Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 The Foundations |
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2 | (9) |
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3 | (1) |
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Concepts of a Layer-Based Work Flow |
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About Try It Now! Exercises |
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Try It Now: Experiencing Layers |
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Create a Layer for Every Change |
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Try It Now: Duplicate and Create Layers |
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Focus Application of Change by Controlling Active Layers |
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Selectively Hide and Reveal Layer Content |
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Organize Layers to Keep Your Sanity Claus |
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Arrange Content Hierarchy |
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29 | (2) |
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Merge Layers for Image Efficiency |
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Use Smart Objects for Productivity and Consistency |
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Use Layer Comps for Previews and Versioning |
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Getting Started Creating Layers: An Exercise |
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Try It Now: Add a Drop Shadow and Copyright |
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35 | (5) |
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40 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Targeting Change with Layers |
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Adding Layers for a Change |
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44 | (1) |
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Isolating Correction in Adjustment Layers |
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Levels Adjustment Layers for Tone and Color Correction |
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Detailing the Levels Slider Changes |
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Try It Now: Applying Levels for Color Correction |
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50 | (4) |
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Try It Now: Adjustment Layer History Comparison |
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54 | (3) |
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57 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Applying a Color Balance Adjustment Layer |
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57 | (2) |
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Repair and Cleanup in Layers |
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59 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Clone Stamp and Healing Repairs in Layers |
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60 | (4) |
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64 | (1) |
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Chapter 3 Targeting Change by Isolation and Masking |
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Methods of Isolating Change |
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66 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Isolating Objects with Copy and Paste |
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Isolation by Freehand Masking |
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74 | (3) |
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Try It Now: A Quick Noise Example |
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Try It Now: Reducing Image Background Noise |
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79 | (5) |
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84 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Targeted Levels Correction Using Adjustment Layers and Masks |
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86 | (2) |
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Freehand Color Enhancements |
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Try It Now: Adding Handpainted Color Effects |
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88 | (2) |
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Isolating Change by Masking Tone |
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Extracting Brightness to Add Soft Focus |
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Try It Now: Isolating Highlights to Create a Soft-Focus Effect |
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Sharpen and Enhance Contrast |
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What Sharpening Does Well |
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Potential Negatives of Sharpening |
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Unsharp Mask Filter for Sharpening |
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Try It Now: Applying the Unsharp Mask Filter for Sharpening |
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Try It Now: Sharpening Selectively with Freehand Layer Masks |
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Try It Now: Sharpening Selectively with Clipping Layers |
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98 | (2) |
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Try It Now: Applying Blend If (Using "This Layer" Sliders) |
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Try It Now: Applying Blendlf (Using "Underlying" Sliders) |
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104 | (2) |
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Try It Now: Splitting Blend If Sliders |
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106 | (3) |
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Try It Now: Blend If to Target Change |
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Try It Now: Converting Blend If Targeting to a Mask |
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Try It Now: Applying a Knockout |
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Chapter 4 Applying Layer Effects and Styles |
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The Fundamentals of Effects and Styles |
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Try It Now: Basic Application of Styles |
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118 | (2) |
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120 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Deleting and Applying a Style |
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122 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Load New Styles |
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Try It Now: Making a Manual Drop Shadow |
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Automated Manual Effects Tools |
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Try It Now: Automating Manual Effects with Actions |
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Combining Manual Effects and Styles |
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Try It Now: Combining Manual and Canned Styles |
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128 | (4) |
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Try It Now: Comparing Fill and Opacity |
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133 | (1) |
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Chapter 5 Exploring Layer Modes |
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Luminosity and Color Modes for Targeted Layer Change |
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136 | (2) |
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Try It Now: Separating Color and Tone |
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138 | (3) |
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Try It Now: Color Layer Color Enhancement |
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Layer-based Sharpening Calculation with Modes |
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142 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Manual Unsharp Masking with Layer Modes |
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143 | (4) |
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147 | (1) |
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Extracting RGB Components |
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149 | (1) |
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Try It Now: RGB Light Separation |
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149 | (3) |
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Try It Now: RGB Black-and-white As Color |
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152 | (2) |
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154 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Using Separations for Better Black-and-white |
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155 | (3) |
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Try It Now: A Black-and-white Variation Based on the Red Component |
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Chapter 6 Taking an Image through the Process |
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161 | (22) |
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162 | (1) |
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Applying the Image Editing Checklist |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (4) |
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167 | (14) |
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181 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 Making a Composite Image |
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183 | (26) |
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184 | (3) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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Shooting Multiple Source Images with Purpose |
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187 | (4) |
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Set Up and Collecting Images for Panoramas |
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188 | (2) |
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Using Automated Panoramic Tools |
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Try It Now: Make a Panorama with Photomerge |
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192 | (4) |
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Using Manual Methods to Create a Panorama |
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193 | (3) |
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196 | (2) |
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Create an HDR Image in Photoshop |
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198 | (1) |
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Try It Now: Creating an HDR Image |
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Try It Now: Automated HDR Conversion |
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Try It Now: Manual HDR Conversion |
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203 | (2) |
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Using the Masks Palette for Mask Adjustments |
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205 | (1) |
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Appendix 1 Quick Reference |
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Appendix 2 Essential Non-Layer Concepts |
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Index |
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