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Windows® 98/Windows ME/Windows 2000/Windows NT®/Windows XP Macintosh® OS 9.1 and OS X version ® ® Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Reviewer’s Guide Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software keeps you ahead of the competition with an innovative toolset that delivers new and efficient ways to explore your creativity. The new release offers a number of new tools and features to help you produce even more exceptional imagery for print, the Web, wireless devices, and other media. About this document This document describes the new Adobe Photoshop 7.0 features and provides a set of step-by- step instructions for using each of them on either a Macintosh or Windows computer. Using a fic- titious Italian food market as the basis for the project, you’ll gain hands-on experience using each of Adobe Photoshop’s key features to make last-minute changes to their print and Web-based promotional materials. If you don’t have time for all of the exercises, you can skim the overviews and illustrations to get a feel for the features that interest you most. What’s new in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 This section provides a brief overview of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 features. For detailed information about each feature, see the Adobe Photoshop 7.0 New Feature Highlights document. Organize images—Locate, organize, rank, and sort images using the File Browser window. Correct color—The healing brush and patch tools let you correct, refine, and perfect image areas in new ways. Automate color correction—The Auto Color feature automatically removes color casts through- out an image. Generate patterns— The Pattern Maker lets you create abstract or realistic-looking tiled and seamless patterns and easily apply them to selections or entire images. Enhanced mesh capability—Using the enhanced Liquify command, you can create and apply meshes to low-resolution images for quick preview, and then apply them to high-resolution ver- sions of the same images when they’re perfected. Customize workspaces—Using the Workspace option, you can create and save custom palette arrangements for specific projects, clients, or types of work. Create new paintbrushes—Create a new paintbrush, edit and save brush presets, and use your creations to paint unique images with the new paint engine. Edit, Finalize, Protect, and Print—Create a crop tool preset for editing images in a layout. Check for typos in an Adobe Photoshop document using the new, multi-lingual spell checker. Add pass- word protection to an Adobe Photoshop document using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 security features. Print multiple images on one page using the enhanced Picture Package features. 2 Remap colors—Use the new Save for Web option to remap colors to transparency or to other col- ors and to dither a transparency for better partially transparent effects in your Web graphics. Enhanced navigation—Create a Selected State, which lets users select and retain an active state while maintaining other rollover states without hand-coding Java Script. Showcase web images—Generate a Web showcase for your images using one of the new Web Photo Gallery templates. Before you begin Before you begin, do the following: 1. Close all open applications, including any virus protection utilities and install the Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software from the CD. We recommend performing a Typical Install to ensure that Photoshop is configured appropriately for this review guide. 2. If you’ve already installed and worked with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady™, restore the default preferences by doing one of the following: • On MacOS systems, press Command-Option-Shift and then start Adobe Photoshop. A prompt appears, asking if you want to delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings File. Click Yes. An additional message appears, asking if you wish to customize your color settings now. Click No to start Adobe Photoshop. • For Windows systems, launch Adobe Photoshop 7.0; then hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift. A prompt appears, asking if you want to delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings File. Click Yes. An additional message appears, asking if you wish to customize your color settings now. Click No to start Adobe Photoshop. 3. Copy the folder of sample image files from your reviewer’s CD to an easily accessible location on your hard disk, such as the desktop. The folder, Sample Files, includes the following folders: • File Browser, which contains several images taken with a digital camera • ImageReady, which includes files you’ll use to explore enhancements to ImageReady • Mailer, which includes the layout for the printed promotional materials • Piccolo Markets, including a variety of images for use throughout the guide • Picture Package, which contains files for printing with the enhanced Picture Package feature • Web Photo Destination, an empty folder you’ll need when creating your Web Photo Gallery • Web Photo Source, containing files for use in building a Web Photo Gallery Organize your images Adobe Photoshop 7.0 helps you work more efficiently from the beginning of a project to its com- pletion. In this section, you’ll learn how to use the new File Browser to open and organize images. Using the File Browser The File Browser lets you search for images visually and intuitively, as well as by name. Easy-to- view thumbnails let you quickly organize and retrieve images from your hard drive, external drives, CDs, and disks within Adobe Photoshop. In addition, information about each file is pro- vided, such as creation date, modification date, annotations, and EXIF information (Exchange- able Image File) from digital cameras. The File Browser lets you rename, rank, sort, and rotate as well as manage image folders. By default, the File Browser displays four panes, all of which can be adjusted according to your preferences. 3 File Browser menu Tree pane Preview pane Thumbnail pane Metadata pane Metadata viewing options Rank By Sort By Rotate 90° CW • The tree pane displays the hierarchy of the files, folders, and drives on your system. • The preview pane displays a thumbnail of the current selection. • The metadata pane displays detailed information about the current selection, such as an image’s file name, date created, image format, and any information entered in the File Info dialog box. In addition, files containing EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) data may be displayed if available. For example, many digital cameras save information about an image’s creation date, exposure set- tings, image size, resolution and so forth. • The thumbnail pane displays thumbnails in a variety of ways, including by size, rank, and text detail. • The Rank By and Sort By pop-up menus lets you select ranking and sorting options. • The File Browser menu lets you select a variety of options for opening, selecting, naming, rotat- ing, and viewing images. Note: File Browser panes can be resized by dragging a top, bottom, left, or right border. 1. Make sure that Adobe Photoshop 7.0 is open; then Choose File > Browse. By default, the File Browser is a docked palette, stored in the palette well at the top right of your screen. 2. Drag the File Browser tab out of the palette well. If necessary, reposition is so you can see the entire window. Note: The palette well is not available if you’re working on a monitor that can only display 800 x 600 pixels; choosing File > Browse automatically displays the File Browser window. 3. From the tree pane, open the Sample Files folder you installed earlier; then click the Digital Camera folder. Thumbnails are displayed in the thumbnail pane. At the bottom of the thumbnail pane, viewing options are accessed via the pop-up menus. 4 4. Choose Medium to display thumbnails of all the images in the folder. Medium thumbnail preview 5. Click an image in the thumbnail pane. The image is displayed in the preview pane, and information about the image is displayed in the metadata pane. Note that all the images in the folder display EXIF data in the metadata pane because they were taken using a digital camera. In the lower-left corner of the metadata pane, a pop-up menu lets you select viewing options to view all the image data or only the EXIF data (which includes any information entered in the File Info dialog box). Viewing options 6. With the All option selected, scroll down to see all the image data. Renaming files Adobe Photoshop 7.0 lets you rename individual files or groups of files. • To rename individual files, click a thumbnail name and type a new name. To move from one thumbnail name to the next, press Tab. • To rename multiple files simultaneously, begin by selecting all the images in the thumbnail pane. 1. From the thumbnail pane, click the black triangle and choose Select All from the File Browser menu. 2. Return to the options menu and choose Batch Rename. A message appears to indicate that rotation and ranking information will be lost. 3. Click OK to display the Batch Rename dialog box. In the Destination Folder area, be sure that the Rename in same folder option is selected. In the File Naming area, six fields let you determine file renaming options. Each field lets you select an option from the list, or you can type your own. As you select options, an example is dis- played above all the fields. 5 Batch file renaming 4. In the top left field, enter the name Pasta. 5. In the field to the right, from the Show Options menu, select 2 Digit Serial Number. This option adds a two-digit number in ascending order to the first and subsequent file names (.01, .02, etc.). 6. In the third field, select the lower-case extension option.