Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P4

Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P4:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copyof Adobe Photoshop 6.0, and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team atAdobe thank you.If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what toexpect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip.
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Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P4 What’s Up with Photoshop 6? 1 C H A P T E R ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ In This Chapter What Is Photoshop? An introduction to Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is the most popular image-editing applica- tion available for use on Macintosh and Windows-based com- The difference puters. Despite hefty competition over the years from a diverse between painting variety of programs ranging in price from virtually free to a few and drawing thousand dollars each, Adobe once reported that Photoshop’s programs sales account for more than 80 percent of the image-editing market, with the number still rising. This makes Photoshop How Photoshop fits four times more popular than all its competitors combined. into the bigger Where professional image editing is concerned, Photoshop’s design scheme not just the market leader, it’s the only game in town. The many uses Photoshop’s historically lopsided sales advantage provides of Photoshop Adobe with a clear incentive to reinvest in Photoshop and regu- larly enhance — even overhaul — its capabilities. Meanwhile, The new features other vendors have had to devote smaller resources to playing in Photoshop 6 catch-up. Although competitors have historically provided some interesting and sometimes amazing capabilities, the sums ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ of their parts have typically fallen well short of Photoshop’s. As a result, Photoshop rides a self-perpetuating wave of indus- try predominance. It hasn’t always been the best image editor, nor was it the earliest. But its deceptively straightforward interface combined with a few terrific core functions made it a hit from the moment of its first release. More than a decade later — thanks to substantial capital injections and highly cre- ative programming on the part of Adobe’s staff and Photoshop originator Thomas Knoll — it has evolved into the most popu- lar program of its kind.Photoshop 6 If you’re already familiar with Photoshop and you just want to scope out its new capabilities, skip to the section “Fast Track to Version 6.”4 Part I ✦ Welcome to Photoshop 6 Image-Editing Theory Like any image editor, Photoshop enables you to alter photographs and other scanned artwork. You can retouch an image, apply special effects, swap details between photos, introduce text and logos, adjust color balance, and even add color to a grayscale scan. Photoshop also provides the tools you need to create images from scratch. These tools are fully compatible with pressure-sensitive tablets, so you can create naturalistic images that look for all the world like watercolors and oils. Bitmaps versus objects Image editors fall into the larger software category of painting programs. In a paint- ing program, you draw a line, and the application converts it to tiny square dots called pixels. The painting itself is called a bitmapped image, but bitmap and image are equally acceptable terms. Note Photoshop uses the term bitmap exclusively to mean a black-and-white image, the logic being that each pixel conforms to one bit of data, 0 or 1 (off or on). In order to avoid awkward syllabic mergers such as pix-map — and because forcing a distinc- tion between a painting with exactly two colors and one with anywhere from four to 16 million colors is entirely arbitrary — I use the term b ...