Photoshop shortcuts are organized by menu and topic and include modifer keys and the menu and mouse equivalents for both Macintosh and Windows users. Special sections cover hidden Easter eggs, power action tips, and the top tips of Photoshop and ImageReady users won't be able to live without.
Annotation. Speed up your Photoshop 7 productivity with this book of keyboard, command-control shortcuts. Finally, theyre ALL in one place! Full of undocumented material, these secrets and shortcuts come straight from the Adobe Photoshop development crew. No other Photoshop resource is organized in such an easy-to-access way. Michael Ninness is the former Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, making him a Voice That Matters. Photoshops complexity grows with its popularity. Knowing and using keyboard and quick-click shortcuts can make a huge difference in your productivity. This book documents all of the shortcuts officially included (but not found in one spot) in the Photoshop documentation and organizes them so theyre easy to find. The book shows how each shortcut works in the current AND previous versions of Photoshop, invaluable info for upgraders. Most significantly, the book contains dozens of shortcuts and workarounds undocumented anywhere else. A book like this belongs in every serious Photoshop users work environment Michael Ninnessis the former product manager for Photoshop; he most recently was the Propduct Manager for Adobe LiveMotion, and is now a product director for Microsoft. Mike has written or contributed to several Photoshop books, and is a popular speaker and technology evangelist.
A guide to using Adobe Photoshop CS6 covers such topics as working with panels, creating a new document, managing layers, editing images, correction color and lighting, drawing with vector tools, and using filters.
Premiere Pro has seen a boom in popularity since the 2011 release of Apple's Final Cut Pro X. FCPX has not been well-received by the professional editor market and FCP users are flocking in droves to Premiere Pro and other NLEs. What this book offers the over two million Premiere Pro users is a treasure trove of tips and techniques they'll find invaluable whether they have been using Premiere Pro for years or if they've just moved over from FCPX or another NLE, with a chapter dedicated solely to those FCP editors who have switched over. The book is in illustrious 4-color throughout, and there's a companion website with video tutorials of the techniques outlined in the book.
Required Reading for Serious Photoshop Users Photoshop is a powerful tool created for those with demanding image-processing needs. If you are an experienced user or a professional who wants to take advantage of the real power that lies inside Photoshop, this is the book that shows you how to tap the source. The Hidden Power of Photoshop CS takes a rigorously image-focused approach starting with exercises to help you view images in terms of color and tone components. This is not just theory, but a set of practical techniques you can use to separate, modify, and recombine any image. This perspective provides an essential foundation for your work. Your guide and mentor, Richard Lynch, follows through with practical information on using Photoshop's most advanced tools for everyday imaging tasks. Finding these often obscure features is half the trick; understanding what they're actually for and how they work is the other. Here's just a little of what you'll learn: Understand how images work Introduce color to original black-and-white images Isolate and repair color and tone problems Master CMYK by performing manual CMYK separations Use layer modes, Blend If, and masks to make corrections and calculations Apply filters sensibly and practically Create photo-realistic objects from scratch using light, shadow, and color Work with vectors to create infinitely scalable art Use ImageReady's rollover and animation features to set your images in motion Use actions and scripts to simplify your workflow and enhance the interface
This is a must for the serious Photoshop user! Power, Speed & Automation explores how to customize and automate Photoshop to increase your speed and productivity. With numerous step-by-step instructions, the authors-two of Adobe's own software developers!- walk you through the steps to best tailor Photoshop's interface to your personal workflow; write and apply Actions; and use batching and scripts to process large numbers of images quickly and automatically. You will learn how to build your own dialogs and panels to improve your production workflows in Photoshop, the secrets of changing keyboard shortcuts and menus, and ways to tune your system for optimal performance. Writing new processes using JavaScript is also covered, as well as leveraging Variables with data sets. Learn how to get more work done? more easily and quickly? with this essential guide! *This book can be used with any version of Photoshop through CS6!*
Showcases the computer animation program's newly designed interface while explaining how to build interactive Web sites using innovative graphics, text, and animated images.