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Page 2 The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this documentation.
Page 3: Table Of Contents
..........1 Installing Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady .
Page 4 CONTENTS Enhanced layer management ......50 Expanded text features ....... . 51 Preset Manager .
Page 5 Working with Color Chapter 3 About color modes and models (Photoshop) ..109 Color gamuts (Photoshop) ......114 Adjusting the monitor display .
Page 6 CONTENTS Saving and loading selections ......153 Deleting selections ........153 Removing fringe pixels from a selection (Photoshop) .
Page 7 Grouping layers into sets ......213 Moving and aligning the contents of layers .
Page 8 viii CONTENTS Creating Animations Chapter 11 (ImageReady) About animation ........301 Creating animations .
Page 9 ....382 Printing with Adobe PressReady ..... . 383 Creating color traps .
Page 11: Getting Started
Learning Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady Registration Adobe provides a variety of options for you to learn Photoshop, including printed guides, Adobe is conﬁdent you will ﬁnd that its software online Help, and tool tips. Using the Adobe greatly increases your productivity. So that Adobe...
Page 12 It also HTML-based help system. The help system assumes you know how to open, save, and close includes all of the information in the Adobe ﬁles. For help with any of these techniques, Photoshop 6.0 User Guide plus information on...
Page 13: Using Web Resources
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Using Web resources When you set up Adobe Online to connect to your Web browser, Adobe can either notify you If you have an Internet connection and a Web whenever new information is available through...
Page 14: Other Learning Resources
Update Options. Select Auto Install Downloaded Components if • Note: You can also set Adobe Online preferences by you want Adobe to start the component’s installer choosing Edit > Preferences > Adobe Online. (if available) as soon as the download is complete.
Page 15: Customer Support
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Page 19: Adobe Photoshop Basics
You can complete the modules in sequence, or select individual ones to design your own program introduction. If you are an experienced Photoshop user, you may want to quickly review sections of this overview and then skip to “What’s New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0.”...
Page 20: Using Tools And Palettes
Adobe Photoshop Basics Setting up the work area Using tools and palettes The Photoshop or ImageReady work area consists of the image window, the toolbox, the options bar, and a set of ﬂoating palettes. This module shows you the basics of navigating the work area, from selecting tools and tool options to customizing the display and arrangement of palettes.
Page 21 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide When you ﬁrst start the Display the palettes application, the ﬂoating palettes appear stacked in default groups. Use the following techniques to show and hide palettes: • To bring a palette to the front of its group, click the palette’s tab.
Page 22: Opening Images In Photoshop And Imageready
Adobe Photoshop Basics Most palettes have menus that contain additional commands and options. Display a palette menu To display a palette menu, click the black triangle at the upper right of the palette. (For palettes stored in the options bar, ﬁrst display the palette and then click the black triangle in the palette’s tab.) Opening images in Photoshop and ImageReady Photoshop and ImageReady let you open or import a variety of source images.
Page 23 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To help position and align elements accurately in the image, use rulers, Set rulers, guides, and the grid guides, and grid lines: • To display rulers along the top and left side of the document window, choose View > Show Rulers.
Page 24: Streamlining Your Workﬂow
Adobe Photoshop Basics As you experiment with Monitor your work status different tools, commands, and image views, check out the status bar at the bottom edge of the document window. This area displays useful information about your work status, such as the current magniﬁcation percentage or the name of...
Page 25 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide If you make a mistake while working, simply choose Edit > Undo to Undo the last performed operation reverse the effect of the last operation. Most, but not all, operations can be reversed this way.
Page 26: Making Tonal And Color Adjustments
Adobe Photoshop Basics Adjusting and retouching images Making tonal and color adjustments Upon ﬁrst opening a scanned image or digital photograph in Photoshop or ImageReady, it’s common to notice some problems with color quality and tonal range. The image may appear washed out, for example, or appear too dark or too light in certain areas.
Page 27: Retouching Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Retouching images Many of the retouching tools in Photoshop and ImageReady are modeled after traditional photo-studio techniques for correcting blemishes and faulty exposures in images. However, with the power of digital technology you can use these tools to apply all sorts of creative effects beyond basic photo retouching.
Page 28: Making Pixel Selections
Adobe Photoshop Basics Editing images Making pixel selections Before you can edit an area of an image, you must ﬁrst select the image area. This type of selection is called a pixel selection because you are selecting an area that contains pixel information. If you experience trouble selecting the image area you want, you may need to check that you are working on the proper layer.
Page 29 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The magic wand tool ( ) lets you select a consistently colored area without Select with the magic wand having to trace its outline. To use the magic wand, ﬁrst enter a tolerance value in the options bar. (A higher tolerance selects a broader range of colors.) Then click the area in the image you want to select.
Page 30: Making Edits
Adobe Photoshop Basics Making edits Photoshop and ImageReady are equipped with a rich collection of editing tools and commands that you can use to modify your images. In addition to basic edits such as repositioning or applying geometric changes to a selection, you can create an unlimited variety of special effects using the Filter commands.
Page 31 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide You can also use the move tool to duplicate a selection. With the move tool selected, Duplicate a selection simply Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the selection to copy it. Duplicating a selection Rotating a selection The transformation commands let you make geometric changes—such as...
Page 32: Using Layers
Adobe Photoshop Basics Using layers Layers provide a powerful way for you to organize and manage the various components of your image. For example, by placing an element on a separate layer, you can easily edit and arrange the element without interfering with other parts of the image.
Page 33 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Often you will need to target a speciﬁc layer for further editing in Photoshop or Select a layer ImageReady. For instance, many tasks—such as transformations or ﬁlters—can be applied to entire layers as well as to individual selections. In addition, you must ﬁrst target a layer in order to select an area or shape that sits on that layer.
Page 34: Compositing Images
Adobe Photoshop Basics You can apply predeﬁned styles Apply a layer style to the contents of a layer to produce instant graphic effects. This feature is especially useful for creating Web buttons and rollover states. You can also deﬁne your own layer styles.
Page 35 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The Extract (Photoshop) Extract part of an image Image command provides controls for isolating image areas with wispy or intricate edges. First, duplicate the layer containing the desired area, and select the duplicate layer in the Layers palette.
Page 36: Painting
Adobe Photoshop Basics Painting and drawing Painting Painting in Photoshop or ImageReady is as easy as choosing a color, selecting a tool, choosing a brush tip, and dragging in the image to paint. The various painting tools are modeled after styles of traditional paint media.
Page 37: Drawing Shapes
The shape tools let you draw crisp-edged shapes of various dimensions and colors. Unlike pixel data such as a scanned photograph, these shapes are deﬁned using the mathematical principle of vectors. Used in drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator and now Photoshop and ImageReady, vectors describe shape, size, ®...
Page 38 Adobe Photoshop Basics Drag in the image to draw the speciﬁed shape. Draw a vector shape Adding to an existing shape Drawing a shape on a shape layer To select a vector shape for editing, you must ﬁrst target the layer or path containing the Select a shape shape.
Page 39 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide When the shape layer or work path option is selected in the options (Photoshop) Create a custom shape bar, you can use the basic shape tools in combination with one another to create more complex shapes.
Page 40: Creating Type
Adobe Photoshop Basics Working with type Creating type Photoshop and ImageReady provide excellent support for adding graphic type and text to images. You can enter and preview type directly in an image, as well as specify a full range of formatting options. Type is automatically added to a new layer.
Page 41: Editing Type
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Editing type Using the type tool in conjunction with the options bar, the Character palette, and the Paragraph palette, you can edit type directly as it appears in an image. In addition, you can apply special warp effects to the shape of type and make global edits to type layers.
Page 42: Designing Web Graphics
Adobe Photoshop Basics Preparing Web graphics Designing Web graphics Photoshop and ImageReady provide a rich set of tools for adding Web features to your images. Among other beneﬁts, you can divide an image into download-efﬁcient slices, deﬁne image maps directly in the image, and add interactive rollover effects.
Page 43: Creating Animations (Imageready)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Rollover effects display different states of an image when a viewer (ImageReady) Add a rollover effect performs a mouse action—such as rolling or clicking—over an area of the Web page. Layers provide an efﬁcient way to store different image states for rollovers.
Page 44: Optimizing Web Graphics
Adobe Photoshop Basics Using the Layers palette, adjust the position, opacity, or layer effects of desired layers to create the • state of the ﬁnal animation frame. Then choose Tween from the Animation palette menu to have ImageReady generate intermediate frames from the starting and ending states you’ve deﬁned.
Page 45 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide In Photoshop, you can view optimized ﬁle information—such as ﬁle size View optimized ﬁle information and projected download time for various modem speeds—below the optimized preview in the Save for Web dialog box. In ImageReady, you can display two sets of ﬁle information in the status bar along the bottom edge of the image window.
Page 49: What's New In Adobe Photoshop 6.0
What’s New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Adobe Photoshop 6.0, along with the dedicated Web tool ImageReady 3.0, delivers powerful image- editing capabilities with a range of new features that offer something for every user. New capabilities include integrated vector-drawing tools to extend your creative range, expanded tools and features for Web-production tasks, and numerous interface enhancements to help you get to work quickly and use the Photoshop and ImageReady features more fully.
Page 50: Superb Vector Support
Expand beyond pixels Superb vector support Photoshop 6.0 provides integrated tools for creating and outputting crisp, editable vector shapes and text. With these new tools, you can incorporate resolution-independent, vector-based graphics and type along with pixel-based images to achieve an unparalleled range of design effects. You can save vector data in EPS, DCS, TIFF, and PDF formats.
Page 51 Deﬁning and working with a custom shape With Photoshop 6.0, you can easily combine crisp, resolution-independent Resolution-independent type type with pixel-based images and then output sharp type edges with your image to produce high-quality results.
Page 52: Enhanced Vector Output
PDF ﬁles for high-end printing. Layer styles Photoshop 6.0 presents an intuitive new layer effects interface, new effect options, and new support for saving combinations of layer effects as layer styles for ongoing use. Layer effects and styles update automatically as you edit your image and are particularly useful for designing type, buttons, and banners.
Page 53 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The new Layer Styles dialog box New layer styles shows at a glance which effects are applied to the currently selected layer. To add effects to a layer, you simply check each one you want in the list and specify appropriate settings.
Page 54: Interactive Image Warping
What’s New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Interactive image warping With the new Liquify command in Photoshop 6.0, you can quickly distort or warp an image by interactively pushing, pulling, rotating, enlarging, and shrinking different image areas. These distortion controls are ideal for a wide range of tasks from making ﬁne warping adjustments to a small image area to making sweeping...
Page 55: Enhanced Slicing Capabilities
With the new slice tool Direct Photoshop slicing and slice select tool, you can now deﬁne and edit slices directly in Photoshop 6.0. Create user- deﬁned slices by dragging over different image areas with the slice tool; Photoshop deﬁnes slices automatically for the areas you don’t deﬁne.
Page 56 What’s New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Sliced images give you more control over how optimization Slice-speciﬁc formatting and optimization options are applied because you can select separate slices and apply appropriate settings. An image that includes solid colors, text, and photographic images, for example, looks best with different settings applied to different areas.
Page 57: Enhanced Support For Image Maps And Rollovers
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Enhanced support for image maps and rollovers ImageReady 3.0 provides new and enhanced support for creating image maps and rollover effects directly in an image. Using the new image map tools in conjunction with the new Image Map palette, Image map creation you can deﬁne image map areas in your image, complete with URL, target frame, and Alt text options.
Page 58: Weighted Optimization
ImageReady or Photoshop to compile the sliced pieces and update edits you make to the image. Adobe GoLive also goes back to the original PSD ﬁle to generate the ﬁnal GIF or JPEG ﬁle for the Web page. When exporting sliced images, Photoshop and ImageReady HTML integration with Adobe GoLive 5.0...
Page 59: Streamlined Interface
Master Photoshop more quickly Streamlined interface Photoshop 6.0 introduces numerous interface enhancements designed to make it easier and more efﬁcient to use its powerful features. Now, when you select a tool in the toolbox, all the options that control its behavior are easily Options bar accessible in a context-sensitive options bar.
Page 60: Enhanced Layer Management
Enhanced layer management Layers are more ﬂexible than ever in Photoshop 6.0. Now you can create hundreds of layers in an image to help arrange elements in an intricate composition. In addition, you can use an array of new features to help organize and manage layers more efﬁciently.
Page 61: Expanded Text Features
User Guide Expanded text features Photoshop 6.0 offers an expanded range of formatting options for both Roman and Asian text, as well as direct, on-canvas text editing. The new Character and Paragraph palettes make it easy to choose formatting options for your type.
Page 62 Photoshop even supports the next generation of Adobe composition engines, offering you a choice of the every-line and single-line composers. The every- line composer sets multiple lines of text in relation to each other to ensure optimal line breaks, while the single-line composer handles one line of text at a time.
Page 63: Preset Manager
Photoshop 6.0. When you create your own custom element, save it in a library ﬁle so that it can be accessed through the Preset Manager. Once you load a library in the Preset Manager, it becomes available whenever its elements are used in Photoshop—in the options bar, the Styles palette, the Gradient Editor dialog box,...
Page 64 What’s New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 New commands under the File > Manage Workﬂow submenu let you WebDAV workﬂow management manage ﬁles using the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) server technology. You can now generate a cascading style sheet along with an HTML ﬁle when saving Cascading style sheets an optimized image.
Page 67: Looking At The Work Area
To select a visible tool, click its icon or press its • to change foreground/background colors, go to keyboard shortcut. Adobe Online, work in different modes, and jump To select a hidden tool, position the pointer • between Photoshop and ImageReady applications.
Page 68 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To view or move a hidden tools list (ImageReady): Each default pointer has a different hot spot, where an effect or action in the image begins. Position the pointer on the visible tool and With all tools except the move tool, annotation hold down the mouse button until the hidden tools, and the type tool, you can switch to precise...
Page 69: Using The Tool Options Bar
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The Other Cursors options control the pointers To display the tool options bar: for the following tools: Do one of the following: • (Photoshop) Marquee, lasso, polygon lasso, Choose Window > Show Options. • magic wand, crop, slice, eyedropper, pen, gradient, Single-click a tool in the toolbox.
Page 70: Using Palettes
CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To store other palettes in the options bar Changing the palette display (Photoshop): You can rearrange your palettes to make better Drag the desired palette’s tab into the palette well use of your work area by using the following so that the palette well is highlighted.
Page 71 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • (ImageReady) To show or hide options To reset palettes to the default positions: for palettes that include hidden options Do one of the following: (the Optimize, Color, Type, Layer Options, and (Photoshop) Choose Edit > Preferences >...
Page 72 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Using pop-up palettes To delete an item in a pop-up palette: Do one of the following: Pop-up palettes provide easy access to libraries of brushes, swatches, gradients, styles, patterns, Select an item, click the triangle ( ) in the •...
Page 73 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To save the current list as a library for later use, • When you use the marquee tool, the Info palette choose the Save command. Then enter a name for displays the x- and y-coordinates of the pointer the library ﬁle, and click Save.
Page 74: Using Context Menus
CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area • The hexadecimal value for the color beneath the For Second Color Readout, choose a display pointer. option listed in step 2. • The index color table position for the color For Ruler Units, choose a unit of measurement. beneath the pointer.
Page 75 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Changing the screen display mode You can open multiple windows to display different views of the same ﬁle. A list of open The window controls let you change the screen windows appears in the Window menu.
Page 76 In Photoshop, you can also use the Navigator For more information on choosing colors, palette to quickly change the view of an image. see “Using the Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. To view another area of an image: Click OK.
Page 77 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Choose View > Zoom In to magnify to the To magnify by dragging: next preset percentage. When the image has Select the zoom tool. reached its maximum magniﬁcation level, Drag over the part of the image you want the command is dimmed.
Page 78: Correcting Mistakes
CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To automatically resize the window when magnifying To free memory used by the Undo command, the or reducing the view using keyboard shortcuts: History palette, or the Clipboard: Choose Edit > Preferences > General, then select Choose Edit >...
Page 79: Reverting To Any State Of An Image
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Select the area you want to restore, and choose • By default, the History palette lists the previous Edit > Fill. For Use, choose History, and click OK. 20 states. Older states are automatically deleted to free more memory for Photoshop.
Page 80 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Using the History Palette • (Photoshop) Choose Step Forward or Step Backward from the palette menu or the Edit menu You can use the History palette to revert to a to move to the next or previous state. previous state of an image, to delete an image’s states, and in Photoshop, to create a document To delete one or more states of the image...
Page 81 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To delete all of an image’s states (ImageReady): Setting history options (Photoshop) Choose Clear Undo/Redo History from the You can specify the maximum number of items to History palette menu. include in the History palette and set other options that customize the way you work with the palette.
Page 82 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Making a snapshot of an image could scroll the current states off the palette, so that you could not return to any of them. Using the (Photoshop) Undo command lets you undo only one step and The Snapshot command lets you make a state.
Page 83: Duplicating Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To rename a snapshot: Click OK. Double-click the snapshot and enter a name. To duplicate an image in Photoshop and automatically append the name “copy” to its To delete a snapshot: ﬁlename, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) when you choose Image >...
Page 84: Using Rulers, The Measure Tool, Guides, And The Grid
CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Using rulers, the measure tool, To make the ruler origin snap to the ruler ticks (Photoshop), hold down Shift as you drag. guides, and the grid Note: To reset the ruler origin to its default value, Rulers, the measure tool, guides, and the grid help double-click the upper left corner of the rulers.
Page 85 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Using the measure tool (Photoshop) To edit a measuring line or protractor: Select the measure tool ( ). The measure tool calculates the distance between any two points in the work area. When you Do one of the following:...
Page 86 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area • Guide spacing, along with guide and grid • Drag from the vertical ruler to create a vertical visibility and snapping, is speciﬁc to an image. guide. • Grid spacing, along with guide and grid color •...
Page 87: Working With Extras
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Working with Extras To remove guides from the image: Do one of the following: Guides, grid, target paths, selection edges, slices, image maps, text bounds, text baselines, text selec- To remove a single guide, drag the guide outside •...
Page 88: Displaying Status Information
Note: In ImageReady, if the document window is approximately the size of the saved, ﬂattened ﬁle in wide enough, two image information boxes appear, Adobe Photoshop format. The number on the enabling you to view two different information right indicates the ﬁle’s approximate size including options for the image at the same time.
Page 89 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Document Proﬁle to display the name of the Select a view option: color proﬁle used by the image. Original/Optimized File Size to view the original • • Scratch Sizes to display information on the and optimized ﬁle size images.
Page 90: Annotating Images (Photoshop)
Because Photoshop annotations are To read a Digimarc watermark: compatible with Adobe Acrobat, you can use them to exchange information with Acrobat users as Choose Filter > Digimarc > Read Watermark. well as Photoshop users.
Page 91 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Adding notes and audio annotations • If you have the required software for different script systems (for example, Roman, Japanese, You can add notes and audio annotations or Cyrillic) installed on your computer, you can anywhere on a Photoshop image canvas.
Page 92: Jumping Between Applications
CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Opening and editing annotations To edit annotations: Do any of the following: A note or audio annotation icon marks the location of an annotation on an image. When you To move an annotation icon, move the pointer •...
Page 93 Web or other ImageReady. purposes. Jumping between the applications When you install ImageReady, Adobe graphics- allows you to use the full feature sets of both editing and HTML-editing applications currently applications while maintaining a streamlined on your system are added to the Jump To workﬂow.
Page 94: Previewing An Image In A Browser
CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area If the ﬁle has been modiﬁed since the last save, When you install Photoshop and ImageReady, choose an option in ImageReady for saving the ﬁle: all browsers currently on your system are added to the Preview In menu.
Page 95: Managing Libraries With The Preset Manager
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide (ImageReady) To specify a browser to be launched by preset, you need to save it in the editor used to the Preview In keyboard shortcut: create it. Otherwise, it will be lost if you create a...
Page 96: Setting Preferences
Numerous program settings are stored in Adobe To rename presets contained in a library: Photoshop 6 Prefs.psp ﬁle (Windows) or the Adobe Photoshop 6 Prefs ﬁle (Mac OS) in the Choose Edit > Preset Manager. Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder. Among the Choose a preset type from the Preset Type settings stored in this ﬁle are general display...
Page 97: Resetting All Warning Dialogs
Photoshop to reset prefer- application. ences to their default settings. Note: The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 • Open the Preferences folder in the System Settings folder varies by operating system; use your Folder, and drag the following ﬁles to the Trash:...
Page 98: Monitoring Operations
In Mac OS, you can also press each open ﬁle to close the ﬁle without saving it. Command+period. For information on using Adobe and third- party plug-in modules, see “Using plug-in To set notiﬁcation for completion of operations: modules” in online Help.
Page 101: Getting Images Into
Chapter 2: Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady ou can get digital images from a variety of Bitmap images are the most common electronic sources—you can create new images, medium for continuous-tone images, such as import them from another graphics appli- photographs or digital paintings, because they can cation, or capture them using a digital camera.
Page 102: About Image Size And Resolution
CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady Vector graphics are resolution-independent— For example, a 15-inch monitor typically that is, they can be scaled to any size and printed displays 800 pixels horizontally and 600 vertically. at any resolution without losing detail or clarity. An image with dimensions of 800 pixels by As a result, vector graphics are the best choice for 600 pixels would ﬁll this small screen.
Page 103 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The number of pixels displayed Image resolution When printed, an image with a high resolution per unit of printed length in an image, usually contains more, and therefore smaller, pixels than measured in pixels per inch (ppi). In Photoshop, an image with a low resolution.
Page 104 CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady For example, when you display a 1-by-1 inch, output devices, a lower resolution can produce 144-ppi image on a 72-dpi monitor, it appears in a good results. To determine your printer’s screen 2-by-2 inch area on-screen.
Page 105: Changing Image Size And Resolution
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide 1-by-1-inch, 100-ppi image and so has four times Keep in mind that bitmap and vector data can the ﬁle size. Image resolution thus becomes a produce different results when you resize an compromise between image quality (capturing all image.
Page 106 CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady About resampling Choosing an interpolation method Resampling refers to changing the pixel dimen- When an image is resampled, an interpolation sions (and therefore display size) of an image. method is used to assign color values to any new When you downsample (or decrease the number of pixels it creates, based on the color values of pixels), information is deleted from the image.
Page 107 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Changing the pixel dimensions of an To change the pixel dimensions of an image (ImageReady): image Choose Image > Image Size. When preparing images for online distribution, it’s useful to specify image size in terms of the pixel To maintain the current proportions of dimensions.
Page 108 CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady If you turn on resampling for the image, you can To maintain the current proportions of image change print dimensions and resolution indepen- width to image height, select Constrain Propor- dently (and change the total number of pixels in tions.
Page 109: Scanning Images
To determine a suggested resolution for an image: Scanner drivers are provided and supported by Choose Image > Image Size. the manufacturers of the scanners, not Adobe Click Auto. Systems Incorporated. If you have problems with scanning, make sure that you are using the latest For Screen, enter the screen frequency for the version of the appropriate scanner driver.
Page 110: Creating New Images
CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady If your scanner does not have an Adobe To import an image using the TWAIN interface (ImageReady): Photoshop-compatible scanner driver, import the scan using the TWAIN interface. (See “Importing If you’re using the TWAIN device for the ﬁrst an image using the TWAIN interface”...
Page 111: Opening And Importing Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Opening and importing images • (Photoshop) To base the image size on the default dimensions and resolution or the last You can open and import images in various ﬁle entered settings, hold down Alt (Windows) or formats.
Page 112 “Importing anti-aliased PICT ﬁles (Mac OS),” search and navigation features. PDF is the and “Importing PICT Resources (Mac OS)” in primary format for Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and online Help. Adobe Acrobat. For more information, see “PDF” in To open a recently used ﬁle:...
Page 113 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide You can also bring PDF data into Photoshop or Select the image you want to open: ImageReady using the Place command, the Paste To open a speciﬁc image, select it and click OK. • command, and the drag-and-drop feature.
Page 114: Placing Files
Constrain Proportions. Photoshop (PSD) ﬁles containing CMYK images. Select Anti-aliased to minimize the jagged When you place a PDF, Adobe Illustrator, or EPS appearance of the artwork’s edges as it is ﬁle, it is rasterized; you cannot edit text or vector rasterized.
Page 115 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To place a PDF, Adobe Illustrator, or EPS ﬁle • In the options bar, enter values for W and H to (Photoshop): specify the width and height of the artwork. By default, these options represent scale as a Open the Photoshop image into which you percentage;...
Page 116: Managing Files With Webdav
CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop and ImageReady Managing ﬁles with WebDAV To place a ﬁle (ImageReady): Open the ImageReady image into which you Photoshop and ImageReady offer support for a want to place the ﬁle. server technology known as Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV).
Page 119: Working With Color
Adobe Photoshop affect the number of channels and the ﬁle size of and Adobe ImageReady use this information to an image. deﬁne, display, and print color values.
Page 120 CHAPTER 3 Working with Color • Saturation, sometimes called chroma, is the Because the RGB colors combine to create white, strength or purity of the color. Saturation repre- they are also called additive colors. Adding all sents the amount of gray in proportion to the hue, colors together creates white—that is, all light is measured as a percentage from 0% (gray) to 100% transmitted back to the eye.
Page 121 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide RGB images use three colors, or channels, to The subtractive (CMY) and additive (RGB) colors reproduce up to 16.7 million colors on-screen; are complementary colors. Each pair of subtractive the three channels translate to 24 (8 x 3) bits of colors creates an additive color, and vice versa.
Page 122 CHAPTER 3 Working with Color Although CMYK is a standard color model, Lab mode the exact range of colors represented can vary, In Photoshop, Lab mode (the asterisks are depending on the press and printing conditions. dropped from the name) has a lightness Photoshop’s CMYK mode varies according to the component (L) that can range from 0 to 100.
Page 123 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Although Grayscale is a standard color Indexed Color mode model, the exact range of grays represented can This mode uses at most 256 colors. When vary, depending on the printing conditions. converting to indexed color, Photoshop builds a...
Page 124: Color Gamuts (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 3 Working with Color • Converting an RGB image to multichannel For more information, see “Identifying creates cyan, magenta, and yellow spot channels. out-of-gamut colors (Photoshop)” in online Help. • Deleting a channel from an RGB, CMYK, or Lab image automatically converts the image to Multichannel mode.
Page 125 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Making previews display more quickly RGB color display can also vary between Photoshop and ImageReady. In Photoshop, (Photoshop) you can select from several RGB color spaces when The Use Pixel Doubling preference option speeds editing images. As a result, images created in up the preview of a tool or command’s effects by...
Page 126: Channels And Bit Depth (Photoshop)
24 has 2 , or roughly 16 million, possible values. Common values for bit Every Adobe Photoshop image has one or more depth range from 1 to 64 bits per pixel. channels, each storing information about color elements in the image.
Page 127: Converting Between Color Modes (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Converting between color Converting between bit depths modes (Photoshop) A 16-bit-per-channel image provides ﬁner distinc- tions in color, but it can have twice the ﬁle size of When you choose a different color mode an 8-bit-per-channel image. In addition, only the...
Page 128: Converting To Indexed Color (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 3 Working with Color Converting to indexed color Applying colors (Photoshop) Once you have set up the color mode for an image, you can specify a foreground and background Converting to indexed color reduces the color by using the eyedropper tool, the Color number of colors in the image to at most 256—...
Page 131: Producing Consistent
Chapter 4: Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop) hen your document must meet the same color mode. For example, a variety of color standards set by clients and RGB spaces can exist among scanners and designers, viewing and editing color monitors, and a variety of CMYK spaces can exist consistently becomes critical, all the way from among printing presses.
Page 132: Do You Need Color Management
CHAPTER 4 Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop) created to the color space in which the same color page 121.) When you apply color and tonal will be output, and makes the necessary adjust- adjustments or convert a document to a different ments to represent the color as consistently as color space, you are changing the document’s possible among different devices.
Page 133: Creating A Viewing Environment For Color Management
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Creating a viewing environment • You also might not need color management if you are producing images for the Web or other for color management screen-based output, since you cannot control the Your work environment inﬂuences how you see color management settings of monitors displaying color on your monitor and on printed output.
Page 134: Setting Up Color Management
In most cases, the predeﬁned settings settings to share them with other users and other will provide sufﬁcient color management for your Adobe applications, such as Illustrator 9.0, that use needs. These settings can also serve as starting the Color Settings dialog box.
Page 135 Emulates the color Emulate Photoshop 4 the color management workﬂow, these proﬁles are workﬂow used by the Mac OS version of Adobe known as working spaces. The working spaces Photoshop 4.0 and earlier. speciﬁed by predeﬁned settings represent the color proﬁles that will produce the best color ﬁdelity for...
Page 136: Customizing Color Management Settings
CHAPTER 4 Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop) import. For a newly created document, the color another action. For detailed information on the workﬂow operates relatively seamlessly: color management decisions associated with the document uses the working space proﬁle different policies, see “Specifying color associated with its color mode for creating and management policies”...
Page 137: Specifying Working Spaces
Adobe Systems for most color management the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings folder. workﬂows. By default, only these proﬁles appear in Note: The default location of the Adobe Photoshop 6 the working space menus. Settings folder varies by operating system; use your To display additional color proﬁles that you have...
Page 138: Specifying Color Management Policies
CHAPTER 4 Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop) dot gain as the amount by which the expected dot reﬂect a color management workﬂow that you use increases or decreases. For example, a 50% more often. For more information on policies, halftone screen may produce an actual density of see “About color management policies”...
Page 139 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The availability of options for Proﬁle Mismatches Policy option Default color management behavior depends on which policies have been speciﬁed. • Preserve New documents are tagged with the For Missing Proﬁles, select Ask When Opening Embedded current working space proﬁle.
Page 140: Customizing Advanced Color Management Settings
Color When you load a custom color settings ﬁle, it Settings dialog box, such as Adobe Illustrator 9.0. appears as the active choice in the Settings menu You can also load previously saved color of the Color Settings dialog box.
Page 141: Synchronizing Color Management Between Applications
Keep in mind that the reliability of the soft proof is that color is reproduced consistently between highly dependent upon the quality of your Adobe applications that use the Color Settings monitor, your monitor proﬁle, and the ambient dialog box. To share custom color settings between lighting conditions of your work station.
Page 142 CHAPTER 4 Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop) • Macintosh RGB or Windows RGB soft-proofs Select Preview to display a live preview of the colors in an image using either a standard Mac OS proof settings in the document while the Proof or Windows monitor as the proof proﬁle space to Setup dialog box is open.
Page 143: Changing The Color Proﬁle Of A Document
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Simulate Ink Black to preview, in the monitor When using the Assign Proﬁle command, space, the actual dynamic range deﬁned by the you may see a shift in color appearance as color proof proﬁle.
Page 144: Embedding Proﬁles In Saved Documents
CHAPTER 4 Producing Consistent Color (Photoshop) Under Conversion Options, specify a color To change the embedding behavior of a proﬁle in a document: management engine, a rendering intent, and black point and dither options. Choose File > Save As. For more information, see “Customizing Do one of the following: advanced color management settings”...
Page 145 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide damaging “corrections” to an already satisfactory Adding device proﬁles to the color image. With an accurate proﬁle, a program management system importing the image can correct for any gamut You can add color proﬁles to your system so that differences and display a scan’s actual colors.
Page 146: Creating An Icc Monitor Proﬁle
ICC-compliant proﬁle, periodically and generate updated proﬁles. you should use that instead of Adobe Gamma. Proﬁles should be good for approximately a Also, be sure to use only one calibration utility to month depending on the device.
Page 149: About Selections
Chapter 5: Selecting o modify part of an image in Adobe In Photoshop, you can use the Extract command Photoshop or Adobe ImageReady, to isolate an object from its background and erase you ﬁrst select the area you want to edit.
Page 150 CHAPTER 5 Selecting To deselect selections: Specify a feathering setting in the options bar. Turn anti-aliasing on or off for the rounded Do one of the following: rectangle or elliptical marquee. (See “Softening Choose Select > Deselect. • the edges of a selection” on page 147.) If you are using the rectangle marquee, rounded •...
Page 151 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Do one of the following to make a selection: To use the lasso tool: Select the lasso tool ( ), and select options. With the rectangle, rounded rectangle, • (See “Setting options for the lasso, polygonal lasso, or elliptical marquee, drag over the area you and magnetic lasso tools”...
Page 152 CHAPTER 5 Selecting • To erase recently drawn straight segments, To switch temporarily to the other lasso tools, press the Delete key. do one of the following: Close the selection border: • To activate the lasso tool, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and drag with Position the polygonal lasso tool pointer over the •...
Page 153 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide For the magnetic lasso tool (Photoshop), Using the magic wand tool set any of these options: The magic wand tool lets you select a consistently colored area (for example, a red ﬂower) without • To specify a detection width, enter a pixel value having to trace its outline.
Page 154 CHAPTER 5 Selecting Using the Color Range command Position the pointer over the image or preview area, and click to sample the colors you want (Photoshop) included. The Color Range command selects a speciﬁed color or color subset within an existing selection or an entire image.
Page 155 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Adjust the selection: Click Selection to display the selected areas in the preview area. To add colors, select the plus eyedropper, • and click in the preview area or image. To preview the selection in the image window,...
Page 156: Adjusting Pixel Selections
CHAPTER 5 Selecting Creating selections from slices Drag the border to enclose a different area of the image. You can drag a selection border partly (ImageReady) beyond the canvas boundaries. When you drag If you create a slice in ImageReady, it can be it back, the original border reappears intact.
Page 157: Softening The Edges Of A Selection
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To select the unselected parts of an image: To subtract from a selection: Choose Select > Inverse. Make a selection. Using any selection tool, do one of the You can use this option to select an object placed following: against a solid-colored background.
Page 158 CHAPTER 5 Selecting Anti-aliasing is available for the lasso, polygonal To deﬁne a feathered edge for an existing selection: lasso, magnetic lasso, rounded rectangle marquee, Choose Select > Feather. elliptical marquee, and magic wand tools. (Select a Enter a value for the Feather Radius, and tool to display its options bar.) You must specify click OK.
Page 159: Moving, Copying, And Pasting Selections And Layers
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Moving, copying, and pasting Do one of the following: selections and layers Move the pointer inside the selection border, and • drag the selection to a new position. If you have You can move or copy selections and layers within selected multiple areas, all move as you drag.
Page 160 CHAPTER 5 Selecting proportion to the new image. Use the Image Size To create multiple copies of a selection within an image: command to make the source and destination images the same resolution before copying and Select the move tool ( ), or hold down Ctrl pasting.
Page 161 Ctrl (Windows) or Command the Layers palette, select a painting tool, and edit (Mac OS) as you drag from Adobe Illustrator. the mask: To copy type, you must ﬁrst convert it to outlines.
Page 162: Working With Snap
To paste PostScript artwork from another application: Click OK (Photoshop). In the supporting application, select your artwork, and choose Edit > Copy. Applications that produce PostScript artwork include Adobe Working with snap Illustrator (versions 5.0 through 8.0), Adobe Snap helps with precise placement of selection...
Page 163: Saving And Loading Selections
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Saving and loading selections To choose options from the Snap To submenu: Choose View > Snap To, and choose from Selections can be saved and loaded for reuse. the submenu: (See “Saving a mask selection” on page 200.) Guides, Slices, and Document Bounds in any •...
Page 164: Removing Fringe Pixels From A Selection
CHAPTER 5 Selecting Removing fringe pixels from a To decrease a fringe on a selection: Choose Layer > Matting > Defringe. selection (Photoshop) Enter a value in the Width text box for the When you move or paste an anti-aliased selection, distance to search for replacement pixels.
Page 165 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To extract an object, you use tools in the Extract Specify options for tools in the dialog box dialog box. First you draw a highlight that marks (you can change these settings at any time): the edges of the object, and deﬁne the object’s...
Page 166 CHAPTER 5 Selecting Use Smart Highlighting to trace sharper edges. • If the object is especially intricate or lacks a clear Use a large brush to cover wispy, intricate edges interior, make sure that the highlight covers the where the foreground blends into the background, entire object, and then select Force Foreground.
Page 167 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide If necessary, repeat the extraction to improve Click OK to apply the ﬁnal extraction. On the the results (when you are ﬁnished, you can layer, all pixels outside the extracted object are perform ﬁnal touch-ups as described in step 9): erased to transparency.
Page 171: Drawing And Editing
Chapter 6: Drawing and Editing he drawing tools let you create and edit Working with shapes provides several advantages: vector shapes. You can work with shapes in • Shapes are object-oriented—you can quickly shape layers and as paths; you can also select, resize, and move a shape, and you can edit a create rasterized shapes, which can be edited with shape’s outline (called a path) and attributes (such...
Page 172 CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing About the drawing tools in Photoshop To create a new shape layer: and ImageReady Specify a foreground color. Keep in mind the following differences when using Select the rectangle tool ( ), rounded rectangle the drawing tools in Photoshop and ImageReady: tool ( ), ellipse tool ( ), or line tool ( );...
Page 173 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide (Photoshop) To create multiple shape • You can designate a path as a clipping path components in the same shape layer, continue for an entire image, which is useful when drawing shapes: exporting images to page-layout or vector-editing applications.
Page 174: Using The Shape Tools
CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing • Select a different tool in the toolbox to switch • Select Anti-aliased to blend the shape’s edge between drawing tools. When using a shape tool, pixels with the surrounding pixels. you can also select a different shape tool in the •...
Page 175 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Renders a line with Renders a polygon Arrowheads Start and End Indent Sides By (Photoshop) arrowheads. Select Start, End, or both to specify as a star. Enter a percentage in the text box to on which end of the line arrows are rendered.
Page 176: Using The Pen Tools (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing Manipulating a shape while dragging Saving custom shapes You can use the following modiﬁer keys to After you create a shape, you can save it as a manipulate a shape while dragging: custom shape. The saved shape appears in the Shape pop-up palette.
Page 177 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Drawing with the pen tool Complete the path component: The pen tool lets you create straight lines and To end an open path component, click the pen • smooth ﬂowing curves with greater precision than tool in the toolbox, or Ctrl-click (Windows) or is possible with the freeform pen tool.
Page 178 CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing Continue clicking to set anchor points for For more information on how paths are additional segments. The last anchor point is constructed, see “About anchor points, direction always a solid square, indicating it is selected. lines, direction points, and components”...
Page 179 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Do one of the following: Drawing with the freeform pen tool The freeform pen tool lets you draw as if you were To draw the next segment of a smooth curve, • drawing with a pencil on paper. Anchor points are position the pointer where you want the next added automatically as you draw.
Page 180 CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing To continue the existing freehand path, position • If you are working with a stylus tablet, select or the freeform pen pointer on an endpoint of the deselect Stylus Pressure. When this option is path, and drag. If the Auto Add/Delete option is selected, an increase in stylus pressure causes the selected, you can click an existing point to delete it.
Page 181: Drawing Overlapping Shapes (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Complete the path: To specify how overlapping areas interact: Create a new shape layer or work path, select an Press Enter or Return to end an open path. • existing layer in the Layers palette, or select an Double-click to close the path with a magnetic •...
Page 182: Editing Paths (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing Editing paths (Photoshop) To display the Paths palette: Choose Windows > Show Paths, or click the Paths A path is composed of one or more path palette tab. components—collections of one or more anchor points jointed by segments. To select or deselect a path in the palette: Because they take up less disk space than pixel- Do one of the following:...
Page 183 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide A path can be closed, with no beginning or end A path does not have to be all one connected series (for example, a circle), or open, with distinct of segments. It can contain more than one distinct endpoints (for example, a wavy line).
Page 184 CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing To select a path: To change the overlap mode for the selected path component: Do one of the following: Using the path component selection tool, To select a path component (including a shape in • drag a marquee to select existing path areas, then a shape layer), select the path component selection choose a shape area option in the options bar.
Page 185 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To move a curved segment: • To adjust the shape of the segment on either side of a selected anchor point, drag the anchor point Select the direct selection tool ( ), and select or the direction point. Hold down Shift as you the points or segments you want to move.
Page 186 OK. To reshape a path component: To copy path components between two Adobe Select the path name in the Paths palette, and Photoshop ﬁles: use the direct selection tool ( ) to select an anchor Open both images.
Page 187 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • In the source image, select the path’s name in the • Horizontal Center ( ) to align the horizontal Paths palette and choose Edit > Copy to copy the centers of the selected components.
Page 188 CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing To add an anchor point: To convert between a smooth point and a corner point: Select the add anchor point tool ( ), and Select the convert anchor point tool ( ), position the pointer on the path where you want and position the pointer over the anchor point the anchor point added (a plus sign appears next you want changed.
Page 189: Managing Paths (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • To convert a corner point to a smooth point, Paths saved with an image appear when you open drag away from the corner point to make direction it again. In Windows, the Photoshop, JPEG, DCS, lines appear.
Page 190: Converting Between Paths And Selection Borders
CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing Converting between paths and To rename a saved path: Double-click the path’s name in the selection borders (Photoshop) Paths palette. Because of their smooth outlines, you can convert Enter a new name in the Rename Path dialog paths into precise selection borders.
Page 191 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Start converting the path: Converting selection borders to paths Any selection made with a selection tool can be Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) • deﬁned as a path. the Load Path as a Selection button ( ) at the bottom of the Paths palette.
Page 192: (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 6 Drawing and Editing Adding color to paths (Photoshop) You can add color values to a path by ﬁlling or stroking it. Filling a path is the same as creating a rasterized shape using the shape tools. (See “Creating rasterized shapes” on page 164.) For more information, see “Filling paths with color”...
Page 195: Using Channels And Masks
Alpha channels are preserved Color information channels are created only when you save a ﬁle in Adobe Photoshop, PDF, automatically when you open a new image. PICT, TIFF, or Raw formats. DCS 2.0 format only The image’s color mode (not its number of layers)
Page 196 CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks Viewing channels • In alpha channels, selected pixels appear as white; unselected pixels appear as black (partially You can use the palette to view any combination of transparent or selected pixels appear as gray). individual channels.
Page 197: Managing Channels (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Selecting and editing channels To change the order of alpha or spot channels: Drag the channel up or down. When the heavy You can select one or more channels in the black line appears in the position you want, Channels palette.
Page 198 CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks • Choose New to copy the channel to a new image, To split channels into separate images: creating a multichannel image containing a single Choose Split Channels from the Channels palette channel. Type a name for the new image. menu.
Page 199 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To merge channels: The selected channels are merged into a new image of the speciﬁed type, and the original images are Open the grayscale images containing the closed without any changes. The new image channels you want to merge, and make one of the appears in an untitled window.
Page 200: Mixing Color Channels (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks When deleting a channel from a ﬁle with layers, To mix color channels: regardless of the method you use, Photoshop In the Channels palette, select the composite prompts you ﬁrst to ﬂatten the visible layers and color channel.
Page 201: Adding Spot Colors (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Adding spot colors (Photoshop) • You cannot move spot colors above a default channel in the Channels palette except in Multi- Spot colors are special premixed inks used instead channel mode. of, or in addition to, the process color (CMYK) •...
Page 202 Double-click the alpha channel in the For more information, see “Using the Channels palette. Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. If needed, rename the channel. If you select a custom color, your print service provider can more easily provide the proper ink to Select Spot Color.
Page 203 For more information, see “Using the same channel with a solidity of 100%. Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. In addition, the resulting merged spot channels By selecting a custom color, your print service can usually don’t reproduce the same colors as the...
Page 204: Using Channel Calculations To Blend Layers And Channels (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks Using channel calculations to Use a printed sample of the overprinted inks to adjust your screen display to help you predict how blend layers and channels colors will look when printed. (Photoshop) Note: In some cases, such as varnish and bump You can use the blending effects associated with plates, you may want colors to overprint.
Page 205 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Using the Apply Image command Enter an opacity to specify the effect’s strength. The Apply Image command lets you blend one Select Preserve Transparency to apply the image’s layer and channel (the source) with a layer results only to opaque areas in the result layer.
Page 206 CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks Adds the pixel values in two channels. This is Select Invert to use the negative of the channel a good way to combine nonoverlapping images in contents in the calculation. For Channel, choose two channels. Gray to get the same effect as would be obtained by converting the image to a grayscale image.
Page 207: About Masks (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide About masks (Photoshop) In Photoshop, you can create masks, all stored at least temporarily as grayscale channels, in the Masks let you isolate and protect areas of an image following ways: as you apply color changes, ﬁlters, or other effects Quick Mask mode lets you create and view a to the rest of the image.
Page 208 CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks Start with a selected area and use Quick Mask shrinking the selection. Painting with white mode to add to or subtract from it to make the removes areas from the mask, expanding the mask. Alternatively, create the mask entirely in selection.
Page 209: Storing Masks In Alpha Channels
An alpha channel has these properties: For more information, see “Using the Each image (except 16-bit images) can contain • Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. up to 24 channels, including all color and alpha channels. To change the opacity, enter a value between 0% and 100%.
Page 210 CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks Creating alpha channels (Photoshop) Click the eye icon ( ) next to a color channel or the composite color channel to display the image You can create a new alpha channel and then use with a color overlay.
Page 211 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide In the Channel menu, choose a destination To edit an alpha channel: channel for the selection. Use a painting or editing tool to paint in the image. Paint with black to add to the channel, paint with By default, the selection is saved in a new channel.
Page 212 CHAPTER 7 Using Channels and Masks To load a saved selection using shortcuts To load a saved selection into an image (ImageReady): (Photoshop): Choose Select > Load Selection, then choose an Do one of the following in the Channels palette: option from the submenu.
Page 215: Using Layers
Chapter 8: Using Layers hen you create, import, or scan an you can see through to the layers below. All layers image in Adobe Photoshop or in a ﬁle have the same resolution, start with the Adobe ImageReady, the image consists same number of channels, and have the same of a single layer.
Page 216: About Layer Sets
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers You can draw, edit, paste, and reposition elements Layer sets function like layers; you can view, select, on one layer without disturbing the others. duplicate, move, or change the stacking order of Until you combine, or merge, the layers, each layer layers in a set the same way you do layers.
Page 217 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide You can also use the Layers palette to apply layer To view the Layers palette: masks and layer clipping paths to a layer. You can Choose Window > Show Layers, or click the also apply layer styles to a layer and create Layers palette tab.
Page 218 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers • Drag through the eye column to show or hide To change the display of layer thumbnails: multiple layers or layer effects. You can drag Choose Palette Options from the Layers palette through the eye column next to the layers or layer menu.
Page 219 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide (Photoshop) Select Use Video Alpha to enable To change the order of layers by dragging: Photoshop to send transparency information to In the Layers palette, select the layer or the layer your computer’s video board. This option requires set you want to move.
Page 220: Creating A Layered Image
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers • Create layer sets from linked layers. Adding layers (See “Linking layers” on page 209.) Newly added layers and layer sets appear above the selected layer in the Layers palette. You can add • Rasterize linked layers. (See “Simplifying layers” layers to an image in a variety of ways: on page 245.) By creating new layers or converting selections...
Page 221 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Name the layer, and select mode, opacity, and, Duplicating layers in some cases, ﬁll options. (See “Specifying layer You can duplicate any layer (including the properties” on page 219.) Then click OK. background) or any layer set within the same image.
Page 222 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers To copy a layer or layer set between images: To copy multiple layers or layer sets into another image: Make sure that both the source and destination Make sure that both the source and destination images are open. images are open, and select one of the layers or In the Layers palette of the source image, layer sets you want to copy.
Page 223: Grouping Layers Into Sets
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Grouping layers into sets • If the destination layer set is expanded, drag a layer to the desired location within the layer set. Layers can be grouped into layer sets. Layer sets When the highlighted line appears in the desired allow you to easily move the layers as a group, location, release the mouse button.
Page 224: Moving And Aligning The Contents Of Layers
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Moving and aligning the Drag anywhere in the image to move the selected layer into the desired position. contents of layers To constrain the direction of movement to a Moving a layer or layer set on an image moves its multiple of 45 , hold down Shift as you drag.
Page 225 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide linked layers at evenly spaced intervals. You can • Bottom Edges to align the bottommost pixel on also align and distribute the contents of layers the linked layers to the bottommost pixel on the using the alignment and distribution options on active layer or the bottommost edge of the the move tool’s options bar.
Page 226: Editing Layers
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers • Horizontal Centers to space the linked layers To sample from all visible layers: evenly starting from the horizontal centermost Click the magic wand tool ( ), smudge pixel on each layer. tool ( ), blur tool ( ), sharpen tool ( ), paint bucket tool ( ), or clone stamp tool ( ).
Page 227 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To specify opacity for a layer: You can also specify a blending mode in the Layer Styles dialog box (Photoshop) and in the Layer In the Layers palette, enter a value in the Opacity Options dialog box (ImageReady). (See “Using the text box, or drag the Opacity pop-up slider.
Page 228: Creating Clipping Groups
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers To lock all properties including blending mode, To partially lock linked layers: opacity, and layer style, for layers or layer sets: Select a linked layer, and do one of the following Select the layer or layer set, and select Lock ( ) in to lock selected properties: the Layers palette to automatically lock all Choose Layers >...
Page 229: Specifying Layer Properties
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Note that only successive layers can be included To remove a layer from a clipping group: in a clipping group. The name of the base layer in Do one of the following: the group is underlined, and the thumbnails for Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), •...
Page 230: Using The Layer Style Dialog Box (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers • Double-click the layer set name. on the right. As you select names from the left column, the options on the right change. You can (Photoshop) Choose Layer > Layer Properties, • select or deselect options from the Styles panel to or choose Layer Properties from the Layers palette create your desired result.
Page 231: Setting Layer Blending Options
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Setting layer blending options To set blending options (Photoshop): Open the Layer Styles dialog box as described in The blending options in the Layer Styles dialog “Using the Layer Style dialog box (Photoshop)” on box (Photoshop) and the Layer Options palette page 220.
Page 232 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Do the following: Specifying knockout options The knockout options allow you to specify which Set a ﬁll opacity using the Fill Opacity slider or • layers “punch through” to reveal content from text box. other layers. For example, you can use a text layer Choose a knockout option from the Knockout •...
Page 233 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide In the Layer Options palette (ImageReady) or base of the clipping group when Blend Clipped the Layer Style dialog box Blending Options panel Layers as Group is selected. However, it stops just (Photoshop), choose one of the knockout options: below the base of the clipping group when Blend Clipped Layers as Group is not selected.
Page 234 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers image, for example, you can choose to exclude the To specify the scope of blend effects: Red channel from blending, and change in the Select the layer that you want to affect such as composite image only the channel information the bottom layer of a clipping group.
Page 235 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To restrict blending of interior effects such as (See “Using the Layer Style dialog box Inner Glow, Satin, and the Color, Pattern, (Photoshop)” on page 220.) or Gradient Overlay, select Blend Interior Effects For more information, see “About color as Group.
Page 236: Using Layer Styles
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Using layer styles Displaying layer styles You can show or hide all layer styles in the image Layer styles affect how a layer interacts with or in the Layers palette. other layers, including its blending mode and opacity.
Page 237 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To display the Styles palette: You can also load or save layer styles using the Preset Manager. (See “Managing libraries with the Choose Window > Show Styles, or click the Styles Preset Manager (Photoshop)” on page 85.) palette tab.
Page 238 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers • Satin to apply shading to the interior of a layer • Drag the style thumbnail from the Styles palette that reacts to the shape of the layer, typically onto pixel data in a document. The layer style is creating a satiny ﬁnish.
Page 239 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To copy layer styles between layers: To scale a layer effect: In the Layers palette, select the source layer Select the layer in the Layers palette. containing the layer style you want to copy. Choose Layer > Layer Style > Scale Effects.
Page 240: Customizing Layer Styles
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Customizing layer styles • Select the layer, then click the Clear style button ( ) at the bottom of the Styles palette. You can customize a layer style by applying • (ImageReady) Select an effect in the Layers predeﬁned layer styles or effects to a layer, palette, then choose Delete Effect or Delete All modifying its options, and setting the blend mode...
Page 241 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide list below the layer name. Layer styles are linked to custom layer style, or click the name of the layer the layer contents. When you move or edit the effect to select it and to display its options in the contents on the layer, the layer style applied to that dialog box.
Page 242 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers If you create a new layer style using the New Item Specifying options for layer styles button, New Style menu command, or Layer Style When customizing layer styles, you can specify a dialog box, all effects on the current layer are number of options for each effect contained in the included in the new layer style.
Page 243 Style speciﬁes the shape of the gradient. For more information, see “Using the For more information, see “Creating Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. gradient ﬁlls” in online Help. With solid color glows, allows you to Contour Speciﬁes the blend...
Page 244 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Speciﬁes the style of a bevel: Inner Bevel to the layer to position it while in this panel. The Style create a bevel on the inside edges of the layer position can be reset with the Snap to Origin contents, Outer Bevel to create a bevel on the button.
Page 245 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Allows you to specify a pattern used to Texture To set a local lighting angle: texture the bevel effect. Scale allows you to scale In the PS Layer Style dialog box for Drop Shadow, the size of the texture. Link With Layer speciﬁes Inner Shadow, or Bevel, deselect Use Global Light.
Page 246: Creating And Editing Contours (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Managing layer styles load contours, or save contours in the Contour Editor dialog box. Exiting Photoshop saves the You can select, reset, delete, or change the preview contents of the current pop-up palette in the of layer styles using the Styles palette and the Styles Preferences ﬁle.
Page 247: Hiding Portions Of A Layer
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To load contours from the Contour Editor dialog box: In the Layers palette, both the layer mask and layer clipping path appear as an additional thumbnail to Click the contour in the Layer Style dialog box, the right of the layer thumbnail.
Page 248 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Using a mask to hide or show a layer You can also use the Layer menu to hide or show a selection. You can obscure an entire layer or layer set, or just a selected part of it, using a mask or a layer After creating a layer mask, you can use the clipping path.
Page 249 Layer Mask Display Options dialog box, and choose a new color. For more information, see “Using the Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. Background painted with black, head painted with white, To change the opacity, enter a value between neck painted with gray 0% and 100%.
Page 250 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Editing a layer clipping path (Photoshop) To convert a layer clipping path to a layer mask: Click the layer clipping path in the Layers A layer clipping path creates a sharp-edged shape palette to select it. on a layer.
Page 251 For more information, see “Using the hidden. To redisplay the layers, Alt-click or Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. Option-click the layer mask thumbnail, or click To change the opacity, enter a value between an eye icon.
Page 252: Using Adjustment Layers Or Fill Layers (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers To turn on the layer clipping path, Shift-click To load a layer or layer mask’s boundaries as a selection: the layer clipping path thumbnail in the Layers palette. Do one of the following: You can also use the Layer menu to temporarily In the Layers palette, Ctrl-click (Windows) •...
Page 253 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Fill layers do not have any effect on the layers Creating adjustment layers or ﬁll layers underneath them. The ﬁll layer options are solid Adjustment layers and ﬁll layers have the same color, gradient, or pattern. Once you create an opacity and blending mode options as image adjustment or ﬁll layer, you can easily edit the...
Page 254 If needed, deﬁne the contents of the layer in the For more information, see “Using the dialog that appears, and click OK. Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. You can also create a ﬁll or adjustment layer using Speciﬁes the pattern of a ﬁll layer. You can Pattern the Layer menu.
Page 255 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide specify that the pattern moves with the layer as it is applied within the merged layer. (See “Merging relocated, and drag the Scale slider or enter a value layers” on page 247.) You can rasterize an to specify the size of the pattern.
Page 256: Managing Layered Images
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Managing layered images The ﬁrst (left) value indicates the size of the ﬁle if ﬂattened. The second (right) value shows the Adding nontransparent layers to an image estimated ﬁle size of the unﬂattened ﬁle, including increases its ﬁle size. To conserve disk space, any layers and channels.
Page 257 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Merging layers To merge a clipping group: Make visible all the layers in the group that you Merging layers, layer sets, layer clipping paths, want to merge (any hidden layers in the group are clipping groups, linked layers, or adjustment layers discarded when you merge).
Page 258 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers To stamp layer sets: To ﬂatten an image: Make sure that the layers in the layer set you Make sure that all the layers you want to keep want to merge are visible. Select the layer set. the content from are visible.
Page 261: Using Type
Chapter 9: Using Type ypography gives visual form to language. Creating type Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady You can create horizontal or vertical type let you add type to images with ﬂexibility anywhere in an image. Depending on how you and precision.
Page 262 CHAPTER 9 Using Type About using the type tool (Photoshop) Click an orientation button in the options bar: Clicking in an image with the type tool puts the Horizontal ( ) to enter type horizontally. • type tool in edit mode. You can enter and edit Vertical ( ) to enter type vertically.
Page 263 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To enter paragraph type: To resize or transform a type bounding box: Select the type tool ( ). Display the bounding box handles: (Photoshop) Click the New Type Layer (Photoshop) With the type tool active, select •...
Page 264: Working With Type Layers
CHAPTER 9 Using Type Working with type layers To show or hide the type bounding box (ImageReady): Do one of the following: Once you create a type layer, you can edit the type and apply layer commands to it. You can change Choose View >...
Page 265 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Position the insertion point in the text, and do is horizontal, the type lines ﬂow from left to right. one of the following: Don’t confuse the orientation of a type layer with the direction of characters in a type line.
Page 266 CHAPTER 9 Using Type When ﬁle size and limiting the number of colors is When you convert from paragraph type to point most important, leaving type without anti-aliased type, a carriage return is added at the end of each edges may be preferable, despite the jagged edges. line of type (with the exception of the last line).
Page 267 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Warping applies to all characters on a type layer— To unwarp type: you cannot warp selected characters. While Select a type layer that has warping applied to it. warping is applied to a type layer, you cannot...
Page 268: Formatting Characters
CHAPTER 9 Using Type To convert type to shapes: • Double-click a word to select it. Triple-click a line to select it. Quadruple-click a paragraph to Select a type layer, and choose Layer > Type > select it. Quintuple-click anywhere in the text ﬂow Convert to Shapes.
Page 269 CID font into the local Fonts folder, the font for type is points. One PostScript point is equal to appears in Adobe applications only. 1/72 of an inch in a 72-ppi image; however, you can switch between using the PostScript and...
Page 270 CHAPTER 9 Using Type traditional deﬁnitions of point size. You can Changing the type color change the default unit of measurement for type in The type you enter gets its color from the current the Units & Rulers section of the Preferences foreground color;...
Page 271 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide cally apply a color overlay style. Applying an To change the leading: overlay layer style affects all character in the type In the Character palette, do one of the following: layer; you cannot use this method to change the Choose the desired leading from the Leading •...
Page 272 CHAPTER 9 Using Type 1 em corresponds to 1 point; in a 10-point font, To specify tracking: 1 em corresponds to 10 points. Because kerning In the Character palette, enter or select a numeric and tracking units are 1/1000 em, 100 units in a value for Tracking ( ).
Page 273 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To specify baseline shift: To specify superscript or subscript characters: In the Character palette, enter or select Choose Superscript or Subscript from the (ImageReady) a value for Baseline Shift ( ). Character palette menu. A check mark indicates A positive value moves horizontal type above that the option is selected.
Page 274 CHAPTER 9 Using Type Using ligatures and old style numerals However, for type in small sizes (less than 20 points) displayed online, fractional character When working with OpenType fonts, you can use widths can cause type to run together or have too ligatures and old style typographic numerals in much extra space, making it difﬁcult to read.
Page 275: Formatting Paragraphs
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To rotate characters in vertical type: • Select the type layer in the Layers palette to apply formatting to all paragraphs in the layer. Choose Rotate Character from the Character palette menu. A check mark indicates that the To show the Paragraph palette: option is selected.
Page 276 CHAPTER 9 Using Type ) Aligns type to the center, leaving both the top Indenting paragraphs and bottom edges of the paragraph ragged. Indentation speciﬁes the amount of space between type and the bounding box or line that contains ) Aligns type to bottom, leaving the top edge of the type.
Page 277: Controlling Hyphenation And Justiﬁcation
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Working with composition Specifying hanging punctuation Hanging punctuation controls whether punctu- The appearance of type on the page depends ation marks fall inside or outside the margins. on a complex interaction of processes called If hanging punctuation is turned on for Roman composition.
Page 281: Designing Web
You can integrate your Web production process • ImageReady provides many of the same image- by opening Photoshop ﬁles directly in Adobe editing tools as Photoshop. In addition, it includes GoLive 5.0. Slices, URLs, and other Web features tools and palettes for advanced Web processing in Photoshop ﬁles are accessible in GoLive for...
Page 282: Creating And Viewing Slices
CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages You can preview most Web effects directly area of an image needs to be optimized in GIF in Photoshop or ImageReady. However, format to support an animation, but the rest of the the appearance of an image on the Web depends image is better optimized in JPEG format, you can on the operating system, color display system, isolate the animation using a slice.
Page 283 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide layer-based slices. Auto-slices are regenerated Drag over the area where you want to create a every time you add or edit user-slices or slice. Shift-drag to constrain the slice to a square. layer-based slices. User-slices, layer-based slices, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) to and auto-slices look different—user-slices and...
Page 284 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages Layer-based slices are especially useful when To convert an auto-slice to a user-slice: working with rollovers. Start by placing the Select an auto-slice. In ImageReady, you can rollover element on a separate layer, and then select multiple slices.
Page 285 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Viewing slices To show or hide slices: Do one of the following: You can view slices in Photoshop, the Photoshop Save for Web dialog box (see “Optimizing images” Turn on display of slices in the View > Show •...
Page 286: Selecting And Modifying Slices
CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages Selecting and modifying slices To change the display of slice numbers and slice symbols (ImageReady): You can move, duplicate, combine, divide, resize, Choose Edit > Preferences > Slices. delete, arrange, align, and distribute user-slices. Under Numbers and Symbols, select a size for There are fewer options for modifying layer-based display symbols: slices and auto-slices;...
Page 287 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To select multiple slices (Photoshop Save for Web To delete a slice selection (ImageReady): dialog box and ImageReady): Choose Slices > Delete Slice Selection, and select With the slice select tool ( ), do one of the...
Page 288 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages To snap slices to a guide or another user-slice: Deﬁne how you want to divide each selected slice: Select the options you want from the View > Snap To submenu, and choose View > Snap. •...
Page 289 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • (ImageReady) Choose Slices > Duplicate To combine slices: Slice(s). Select two or more slices. • (ImageReady) Choose Duplicate Slice(s) from Choose Slices > Combine Slices. the Slice palette menu. The duplicate slice appears on top of the original...
Page 290 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages Aligning user-slices (ImageReady) To distribute user-slices: Select the user-slices you want to distribute. In ImageReady, you can align user-slices with the top, bottom, left, right, or middle. Aligning Do one of the following: user-slices can eliminate unneeded auto-slices and With the slice select tool active, click a •...
Page 291: Specifying Slice Options
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To delete all user-slices and layer-based slices: To display the Slice Options dialog box (Photoshop): Do one of the following: Do one of the following: (Photoshop) Choose View > Clear Slices. Double-click a slice with the slice select tool.
Page 292 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages To specify a content type: Photoshop and ImageReady do not display the selected background color—you must preview the Select a slice. If you are working in Photoshop, image in a browser to view the effect of selecting a double-click the slice with the slice select tool to background color.
Page 293 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To assign link information to an Image slice: Resizing and moving slices using numeric coordinates Select a slice. If you are working in Photoshop, double-click the slice with the slice select tool to The Dimensions options let you set the exact display the Slice Options dialog box.
Page 294 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages • W to specify the width of the slice. Adding HTML text to a slice Choosing the No Image type for a slice lets you H to specify the height of the slice. • enter text that will appear in the slice area of the Constrain Proportions to preserve the current •...
Page 295 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide (Photoshop Save for Web dialog box and All Image slices use the optimization settings of the ImageReady) If desired, select options in the Cell entire image until you apply new settings. If you Alignment section of the dialog box.
Page 296: Creating And Viewing Image Maps (Imageready)
CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages Creating and viewing image Linked slices in GIF and PNG-8 format share a color palette and dither pattern. The dither pattern maps (ImageReady) is applied across adjacent slice boundaries to Image maps enable you to link an area of an image prevent the appearance of seams between the to a URL.
Page 297 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Are created from a Layer-based image map areas Do one of the following to deﬁne the image layer—the layer’s content deﬁnes the shape of the map area: image map area. If you edit the layer’s content, •...
Page 298: Selecting And Modifying Image Maps (Imageready)
CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages To convert a layer-based image map area to a tool- To set image map display preferences: based image map area: Choose Edit > Preferences > Image Maps. Select a layer-based image map area using the To change the color of image map lines, choose image map select tool ( ).
Page 299 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Selecting image maps To resize and move a tool-based image map area using numeric coordinates: You select image map areas with the image map Select a rectangular or circular image map area. select tool. In the Dimensions area of the Image Map...
Page 300 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages To change the shape of a layer-based image map area: To change the stacking order of image map areas: Select a layer-based image map area. Select one or more image map areas you want to arrange. You can select a combination of In the Layer Image Map section of the Image tool-based image map areas and layer-based image Map palette, choose an option from the shape...
Page 301: Specifying Image Map Options (Imageready)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Distributing tool-based image maps To change the name of an image map area: Select an image map area. You can distribute tool-based image map areas evenly along the vertical or horizontal axis. In the Image Map palette, enter a new name in the Name text box.
Page 302: Selecting An Image Map Type (Imageready)
CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages Working with rollovers • _top to replace the entire browser window with the linked ﬁle, removing all current frames. (ImageReady) Note: For more information on frames, see an You use the Rollover palette, in conjunction with HTML reference (either printed or on the Web).
Page 303 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide in the previous state. You can then use the Layers automatically adjust to encompass the new pixels. palette to make changes to the image in the new However, do not use a layer-based slice when you state.
Page 304 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages To select a slice or image map area in the Rollover Use the default rollover state assigned by palette: ImageReady, or select a rollover state from the pop-up menu above the rollover thumbnail: Choose a slice or image map area from the pop-up menu at the lower left corner of the •...
Page 305 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Custom to deﬁne a new rollover state. (You must In the document window, perform the action create JavaScript code and add it to the HTML ﬁle that activates the rollover state. For example, for the Web page in order for the Custom rollover position the mouse over the rollover slice or image option to function.
Page 306 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages Applying and creating rollover styles The new rollover style appears in the Styles palette. The thumbnail preview displays the effects in the Rollover styles simplify rollover creation by Normal state. allowing you to turn a layer into a rollover effect with a single click.
Page 307: Creating Web Photo Galleries (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Creating Web photo galleries You can also copy frames from the Animation palette and paste them into the Rollover palette as (Photoshop) states, or copy states from the Rollover palette and You use the Web Photo Gallery command to paste them into the Animation palette as frames.
Page 308 CHAPTER 10 Designing Web Pages To set options for the banner that appears on • For Font and Font Size, choose options for the each page in the gallery, choose Banner from the thumbnail text. Options pop-up menu. Then do the following: •...
Page 311: Creating Animations
Chapter 11: Creating Animations (ImageReady) dobe ImageReady provides a powerful, Working with layers is an essential part of creating easy way to create multiple-frame animations in ImageReady. Placing each element animations from a single document. of an animation on its own layer enables you to change the position and appearance of the element Using the Animation and Layers palettes, you can across a series of frames, using the Layers palette...
Page 312 CHAPTER 11 Creating Animations (ImageReady) Keep in mind that an image can have multiple Adding frames animations that are associated with different Adding frames is the ﬁrst step in creating an rollover states. For example, adding an animation animation. If you have an image open in to the Normal rollover state causes the animation ImageReady, the Animation palette displays the to play when the Web page is ﬁrst loaded by a Web...
Page 313 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide In the Animation palette, the current frame is To deselect a frame in a multiframe selection: indicated by a narrow border (inside the shaded Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click selection highlight) around the frame thumbnail. (Mac OS) a frame to deselect it.
Page 314 CHAPTER 11 Creating Animations (ImageReady) To delete an entire animation: • Paste Over Selection to add the contents of the pasted frames as new layers in the image. When Select Delete Animation from the Animation you paste frames into the same image, using this palette menu.
Page 315 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The term “tweening” is derived from “in Do one of the following: betweening,” the traditional animation term used Click the Tween button ( ) in the Animation • to describe this process. Tweening signiﬁcantly palette.
Page 316: Working With Layers In Animations
CHAPTER 11 Creating Animations (ImageReady) Enter a value, or use the Up or Down Arrow Specify the delay: key to choose the number of frames to add. Choose a value from the pop-up menu. (The last • (This option is not available if you selected more value used appears at the bottom of the menu.) than two frames.
Page 317 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Keep in mind that some changes you make to To add a new layer every time you create a frame: layers affect only the active frame, while others Choose Add Layer to New Frames from the affect all frames: Animation palette menu.
Page 318 CHAPTER 11 Creating Animations (ImageReady) Setting the frame disposal method Choose a disposal method: The frame disposal method speciﬁes whether to Automatic to determine a disposal method for • discard the current frame before displaying the the current frame automatically, discarding the next frame.
Page 319: Viewing Animations
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Optimizing animations To ﬂatten frames into layers: In the Animation palette, choose Flatten Frames You can apply optimization settings to animated into Layers from the palette menu. images just as you do to nonanimated images.
Page 320: Viewing Animated Images In Photoshop
CHAPTER 11 Creating Animations (ImageReady) Viewing animated images in To optimize an animated image: Choose Optimize Animation from the Photoshop Animation palette menu. When you open a ﬁle containing an animation in Set the following options: Photoshop, only the frame that was selected when you saved the ﬁle in ImageReady is displayed.
Page 321: Opening And Importing Files As Animations
Opening Photoshop ﬁles as animations for the ﬁle. You can easily create animated GIFs from existing Click Save. one-layer-per-frame images in Adobe Photoshop If desired, adjust the compression settings, ﬁle format or from a group of single-layer images. and click OK.
Page 322 CHAPTER 11 Creating Animations (ImageReady) You can also import a folder of ﬁles and use each The ﬁles appear in the Animation palette as frames ﬁle as a frame in ImageReady. Files can be in any and in the Layers palette as layers, with each layer format that ImageReady supports.
Page 325: Optimizing Images For Chapter 12 About Optimization
ﬁle size of an image for use on combination of settings for your needs. You can the Web or other online media. Adobe Photoshop also specify background transparency and and Adobe ImageReady give you an effective range matting, select options to control dithering, and of controls for compressing the ﬁle size of an...
Page 326: Viewing Images During Optimization
CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web Viewing images during You can select a version of the image in 2-Up or 4-Up view to apply new optimization settings. optimization You can automatically repopulate 2-Up and 4-Up In Photoshop, you must choose File > Save for views—generate new optimized versions of the Web to view and work with optimized images.
Page 327: Choosing A File Format For Optimization
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To restore an optimized version of an image to the Viewing optimization annotations original version: In 2-Up and 4-Up view, an annotation area Select an optimized version of the image in the appears by default below each optimized image, 2-Up or 4-Up view.
Page 328 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web transparency. (Multilevel transparency is JPEG compresses ﬁle size by selectively discarding supported by the PNG-24 format but not the JPEG data. Because it discards data, JPEG compression format. See “Making transparent and matted is referred to as lossy.
Page 329 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide transparency and you do not know the Web page You can reduce the number of colors in a GIF background color, or if the background will be a image and choose options to control the way pattern, you should use a format that supports colors dither in the application or in a browser.
Page 330: Optimizing Images
CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web As with the GIF format, you can reduce the 256 levels of transparency to blend the edges of an number of colors in the image and choose options image smoothly with any background color. to control the way colors dither in the application However, multilevel transparency is not supported or in the browser.
Page 331 Setting optimization options for JPEG they will be saved. By default, named settings are format saved in the Optimized Settings folder, inside the Presets folder in the Adobe Photoshop folder. JPEG is the standard format for compressing continuous-tone images such as photographs. Click OK.
Page 332 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web In ImageReady, you can control which options To create an enhanced JPEG with a slightly show in the Optimize palette by clicking the Show smaller ﬁle size, select Optimized. The Optimized Options control ( ) on the Optimize palette tab. JPEG format is recommended for maximum ﬁle To show all options, choose Show Options from compression;...
Page 333 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Setting optimization options for GIF and To optimize an image in GIF or PNG-8 format: PNG-8 formats Select a view in which to apply the optimization setting. GIF is the standard format for compressing images with ﬂat color and crisp detail, such as line art,...
Page 334 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web To modify the color reduction using an alpha If the image contains transparency, choose an channel, click the channel button ( ) next to the option for preserving or ﬁlling transparent pixels: Color Reduction Algorithm text box. In the •...
Page 335 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Setting optimization options for PNG-24 Optimizing by ﬁle size format You can optimize an image or slice to an approx- imate ﬁle size. This feature enables you to quickly PNG-24 format is suitable for compressing achieve a desired ﬁle size without having to test...
Page 336 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web Resizing the image during optimization Controlling optimization (ImageReady) (Photoshop Save For Web dialog box) By default, Photoshop and ImageReady automati- cally regenerate the optimized image when you When optimizing an image in the Photoshop Save click the Optimized, 2-Up, or 4-Up tab at the top For Web dialog box, you can resize the image to of the document (if you have modiﬁed the image...
Page 337: Using Weighted Optimization
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Choose Regenerate from the Optimize palette describe the highest level of image quality, while menu. the black areas for the mask describe the lowest level of image quality. (The level of optimization in Note: Manually optimizing an image does not turn gray areas of the mask decreases by a linear scale.)
Page 338 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web To use a channel to modify JPEG quality: To use a channel to modify GIF lossiness: In the Optimize panel/palette, choose a JPEG In the Optimize panel/palette, choose a GIF setting from the Settings menu, or choose JPEG setting from the Settings menu, or choose GIF from the ﬁle format menu.
Page 339 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Using channels to modify dithering Using channels to modify color reduction When you use an alpha channel to optimize the When you use an alpha channel to optimize the amount of dithering in a GIF or PNG-8 image,...
Page 340: Optimizing Colors In Gif And Png-8 Images
CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web Optimizing colors in GIF and If an image has multiple slices, the colors in the color table may vary between slices (you can link PNG-8 images the slices ﬁrst to prevent this from happening). Decreasing the number of colors in an image is a If you select multiple slices that use different color key factor in optimizing GIF and PNG-8 images.
Page 341 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Preserves the current color table as a To select a color reduction algorithm: Custom ﬁxed palette that does not update with changes to Choose an option from the Color Reduction the image. Algorithm pop-up menu (below the ﬁle format menu in the Optimize panel/palette): Uses the Mac OS system’s default 8-bit...
Page 342 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web Sorting the color table Choose a color: You can sort colors in the color table by hue, Click the color selection box in the Save for Web • luminance, or popularity, making it easier to see dialog box (Photoshop) or the toolbox an image’s color range and locate particular colors.
Page 343 Web page displayed in a preparing ﬁles for multimedia authoring applica- browser. tions, such as Adobe After Effects ® To select a color directly in the color table: To add black or white to the color table for an image: Click the color in the Color Table panel/palette.
Page 344 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web To select colors based on a selection in the image To deselect all colors: (ImageReady): Choose Deselect All Colors from the Color Table Make a selection in the image using the palette menu. selection tools or the Select menu commands.
Page 345 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To shift colors to the closest Web palette equivalent: Locking colors in the color table Select one or more colors in the optimized You can lock selected colors in the color table to image or color table. (See “Selecting colors” on prevent them from being dropped when the page 333.)
Page 346 By default, the color table closest color remaining in the palette. ﬁle is given the extension .act (for Adobe Color Table). When you delete a color, the color table automati- cally changes to a Custom palette.
Page 347: Working With Hexadecimal Values For Color
Viewing hexadecimal values for colors in where it will be saved. By default, the master the Info palette palette ﬁle is given the extension .act (for Adobe Color Table). In Photoshop, hexadecimal values for colors are displayed in the Info palette when you select Web Color Mode for one or both color readouts.
Page 348 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web displayed automatically in the right side of the Info • (ImageReady) Click the color in the image which palette, next to RGB color values. The Photoshop you want to copy. The color you click becomes the and ImageReady Info palettes also display other foreground color.
Page 349: Making Transparent And Matted Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To copy a color as a hexadecimal value by dragging Preserving transparency in GIF and PNG (ImageReady): images Drag the Foreground Color from the toolbox or a GIF format and PNG-8 format support one level selected color from the Color Table palette or the of transparency—pixels can be fully transparent or...
Page 350 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web The results of matting GIF and PNG-8 images Select a color from the Matte pop-up menu: depend on the Transparency option. If you select (Photoshop) Select Eyedropper (to use the color • Transparency, only the partially transparent pixels, in the eyedropper sample box), White, Black, such as those at the edge of an anti-aliased image, or Other (using the color picker).
Page 351: Previewing And Controlling Dithering
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To create hard-edged transparency in a GIF or PNG-8: Select a color from the Matte pop-up menu: Open or create an image that contains (Photoshop) Select None, Eyedropper (to use • transparency. the color in the eyedropper sample box), White, Black, or Other (using the color picker).
Page 352 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web When optimizing images, keep in mind that two Previewing and controlling application kinds of dithering can occur: dither You can preview application dither in GIF and • Application dither occurs in GIF and PNG-8 PNG-8 images.
Page 353 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide The Dither percentage controls the amount of To preview browser dither in a browser: dithering that is applied to the image. A higher Set your computer’s color display to 8-bit color dithering percentage creates the appearance of (256 colors).
Page 354 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web Creating and applying custom dither Choose one of the following from the color palette pop-up menu in the DitherBox dialog box: patterns You can use the DitherBox ﬁlter to create a custom • Web Safe Colors to create a dither pattern using dither pattern for a selected RGB color.
Page 355: Setting Optimization Preferences (Imageready)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To edit the custom dither pattern, do one of the To edit dither pattern collections: following: Do one of the following in the DitherBox dialog box: • To add a color to the dither pattern, click a color in the color palette.
Page 356: Using A Droplet To Automate Optimization Settings (Imageready)
CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web • Named Setting and select an option from the you can choose where the images will be saved. Named Settings pop-up menu to apply When you drag an image over it, the droplet that setting.
Page 357: Saving Optimized Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Do any of the following to control the When saving an optimized image with slices, processing: you can choose to save all slices, or only the selected slices. • To temporarily pause the processing, click Pause.
Page 358: Setting Output Options
Copy Selected Slices to copy HTML code for reformat HTML and JavaScript code so that selected slices only. rollovers will be fully editable in Adobe GoLive. • Copy Preloads to copy the JavaScript portion of Code is reformatted in the style used by GoLive the HTML code for slices in the document.
Page 359 ﬁle. By default, output settings are saved in different ﬁle. the Optimized Output Settings folder, inside the Presets folder in the Adobe Photoshop folder. To display the Output Settings dialog box: Click Save. Do one of the following:...
Page 360 JavaScript code so that rollovers will be fully necessary with table layouts in which slice bound- editable in Adobe GoLive. Code is reformatted in aries do not align, to prevent the table from the style used by GoLive (and may create a larger breaking apart in some browsers.
Page 361 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide (ImageReady only) Select To specify a folder name Image Map Placement Put Images In Folder a placement option for the image map declaration where optimized images are saved (available only (the <MAP> tag) in the HTML ﬁle: with documents containing multiple slices).
Page 362: Creating Background Images
CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web Enter a title that will appear in the Web In addition, you can prepare an image to be used browser’s title bar: as a tiled background using the Tile Maker ﬁlter, which blends the edges of an image to create a •...
Page 363 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To select a solid color background to be To prepare an image for use as a tiled background image (ImageReady): displayed while the background image is downloading, or to be displayed through any With an image displayed, use the marquee...
Page 367: Saving And Exporting
Chapter 13: Saving and Exporting Images dobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady (ImageReady) Export Original to ﬂatten the • support a variety of ﬁle formats to suit a layers in a copy of the original image and save the wide range of output needs. You can save copy in a variety of ﬁle formats.
Page 368 CHAPTER 13 Saving and Exporting Images To save a ﬁle in a different ﬁle format: Setting ﬁle saving options (Photoshop) Do one of the following: You can set a variety of ﬁle saving options in the Save As dialog box. The availability of options (Photoshop) Choose File >...
Page 369 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Saves Image Previews options (Mac OS) To print EPS and DCS ﬁles, you must use a thumbnail data for the ﬁle. Thumbnails display in PostScript printer. the Open dialog box. You can set these image preview options: Icon to use the preview as a ﬁle...
Page 370 CHAPTER 13 Saving and Exporting Images • DCS 2.0 format retains spot channels in the The PostScript language interpreter in some appli- image. You can choose between saving color cations can use these screen settings when color channel information as multiple ﬁles (as for DCS separations are generated.
Page 371 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Select Image Interpolation if you want Select a row order for the GIF ﬁle and click OK: to anti-alias the printed appearance of a Normal to create an image that displays in a • low-resolution image.
Page 372 CHAPTER 13 Saving and Exporting Images Do one of the following to specify the Saving ﬁles in Photoshop PDF format image quality: (Photoshop) • Choose an option from the Quality menu. You can use the Save As command to save RGB, indexed-color, CMYK, grayscale, Bitmap-mode, Drag the Quality pop-up slider.
Page 373 • Text saved as outlines is not searchable or browser only after downloading is complete. selectable in a PDF viewer (such as Adobe Adam7 to create an image that displays • Acrobat). You can, however, edit the text when you low-resolution versions in a browser while the reopen the PDF ﬁle in Photoshop.
Page 374: About File Formats
Note: Photoshop doesn’t provide options for opening multiresolution ﬁles; however, Adobe InDesign and • Paeth to optimize the compression of low-level some image servers provide support for opening noise by reassigning adjacent color values.
Page 375 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide For more information on choosing ﬁle formats • Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is a when opening or saving images, see “Opening and lossy compression technique supported by JPEG, importing images” on page 101 and “Saving TIFF, PDF, and PostScript language ﬁle formats.
Page 376: Adding File Information (Photoshop)
(Photoshop) about the creator of the image. This feature is Adobe Photoshop supports the information particularly valuable to image creators who license standard developed by the Newspaper Association their work to others. Copying an image with an...
Page 377: Creating Multiple-Image Layouts (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Windows Thumbnail to save a preview that can ImageReady). This includes saving merged data display on Windows systems. for applications that don’t support Photoshop layers and saving a rasterized version of each layer •...
Page 378 CHAPTER 13 Saving and Exporting Images Creating contact sheets Creating picture packages By displaying a series of thumbnail previews on a With the Picture Package command, you can place single page, contact sheets let you easily preview multiple copies of a source image on a single page, and catalog groups of images.
Page 379: (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Placing Photoshop images in To save a path as an image clipping path: Draw and save a path or convert an existing other applications (Photoshop) selection into a path. Photoshop provides a number of features to help Choose Clipping Path from the Paths you use images in other applications.
Page 380 To print the ﬁle using a non-PostScript printer, • palette to convert the path to a selection. save in TIFF format and export to Adobe InDesign Click the Trash button ( ) at the bottom of the or to Adobe PageMaker 5.0 or later.
Page 381 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Open the path in Adobe Illustrator as a new ﬁle. You can now manipulate the path or use the path to align Illustrator objects. Note that the crop marks in Adobe Illustrator reﬂect the dimensions of the Adobe Photoshop image.
Page 385: Printing (Photoshop)
ﬁlm. In the latter case, the ﬁlm can be publishing, from early planning through prepress, used to create a master plate for printing by a is the Print Publishing Guide, an Adobe Press book. mechanical press. For information on purchasing Adobe Press...
Page 386: Printing Images
Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and and choose File > Print One. click Print One to print the image without Note: By default, Adobe Photoshop prints a displaying the Print dialog box. composite of all visible layers and channels. To print...
Page 387: Positioning And Scaling Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To preview the current image position and options: and captions, whereas the scaling percentage in the Print Options dialog box affects only the Position the pointer over the ﬁle information box size of the printed image (and not the size of (at the bottom of the application window in page marks).
Page 388: Setting Output Options
CHAPTER 14 Printing (Photoshop) Setting output options To view output options in the Print Options dialog box: You can select a variety of page marks and other Select Show More Options, and choose Output output options in the Output section of the Print from the pop-up menu.
Page 389: Selecting Halftone Screen Attributes
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Prints any caption text entered in the File dot gain using the settings in the CMYK Setup Caption Info dialog box. (See “Adding ﬁle information dialog box. Transfer functions are useful, however, (Photoshop)” on page 366.) Caption text always when compensating for a poorly calibrated prints as 9-point Helvetica plain type.
Page 390 CHAPTER 14 Printing (Photoshop) screens. Setting the screens at different angles (a PostScript imagesetter, for example) should be ensures that the dots placed by the four screens set to the correct density limit, and your processor blend to look like continuous color and do not should be properly calibrated;...
Page 391 1.5 to 2 times the halftone screen frequency. If the resolution is more • To have Adobe Photoshop determine and enter than 2.5 times the screen frequency, an alert the best frequencies and angles for each screen, message appears.
Page 392: Printing Part Of An Image
CHAPTER 14 Printing (Photoshop) Printing part of an image Keep in mind that including vector data likely increases the size of your print job, especially if the You can use the Print Selected Area option to print vector objects overlap and use transparency. a speciﬁc part of an image.
Page 393: Printing With Adobe Pressready
(See “Soft-prooﬁng colors” on Printing with Adobe PressReady page 131.) If it is installed on your system, Adobe PressReady ™ Under Print Space, choose an option for Proﬁle: simpliﬁes the color management of documents Choose the proﬁle that matches the color space...
Page 394: Creating Color Traps
After you have converted an image to CMYK, compensate for misregistration on the press. you can adjust the color trap. Trap is the overlap Adobe Photoshop uses standard rules needed to ensure that a slight misalignment or for trapping: movement of the plates while printing does not All colors spread under black.
Page 395 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide About duotones Select Preview to view the effects of the duotone settings on the image. Duotones are used to increase the tonal range of a grayscale image. Although a grayscale Specify the type of image, the ink colors, the...
Page 396 When you specify two values along the For more information, see “Using the curve, Adobe Photoshop calculates intermediate Adobe Color Picker” in online Help. values. As you adjust the curve, values are If the ink is to be separated on a process color automatically entered in the percentage text boxes.
Page 397 ﬁnal results. to other grayscale images. To help you predict how colors will look when The Adobe Photoshop application includes printed, use a printed sample of the overprinted several sample sets of duotone, tritone, and inks to adjust your screen display. Just remember quadtone curves.
Page 398 CHAPTER 14 Printing (Photoshop) The image is converted to a multichannel image, Use Accurate Screens in the Auto Screens dialog with each channel represented as a spot-color box if you’re printing to a PostScript Level 2 channel. The contents of each spot channel (or higher) printer or an imagesetter equipped accurately reﬂect the duotone settings, but the with an Emerald controller.
Page 399: Printing Color Separations
Short Pantone Names. (This step is not necessary separate page. if you are exporting to Adobe Illustrator 7.0 or Note: If you are printing an image from another later, or Adobe PageMaker 6.5 or later.)
Page 403: Automating Tasks
Actions form the basis for droplets, small applica- types of operations. Adobe Photoshop tions that automatically process all ﬁles that are and Adobe ImageReady provide a variety of dragged onto their icon. ways to automate tasks—using actions, droplets, the Batch command, and task-speciﬁc Automate commands.
Page 404: Using The Actions Palette
CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks Using the Actions palette To select actions: Do one of the following: You use the Actions palette to record, play, edit, and delete individual actions. This palette also lets Click an action name to select a single action. •...
Page 405 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide • Results depend on ﬁle and program setting Creating a new action variables, such as the active layer or the foreground When you create a new action, the commands and color. For example, a 3-pixel Gaussian blur won’t tools you use are added to the action until you create the same effect on a 72-ppi ﬁle as on a...
Page 406 CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks Choose the commands, and perform the opera- If you record multiple Insert Path commands in a tions you want to record. single action, each path will replace the previous one in the target ﬁle. To add multiple paths, record To stop recording, click the Stop button, choose a Save Path command using the Paths palette after Stop Recording from the Actions palette menu,...
Page 407 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Type the message you want to appear. Excluding commands You can exclude commands that you don’t want to If you want the option to continue the action play as part of a recorded action. In Photoshop, without stopping, select Allow Continue.
Page 408 CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks during playback, and the action pauses until you To specify an output folder: click OK or Cancel. You can insert a command Select the action for which you want to specify when recording an action or after it has been an output folder in the Actions palette.
Page 409: Playing Actions
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Playing actions • Percent to constrain proportions using the new percent value. Playing an action executes the series of commands Select Do Not Enlarge to prevent images that you recorded in the active document. You can are smaller than the new dimensions from being exclude speciﬁc commands from an action or play...
Page 410: Setting Playback Options (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks • Press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), • Pause For to enter the amount of time and double-click the command. Photoshop should pause between carrying out each command in the action. Note: Because an action is a series of commands, you can use the Edit >...
Page 411 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To rearrange commands: Rerecording and duplicating actions and commands In the Actions palette, drag the command to its new location within the same or another action. Rerecording an action or command lets you set When the highlighted line appears in the desired new values for it.
Page 412: Managing Actions In The Actions Palette
CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks • Select an action or command. Then choose To delete all actions in the Actions palette (Photoshop): Duplicate from the Actions palette menu. The copied action or command appears after Choose Clear All Actions from the Actions the original.
Page 413 Actions are automatically saved to the Actions palette menu. Palette.psp ﬁle (Windows) or the Actions Palette ﬁle (Mac OS) in the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings Locate and select the action set ﬁle. (In folder. If this ﬁle is lost or removed, the actions you Windows, Photoshop action set ﬁles have the...
Page 414 All actions you create are saved in the ImageReady To help you organize your actions, you can create Actions ﬁle in the Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings sets of actions and save the sets to disk. You can folder. ImageReady can only access actions that organize sets of actions for different types of reside in this folder.
Page 415: Using The Batch Command (Photoshop)
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide Using the Batch command Choose a source from the Source pop-up menu: (Photoshop) Folder to play the action on ﬁles already stored • on your computer. Click Choose to locate and The Batch command lets you play an action on a select the folder.
Page 416: Using Droplets
CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks If you chose Folder as the destination, specify a • Log Errors to File to record each error in a ﬁle ﬁle-naming convention and select ﬁle compati- without stopping the process. If errors are logged bility options for the processed ﬁles: to a ﬁle, a message appears after processing.
Page 417 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To create a droplet from an action (Photoshop): • Folder to save the processed ﬁles to another location. Click Choose to specify the destination Choose File > Automate > Create Droplet. folder. Select Override Action “Save In”...
Page 418 CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks To create a droplet from an action (ImageReady): • When creating a droplet in Mac OS, add .exe to the end of the droplet name. Using the .exe For best results, make sure that the action extension makes droplets compatible with both contains at least one Set Optimization command.
Page 419 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 6.0 User Guide To edit a droplet: • For Modify File Name For, choose whether ImageReady appends or rewrites the ﬁlename Double-click the droplet to open the droplet using Windows, Mac OS, or UNIX ﬁle-naming window in ImageReady. The droplet window conventions.
Page 420: Using The Automate Commands (Photoshop)
CHAPTER 15 Automating Tasks Using the Automate commands Using droplets to automate optimization settings (ImageReady) (Photoshop) You can save Optimize palette settings for use on The Automate commands simplify complex individual images or batches of images by creating tasks by combining them into one or more dialog a droplet for the settings.
Page 421: External Automation
External automation Photoshop supports some external automation using OLE Automation (Windows) or AppleScript (Mac OS). Using either of these methods lets you start Adobe Photoshop and execute actions externally. Using external automation lets you perform such tasks as: •...
Page 423: Index
Adobe Acrobat Reader 1 as selections library 187 about 393 Adobe Certification program 5 calculating 194 button mode 394 Adobe Color Picker. See online Help converting to spot channel 192 creating new 395 Adobe Gamma utility 136 copying 187 deleting 402...
Page 424 360 showing and hiding 82 optimization 346, 410 bit depth anti-aliasing using actions 393 about 116 Adobe Illustrator files 104 using Batch command 405 converting images between 117 EPS files 104 using droplets 406 bitmap images layer style option 232...
Page 425 Black Matte 145 brushes moving 187 bleeds 378 size options 58 options 200, 201 Blend Clipped Layers as Group See also online Help printing 376 command 221, 222 Build Master Palette Quick Mask 198 Blend If option for layers 225 command 337 restricting blending 221 Blend Interior Effects as Group...
Page 426 INDEX preferences 152 color gamut. See gamut Multichannel mode 113 rasterizing images from 152 color information, storing 185 number of channels 116 clipping groups color management RGB mode 110 about 218 calibrating monitors 136 setting in new images 101 adjustment layers 243 color shifts 121 color profiles.
Page 427 locking colors in 335 composite channel 186 Copy Frames command 304 master palette for 336 compositing Copy HTML Code command 348 saving 336 specifying a color range 225 Copy Layer Style command 229 selecting colors in 333 specifying a mode 216 Copy Preloads command 348 shifting to Web-safe colors 335 composition, of type 267...
Page 428 INDEX Create Slices from Guides delete anchor point tool 177 Display & Cursors preference 186 command 273 Delete Color command 336 disposal method for animation Create Work Path command (for frames 308 Delete Frame command 303 type) 257 Dissolve mode 221 Delete Slice Selection crop marks 379 command 277...
Page 429 dpi (dots per inch) 94 Duplicate Slices command 278 Export Original command 358, drawing duplicating Export Transparent Image constraining shapes 164, 166 channels 187 wizard 369 differences between Photoshop commands in actions 401 exporting and ImageReady 162 image maps 290 duotones 388 shapes 161 images 73...
Page 430 INDEX supporting paths 179 fractional character widths 264 converting to indexed-color images 118 See also compression, Save For frame delay 306 Web dialog box and names of create by mixing channels 190 Free Transform command 64 individual formats definition of 112 freeform pen tool 169 File Info command 351, 366 for storing selections 185...
Page 431 hard-edged transparency 340 options 71 image maps Help 2 replacing existing document 71 about 286 hexadecimal color values 337 reverting to previous 70 adding links to 291 hidden tools horizontal scale of type, client-side 292 adjusting 262 about 57 converting layer-based to tool- hot spots for tool pointers 58 based 287 viewing 58...
Page 432 INDEX creating from history state 71 PICT resources. See online Help Invert command 379 creating from snapshot 71 See also scanning Invert option 195 creating new 100 Include GoLive Code option 348 displaying information 78 indenting paragraphs 266 displaying size of 95 Indexed Color mode Japanese type.
Page 433 lasso tools 139, 141 hiding and showing 207 layer-based slices Lasso Width option 143 knockout 223 creating 274 Layer Clipping Path command 240 See also layers in rollovers 293 layer clipping paths Layer Style dialog box 220 layers about 161, 207 layer style options adjustment or fill 242 converting to layer masks 240...
Page 434 INDEX merging 206, 247 Load Selection button 201 Mac OS color table 331 moving 214 Load Selection command 153 Macintosh Drag Manager 151 naming 220 Load Slice Selection command 277 magic wand tool 143 opacity 221 loading printing 208, 376 actions 403 magnetic lasso tool 141 magnetic pen tool 170...
Page 435 149 Merge Down command 151, 247 shapes 175 Merge Spot Channel option 193 slices 277, 283 Merge Visible command 247 Official Adobe Print Publishing Multichannel mode Guide 5 Merged for Layer option 195 about 113, 190 old style type 264...
Page 436 INDEX Opacity value, in Info palette 63 automating 346, 399, 406, 410 HTML options 349 pixel alignment and 216 by file size 325 loading setting 348 Quick Mask 199 canceling 327 saving setting 348 Open As command 102 choosing a view for 316 slice naming options 351 Open command 101, 103, 312 creating HTML files 347...
Page 437 See also PNG format distributing 177 PICT format 185 PNG-8 format drawing freehand 169 Picture Package command 368 about 319 exporting to Adobe Illustrator 370 pixel depth. See bit depth hard-edged transparency 340 filling. See online Help pixel dimensions optimization settings for 323...
Page 438 In menu 84 See also resolution PostScript Level 2 112 animations 309 preferences PostScript Level 3 112 browser dithering 343 Adobe Online 4 previewing image size 98 channel calculations 195 anti-aliasing 104 resizing and reposition color selections 145 images 377...
Page 439 161 Reset All Tools command 59 recommended locations 135 rasterizing 152 Reset Palette Locations to Default tagging documents with 133 Adobe Illustrator artwork 152 option 61 updating 136 layer clipping paths 240 Reset Palettes command 61 working spaces 125...
Page 440 INDEX file size and 94 rotating Save Slice Selection command 277 monitor 93 placed artwork 105 saving printer 94 type bounding box 253 batch-processed files 406 screen frequency and 94 type characters 264 color range 145 Restore to Background option 308 rulers color tables 336 restoring images 68...
Page 441 Select All Colors command 334 copying between Send Backward option applications 151 Select All From Selection for image maps 290 command 334 copying within Photoshop 149 for slices 279 Selected Areas option 199 creating slice from 273 Send to Back command 209 selecting customizing 140, 142, 143 Send to Back option...
Page 442 INDEX Show Options button 61 showing and hiding 275 Standard mode 198 Show Options command 59 snapping to 153 standard screen mode 65 Show Paragraph command 265 viewing 275 Standard Windows Color command 115 Show Rulers command 74 Slices palette 281 status bar 78 Show Status Bar command.
Page 443 saving 358 snapping behavior 75 type viewing in Open dialog box 102 tool pointers 58 about 251 TIFF format 185, 364 tracking type 261 bounding box 253, 254 Tile command 65 transfer functions 378 committing 252 Tile Maker filter 352 Transform command converting between point type and paragraph type 256...
Page 444 360 clipping groups 219 command 335 saving in PDF format 363 linked layers 209 Web site for Adobe 4 type 251, 257 Units & Rulers preferences 74 Web Snap option 324 vector shapes. See shapes Unlink All command 286...
Page 445 Production Notes This book was created electronically using Adobe Julieanne Kost FrameMaker . Art was produced using Adobe Coin (page 79), White ﬂower (page 128), Flower ® Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. The Minion jar (page 144), Flower (page 148), Star (page 151), ®...

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Adobe PHOTOSHOP 6.0 Manual

Getting Started

Adobe Photoshop Basics

What's New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0

Looking at the Work Area

Getting Images into

Photoshop and Imageready

Working with Color

Producing Consistent

Chapter 5

Drawing and Editing

Using Channels and Masks

Using Layers

Using Type

Designing Web

Creating Animations

Optimizing Images for Chapter 12 About Optimization

The Web

Saving and Exporting

Images

Printing (Photoshop)

Automating Tasks

Chapter 15 About Actions

Index

Quick Links

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