Smashing Photoshop CS5: 100 Professional Techniques

Technique 1: Setting Up a Grid.

Technique 2: Making Custom Patterns.

Technique 3: Creating Background Tiles.

Technique 4: Creating Semi-Transparent Ribbons.

Technique 5: Creating Inset Lines.

Technique 6: Cutting a ZigZag Edge.

Technique 7: Creating a Favicon.

Technique 8: Creating an Animated Favicon.

Technique 9: Working With Smart Objects.

Technique 10: Using Smart Filters and Effects.

Technique 11: Grabbing a Still from a Video Clip.

Technique 12: Using the Pattern Maker.

Technique 13: Designing a Blog Header.

Technique 14: Creating Data-Driven Graphics.

Technique 15: Building a Simple Web Layout.

Technique 16: Creating a Lined Notebook Layout.

Technique 17: Optimizing to Size.

Technique 18: Generating CSS Layers with Optimized Graphics.

Technique 19: Exporting Large Images to Zoomify.

Technique 20: Image Processing to Resize and Optimize.

Technique 21: Creating Frame-Based GIF Animations.

Technique 22: Building Timeline-Based Animated GIF Banner Ads.

Technique 23: Designing CSS Buttons.

PART II: PHOTOSHOP CS4 AND CS5 TECHNIQUES.

Technique 24: Editing with Adjustment Layer Masks.

Technique 25: Using Content-Aware Scaling.

Technique 26: Correcting Image Distortion.

Technique 27: Extending Depth of Field.

Technique 28: Editing with the Vanishing Point.

Technique 29: Making Panoramas with Photomerge.

Technique 30: Faking High Dynamic Range with HDR Toning.

Technique 31: Creating 3D Objects from 2D Art.

Technique 32: Correcting Exposure with Tone-Protected Dodge and Burn.

Technique 33: Adjusting Shadows and Highlights.

Technique 34: Mastering the Puppet Warp.

Technique 35: Using the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips.

Technique 36: Using Adobe 3D Repoussé.

Technique 37: Merging Exposures with Auto-Blend.

Technique 38: Using Content-Aware Fill and Spot Healing.

PART III: TEXT EFFECTS.

Technique 39: Adding Type in a Shape.

Technique 40: Using Type on a Path.

Technique 41: Creating Shiny Plastic Text.

Technique 42: Arching Text Around a Center Point.

Technique 43: Emulating Type Exploding in Space.

Technique 44: Clipping Posterized Pictures with Text.

Technique 45: Simulating Engraved Type.

Technique 46: Photo Masking with Type.

Technique 47: Making Glass Text.

Technique 48: Using Knockout Shapes.

Technique 49: Making Text with 3D Perspective.

Technique 50: Creating Worn and Weathered Text.

PART IV: STUDIO AND COMMERCIAL EFFECTS.

Technique 51: Making Magical Refl ected Surfaces.

Technique 52: Making Dream-Like Photo Composites.

Technique 53: Creating Motion at Warp Speed.

Technique 54: Building Mock Studio Lighting.

Technique 55: Enhancing Editorials with Patterns.

Technique 56: Melting Objects.

Technique 57: Creating Retro Halft ones.

Technique 58: Making Trippy Rainbow Psychedelic Swirls.

Technique 59: Converging Horizon Lines.

Technique 60: Creating a Screen Printing Effect.

Technique 61: Twisting the Kaleidoscope.

Technique 62: Building a Surreal Landscape.

Technique 63: Creating Watercolorful Expressions.

Technique 64: Simulating Splattered Paint Edges.

PART V: SPECIAL EFFECTS.

Technique 65: Pasting Inside Selections.

Technique 66: Working with Custom Brushes.

Technique 67: Sewing Stitches.

Technique 68: Stenciling Edges.

Technique 69: Making Smoke.

Technique 70: Creating Wabi Sabi Stains.

Technique 71: Mastering Intarsia Polyhedra.

Technique 72: Creating Modern Paper Dolls.

Technique 73: Building a Dot Radial Background.

Technique 74: Faking Water Drips.

Technique 75: Making a Na'vi Avatar.

Technique 76: Tracing Photos.

Technique 77: Mocking Tilt-Shift Scale Models.

Technique 78: Mimicking Cross Processing (XPRO).

Technique 79: Creating Fire with the Smudge Tool.

PART VI: IMAGE DISTRESSING.

Technique 80: Simulating Sepia-Toned Images.

Technique 81: Simulating a Van Dyke Brown Print.

Technique 82: Creating Cyanotypes (Blueprints).

Technique 83: Adding a Vintage Vignette.

Technique 84: Making Digital Images Grainy.

Technique 85: Weathering a Photo.

Technique 86: Simulating a Plastic Camera.

Technique 87: Faking Faded Folded Paper.

Technique 88: Texturizing an Image.

Technique 89: Making a Peeling Painted Metal Effect.

PART VII: IMAGE RETOUCHING AND RESTORATION.

Technique 90: Cleaning Up Digital Noise.

Technique 91: Removing Dust and Scratches.

Technique 92: Hand Tinting Photos.

Technique 93: Removing Blemishes.

Technique 94: Removing Under Eye Circles.

Technique 95: Lightening the Irises.

Technique 96: Changing Eye Color.

Technique 97: Brightening and Sharpening Eyes.

Technique 98: Whitening Teeth.

Technique 99: Reducing Wrinkles and Smoothing Skin.

Technique 100: Retouching with Liquify.