photoshop Extended)
    • About Photoshop and MATLAB (Photoshop Extended)
    • Set up MATLAB and Photoshop (Photoshop Extended)
    • Connect/disconnect to Photoshop from MATLAB (Photoshop Extended)
    • Using help and getting started (Photoshop Extended)
    • MATLAB commands (Photoshop Extended)
    • Create a new document in MATLAB (Photoshop Extended)
  • DICOM files (Photoshop Extended)
    • About DICOM files (Photoshop Extended)
    • Open a DICOM file (Photoshop Extended)
    • Export DICOM frames as JPEG files (Photoshop Extended)
    • DICOM metadata (Photoshop Extended)
    • Animate DICOM files (Photoshop Extended)
  • Image Stacks (Photoshop Extended)
    • About image stacks (Photoshop Extended)
    • Creating an image stack (Photoshop Extended)
    • Use a script to create an image stack (Photoshop Extended)
  • Measurement (Photoshop Extended)
    • About measurement (Photoshop Extended)
    • Set the measurement scale (Photoshop Extended)
    • Use scale markers (Photoshop Extended)
    • Performing a measurement (Photoshop Extended)
    • Use the Measurement Log (Photoshop Extended)
  • Counting objects in an image (Photoshop Extended)
    • About counting (Photoshop Extended)
    • Manually count items in an image (Photoshop Extended)
    • Automatic counting using a selection (Photoshop Extended)
  • Working with 3D files (Photoshop Extended)
    • 3D files in Photoshop (Photoshop Extended)
    • Opening 3D files (Photoshop Extended)
    • Transforming 3D models (Photoshop Extended)
    • Editing 3D textures (Photoshop Extended)
    • Place 3D objects in an image (Photoshop Extended)
    • Save 3D files (Photoshop Extended)
• Chapter 20: Automating tasks
  • Automating with actions
    • About actions
    • Actions palette overview
    • Play an action on a file
    • Specify playback speed
    • Manage actions
    • Manage action sets
  • Creating actions
    • Recording actions
    • Record an action
    • Record a path
    • Insert a stop
    • Change settings when playing an action
    • Exclude commands from an action
    • Insert a non-recordable menu command
    • Edit and rerecord actions
  • Processing a batch of files
    • Convert files with the Image Processor
    • Process a batch of files
    • Create a droplet from an action
    • Batch and droplet processing options
  • Scripting
    • About scripting
    • Run a JavaScript
    • Set scripts and actions to run automatically
  • Creating data-driven graphics
    • About data-driven graphics
    • Define variables
    • Rename a variable
    • Define a data set
    • Preview or apply a data set
    • Generate graphics using data sets
    • Creating data sets in external files
    • Import a data set
    • Saving templates for use with other Adobe products
• Chapter 21: Keyboard shortcuts
  • Customizing keyboard shortcuts
    • About customizing keyboard shortcuts
    • Define new keyboard shortcuts
    • Clear shortcuts from a command or tool
    • Delete a set of shortcuts
  • Default keyboard shortcuts
    • Keys for selecting tools
    • Keys for selecting tools in the Extract toolbox
    • Keys for selecting tools in the Liquify toolbox
    • Keys for working with Extract, Liquify, and Pattern Maker
    • Keys for using the Filter Gallery
    • Keys for using the Refine Edge dialog box
    • Keys for using the Black-and-White dialog box
    • Keys for using the Camera Raw dialog box
    • Keys for using the Curves dialog box
    • Keys for using Photomerge
    • Keys for using Vanishing Point
    • Keys for working with blending modes
    • Keys for viewing images
    • Keys for selecting and moving objects
    • Keys for editing paths
    • Keys for painting objects
    • Keys for transforming selections, selection borders, and paths
    • Keys for selecting, editing, and navigating through text
    • Keys for formatting type
    • Keys for slicing and optimizing
    • Keys for using palettes
    • Keys for using the Actions palette
    • Keys for using the Animation palette
    • Keys for using the Animation palette Timeline Mode (Photoshop Extended Only)
    • Keys for using the Clone Source
    • Keys for using the Brushes palette
    • Keys for using the Channels palette
    • Keys for using the Color palette
    • Keys for using the History palette
    • Keys for using the Info palette
    • Keys for using the Layer Comps palette
    • Keys for using the Layers palette
    • Keys for using the Paths palette
    • Keys for using the Swatches palette
    • Keys for using Measurement (Photoshop Extended Only)
    • Keys for using 3D tools (Photoshop Extended)
    • Keys for working with DICOM files (Photoshop Extended)
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