Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Get picture perfect with Photoshop CC

Photoshop is a stunning program that puts the power of a professional photography studio into your hands, but it can also be a jungle to navigate--with a dense proliferation of menus, panels, shortcuts, plug-ins, and add-ons to get thoroughly lost in. Written by a literal Photoshop Hall of Famer, the new edition of Photoshop CC For Dummies is your experienced guide to the technical terrain, slashing away the foliage for a clear picture of how to produce the perfectly framed and beautifully curated images you want.

Beginning with an overview of the basic kit bag you need for your journey toward visual mastery, Peter Bauer--Photoshop instructor and an award-winning fine art photographer in his own right--shows you how to build your skills and enrich your creative palette with enhanced colors and tone, filters and layering, and even how undertake a foray into digital painting. Add in instructions on combining text with images and the how-tos of video and animation editing, and you have all the tools you need to carve out a one-person multimedia empire.

You'll find everything on the latest version of the software that you could dream of--and an improved shot at artistic success!

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 1)
• About This Book (p. 1)
• Conventions Used in This Book (p. 2)
• Icons Used in This Book (p. 3)
• How to Use This Book (p. 3)
• Part 1 Getting Started with Photoshop CC (p. 5)
• Chapter 1 An Overview of Photoshop (p. 7)
• Exploring Adobe Photoshop (p. 7)
• What Photoshop is designed to do (p. 8)
• Other things you can do with Photoshop (p. 9)
• Viewing Photoshop's Parts and Processes (p. 10)
• Reviewing basic computer operations (p. 10)
• Photoshop's incredible selective Undo (p. 12)
• Installing Photoshop: Need to know (p. 14)
• Chapter 2 Knowing Just Enough about Digital Images (p. 17)
• What Exactly Is a Digital Image? (p. 18)
• The True Nature of Pixels (p. 18)
• How Many Pixels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? (p. 21)
• Resolution revelations (p. 21)
• Resolving image resolution (p. 22)
• File Formats: Which Do You Need? (p. 30)
• Formats for digital photos (p. 31)
• Formats for web graphics (p. 33)
• Formats for commercial printing (p. 34)
• Formats for PowerPoint and Word (p. 36)
• Chapter 3 Taking the Chefs Tour of Your Photoshop Kitchen (p. 37)
• Food for Thought: How Things Work (p. 38)
• Ordering from the menus (p. 39)
• Your platter full of panels (p. 40)
• The tools of your trade (p. 42)
• Get Cookin' with Customization (p. 44)
• Clearing the table: Custom workspaces (p. 44)
• Spoons can't chop: Creating tool presets (p. 47)
• Season to Taste: The Photoshop Settings (p. 48)
• Standing orders: Setting the Preferences (p. 48)
• Ensuring consistency: Color Settings (p. 55)
• When Good Programs Go Bad: Fixing Photoshop (p. 57)
• Chapter 4 From Pics to Prints: Photoshop for Beginners (p. 59)
• Bringing Images into Photoshop (p. 59)
• Downloading from your digital camera (p. 60)
• Scanning prints (p. 61)
• Keeping Your Images Organized (p. 66)
• Creating a folder structure (p. 66)
• Using Adobe Bridge (p. 67)
• Renaming image files easily (p. 69)
• Printing Your Images (p. 71)
• Cropping to a specific aspect ratio (p. 71)
• Remembering resolution (p. 73)
• Controlling color using File print (p. 74)
• Considering color management solutions (p. 75)
• Printing alternatives (p. 76)
• Sharing Your Images (p. 77)
• Emailing and AirDropping your images (p. 78)
• Creating PDFs and websites (p. 78)
• Part 2 Easy Enhancements for Digital Images (p. 79)
• Chapter 5 Making Tonality and Color Look Natural (p. 81)
• Adjusting Tonality to Make Your Images Pop (p. 82)
• Histograms Simplified (p. 82)
• Using Photoshop's Auto Corrections (p. 84)
• Levels and Curves and You (p. 85)
• Level-headed you! (p. 86)
• Tonal corrections with the eyedroppers (p. 89)
• Adjusting your curves without dieting (p. 90)
• Grabbing Even More Control (p. 92)
• Using Shadows/Highlights (p. 93)
• Changing exposure after the fact (p. 96)
• Using Photoshop's toning tools (p. 96)
• What Is Color in Photoshop? (p. 97)
• Which color mode should you choose? (p. 98)
• Does a color model make a difference? (p. 101)
• Why should you worry about color depth? (p. 102)
• Making Color Adjustments in Photoshop (p. 104)
• Choosing color adjustment commands (p. 106)
• Manual corrections in individual channels (p. 117)
• The People Factor: Flesh Tone Formulas (p. 118)
• Chapter 6 The Adobe Camera Raw Plug-In (p. 121)
• Understanding the Raw Facts (p. 121)
• What's the big deal about Raw? (p. 123)
• Working in Raw (p. 124)
• The Camera Raw interface (p. 126)
• Camera Raw's Tools and buttons (p. 126)
• The histogram (p. 132)
• The preview area (p. 132)
• Workflow Options and presets (p. 133)
• Making Adjustments in Camera Raw's Edit Panel (p. 134)
• The Basic section (p. 134)
• The Curve section (p. 137)
• The Detail section (p. 137)
• The Color Mixer section (p. 138)
• The Color Grading section (p. 138)
• The Optics and Geometry sections (p. 140)
• The Effects section (p. 141)
• The Calibration section (p. 141)
• The Camera Raw Cancel, Done, and Open buttons (p. 142)
• Chapter 7 Fine-Tuning Your Fixes (p. 143)
• What Is a Selection? (p. 144)
• Feathering and Anti-aliasing (p. 146)
• Making Your Selections with Tools (p. 148)
• Marquee selection tools (p. 148)
• Lasso selection tools (p. 152)
• The Object Selection tool (p. 153)
• The Quick Selection tool (p. 153)
• The Magic Wand tool (p. 154)
• Select and Mask (p. 155)
• Your Selection Commands (p. 156)
• The primary selection commands (p. 157)
• The Color Range command 1.58
• The Focus Area command (p. 159)
• The Select Subject command (p. 160)
• The Select Sky command (p. 161)
• Selection modification commands (p. 161)
• Transforming the shape of selections (p. 161)
• Edit in Quick Mask mode (p. 163)
• The mask-related selection commands (p. 164)
• Masks: Not Just for Halloween Anymore (p. 164)
• Saving and loading selections (p. 165)
• Editing an alpha channel (p. 165)
• Adding masks to layers and Smart Objects (p. 167)
• Masking with vector paths (p. 167)
• Adjustment Layers: Controlling Changes (p. 168)
• Adding an adjustment layer (p. 168)
• Limiting your adjustments (p. 170)
• Chapter 8 Common Problems and Their Cures (p. 173)
• Making People Prettier (p. 174)
• Getting the red out ... digitally (p. 174)
• The digital fountain of youth (p. 175)
• Dieting digitally (p. 176)
• De-glaring glasses (p. 179)
• Whitening teeth (p. 179)
• Reducing Noise in Your Images (p. 179)
• Decreasing digital noise (p. 180)
• Eliminating luminance noise (p. 181)
• Fooling Around with Mother Nature (p. 181)
• Removing the unwanted from photos (p. 181)
• Eliminating the lean: Fixing perspective (p. 185)
• Rotating images precisely (p. 187)
• Adding a beautiful sky (p. 188)
• Part 3 Creating "Art" in Photoshop (p. 189)
• Chapter 9 Combining Images (p. 191)
• Compositing Images: 1 + 1 = 1 (p. 192)
• Understanding layers (p. 192)
• Why you should use Smart Objects (p. 194)
• Using the basic blending modes (p. 195)
• Opacity, transparency, and layer masks (p. 198)
• Creating clipping groups (p. 199)
• Making composited elements look natural (p. 200)
• Making Complex Selections (p. 201)
• Vanishing Point (p. 204)
• Creating Panoramas with Photomerge (p. 208)
• Chapter 10 Precision Edges with Vector Paths (p. 211)
• Pixels, Paths, and You (p. 212)
• Easy Vectors: Using Shapes (p. 213)
• Your basic shape tools (p. 214)
• The Custom Shape tool (p. 216)
• More custom shapes - free! (p. 217)
• Changing the appearance of the shape layer (p. 219)
• Simulating a multicolor shape layer (p. 220)
• Using Your Pen Tool to Create Paths (p. 221)
• Understanding paths (p. 222)
• Clicking and dragging your way down the path of knowledge (p. 222)
• A closer look at the Paths panel (p. 226)
• Customizing Any Path (p. 229)
• Adding, deleting, and moving anchor points (p. 230)
• Combining paths (p. 232)
• Tweaking type for a custom font (p. 233)
• Chapter 11 Dressing Up Images with Layer Styles (p. 235)
• What Are Layer Styles? (p. 235)
• Using the Styles Panel (p. 237)
• Creating Custom Layer Styles (p. 239)
• Exploring the Layer Style menu (p. 239)
• Exploring the Layer Style dialog box (p. 241)
• Layer effects basics (p. 242)
• Opacity, fill, and advanced blending (p. 251)
• Saving Your Layer Styles (p. 254)
• Adding styles to the Styles panel (p. 254)
• Preserving your layer styles (p. 255)
• Chapter 12 Giving Your Images a Text Message (p. 257)
• Making a Word Worth a Thousand Pixels (p. 258)
• A type tool for every season, or reason (p. 260)
• What are all those options? (p. 262)
• Taking control of your text with panels (p. 266)
• The panel menus - even more options (p. 269)
• Working with Styles (p. 271)
• Putting a picture in your text (p. 272)
• Creating Paragraphs with Type Containers (p. 274)
• Selecting alignment or justification (p. 276)
• Ready, BREAK! Hyphenating your text (p. 277)
• Shaping Up Your Language with Warp Text and Type on a Path (p. 278)
• Applying the predefined warps (p. 278)
• Customizing the course with paths (p. 279)
• Chapter 13 Painting in Photoshop (p. 283)
• Discovering Photoshop's Painting Tools (p. 284)
• Painting with the Brush tool (p. 286)
• Adding color with the Pencil tool (p. 289)
• Removing color with the Eraser tool (p. 289)
• Working with Panels and Selecting Colors (p. 290)
• An overview of options (p. 290)
• Creating and saving custom brush tips (p. 293)
• Picking a color (p. 294)
• Fine Art Painting with Specialty Brush Tips and the Mixer Brush (p. 297)
• Exploring erodible brush tips (p. 297)
• Introducing airbrush and watercolor tips (p. 297)
• Mixing things up with the Mixer Brush (p. 298)
• Filling, Stroking, Dumping, and Blending Colors (p. 300)
• Deleting and dumping to add color (p. 300)
• Using gradients (p. 301)
• Chapter 14 Filters: The Fun Side of Photoshop (p. 305)
• Smart Filters: Your Creative Insurance Policy (p. 306)
• The Filters You Really Need (p. 307)
• Sharpening to focus the eye (p. 308)
• Unsharp Mask (p. 308)
• Smart Sharpen (p. 310)
• Shake Reduction (p. 311)
• Blurring images and selections (p. 312)
• The other Blur filters (p. 315)
• Correcting for the vagaries of lenses (p. 316)
• Cleaning up with Reduce Noise (p. 320)
• Getting Creative and Artistic (p. 321)
• Photo to painting with the Oil Paint filter (p. 321)
• Working with the Filter Gallery (p. 322)
• Push, Pull, and Twist with Liquify (p. 325)
• What Are Neural Filters? (p. 327)
• The original Neural Filters (p. 328)
• Neural Filters in public beta testing (p. 329)
• Proposed Neural Filters (p. 330)
• Do I Need Those Other Filters? (p. 330)
• Adding drama with Lighting Effects (p. 331)
• Maximum and Minimum (p. 331)
• Bending and bubbling (p. 332)
• Creating clouds (p. 332)
• Part 4 Power Photoshop (p. 333)
• Chapter 15 Streamlining Your Work in Photoshop (p. 335)
• Ready, Set, Action! (p. 336)
• Recording your own Actions (p. 337)
• Working with the Batch command (p. 342)
• Find It Fast with Discover (p. 344)
• Creating Contact Sheets and Presentations (p. 344)
• Creating a PDF presentation (p. 345)
• Collecting thumbnails in a contact sheet (p. 347)
• Scanning Multiple Photos in One Pass (p. 349)
• Sticking to the Script (p. 350)
• Chapter 16 Working with Video and Animation (p. 353)
• Importing and Enhancing Video Clips (p. 353)
• Getting video into Photoshop (p. 354)
• Adjusting the length of video and audio clips (p. 356)
• Adding adjustment layers and painting on video layers (p. 357)
• Transitioning, titling, and adding special effects (p. 358)
• Transforming video layers (p. 361)
• Rendering and exporting video (p. 361)
• Creating Animations in Photoshop (p. 362)
• Building frame-based animations (p. 362)
• Creating frame content (p. 363)
• Tweening to create intermediary frames (p. 365)
• Specifying frame rate (p. 366)
• Optimizing and saving your animation (p. 366)
• Part 5 The Part of Tens (p. 367)
• Chapter 17 Ten Specialized Features of Photoshop CC (p. 369)
• Using Smart Object Stack Modes (p. 370)
• The Mean Stack Mode (p. 372)
• Working with 3D Artwork (p. 372)
• Creating 3D objects (p. 373)
• Adding 3D objects (p. 373)
• Rendering and saving 3D scenes (p. 374)
• Measuring, Counting, and Analyzing Pixels (p. 374)
• Measuring length, area, and more (p. 374)
• Calculating with Vanishing Point (p. 376)
• Counting crows or maybe avian flu (p. 376)
• Viewing Your DICOM Medical Records (p. 377)
• Ignoring MATLAB (p. 378)
• Chapter 18 Ten Ways to Integrate Your iPad (p. 379)
• Using Sidecar to Add an iPad to Your Screen (p. 379)
• Sidecar System Requirements (p. 380)
• Arranging Your iPad's Screen (p. 380)
• Mirroring the Screens (p. 381)
• Maximizing the Screen Space (p. 381)
• Making Use of Photoshop on the iPad (p. 382)
• Using the Cloud with Photoshop on the iPad and Desktop (p. 383)
• Using Other Adobe iPad Apps (p. 384)
• Does the IPad Replace My Wacom Tablet? (p. 384)
• Setting Wacom Tablet Preferences for Touch Keys and Touch Ring (p. 385)
• Chapter 19 Ten Things to Know about HDR (p. 387)
• Understanding HDR (p. 387)
• Capturing for Merge to HDR Pro (p. 389)
• Preparing Raw "Exposures" in Camera Raw (p. 390)
• Working with Merge to HDR Pro (p. 391)
• Saving 32-Bit HDR Images (p. 394)
• HDR Toning (p. 394)
• Painting and the Color Picker in 32-Bit (p. 395)
• Filters and Adjustments in 32-Bit (p. 396)
• Selections and Editing in 32-Bit (p. 397)
• Printing HDR Images (p. 397)
• Appendix: Photoshop CC's Blending Modes (p. 399)
• Index (p. 403)