Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

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Customizing Photoshop for Your Projects

#1 Select the Color Settings for Your Projects 4

#2 Set the Preferences for the Way You Work 6

#3 Customize Your Personal Workspace 8

#4 Personalize Your View of the Bridge 10

#5 Add Your Own Keyboard Shortcut for a Favorite Filter 12

#6 Create a Custom Action to Increase Your Efficiency 14

#7 Design a Customized Brush with Your Settings 16

#8 Make a Special Gradient to Suit Your Design 18

#9 Calibrate and Profile Your Monitor for Better Editing 20

#10 Turn on the Full Power of Photoshop with a Pen Tablet 22

2

Working with Layers, Selections, and Masks

#11 Duplicate and Change the Background Layer to Fix

Problems Such As Overexposure 26

#12 Using an Adjustment Layer to Adjust a Photo

Nondestructively 28

#13 Blend Two Photos Together with a Layer Mask 30

#14 Using Custom Shape Layers to Add Designs to Photos 32

#15 Accentuate a Sky Easily with a Gradient Fill Layer 34

#16 Using the Quick Selection Tool and Refine Edge Palette

for Selections 36

#17 Using a Quick Mask to Make a Detailed Selection 38

#18 Extract the Main Subject from the Background 40

#19 Open or Add Layers As Smart Objects for Nondestructive

Changes 42

#20 Apply Filters As Smart Filters for Dynamic Adjustments 44

3

Straightening, Cropping, and Resizing

#21 Crop Your Images and Use a Rule-of-Thirds Grid to

Improve Composition 48

#22 Create a Level Horizon 50

#23 Try a Reverse Crop to Expand the Canvas 52

#24 Crop and Straighten in Camera Raw 54

#25 Straighten Crooked Scans Quickly 56

#26 Crop Multiple Images from One Original to Create

a Triptych 58

#27 Change Your Perspective with the Crop Tool 60

#28 Straighten Buildings with the Lens Correction Filter 62

#29 Create a Panorama from Multiple Photos 64

#30 Maximize Your Image Size with Minimal Visible Loss 66

4

Retouching Portraits

#31 Remove Blemishes and Improve the Skin 70

#32 Remove Red Eye to Quickly Improve Any Photo 74

#33 Change Eye Color Digitally 76

#34 Reduce Wrinkles with a Soft Touch 78

#35 Whiten Teeth to Improve a Smile 80

#36 Brighten the Eyes by Lightening the Whites 82

#37 Add Depth to Eyes to Emphasize Them 84

#38 Add a Catch Light to Make the Eyes Come Alive 88

#39 Sharpen Just the Eyes to Add Focus 90

#40 Add a Soft-Focus Effect to Make a Portrait Glow 92

5

Changing and Enhancing Colors and Tone

#41 Improve an Underexposed Photo in Two Steps 96

#42 Improve an Overexposed Photo in Three Steps 97

#43 Remove a Colorcast to Improve the Overall Color 98

#44 Colorize an Old Black-and-White Photograph 100

#45 Make a Quick Change to Grayscale 102

#46 Give a New Photo an Old Colorized Look 104

#47 Using Camera Raw to Recover Highlights 106

#48 Improve a Sky with HSL Values in Camera Raw 108

#49 Go from Color to Grayscale with the New Black & White

Adjustment 110

#50 Create a Split Tone for a Special Effect in Camera Raw 112

6

Making Magic with Digital Special Effects

#51 Apply a Smart Digital Photo Filter for Dynamic

Adjustments 116

#52 Add a Quick Dark Vignette Effect to Direct the Focus

on the Subject 117

#53 Add Action with a Simulated Motion Blur 118

#54 Using the New Blend Mode to Stylize an Image 120

#55 Align and Blend Separate Photos for the Best Group Shot 122

#56 Merge Multiple Raw Photos to 32-Bit HDR 124

#57 Apply a Split-Neutral Density Filter Using Smart Objects 126

#58 Adjust Depth of Field with a Lens Blur Filter 128

#59 Create a Silhouette for a Custom Design 132

#60 Become a Digital Architect with the Vanishing Point Filter 136

7

Designing with Text Effects

#61 Add a Double-Neon Glow to Text for a Unique Design 140

#62 Create a Custom Watermark to Protect Your Images 142

#63 Fill Any Shape with Text to Create Unique Effects 144

#64 Warp Type to Emphasize the Words 145

#65 Add Perspective to Type and Keep It Sharp 146

#66 Make Your Text Follow Any Path 148

#67 Create Eye-Catching Photo-Filled Titles 150

#68 Blend Text into a Photograph Creatively 152

#69 Create an Amazing Colored Shadow 154

#70 Weave Text and Graphics for Intriguing Designs 156

8

Creating Digital Artwork from Photographs

#71 Give Any Photo a Sketched Look 160

#72 Add Your Own Signature to Any Artwork 162

#73 Create a Digital Pen-and-Ink Drawing 164

#74 Give a Photograph a Woodcut Look 166

#75 Turn a Photo into a Colored-Pencil Illustration 168

#76 Posterize a Photo for a Warhol-Style Image 170

#77 Create a Pen-and-Colored-Wash Drawing from a

Photograph 174

#78 Compose a Photo Collage 178

#79 Turn a Photo into a Hand-Painted Oil Painting 180

#80 Paint a Digital Watercolor 184

9

Giving Your Images a Professional Presentation

#81 Add Traditional Photo Corners 190

#82 Make a Frame from a Photograph 191

#83 Make a Contact Sheet of Your Photos 192

#84 Create a PDF Slideshow Presentation 194

#85 Create a Web Photo Gallery with Your Copyright 196

#86 Give a Photo an Artistic Edge 198

#87 Create a Custom Slide Template 200

#88 Create Your Own Custom Edge 202

#89 Make One Photo Look Like Many Combined Snapshots 204

#90 Make a Photo Look Like a Gallery Print 206

10

Plugging into Photoshop CS3

#91 Embellish a Photo Effortlessly with Graphic Authority

Frames and Photo Ornaments 212

#92 Make a Digital Engraving with Andromeda’s Screens Filter 214

#93 Enlarge Images with Maximum Quality with Alien

Skin BlowUp 216

#94 Change Your Photo into Art with Alien Skin Snap Art 218

#95 Colorize a Black-and-White Photo with AKVIS Coloriage 220

#96 Easily Select the Subject and Remove the Background

with Vertus Fluid Mask 222

#97 Control Digital Noise with Nik Dfine 2 224

#98 Sharpen Photos with Finesse Using Nik Sharpener Pro 2 226

#99 Apply Traditional Photo Filters Such As the Sunshine

Filter Using Nik Color Efex 228

#100 Travel Beyond the Bridge with Extensis Portfolio 8 230

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