Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Advanced

Chapter 13 - Levels and Curves

Auto tone, contrast, and color

pool deck

How the auto commands work

bling bling

Channel-by-channel edits

Max at the computer

Neutralizing a color cast

elephant at the zoo

The Target Adjustment tool in Curves

a surfer surfing

Correcting an image in Lab

max snorkeling

Radius and tonal width

tropical stairway

Chapter 14 - Sharpening Details

Tweaking the screen resolution

snake

Sharpening the luminance data

comono dragon

Smart Sharpen's Remove Settings

brushstrokes

When to leave More Accurate off

cheerful girls

When to leave More Accurate on

waffle

Saving Smart Sharpen settings

No Trespassing sign

Accounting for camera shake

man

Sharpening with the High Pass filter

water woman

Chapter 15 - Blurring and Averaging

Smart Blur vs. Surface Blur

blurry blocks

Mixing filtered effects

filtered effects

Filling a layer with a neutral color

beautiful woman

Addressing the stubborn patches

dudes on blue

Combining Gaussian Blur and Average

old man

Smoothing blemishes while matching noise

woman

Striking a smooth/sharpen compromise

boy

Smoothing over JPEG artifacts

light ornament

Chapter 16 - Adjustment Layers

Saturation, sharpen, and crop

underwater scuba diver

Infusing elements with different colors

bronze woman

The Hue/Saturation humanoid

End of the Road

Chapter 17 - Opacity and Blend Modes

Using difference for golden highlights

statue of Giuliano

Layer groups and the Pass Through mode

Michelangelo

Chapter 18 - Advanced Layer Techniques

Fixing last-minute problems

dinosaurs

Layer comps dos and don'ts

evil dinosaur

Chapter 19 - Creating and Editing Type

Blurred shadows and beveled text

movie made for tv ad

Scaling your text to taste

radio-free space

Creating an engraved text effect

I love you, Smooshy

Chapter 20 - Transform, Warp, and Liquify

Adding hands and pasting styles

an old looking clock

Series duplication in Photoshop

a clock with lots of second hands

Masking objects against a black background

an old clock

Envelope-style warps

an blue warped clock

Old-school distortion filters

a clock that is distorted

Creating and applying a texture layer

Maddalena painting

Chapter 21 - Mastering Layer Styles

Clipping an effect with a mask

Happy Juice advertisement

Chapter 22 - Working with Camera Raw

Correcting JPEG and TIFF images

a fish