Photoshop Workflow Setups
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2006
Book
Hardback
219 pages
978-0-596-10168-8 (ISBN)
Description
Weary of 800-page books that try to teach you everything about digital photography? You should be. Rather than delve into the nuances of efficient workflow, color management, or creating spectacular enhancements, these doorstop volumes tend to gloss over key information in an attempt to cover everything. Our new book series, "Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography", is different. An award-winning photographer, Eddie is acknowledged as one of the premier trainers of digital imaging in the world, a highly sought-after expert who educates many corporations, studios and agencies. In this series, he brings his teaching experience to bear on technical issues in six focused and affordable books on digital photography that offer one topic per volume with answers that are quick to find when you need them most. The first book, "Photoshop Workflow Setups: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography", offers a step-by-step approach for configuring key areas of Adobe Photoshop CS2 to create an efficient, visually uncluttered workspace.
Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use in a production environment-whether you're a serious amateur or a working professional. This highly-visual, well-designed book presents Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for you and your specific needs. With his easygoing and authoritative style, Eddie demonstrates how to: create an efficient workspace by using the "arrange" menu and setting the screen view; become familiar with palettes for layers, channels and paths, history and actions, color, swatches and styles, and more; set preferences for file handling, guides and grids, memory and image cache, and more; customize keyboard shortcuts and menus; work with Adobe Bridge; and use Photoshop's selection, painting, graphics, and vector tools, among others. In addition to this title, "Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography" will also focus on color management; advanced and professional production techniques; controlling digital color and tone; and creative enhancement techniques.
We're thrilled that Eddie Tapp has finally agreed to publish books - and with O'Reilly.
Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use in a production environment-whether you're a serious amateur or a working professional. This highly-visual, well-designed book presents Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for you and your specific needs. With his easygoing and authoritative style, Eddie demonstrates how to: create an efficient workspace by using the "arrange" menu and setting the screen view; become familiar with palettes for layers, channels and paths, history and actions, color, swatches and styles, and more; set preferences for file handling, guides and grids, memory and image cache, and more; customize keyboard shortcuts and menus; work with Adobe Bridge; and use Photoshop's selection, painting, graphics, and vector tools, among others. In addition to this title, "Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography" will also focus on color management; advanced and professional production techniques; controlling digital color and tone; and creative enhancement techniques.
We're thrilled that Eddie Tapp has finally agreed to publish books - and with O'Reilly.
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Eddie Tapp is an award-winning photographer, lecturer, consultant and author on digital imaging issues with over 20 years of experience in computer technology. Eddie has shared his knowledge worldwide through a series of instructional CDs on Professional Enhancement Techniques, Color Management and Digital Workflow available from Software Cinema, as well as numerous contributions to publications such as "The Professional Photographer", "Photo Electronic Imaging", "Infoto Magazine", "Southern Exposure", and "Digital Capture" among others. Currently the Director of the Institute of Visual Arts in Maui, Hawaii, Eddie served 6 years as the Chairman of the Committee on Digital and Advanced Imaging for the Professional Photographers of America where he holds the Master of Photography, Master of Electronic Imaging & Photographic Craftsman degrees, API (Approved Photographic Instructor), and is a Certified Professional Photographer. He also is the Commercial Council representative to PPA for the GPPA. Eddie serves on Adobe's Photoshop beta team and on NAPP's (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) Photoshop Dream Team.
Content
Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Creating Efficient Workspaces in Photoshop Setting p an Efficient Workspace Using the Arrange Menu Setting Your Screen View Reading the Status Bar Configuring Bridge for Efficient Workflow Chapter 2 Getting Familiar with Palettes Review of the Key Palettes Layers, Channels and Paths Palettes History and Action Palettes Color, Swatches and STyles Palettes Navigator, Info and Histogram Palettes The Tool Presets Palette The Brushes Palette A Few Remaining Key Palettes Chapter 3 Setting Importnat Preferences Preference Directory General Preferences File Handling Preferences Guides and Grids Scratch Disk and Plug-ins Memory and Image Cache Displays, Transparency and Type Chapter 4 Customizing Keyboards Shortcuts and Menus Getting Control Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts Summarizing Shortcuts Customizing Menus Chapter 5 Working in Bridge Bridge Panels and features Navigating Bridge Setting Bridge Preferences XMP Sidecar Files Workflow Automations and Actions Rating and Labeling Using the Slide Show in Bridge Acessing Camera Raw from Bridge Chapter 6 Tapping into the Tools Tips for Tools Selection Tools Painting Tools Graphics Tools Vector Tools Methodical Tools Index