Welcome to the Photoshop CS3/CS4 Wow! book -- What's new in Photoshop CS3/CS4? -- Fundamentals of Photoshop : How Photoshop thinks ; The Photoshop interface ; Working smart in Photoshop ; Recovering from mistakes ; Keeping Photoshop happy ; Getting an overview ; Anatomy of a Photoshop file -- Essential Photoshop skills : The essential skills ; Modifying selections ; Saving & loading selections ; Masking ; Blending ; Transforming & warping ; Understanding resampling ; Sizing up or sizing down ; Quick brush tip controls ; Exercising smart filters ; Exercising smart objects ; Exercising layer styles ; Quick masking & blending ; Exercising extract -- Getting in , Going fast & getting out : Getting in: input ; Going fast: automating ; Getting out: output ; Photoshop's companions ; Specialized output options ; Quick camera raw as a "front end" -- Color in Photoshop : What is color? ; Color modes ; Color depth ; Choosing or specifying colors ; Applying color ; Assessing color ; Adjusting color ; Getting consistent color ; Exercising gradients ; Duotones ; Quick tint effects ; From color to black & white ; Controlled recoloring ; Adding spot color -- Enhancing photos : Cropping ; Content-aware scaling ; Correcting for camera distortion ; Adjusting tone & color ; Retouching photos ; Noise reduction ; Sharpening ; Multi-shot techniques ; Repurposing photos ; Styling a photo ; "Framing" with masks ; Quick filtered frames ; Compensating for camera-related distortion ; Quick vignetting ; Quick tone & color adjustments ; Combing exposures ; Adjusting tone & color in camera raw ; Quick attention-focusing techniques ; Exercising lens blur ; Quick retouching from problem photos ; Quick retouching for sky ; Quick cosmetic changes ; Averaging out noise ; creating solitude ; Bringing out detail ; Quick ways to bring out detail ; In focus ; Softening the focus ; Hand-tinting a black & white photo ; Turning day into night -- Painting : First, a few words about terminology ; The painting tools ; The artists' cloning tools ; Choosing, editing & creating brush tips & tools ; The filling tools, fill layers & overlay effects ; "Painting" with filters & actions ; "Pre-conditioning" & "post-processing" ; Watercolor over ink ; "Wet on wet" acrylics ; Quick brush tips ; Pattern stamp watercolors ; Art history pastels ; Exercising Wow painting tools ; Quick "painting" with Wow actions --

Type & vector graphics : Type ; Drawing ; Editing shapes & paths ; Aligning paths & shape layers ; Transforming paths ; Stroking & filling paths ; "Softening" vector art ; Using Photoshop with Adobe Illustrator ; Exercising type layers ; Type on a circle ; Exercising drawing tools ; Organic graphics ; Quick filter treatments ; Coloring clip art ; Quick black & white graphics -- Special effects for type & graphics : Working with layer styles ; Understanding styles ; Layer style components ; Overlays ; Lighting in layer styles ; Satin ; Stroke ; Bevel and emboss ; Blending options ; Enhancing layer styles ; Adding dimension, color & texture ; Anatomy of "bumpy" ; Anatomy of clear color ; Custom chrome ; Anatomy of "shiny" ; Custom glass ; Anatomy of bevels ; Carving ; Quick neon type ; Quick FX: Wow actions ; Quick backgrounds & textures ; Quick seamless patterns -- Putting it all together : Composition methods ; Elements in a Photoshop file ; Choosing & preparing components ; FItting an element to a surface ; Creating panoramas ; Operating on several layers at once ; Reordering layers ; Merging & flattening ; Layer comps ; Adding type to an image ; Applying an image to a textured surface ; Liquifying a tattoo ; "Warping" graphics to a surface ; Exercising vanishing point ; Anatomy of masked groups ; Quick integration ; Exercising photomerge -- 3D, video & animation : 3D ; Video ; Animation ; Quick sources of 3D material ; Exercising 3D tools ; Exercising video: stills from video ; Exercising video: from Photoshop to video ; Animating a video clip ; Quick video techniques ; Animating frame-by-frame- Tweening & tweaking -- Measurement & analysis : Counting & measuring ; DICOM ; MATLAB ; Statistics ; Image sequences ; Some other useful functions ; Counting in Photoshop Extended ; Measuring in Photoshop Extended -- Appendixes : Filter demos ; Wow gradients ; Wow layer styles ; Wow patterns ; Artists and photographers -- On the Wow DVD : PS CS3-CS4 Wow presets ; Wow project files ; Wow goodies.

System requirements: DVD-ROM is designed to work with Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS3 Extended, and Photoshop CS4 Extended on Windows or Macintosh.