Elaine Weinmann - Photoshop CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide

Visual QuickStart Guide

For Windows and Macintosh

Elaine Weinmann
Peter Lourekas

Peachpit Press

For Alicia

Visual QuickStart Guide
Photoshop CS6
Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas

Peachpit Press
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Copyright 2012 by Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas

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Wayne Palmer, of in Windows and provided the first draft of the section on video editing.

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Adobe Systems, Inc. produces innovative software that is a pleasure to use and write about. For allowing us to test the prerelease version of Photoshop CS6 and for helping us untangle its mysteries by way of the online forum, we thank Zorana Gee, senior product manager of Photoshop and Photoshop Extended; Bryan ONeil Hughes, senior product manager of Photoshop; Stephen Nielson, product manager of Photoshop and Photoshop Touch; Aditi Bansal, project lead of prerelease programs; and the many other members of the Adobe Photoshop CS6 prerelease team.

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Our daughters, Alicia and Simona, are blossoming into terrific adults and are our greatest joy.

Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas

VISIT OUR BLOG!

Go to elaineandpeter.com and youll find a treasure trove of Photoshop tips, tutorials, and design concepts. Upcoming blog posts will feature guest artists and more. Come visit, drop us a line and help spread the word!

REGISTER THIS BOOK, THEN DOWNLOAD PHOTOS FOR FREE!

Purchasing this book entitles you to more than just a couple of pounds of paper. If you register the book with Peachpit Press, you will also be entitled to download copies of most of the images that are used throughout the book, which you can use to practice with as you follow our step-by-step tutorials.

To get started, follow this link: www.peachpit.com/photoshopcs6vqs , which takes you to the page for this book at peachpit.com (the Peachpit Press website). Sign in to your account. If you dont already have an account, create one it takes just a minute. After logging in, on the Register a Product page, enter the ISBN code for this book: 0321822188 , then click Submit. Youll be taken to a list of your registered products. Find Photoshop CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide on the list, then click Access Bonus Content to get to the page from which you can download the images.

Note: The downloadable images that we have made available are low-resolution (not suitable for printing), and they are copyrighted by their owners, who have watermarked them to discourage unauthorized reproduction. They are for your personal use only not for distribution or publication.

Welcome to Photoshop! We know you want to dive into the editing features of Camera Raw or Photoshop right away, but achieving successful results will depend on your establishing proper color management settings first.

In this chapter, you will launch Photoshop and familiarize yourself with the Photoshop color basics. Key color management tasks that you will learn about include calibrating your display, choosing and saving color settings in Photoshop, and downloading and installing the correct printer profiles. (In , color management will come into play once more, when you prepare your final files for output.)

Do one of the following:

In a 32-bit version of Windows, click the Start button on the taskbar, choose All Programs, then click Adobe Photoshop CS6.