Photoshop®CS6 : top 100 simplified tips & tricks
(Book - Paperback)

Make Photoshop Work for You

Work with Layers, Selections, and Masks

Straighten, Crop, and Resize

Retouch Portraits

Enhance Colors, Tone, and Sharpness in Photos

Process Photos in Camera Raw

Make Magic with Digital Special Effects

Design with Text Effects

Create Digital Artwork from Photographs

Give Your Images a Professional Presentation

Plug In to Photoshop.

Make Photoshop work for you. Select the color setting for your projects ; Choose your preferred color for the interface and screen modes ; Set the preferences for the way you work ; Create your own customized workspace ; Change your window views ; Customize your view of Bridge ; Save time finding your images with the Mini Bridge ; Add a keyboard shortcut for a favorite filter; Create a custom action to increase your efficiency ; Design a custom brush with your settings ; Load optional brush sets for better painting ; Customize a gradient to suit your design ; Make Photoshop take notes for you ; Calibrate and profile your monitor for accurate editing ; Turn on the full power of Photoshop with a pen tablet

Work with layers, selections, and masks. Edit an image with added layers and blending modes ; Organize the layers panel with names and colors ; Use layer filters to quickly find the layer you need ; Modify a photo with an on-image adjustment tool ; Add layers as smart objects for flexible changes ; Apply filters as smart filters for dynamic adjustments ; Make a selection with the quick selection tool ; Paint a quick mask to make a detailed selection ; Select just skin tones and adjust only the faces ; Adjust a selection with the refine edge tool ; Blend two photos together with an automatic layer mask ; Use a gradient fill layer to improve your image ; Use auto-align and auto-blend layers to combine photos ; Create photograph designs with vector layers

Straighten, crop, and resize. Crop your images using guides to improve composition ; Easily level a crooked horizon ; Expand the canvas with a reverse crop ; Crop creatively for a diptych, triptych, or quadriptych ; Change your perspective with the crop tool ; Correct geometric distortion with the lens correction filter ; Improve the field of view with the adaptive wide angle filter ; Assemble a panorama using photomerge automation ; Resize your image with minimal visible loss

Retouch portraits. Improve the skin with the spot healing brush and layers ; Reduce wrinkles for a more youthful appearance ; Soften the skin naturally ; Remove the glare from eyeglasses ; Change eye color digitally ; Lighten the irises with a gradient layer ; Brighten the eyes by lightening the white; Add depth to the eyes and lips to enhance them ; Make the eyes come alive with a digital catchlight ; Selectively sharpen just the eyes to add focus ; Improve a smile by whitening teeth

Enhance colors, tone, and sharpness in photos. Improve a photo with an auto setting ; Improve an overexposed photo in three steps ; Improve contrast with a curves adjustment layer ; Remove a colorcast to improve the overall color ; Hand-tint a black-and-white photograph ; Convert a color photo to a black-and-white photo ; Add a touch of color to a black-and-white conversion ; Improve exposure with a dodge and burn layer ; Increase saturation subtly using a vibrance adjustment layer ; Change the highlights and shadows nondestructively ; Sharpen the photo to correct digital softening ; Apply high pass sharpening to increase edge sharpness ; Alter depth of field with a digital blur

Process photos in Camera Raw. Set the preferences to open any image in Camera Raw ; Open Camera Raw files as smart objects automatically ; Recover brown highlights with Camera Raw ; Synchronize the white balance for a group of images ; Visually adjust the tone curve with the targeted adjustment tool ; Improve a sky with the Camera Raw graduated filter ; Create a split tone in Camera Raw for a special effect ; Add creative adjustments with Camera Raw

Make magic with digital special effects. Apply a photo filter for dynamic adjustments ; Add a vignette effect to focus on the subject ; Remove unwanted elements with a content-aware brush stroke ; Use the patch tool to clone contents to a new area ; Recompose a photo with the content-aware move tool ; Scale an image without distorting the subject ; Blend separate photos for the best g