Free PDF Manual Guide

In Photoshop CS3,many of the shortcuts for the application menus,palette menus and tools can be customized using the Keyboard Shortcuts Editor. Although this document mentions some of these “customizable” shortcuts, it also provides additional functionality only accessible through the use of keyboard modifiers (which can’t be changed through the Keyboard Shortcut editor). Although this is not a completely comprehensive list of all of the keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS3,it is my goal to present the shortcuts and additional functionality that enable me to use Photoshop CS3 both more freely and efficiently.
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Nothing can add interest to a black and white project as much as a splash of color can. And nothing can make a picture so perfect like the exact right color. Fortunately, Photoshop will let you fine tune, adjust and replace colors in artwork at will – and when you see how easy it is to do you’ll never settle for “almost” again. In this weeks issue of MouseHints we’ll learn how to add a custom color to our Swatches palette, how to save a custom palette, and the abc’s of color replacement (it’s easier than you think.) We’ll also learn how to change your working mode to grayscale and how to hide or remove those accidental or on purpose Slice boxes. Remember, if you have questions that you’d like answered in MouseHints, send them to help@helpdeskcards.com. Next Month’s theme is Windows XP.
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Contents:
2. The basics Working at high magnification, inserting layers, and sampling color
5. Let’s airbrush! Using the airbrush to smooth over defects and enhance features
6. Clone me… Using the clone stamp tool to clone patterns and textures
7. Did someone say Warhol? Adjusting levels and using filters
8. Get me out of here (additional exercise) Using the magic wand, lasso, and eraser tools to cut out and clean u
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1. Press Tab will hide tool bar and palette, Shift+Tab will hide only palette.
2. Hold Shift + click the top blue bar for toolbar and palette will move them to the nearest edge.
3. Double click the top blue bar, on any palette window, to minimize it.
4. Double click the gray background will bring up open file option, Hold Shift+double click will open up the browser.
5. Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box.
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I. Smoothening the Photo
1. Open the jpg-image in Photoshop
2. Filters Blur Gaussian blur (radius: around 2-6. Should be really unsharp)
3. Edit Fade gaussian blur (mode: Darken). This step must be made immediately after blurring, else you will not find it in the Edit menu…
4. Filter Blur Smart Blur to smoothen out the picture. mode: “normal”, quality: “high”. Radius (0.8) and Threshold (25)
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Restoring default preferences
On the desktop, double-click the Adobe Photoshop icon to start Adobe Photoshop and then immediately hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift (Windows) or Command-Option-Shift (Mac OS) to reset the default settings. Opening a file with Adobe Bridge Click the Go to Bridge button ( ) on the tool options bar. You can also open Adobe Bridge by choosing File > Browse.
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For years, Adobe has been dominating the graphic-design industry with their powerful Creative Suite programs, and has now recently released another addition to their award winning line-up—Photoshop CS3. The software is offered both in a standard version as well as an extended version, which provides users more high-end photo editing capabilities to now edit video and film mediums. The Extended version also provides extensive 3D support, allowing you to import 3D objects for compositing and texturing.
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Layers are like stacked transparent sheets on which you can paint or place images, shapes, or text. You can see through the transparent areas to the layers below. You can work on each layer independently, experimenting to create the effect you want. You can adjust a layer’s color and brightness, apply special effects, change its opacity, and change its stacking order. If you want to experiment with color, filters, or other adjustments, you can place an adjustment or fill layer above the image and see the affects without making any changes to the layer that contains your image. To remove the effects, simply delete the adjustment layer.
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1. Change some default settings:
Eyedropper tool: Select the tool, then change to 3 by 3 Average in the options bar
Curves settings:
• Double click on the black eyedropper and change RGB settings each to 10
• Double click on the white eyedropper and change RGB settings each to 244
• Double click on the gray eyedropper and change RGB settings each to 133
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he PhotoShop Environment
1. To select a menu without using the mouse, press Alt + the underlined letter in the menu’s name.
2. Press F, the window fills the screen but the menu bar is still visible. Pressing F again, and again will cycle through view modes.
3. Control + R, resizes to display vertical and horizontal rulers.
4. Control + K, opens the general options of the Preferences dialog box.
5. The arrow key at the bottom of the PS screen displays current magnification, document size, and instructions for the currently- selected tool.
6. Press W, the Magic Wand tool is selected.
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