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Taylor & Francis Advanced Photoshop Elements 4.0 For Digital Photographers by Philip Andrews
Once you have mastered the basics, this is the book to further develop your skills to get professional results with this ffordable software. Under Philips expert guidance you will be taken to the next evel, far beyond Elements basic concepts and skills so you can achieve the ptimum results from this powerful package. Philip includes details on how to push Elements to its limits as well as how to manage the digital workflow in general, covering scanner and camera capture techniques, advanced image changes, how to produce darkroom techniques digitally, as well as graphics capabilities and explaining how they all fit together. You will learn how to fix common scanning problems; make the most of dodging and burning-in techniques; adjust images for changes in color balance; set up a color managed workflow and much, much more! Chapter 1 - The Next Level A true photographers tool Elements basics Importing photos Basic organization Changing a pictures orientation Cropping and straightening Spreading your image tones Ridding your pictures of unwanted color casts Applying some sharpening Saving your images Basic Elements workflow Chapter 2 - Scanner and Camera Techniques The basics - resolution Image capture - input resolution 2.01 How many pixels do I need? The basics - color depth Discrete colors (or levels) Comparing bits 2.02 More colors equals better quality Global versus local enhancement Ensure quality capture and enhancement with 16 bit and RAW files The advantages of 16-Bit or High-Bit capture Common high-bit misconceptions 16-bit mode - Global Changes 8-bit mode - Local Changes Digital shooting technique Exposure Exposure control Two devices - the shutter and the aperture - control the amount of light that hits your cameras sensor. 2.03 Exposure compensation Frame-by-frame control 2. 04 Contrast 2.05 Color saturation 2.06 Image sharpness 2.07 White balance control Auto white balance Light source white balance settings 2.08 Applying fine-tuning automatically 2.09 Customizing your white balance 2.10 Shooting RAW for ultimate control Back to the beginning Interpolated color DIY RAW processing So what is in a RAW file? RAW processing in action The RAW advantage 2.11 Shooting workflows 2.12 Scanning resolution - Know where you are going before you start the journey 2.13 Color depth 2.14 Multi-sample 2.15 Highlight and shadow capture 2.16 Color cast correction 2.17 Dust and scratches Suitable for Elements 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0 Difficulty level - Basic 2.19 Color regeneration features 2.20 Scanning workflow Fixing common shooting problems 1. Focus not on main subject 2. Picture too light 3. Picture too dark 4. Subject too blurry 5. Flash off glass 6. Portrait too dark 7. Portrait too light Fixing common scanning problems: 1. Marks on the picture 2. Color picture appears black and white 3. Picture is too bright 4. Picture is too dark 5. Picture looks washed out 6. Writing is back to front 7. The picture has too much contrast 8. When I print my scanned picture it is fuzzy Chapter 3 - Photo Organization and Management 3.01 Add picture details in-camera 3.02 Organize photos whilst downloading 3.03 Captioning 3.04 Naming and renaming 3.05 Tagging your Photos 3.06 Auto Face Tagging 3.07 Collections and how to group photos 3.08 Changing your view 3.09 Locating files 3.10 Creating a backup 3.11 Versioning your edits 3.12 Creating image stacks Chapter 4 - Pathways to Editing in Elements Automatic editing Auto editing summary: 4.01 Auto Smart Fix 4.02 Adjust Smart Fix 4.03 Auto Red Eye Fix Automating editing of several pictures at once 4.04 Processing multiple files 4.05 Multi-selection editing Keystrokes for fast edits of multi-selected photos Semi-Automatic editing Semi-auto editing summary: Manual editing Manual editing summary: Chapter 5 - Image Changes- Beyond the basics Advanced selection techniques 3.01 Adding to and subtracting from selections 3.02 Using the Selection brush 3.03 Magical selections 3.04 Saving and loading selections 3.05 Modifying selections 3.07 Precise control of selection size Understanding layers Digital pictures are not always flat Types of layers Adding layers Viewing layers Manipulating layers Layer styles Blending modes and opacity Layer shortcuts Masking techniques 3.08 Painting masks with the Selection Brush 3.09 Fill and adjustment layer masks 3.11 Group with Previous masks 3.12 Changing the mode to grayscale 3.13 Desaturate the color file 3.14 A more sophisticated approach Advanced dodging and burning-in Pros Tip: Non-destructive dodging and burning-in 3.16 Erase back through tonal layers Enhance your poorly exposed pictures 3.17 Screening image layers to enhance tones Solving exposure problems when shooting 3.18 Adding detail to highlights and shadows Tinted monochromes 3.19 Using Hue and saturation to tone your pictures Split toning 3.20 Select and tone 3.21 Two-layer erase Black and white and color 3.22 Layer mask and gradient map Border techniques 3.23 Simple borders Brushed aluminium frame effect Dropped shadow frame effect Simple line border 3.24 Sophisticated edges using grayscale masks Grayscale mask border inverted Grayscale mask border 3.25 Add Noise filter 3.27 Non-destructive textures Chapter 6 - Darkroom Techniques on the Desktop 6.01 Diffusion printing Extending the technique 6.02 Instant film transfer effect A digital solution Desaturate the image tones Mottle the ink Apply a paper texture and colorThe paper color and texture is a critical part of the appeal of the transfer print. These two characteristics extend throughout the image itself and into the area that surrounds the picture. For this to occur in a digital facsimile it is necessary to provi Add the Polaroid frame 6.03 Using the Unsharp Mask filter to add contrast 6.04 Lith printing technique 6.05 Correcting perspective problems 6.06 Add emphasis with saturation 6.07 Restoring color to faded images 6.08 Cross-processing effects 6.09 Digital hand coloring 6.10 Realistic depth of field effects 6.11 Beyond the humble drop shadow 6.12 Ring flash shadow 6.13 Hidden Curves features Shadows/Highlights (from 3.0 onwards) Adjust Backlighting (version 1.0/2.0 only) Adjust Fill Flash (version 1.0/2.0 only) 6.14 Dust and scratches be gone 6.15 Combining images seamlessly 6.16 Believable montages - a step further Creating convincing montages: 6.17 Producing high-key pictures Gradient Map? 6.18 Correcting lens problems Correcting barrel distortion Correcting pincushion distortion 6.19 Change to old Sepia toned vignettes with old background 6.20 Painterly photos Changing to a pen and ink drawing (See a) Switching photographic tones with pastel strokes (See b) Creating a watercolour painting (See c) Pop art posters (See d) Chapter 7 - Making better Panoramas Advanced shooting techniques 7.01 Positioning the camera 7.02 Camera support Finding the nodal point 7.03 Exposure 7.04 Focus and zoom 7.05 Depth of field 7.06 White balance 7.07 Timing 7.08 Ensuring consistent overlap 7.09 Dealing with the moving subject 7.11 Coping with extremes of brightness 7.12 Creating artificially increased DOF 7.13 Correcting exposure differences 7.14 Adjusting for changes in color balance 7.15 Vertical panoramas 7.16 High resolution mosaics 7.17 Panoramic printing 7.18 Spinning panorama movies Converting flat pictures to spinning movies OPTION 1: Converting Photomerge output to the QuickTime movie format Free convert to QuickTime VR utilities: OPTION 2: Using Pano2Exe OPTION 3: Making web pages with a Java Applet based viewer 7.19 Panorama workflow Chapter 8 - Extending Your Web Abilities Open 24 7 Photo site styles Photo website styles Building web sites - the basics Creating web pages without writing HTML Website assets Images Headings Buttons Text Animation, sound and movies 8.01 HTML Photo Gallery web sites Choose the images Select a website style Adjust the website settings Generating the site 8.02 Customizing Web Photo Gallery templates Creating individual web assets using Photoshop Elements 8.03 Optimizing photos for the web File formats for images on the web How big is too big Pros Tips for good image compression: 8.04 Button creation Animated buttons - rollovers Animated headings 8.06 Making seamless backgrounds 8.07 Using background matting 8.08 Creating downloadable slide shows 8.09 Assembling the site 8.10 Uploading the site Chapter 9 - Producing Effective Graphics Revisiting painting and drawing basics 9.01 Controlling brush characteristics The More Options palette 9.02 Changing an existing brush 9.03 Creating a new brush 9.04 Text Creating simple type Creating paragraph text Basic text changes Reducing the jaggies Alignment and justification Font family and style Leading 9.05 Adding styles to text layers 9.06 Customizing shapes 9.07 Adding pictures to shapes 9.08 Using shapes as borders 9.09 Customizing the shapes you use Text and pictures 9.10 Images in text 9.11 Text in images 9.12 Realistic text and image montages 9.13 Hand drawn logos Pros Tip: Graphics tablets to the rescue 9.14 Reducing your pictures colors 9.15 Posterized pictures 9.16 Kaleidoscopic images Which images are suitable? 9.17 Presentation backgrounds (a) Lightening a soft edged selection (b) Fade to white (c) Dropped shadow text box Adding your backgrounds to a PowerPoint slide Chapter 10 - Finely Crafted Output Printing basics Creating millions of colors from as little as four Tones and colors made of dots The inkjet printer Laser Dye sublimation Other printing processes Image resolution vs printer resolution 10.01 Basic steps A little more sophistication Basic settings 10.02 Creating contact sheets 10.03 Multiple prints on a page Ensuring color consistency between devices CAPTURE EDIT &ENHANCE OUTPUT Color management and printing 10.04 Setting up a color managed workflow Scanners and cameras (a) (b) Monitors and screens (c) Image editing program - Photoshop Elements (d) New Options for Color Settings sRGB versus Adobe RGB Printer (e) 10.05 Calibrating your screen - Adobe Gamma 10.06 Calibrating your screen - ColorVision Spyder Getting intimate with your printer 10.07 Calibrating your printer - resolution, color, tone and sharpness tests Testing tones (a) Testing color (c) Testing sharpness (d) 10.08 Calibrating your printer - ColorVision PrintFIX 10.09 Making great black and white prints Choosing paper and inks Why use monochrome inks Specialist ink sets - the solution for monochrome printing Paper types 10.10 What about permanence? New doesnt always mean better Print systems are more than a sum of their parts Testing permanence Comparing apples with apples The WIR certification program 10.11 Preparing your images for professional outsourcing Outsourcing guidelines 10.12 Shoot small print big Upscaling techniques The results 10.13 Printing workflow Chapter 11 - Photo Creations* 11.01 Multimedia slide shows Photo Creations options Using the new editor 11.02 Producing a VCD with a menu 11.04 Publish a photo book 11.05 Book publishing without using Photo Creations 11.06 Online publishing options Kodak Gallery (www.kodakgallery.com) SharedInk (www.sharedink.com) PhotoWorks (www.photoworks.com) SnapFish (www.snapfish.com) MyPublisher (www.mypublisher.com) 11.07 Creating a greeting card 11.08 Making a Photo Greeting card 11.09 Your pictures month by month 11.10 Binding your calendar pages 11.11 Creating a web gallery Chapter 12 - Appendices Blend modes Plug-ins Jargon buster Keyboard shortcuts Elements/Photoshop feature equivalents Jargon buster.