Power, Speed & Automation with Adobe Photoshop (The Digital Imaging Masters Series)

337 Pages·2012·100.52 MB·English

by  Geoff Scott

POWER, SPEED& AUTOMATION
WITH ADOBEW PHOTOSHOPW
Titles in the Digital Imaging Masters Series: Praise for the series:
Power,Speed&AutomationwithAdobePhotoshop
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POWER, SPEED& AUTOMATION
WITH ADOBEW PHOTOSHOPW
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Contents
Foreword xiv
Introduction 2
Chapter1 CustomizingHowYouWorkinPhotoshop 9
KeyboardShortcuts 10
DiscoveringKeyboardShortcuts 10
UsefulKeyboardShortcutstoLearn 12
ChangingandCreatingKeyboardShortcuts 15
Menus 17
ChangingtheMenus 17
Frame,Docks,Bars,andPanels 18
MenuBar 19
ApplicationFrame 19
WorkArea 19
Docks 19
ApplicationBar 20
OptionsBar 21
ToolBar 22
TabGroups 22
Panels 26
Workspaces 28
UsefulStrategieswithWorkspaces 30
UsingMoreThanOneMonitor 30
Expose´ andSpaces 30
DocumentWindows 31
TabbedDocumentWindows 31
StandardScreenMode,FullScreenMode,FullScreen
ModewithMenus 31
ChangingtheBackgroundColor 34
FileInformationDisplays 34
Preferences 35
General 35
Interface 36
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Chapter2 CustomizingHowPhotoshopWorksforYou 41
Tools 42
ToolPresets 42
ToolPresetPicker 44
ToolPresetsPanel 46
PresetManager 46
SwatchesandStyles 47
GradientsandContours 49
PatternsandCustomShapes 51
Brushes 55
BrushPanel 55
BrushPresetsPanel 56
BrushPresetPicker 56
DefineBrushPreset 58
BrushPicker 59
Documents 59
NewDocumentPresets 59
AdobeCameraRawSettingsandPresets 60
DocumentMetadata 64
ColorSettings 64
WorkingColorSpace 65
Printing 67
ProofSetup 67
PrintSettings 68
Chapter3 OptimizingYourSystemforPhotoshop 71
Hardware 72
64-Versus32-BitArchitectures 72
HowtoRunin32-Bit 73
RAM:YourComputer’sShort-TermMemory 74
HardDrivesandScratchDisks 75
CPU:TheProcessor 76
GPUandVideoCards 76
OperatingSystem 77
Photoshop 77
NumberofHistoryStates 78
HistoryCache 78
CloseUnusedFiles 78
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ClearAvailableMemoryWithPurge 79
RunPhotoshopOnly 79
KeepPhotoshopUp-to-Date 79
Don’tOverloadPresets 79
TurnOffThumbnailDisplays 80
Chapter4 DuplicatingYourTasksinPhotoshop 83
IntroductiontoActions 84
ExaminingtheActionsPanel 84
OrganizingActions 84
CreatingActions 85
PlayingActions 86
DisablingActionSteps 87
UsingPlaybackOptions 87
EditingtheActionOptions 88
UsingButtonMode 88
EditingActions 89
ChangingtheSettingsofanActionStep 89
DuplicatinganAction 89
DeletingActionSteps 90
AddingStepstoanAction 90
ReorderingActionSteps 91
UsingFitImage 92
AddingMoreSteps 93
ArrangingLayers 94
SelectingLayersViaKeyboardShortcuts 95
InsertingaPathItem 97
StrokingaPath 98
Using“AlignLayersToSelection”toIntelligently
PositionObjects 99
RefiningActions 103
TogglingDialogs 103
InsertingStopItems 103
UsingHistorySnapshotsinConjunctionwith
Actions 104
InsertingMenuItems 104
UsingPercentageforUnits 107
RunninganActionfromAnother
Action 107
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CreatingActionsthatRunonDifferentComputers 108
SavingActions 109
LoadingActions 109
LearningMore 109
LearningbyDissectingExistingActions 109
CreatingActionsforTechniquesYouLearn
fromOthers 109
Chapter5 RepeatingTasksonManyFiles 113
BatchProcessing 114
Setup 114
BatchDialog 115
TroubleshootingBatchProcessing 116
UnderstandingtheSuppressColorProfileWarnings 117
MakingaConditionalModeChange 118
WritingErrorstotheLogFile 119
UsingtheSuppressFileOpenOptionsDialog 119
AddingaSaveActionStep 120
ConvertingBitDepth 120
ConvertingColorProfiles 121
AdjustingtheFitImageStep 122
ChangingImageResolutionwithImageSize 123
CreatingaSuccessfulBatchProcess 124
UsingBatchfromBridge 125
DropletsforBatchProcessing 126
CreatingaDroplet 126
RunningaDroplet 127
CreatingaDropletforLightroom 127
UsingaDropletwithLightroom 128
UnderstandingDropletLimitations 129
Conclusion 130
Chapter6 RepeatingTaskswithExternalData 133
CreatingaTemplate 134
SettingUpTheTemplateFile 134
SettingUpTheBadgeTypes 136
SettingUptheEmployeePhoto 141
SettingUptheEmployeeInformation 141
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DefiningVariables 143
VariablesDialog 143
TextReplacementVariables 144
PixelReplacementVariables 144
VisibilityVariables 145
CreatingDataSets 146
CreatingByHand 146
CreatingaCSVFile 149
ImportingDataSets 151
ApplyingDataSets 152
CreatingFilesforEachDataSetintheTemplate 153
Chapter7 BuildingYourOwnPanels:IntroductiontoUsingConfigurator 157
GettingtheTool 158
DownloadingandInstallingtheToolfromAdobeLabs 158
UsingtheTool 159
BuildingaSimplePanel 162
Panel 162
Tools 163
Commands 165
SearchingforCommands 166
UsingthePanelinPhotoshop 166
SavingthePanel 166
PreviewingthePanelinConfigurator 166
ExportingthePanelfromConfigurator 166
LoadingandFindingthePanelinPhotoshop 168
RevisingthePanel 168
UsingMorePanelObjects 170
ActionButtons 170
Widgets 171
AdvancedContainers 171
PolishingYourPanel 172
AddingaLogoImage 172
AddingaPanelIcon 173
CompletingYourPanel 175
SharingPanels 175
CreatinganInstaller 175
InstallingaPanel 176