If you can present yourselves it — you can embody it!

(If you can dream it — you can do it!)

Adobe Systems Inc.

Appearance and propagation of personal computers changed many trades. As to publishing, there was simply a revolution. Still ten years ago very few people were engaged in preparation and printing of publications. The most part of this operation was fulfilled manually. The good printer knew all details of process and whims of the equipment and possessed high professionalism. When computers became powerful enough and there were qualitative output devices, the programs automating process of imposition of publications — desktop publishing systems (DTP — Desktop Publishing) started to develop. Operation on which during former time the skilled expert expended not one hour, is fulfilled now by simple pushing of several buttons.

The indisputable leader of branch already many years is Adobe Systems Inc company. It of the first implemented program and hardware interpreters of page description language PostScript which all high-quality output devices of images, and, first of all, use the phototypesetting automatic machines making a technological basis of the modern cycle of preparation of polygraphic dummy layouts. Programs Photoshop, Illustrator, FrameMaker, InDesign, Acrobat, etc. form a remarkable and powerful set of the software of the modern publishing house.

The Adobe company permanently improves a packet of publishing programs according to requirements of time and growing computational capability on cтольных computers. Other direction of development of this dial-up of programs is improving of their compatibility and portability of documents in between. Therefore your choice in favor of Adobe Photoshop - it simultaneously and a choice of all line of publishing programs of the given firm. Undoubtedly, you find out in practice how much integration and unity of the interface of these programs accelerates operation and facilitates their mastering.

The new version of the program of image processing of adobe Photoshop is the unconditional leader among professional graphics editors at the expense of the broadest possibilities, extra efficiency and speed of operation. The program gives all necessary means for correction, mounting, preparations of images for printing and a high-quality output.

The second, not less extensive, program scope of application — web design and electronic publications. The new version was enriched with set of the special functions oriented on web design. It is possible to tell absolutely without exaggeration that Photoshop is in an arsenal of each professional computer designer and верстальщика.

Adobe Photoshop is intended for editing and bitmap graphics creation (bitmapped images). The program is used for operation with photos and collages from them, рисованными illustrations, slides and animation, images for web pages, shots.

Photoshop possesses almost borderless possibilities. It with success is used by pictorialists for a retouch, color and pitch correction, increase of sharpness and creation of art effects. Well thought over tooling for operation with image parts is irreplaceable for design of mounting.

The extensive dial-up of special filters (distortion, color shifts, other special effects) is actively applied at creation both commercial design, and works of art. Web designers estimate convenient and full of impressive possibilities the interface implemented in Photoshop programs ImageReady.

The program gives all spectrum of means of service допечатного process — from scanning before setting of parameters of a color separation and rasterization. Photoshop is the standard in this area and guarantees obtaining of the best result and the maximum compatibility with all other programs of a publishing cycle.

At last, the set of developers and indirect firms expand toolkit of the program at the expense of connected software modules. They adapt the program for the decision of many specific tasks from design of textiles before handling of results of scientific observations.

The book is oriented on those who only starts to be engaged in a pointwise drawing. On the resulted examples it is possible to master all main receptions and methods of operation with program Photoshop. The book is useful to Experienced users for learning of singularities of the new version.

Authors assume that the reader of this book has basic knowledge of the personal computer and freely is guided in the graphic environment of an operating system. All illustrations to the present book are fulfilled on the computers working under control of Windows. Despite it, the readers having at the instruction computer Macintosh, too can quite use the given book. The interface of the program for both platforms is identical, and small differences concern only titles of some keys and system-dependent functions (for example, the press and color managements). Concerning keys it is enough to remember following correspondences:

The program of adobe Photoshop 6.0 is a powerful professional tool operation with which demands knowledge and experience. The given book can be the first manual under the program. The elementary possibilities Photoshop are presented in structure of the specific practical examples which performance should help formation of confident initial skills or to explain some difficult moments. In the course of performance of tasks the principal theoretical questions connected to properties of the pointwise drawing, by its difference from vectorial, key parameters (resolution, color models) the pointwise drawing and its functional purpose are considered.

The material is based on the English version of adobe Photoshop 6.0 as at the moment of book writing the cyrillic version of the program did not appear yet. For this reason some of transfers by which titles of commands and interface elements are supplied, can not answer the future localized version.

All source files of examples contain on a diskette, applied on the book. Thus, you are provided by all necessary for learning of principal working methods of program Photoshop and theory bases.

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 concerns professional programs and is oriented on high hardware level.

In case of usage IBM-compatible ' the computer developers define as minimum following hardware requirements:

The
• processor not more low Pentium;
• Random access memory not less than 64 Mb. If are launched simultaneously Photoshop and ImageReady,
• The minimum memory size should not be below 96 Mb;
• The free disk space not less than 125 Mb for setting of the program and performance of operations;
The
• videoadapter not less than 256 colors (it is recommended 24-bit);
• операционнаясистема Microsoft Windows 98/ME, Windows 2000 or Windows NT4.0.

For computer Macintosh the minimal requirements are that:

• Processor Power PC;
• Random access memory not less than 64 Mb. At start Photoshop and ImageReady — not less than 96 Mb;
• The free disk space not less than 125 Mb;
• Version 8.5 system MacOS Software, 8.6 or 9.0.

For program setting on the computer of any platform it is necessary to have the disk drive for CD - ROM. Review of learning files demands also sound card presence. Certainly that for professional operation various peripheral devices are necessary also. Practically the color scanner is always necessary for input of images and the printer for printing of proofs (it is desirable color). If you prepare a material for Internet, the printer is not required to you as to unpack images it is not necessary.

Depending on the typical sizes of image files, requirements to a computer configuration can vary. By operation with the big images (first of all for polygraphy) it is necessary to increase volume of disk space and the size of a random access memory. Experts of adobe recommend a following empirical rule: the size of the RAM (RAM) should be in three-four times more than the average size of your working files, plus of 5-10 Mb. Thus, the minimum demanded volume of a random access memory (64 Mb) is calculated for operation with the files having the size no more of 9 Mb. Concerning an estimation of a free space of a disk the similar rule is applied — the volume of this space should exceed the average size of a working file in three-four times. That who works with video files, in addition to the aforesaid not to do without the numeral camera. If you are an artist and are going to use directly a rich spectrum of paint tools Photoshop, you should acquire a graphics pad.

Many changes are imported to the new version of the program and improvements. They concerned all main tools of both components of a packet — Photoshop and ImageReady.

• There were six new tools, creating circuits or planimetric layers-masks: Rectangle (Rectangle), Rounded Rectangle (the Rectangle with the rounded corners). Ellipse (Ellipse), Polygon (Polygon), Line (Line) and Custom Shape (the Arbitrary figure).
• There were tools of annotation of images: Notes (Notices) and Audio Annotation (the Sound summary).
• Are added in Photoshop known on ImageReady tools Slice Select (fragment Selection) and Slice (Fragment), intended for cutting of images for the publication on Web.
• New tools of selection of circuits are entered: Path Component Selection (Selection of subcircuits) and Direct Selection (Direct selection).
• Tool Crop (Cropping) is refined. Now it admits непрямоугольную frames of cropping and allows to compensate distortion of the form of the original.
• New parameters of graduated fills are added.

• Masks can be now not only raster, but also vectorial. In essence it is circuits обтравки in document Photoshop.
• There were six new tools, creating circuits or planimetric layers-masks.
• New tools of selection of circuits are entered: Path Component Selection (Selection of subcircuits) and Direct Selection (Direct selection).
• The commands implementing the main geometrical operations with circuits are added: intersection, join, an exception and cropping.
• The replenished library of the geometrical figures ready to usage in documents Photoshop is organized.
• The test entered in the program can be transformed into circuits. 01 vectorial objects not растрируются at the press.
• There was a new type of layers — planimetric. They allow to create vectorial objects with continuous, graded-index or patten filling.

• Layers are authorized for organizing in the dial-ups facilitating orientation in their big amount. Dial-ups of layers can give the layers-masks masking simultaneously all layers of a dial-up.
• Additional types of effects for layers are entered: Satin (Silk), Color Overlay (color Superimposing), Gradient Overlay (gradient Superimposing), Pattern Overlay (pattern Superimposing) and Stroke (Обводка).
• The majority of effects had new parameters (for example, the form of a chamfer for effect of a relief, the form of edges of effects of a glow and a shade, etc.)
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• New parameters of superimposing of layers are added: knockout and superimposing of channels.
• Now it is possible to change type of an adjusting layer after its creation.
• Appeared заливочные the layers representing continuous, patten or graduated fills. The type of filling of a layer can be changed and after its creation.
• There was a new type of layers, planimetric an elephant. They allow to create vectorial objects with continuous, graded-index or patten filling. The filling type can be changed and after circuit creation.
• The new type of the text units facilitating input and formatting of great volumes of the text is added. Transfers and выключка the text on a format are automatically produced.
• The dial-up of parameters of formatting of the text extended.
• The text can be concluded in a circuit of almost arbitrary form. Thus it remains completely edited.
• The program allows to convert text layers in circuits or planimetric layers.
• Text layers at the press on the PostScript-printer not растрируются. The interface
• Palette Options (Parameters) is replaced with more convenient property bar.
• On a property bar the dock for пристыковки the palettes, saving the screen area, but saving fast rate and convenience of access to them is created.
• In palette Layers (Layers) are displayed ассоциированные with layers effects.
• Libraries of paintbrushes, filling, figures, patterns, and etc., are united by the uniform interface. Access to them is carried out from a property bar of appropriate tools. For control of all libraries special manager Preset Manager (the Organizer of samples) is implemented.
• Text entering is produced directly in a document window, instead of in a specialized window, as in prior versions.
• Parameters of all effects of layers and superimposing modes are united in one dialog box Layer Style (Style of a layer).

• In Photoshop operation of cutting of images for the publication on the web page by tools Slice (Fragment) and Slice Select (fragment Selection) is implemented. Support of optimization of fragments is added in the unit of export Save for Web (to Save for Web).
• In Photoshop possibilities of a command of creation of gallery of images Web Photo Gallery (Photo gallery Web) are expanded.
• Integration Photoshop and Image Ready in many directions is refined. Now it is possible without fears to edit images in both programs alternately. Switching between programs any more does not demand mandatory saving of the document.
• ImageReady now allows to create automatically fragments on the basis of contents of layers.
• In ImageReady possibility of saving of the circuit of splitting of images on fragments is added.
• In ImageReady it is authorized to create and delete alpha channels and layers-masks, but still they cannot be edited immediately.
• New tools Rectangle Image Map (Square-topped reference map), Circle Image Map (the Round reference map) and Polygon Image Map (the Polygonal reference map) allow to create zones of a reference map irrespective of document layers. Tool Image Map Select (reference map Selection) provides editing and selection of circuits of zones.
• Reference map zones can be defined by contents of layers of the document.
• In mage Ready the new palette Image Map (Reference map) controlling zones of reference maps and the employee for assignment of hypertext links to zones is added. Also she allows to define types of circuits of zones and quality of their description.
• Design ролловеров can be saved in the form of style.
• Now ImageReady admits a combination in one document ролловеров and animations.
• There was a possibility to check operation ролловеров directly in document window ImageReady.
• The weighed optimization allows to control independently optimization parameters on separate areas of the image.

• Dialog box Extract (Extraction) is improved.
• Filter Liquify is added (Distortion on a grid), allowing to import to the image the arbitrary distortions.
• At export to formats PDF and TIFF image layers are saved.
• The dial-up of the commands, capable to work with 16-bit channels is expanded.
• Color management is improved. Work spaces CMYK and Grayscale are entered.
• The special mode of a program coloring test is implemented.
• Dialog box Print Options (Printing options) having area of print preview of a print is added and allowing to position the image on page.
• Photoshop now too it is capable to create applets (droplets) for continuous image processing