Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual
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User Guide
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Adobe Photoshop
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Contents
iii
Introduction
A Quick Tour of
Adobe Photoshop
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Learning Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Windows system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Mac OS system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Adobe Photoshop package contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About Adobe products and services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Adobe Systems training opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing and starting Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Starting Adobe Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What’s new in Adobe Photoshop 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Changed keyboard shortcuts, tools, and commands . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 1
Selecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Retouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Saving the file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Looking at the Work Area
Chapter 2
Using the toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using the status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using Adobe online services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Viewing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using plug-in modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Setting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Getting Images into
Photoshop
Choosing a Color Mode
Chapter 3
About bitmap images and vector graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
About image size and resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Changing image size and resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Scanning images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Creating new images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Opening and importing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Viewing copyright and file information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Cropping an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Increasing the size of the work canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 4
Color modes and models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Color gamuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Color channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Measuring color values in the Info palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Adjusting the monitor display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Converting between bit depths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Converting images from one mode to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Converting between Grayscale mode and Bitmap mode . . . . . . 70
Converting to indexed color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Reproducing Color
Accurately
Chapter 5
About workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
About calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
About ICC profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Choosing a color management module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
About the RGB, Grayscale, and CMYK Setup dialog boxes . . . . . 81
Calibrating your monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Entering RGB setup information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Entering CMYK setup information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Using ICC profiles to define the CMYK color space . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using the Built-in option to define the CMYK color space . . . . . 88
Adjusting separation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Printing a color proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Calibrating the screen image to the proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Converting to CMYK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Managing ICC profiles in files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Converting the color space of open images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
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Making Color and Tonal
Adjustments
Selecting
Chapter 6
Using the Adobe Photoshop color correction tools . . . . . . . . . 105
Comparing CMYK and RGB mode corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Step 1: Calibrate your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Step 2: Check the scan quality and tonal range . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Step 3: Set the highlight and shadow values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Step 4: Adjust the midtones and fine-tune the tonal correction 119
Step 5: Adjust the color balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Step 6: Sharpen the image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
General-purpose color and tonal adjustment commands . . . . . 129
Special-purpose color adjustment commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Chapter 7
Making selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Adjusting selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Softening the edges of a selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
About paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Using the Paths palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Drawing freehand paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Drawing with the pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Adjusting path segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Moving and copying paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Filling and stroking paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Converting between paths and selection borders . . . . . . . . . . 163
Editing and Retouching
Chapter 8
Monitoring operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Correcting mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Reverting to any state of the image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Duplicating images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Using rulers, the measure tool, guides, and grids . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Moving, copying, and pasting selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
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Deleting a selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Removing fringe pixels from a selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Transforming objects in two dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Transforming objects in three dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Using the rubber stamp tool and pattern stamp tool . . . . . . . . 190
Using other retouching tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Painting
Using Channels and
Masks
Chapter 9
Using the painting tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Using the line tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Erasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Using the Brushes palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Using the Options palette for painting and editing tools . . . . . 203
Using the paint bucket tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Using the gradient tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Filling and stroking selections and layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Choosing the foreground and background colors . . . . . . . . . . 214
Using the Adobe Photoshop Color Picker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Using other color pickers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Color Signature
Chapter 10
About channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
About channels and file size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Using the Channels palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Saving and managing channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Adding spot colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
About masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Using Quick Mask mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Using alpha channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Using Layers
Chapter 10
Using the Layers palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Creating a layered image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Moving and aligning layer contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Managing layered images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Editing layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Specifying layer options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Using channel calculations to blend layers and channels . . . . . 273
Creating clipping groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Using layer masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Selecting opaque areas on a layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Using adjustment layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Using layer effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
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Using Type
Using Filters
Saving and Exporting
Images
Printing
Chapter 12
About type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Creating type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Setting type attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Chapter 13
Previewing and applying filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Tips for creating special effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Improving performance with filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Choosing a filter effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Chapter 14
Saving files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Exporting images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
About file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Placing Photoshop images in other applications . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Chapter 15
Printing: an overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
General printing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Selecting halftone screen attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Additional printing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Converting the color space of images while printing . . . . . . . . 338
Creating color traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Using monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones . . . . . . . 339
Printing color separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
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Automating Tasks
Troubleshooting
Chapter 16
Creating and recording actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Playing actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Editing actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Organizing sets of actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Using the Automate commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
External automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Appendix
Before you call Adobe Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Setup and performance problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Problems starting Photoshop or opening or saving files
(Windows 95 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Problems with image appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Index
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Introduction
W
1
elcome to the Adobe® Photoshop®
program—extraordinary photo
retouching, image editing, and color
painting software. Whether you are a novice or
an expert in image editing, the Adobe Photoshop
program offers you the tools you need to get
professional-quality results.
You’ll find that Photoshop excels as an art
production tool, whether you are a graphics
producer who needs to merge and edit color
images, a photographer who wants to retouch
proofs, or a graphic designer who is creating
original or composite artwork, collages, or photo
montages for print or on the Web. Photoshop is
equally useful to printers and service bureaus that
want to generate color separations, to animators
who want to colorize images and produce audiovisual materials quickly, and to artists who want
to create new artwork using the latest media
and tools.
About this manual
The
Adobe Photoshop User Guide
information about the Adobe Photoshop tools and
commands. It is designed to be used as a reference
tool in your everyday work with Adobe
Photoshop. This cross-platform manual provides
instructions for using Adobe Photoshop on both
®
the Microsoft
Any differences in procedures and commands
between platforms are noted in the text.
Windows
®
provides detailed
and Mac OS platforms.
Before using this manual, you need to install the
program by following the instructions given in this
chapter. This chapter also describes system
requirements, and provides information on new
features in Adobe Photoshop 5.0.
This manual assumes you have a working
knowledge of your operating system and its
conventions, including how to use a mouse and
standard menus and commands and how to open,
save, and close files. For help with any of these
techniques, please see your Windows or Mac OS
documentation.
Learning Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop 5.0 includes the following
printed and online documentation. For information on troubleshooting and technical support,
see Appendix, “Troubleshooting.”
The
Adobe Photoshop User Guide
mation on using all Adobe Photoshop commands
and features. The user guide also indicates when
further information on a topic is available in the
Help system.
The Adobe Photoshop Help system
of the information in the Adobe Photoshop user
guide, optimized for use online. In addition, the
Help system includes a description of the Adobe
Photoshop shortcuts, and more detailed information on some commands and filters.
Contains infor-
Contains all
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Introduction
The Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
On the Tour and
Training CD-ROM contain step-by-step tutorials
in PDF format. These are some of the same
tutorials included in
in a Book
. For more information, see the
Adobe Photoshop Classroom
Classroom in a Book section when viewing the
tutorials. For information on how to install and
use Adobe Acrobat
and QuickTime to view these
tutorials, see the Read Me file for these programs
The Adobe Photoshop Movies
On the Tour and
Training CD-ROM are QuickTime movies that
provide a general tour of Photoshop’s features,
demonstrate new features, and show how to use
layers in Photoshop 5.0.
The Adobe Photoshop Quick Reference Card
Contains basic information about the Adobe
Photoshop tools and palettes, and shortcuts for
using them.
The Electronic Publishing Guide
On the Tour and
Training CD-ROM gives an overview of electronic
publishing design issues and publishing with
Adobe Acrobat on the Web and on CD-ROM.
A hard drive with at least 60 MB of free space.
•
You’ll need additional disk space if you work with
very large image files.
An 8-bit (256-color) display adapter card.
•
A CD-ROM drive.
•
A sound card (required to use the Adobe
•
Photoshop Tour and Training CD-ROM).
.
For the best performance, Adobe Systems recommends the following hardware and software:
64 MB or more of RAM.
•
A 24-bit (millions of colors) video display card.
•
A PostScript® printer.
•
Adobe Photoshop performance improves with
more RAM, faster CPUs, and faster and larger
hard disk drives. Multiprocessor systems and
systems with Intel’s MMX® technology can also
speed performance.
For the latest system requirements, see the
Read Me file.
Windows system requirements
To use Adobe Photoshop, you need the following
hardware and software:
An Intel Pentium-class or faster processor.
•
Windows 95 (or later), or Intel-based
•
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Windows NT
At least 32 megabytes (MB) of random-access
•
memory (RAM).
version 4.0 or later.
Mac OS system requirements
To use Adobe Photoshop, you need the following
hardware and software:
•
An Apple Power Macintosh computer.
•
At least 32 megabytes (MB) of random-access
memory (RAM).
•
Mac OS version 7.5 or later.
•
A color monitor with an 8-bit (256-color) or
better video display card.
•
A hard drive with at least 60 MB of free space.
You’ll need additional disk space if you work with
very large image files.
A CD-ROM drive.
•
For the best performance, Adobe Systems recommends the following hardware and software:
Mac OS version 8.1 or later.
•
At least 64 MB of RAM.
•
A 24-bit (millions of colors) video display card.
•
A PostScript printer.
•
Adobe Photoshop performance improves with
more RAM, faster CPUs, and faster and larger
hard disk drives. Multiprocessor systems can also
speed performance.
For the latest system requirements, see the
Read Me file.
The Adobe Photoshop package contents
The Adobe Photoshop software package includes
the following software and documentation:
The Adobe Photoshop CD-ROM Set consisting
•
of the Application and Tutorial CD-ROM discs.
(For a description of their contents, see the
following sections.)
•
Adobe Photoshop User Guide.
•
Adobe Photoshop Quick Reference Card.
•
Registration card. (The card is not included
in upgrades from previous versions.)
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Contents of the Adobe Photoshop
Application CD-ROM
The Application CD-ROM contains the following
software:
The Adobe Photoshop installer
thing needed to install Adobe Photoshop 5.0 on
your hard drive—the installer, the Adobe
Photoshop program, Adobe Gamma control
utility, plug-in modules, the Adobe Photoshop
tutorial files, and numerous sample files.
Goodies (Windows)\Other Goodies (Mac OS) folder
Includes textures for use with the Lighting Effects
plug-in filter, third-party plug-in modules, the
HSL and HSB filter for converting Adobe
Photoshop RGB images to HSL or HSB mode
(Mac OS only), the Filter Factory plug-in which
lets you create your own plug-in filters, and
™
the Adobe PSPrinter
driver. Documentation
is included in Adobe Acrobat electronic format
(PDF).
QuickTime® software (QuickTime for Windows, Apple
QuickTime for Mac OS)
the movies included in the Adobe Photoshop
CD-ROM Set.
Adobe technical notes
Written by the Adobe
technical staff, this information appears on-screen
as Acrobat PDF files. You can print the sections
you refer to regularly.
Stock art
Includes many high-resolution digitized
images, backgrounds, and textures for your
personal, non-commercial use.
Tryout versions of other Adobe applications
Includes every-
Enables you to view
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Adobe Acrobat Reader software
PDF files online
Training CD-ROM
and is required to use the Tour and
.
Lets you view
Contents of the Adobe Photoshop Tour
and Training CD-ROM
The Tour and Training CD-ROM contains the
following documentation and software:
The Adobe Photoshop Overview
active movies and links to tutorials, as described in
this section.
The Photoshop Quick Tour movie
overview of Adobe Photoshop’s features. A stepby-step description of the techniques shown in
this movie is in Chapter 1 of this user guide.
The New Features movie
strates new features in Adobe Photoshop 5.0,
including re-editable type, layer effects, the history
palette, and new transformation commands.
The Layers movie
Teaches you how to use layers in
Photoshop.
A series of tutorials in PDF format
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book
from
The Electronic Publishing Guide
use Adobe products to produce art and documentation for online display.
The Photoshop Digital Art show
of digital art.
Adobe Acrobat Reader software.
Is a set of inter-
Gives a basic
Introduces and demon-
Is an excerpt
.
Explains how to
Displays examples
Registration
Adobe is confident you will find that the Adobe
Photoshop program greatly increases your
productivity. So that Adobe can continue to
provide you with the highest-quality software,
offer technical support, and inform you about new
Photoshop software developments, please register
your copy using the online registration software
(if you have a modem and the software is available
in your version of the program), or fill out and
return the enclosed warranty registration card.
About Adobe products and services
For more information about Adobe products and
services, you can use forums through Internet
services such as CompuServe
SM
Online
, and the Adobe Home Page on the World
Wide Web. Forums vary by country.
To open the Adobe Home Page, enter the URL
http://www.adobe.com in your Web browser. To
launch the Adobe Photoshop Home Page from
within Photoshop, with links to relevant
Photoshop information and the Adobe site,
choose File > Adobe Online or click the image at
the top of the tool bar.
For more information about Adobe technical
support resources, see the notice that came with
Adobe Photoshop.
and America
QuickTime software for Windows and Mac OS.
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Adobe Systems training opportunities
The Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Tutorials have been
excerpted from Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a
Book. Classroom in a Book is the official training
series for Adobe graphics and publishing software
developed by experts at Adobe and published by
Adobe Press. For information on purchasing
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book, contact
Macmillan Computer Publishing in the U.S. at
800-428-5331 or http://mcp.com, or contact your
local book distributor.
The Adobe Certification program offers endusers, instructors, and training centers the opportunity to demonstrate their product proficiency
and promote their software skills as Adobe
Certified Experts, Adobe Certified Instructors, or
Adobe Authorized Learning Providers. Visit the
U.S. web site at http://www.adobe.com to learn
how you can become certified.
Installing and starting Adobe Photoshop
You must install the application from the Application CD-ROM onto your hard drive; you cannot
run the program from the CD-ROM.
If you’re upgrading to Adobe Photoshop 5 from an
earlier version, the installer creates by default a
new folder containing the new Adobe Photoshop
files. Your current Adobe Photoshop files are not
affected.
For tips on installing the software, see “Before you
call Adobe Technical Support” on page 361.
To install the Adobe Photoshop program:
1
Do one of the following:
Start Windows, if necessary.
•
In Mac OS, turn off or remove any virus-
•
protection software, and restart your computer.
2
Insert the Application CD-ROM disc into your
CD-ROM drive.
3
Start the Adobe Photoshop installer:
In Windows, follow the on-screen instructions
•
to start the installer; or open the Photoshp folder
and double-click the Setup.exe file.
In Mac OS, double-click the Install Adobe
•
Photoshop 5 icon.
4
Follow the on-screen instructions to install the
program files. A message appears when the installation is complete.
The following sections provide more information
on the installation procedure.
Installation setup
When prompted, specify an
installation option:
Typical (Windows) or Easy Install (Mac OS)
•
installs the complete set of Photoshop program
files and system support files.
Compact (Windows only) installs the minimum
•
options required to use Photoshop.
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• Custom (Windows) or Custom Install (Mac OS)
lets you choose the options you want to install.
Note: In the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions
of Photoshop, the Typical or Easy Install option also
installs CMap files that enable the use of double-byte
fonts in Photoshop images. To install the CMap files
in any other version of Photoshop, you must use the
Custom or Custom Install option.
Registration When prompted, enter your name
and company information. Type the serial number
exactly as it appears on the registration card or on
the inside front cover of the user guide (including
the hyphen).
If you’re upgrading to Adobe Photoshop 5 from an
earlier version, the serial number is also located on
the first page of your original user guide. If you’re
upgrading from the LE version, use the serial
number that you received with the upgrade. Your
original LE serial number won’t work.
Gamma utility (Mac OS only) If you have installed
earlier versions of Adobe Photoshop on your
system, perform this step after completing the
version 5 installation: Open your System Folder
and drag the Gamma control panel to the Trash.
This step prevents conflicts with the new Adobe
Gamma utility installed with Photoshop 5.
QuickTime To view the movies in the Adobe
Photoshop CD-ROM Set and to show previews
when opening images in Mac OS, you also must
install QuickTime, located on the CD-ROM.
Starting Adobe Photoshop
Follow these steps to start the program.
To start Adobe Photoshop in Windows:
Choose Start > Programs > Adobe > Adobe
Photoshop 5.0. (If you installed the program in a
folder other than Adobe, choose that folder from
the Start > Programs menu.)
The Adobe Photoshop window appears. You can
now open an image and start working.
To start Adobe Photoshop in Mac OS:
Open the Adobe Photoshop folder, and doubleclick the Adobe Photoshop program icon.
The Adobe Photoshop window appears. You can
now open an image and start working.
What’s new in Adobe
Photoshop 5.0
Adobe Photoshop 5.0 includes new features for
undoing changes made during the working
session, transforming paths and selection borders,
applying interactive effects to a layer, re-editing
text, managing color, creating spot colors,
selecting images and drawing paths, and rotating
images in three dimensions. This version of Adobe
Photoshop also enhances support for file formats
and includes many new commands, palette
features, and keyboard shortcuts that simplify
common tasks.
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History palette Photoshop’s new History palette
allows multiple undos by tracking and listing
recent changes you make to an image during the
current working session. Selecting any change
listed in the History palette returns the image to
that earlier state. (See “Reverting to any state of the
image” on page 168.)
Reselect command The new Reselect command
lets you easily retrieve the last selection used on
your image in the current work session. (See
“Making selections” on page 137.)
Path and selection transformation In addition to
transforming images, you can now rotate, resize,
and reshape paths and selection borders. (See
“Transforming objects in two dimensions” on
page 182.)
Layer effects New in Photoshop 5.0, layer effects
automatically apply complex effects such as
beveling, embossing, and drop shadows to any
layer. You can turn these effects on and off. You
don’t have to reapply these effects each time you
change the artwork—Photoshop automatically
updates the effect when you make changes to the
layer. (See “Using layer effects” on page 284.)
Type layers with re-editable text You can now
create type on a type layer, with character-level
formatting and precise control over kerning and
tracking. Type layers can be re-edited at any time.
(See Chapter 12, “Using Type.”)
Improved color management With new ICC profile
support, you can more easily maintain consistent
color in your images, regardless of the monitor or
printer you use. (See Chapter 5, “Reproducing
Color Accurately.”)
Expanded support for 16-bit color Support for
16-bit channels is increased and can now be used
with more commands and tools. Both 48-bit RGB
and 64-bit CMYK images are supported. (See
“Converting between bit depths” on page 69.)
Color samplers To monitor color changes more
easily, you can place up to four non-printing color
samplers into your image. These samplers display
color information in the Info palette, showing
before-and-after color data as you make color
adjustments. (See “Previewing color adjustments”
on page 106.)
Enhanced Hue/Saturation command The updated
Hue/Saturation dialog box now gives you special
color range controls for much finer and more
targeted adjustments of hue, saturation, and
lightness. (See “Using the Hue/Saturation
command” on page 124.)
Channel Mixer Photoshop’s new Channel Mixer
command enables blending one or more channels
into an existing channel. For example, you can use
this command to blend parts of the cyan, magenta,
yellow, and black channels to create a grayscale
image. (See “Mixing channels” on page 243.)
Alignable layers New Layer alignment commands
let you align and distribute linked layers by edges
and centers. (See the procedure to align or
distribute layers on page 266.)
Spot color Photoshop images can now be
separated to one or more spot color plates.
(See“Adding spot colors” on page 245.)
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Measure tool The measure tool lets you measure
the length, angle, and location of areas in the
image. (See “Using the measure tool” on page 174;
“Using rulers, the measure tool, guides, and grids”
on page 173.)
Magnetic lasso tool Because it discriminates
between different levels of contrast in an image,
the magnetic lasso tool snaps a selection border to
the edge of the area you drag around. (See “Using
the lasso, polygon lasso, and magnetic lasso tools”
on page 139.)
Magnetic pen tool The magnetic pen tool works
much like the magnetic lasso tool, but lets you
draw a path that snaps to the edge of a defined area
in your image. (See “Drawing freehand paths” on
page 151.)
Freeform pen tool The freeform pen tool lets you
create paths simply by drawing the shape of the
path you want. As you drag, the tool automatically
places anchor points, which you can then adjust.
(See “Drawing freehand paths” on page 151.)
Action palette enhancements You can now record
more tools and palettes in actions. For easier
organization, you can now also create sets of
actions. (See Chapter 16, “Automating Tasks.”)
Wizards (Windows) and Assistants (Mac OS) New
commands in the File > Automate and Help
menus simplify multi-step operations such as
exporting transparent images, resizing images,
and creating contact sheets. (See “Using the
Automate commands” on page 358.)
3-D transformation The new 3D Transform filter
can map parts of an image to a cube, sphere, or
cylinder, enabling you to rotate an image in three
dimensions. (See “Transforming objects in three
dimensions” on page 187.)
Expanded scratch space support Photoshop now
supports up to four scratch volumes, for a total of
up to 200 GB of scratch space.
Interface improvements Photoshop’s interface is
further improved, including an updated Curves
dialog box and changes to the Path tools to make
®
them more consistent with Adobe Illustrator
More live previews The Color Settings, Duotone,
.
and Indexed Color dialog boxes now provide live
previews, making it easier to see the results before
applying the change.
PDF import Any PDF file can now be opened and
rasterized in Photoshop. Support for Adobe Illustrator and generic EPS files also is improved. (See
Chapter 14, “Saving and Exporting Images.”)
New Save As options New Save As options make it
easy to minimize file size by excluding unwanted
options. (See “About file formats” on page 321.)
DCS 2.0 support The EPS export module now
includes support for DCS (Desktop Color Separations) 2.0 format, which permits more than four
separated plates. (See “Saving files in Photoshop
EPS or DCS format” on page 315.)
PostScript Level 3 support Photoshop supports
printing to PostScript Level 3 printers.
Changed keyboard shortcuts, tools, and commands
The following are some of the Photoshop 4.0
shortcuts, tools, and commands that have been
changed for Photoshop 5.0. For a complete list of
shortcuts, see the online help:
• To cycle through a series of related tools on the
Tool palette, press Shift+(the shortcut key for the
tool).
• To select the add-anchor-point tool while the
delete-anchor-point tool is selected, press +.
• To select the subtract-anchor-point tool while
another tool is selected, press -.
• To select the direct-selection tool while another
tool is selected, press A.
• To scroll forward or backward through the blend
modes for the current tool, press Shift+(+) or
Shift+(-).
• To select the airbrush tool while another tool is
selected, press J.
• To repeat the last transformation, press
Ctrl+Shift+T (Windows) or Command+Shift+T
(Mac OS). This shortcut no longer displays the
Numeric Transformation dialog box.
• Pressing Option while choosing Apply Images
no longer provides additional options to the
dialog box.
• The image transformation commands are now
located under the Edit menu.
• The functions of the rubber stamp tool are now
split into three tools: the rubber stamp tool, the
pattern stamp tool, and the history brush.
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Chapter 1: A Quick Tour of
Adobe Photoshop
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his interactive tour introduces you to key
features of Adobe Photoshop and takes
T
about an hour to complete.
For detailed instructions on how to use many of
the features introduced in this tour, as well as a
movie version of the tour, see the lessons on the
Tutorial CD. For complete information about any
feature, see the index in this user guide.
1 Start Adobe Photoshop.
2 Choose File > Open, and open the files
Tour.psd, CD.psd, and Horn.psd, located in the in
the Adobe Photoshop 5/Training/Tour folder or
on the tutorial CD. Arrange the windows so that
you can work with them easily.
You can bring images into Adobe Photoshop in
many ways. Most projects begin with a scanned
image, stock digital art, or artwork created with a
drawing program, such as Adobe Illustrator. You
can also create images from scratch in Adobe
Photoshop. For this tour, you’ll use files from all
of these sources.
Selecting
In Adobe Photoshop, you modify part of an image
by first selecting that area. You’ll begin the tour by
making selections in images using the selection
tools. (If you make a mistake at any point in the
tour, simply choose Edit > Undo, and try again.)
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First, you’ll make a simple selection, and drag an
image from one file to another.
1 Click the title bar of the CD.psd window to
make it active.
2 Hold down the mouse button on the rectan-
gular marquee tool ( ) in the toolbox, and drag
to the elliptical marquee tool ( ). Click in the
upper left corner of the image’s gray background,
and begin dragging diagonally. Then hold down
Shift to change the elliptical selection to a circular
selection, and drag to the bottom right corner of
the image.
3 When the selection border matches the outside
edge of the CD, release the mouse button and then
release Shift.
Now you’ll resize the CD.
5 Choose Edit > Free Transform. Move the
pointer onto one of the corner handles. Hold
down Shift, and drag a corner handle to shrink the
CD to about three-fourths its current size.
Holding down Shift constrains the image’s
proportions as you resize it.
6 Move the pointer outside the selection handles,
°
and drag clockwise to rotate the CD about 30
.
Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) to
apply the transformation to the CD.
4 Select the move tool ( ) in the toolbox,
position it within the selection border, and drag
the CD onto the Tour.psd window. The CD is now
part of that file.
Note: You can also use the Numeric Transform
dialog box to transform a selection using specific
numeric values.
Next, you’ll make a selection with the magic wand
tool, which selects areas based on how similar they
are in color.
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7 Select the magic wand tool ( ); then click the
title bar of the Horn.psd window to make it active.
8 Click the white background in the upper right
corner of the image to select it. Notice that not all
the white background was selected.
9 Choose Select > Similar to add the rest of the
background to the selection. You’ve now selected
everything except the horn.
10 Choose Select > Inverse. The Inverse
command selects everything that wasn’t
selected—in this case, the horn.
11 Hold down Control (Windows) or Command
(Mac OS), position the pointer within the
selection marquee, and drag the horn onto the
Tour.psd window. (Holding down
Control/Command temporarily changes the
current tool to the move tool.) Move the horn to
the bottom left corner of the image.
Layers
Photoshop lets you organize artwork on separate
transparent layers so that you can easily construct
composite images and experiment with various
effects.
1 If the Layers palette is not visible on your screen,
choose Window > Show Layers. Click the
minimize/maximize box (Windows) or resize box
(Mac OS) at the top of the Layers palette to expand
the palette.
Notice that this file has several layers, each named
and with a thumbnail, or miniature representation, of the image on that layer. Photoshop
automatically created separate layers for the CD
image (Layer 1) and horn image (Layer 2) when
you brought them into the Tour file. In addition,
the background and the Notes layer were already
in the file.
From the Layers palette you can display or hide
layers in the image.
2 Click the eye icon column to the far left of the
Notes layer to display the layer. Then try clicking
the eye icon for Layer 2 to hide the layer, and again
to redisplay it.
12 Choose File > Save As. Select a folder in which
to save the file, enter the filename Work01.psd, and
click Save.
13 Close the CD.psd and Horn.psd files.
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By changing the order of layers, you can restack
images in the artwork.
3 Drag Layer 2 (the horn layer) until it’s between
Layer 1 (the CD layer) and the background on the
Layers palette. Release the mouse button to set
Layer 2 in its new position. The horn now appears
behind the CD in the artwork.
4 Click Layer 1 in the Layers palette to make it the
active layer. The layer is highlighted and a paintbrush icon appears next to the layer thumbnail,
indicating that your changes now will affect
artwork only on that layer.
5 Select the move tool ( ). Then drag the CD
to the top right corner of the artwork. Because the
CD is on its own layer, you can move it separately
from artwork on other layers.
Now you’ll adjust the opacity of Layer 1.
6 Select Layer 1 in the Layers palette, and drag the
opacity slider to 40%. You can now see other layers
through the CD.
By specifying blending modes, you can determine
how one layer interacts with another.
7 Choose Multiply from the mode menu at
the top left of the Layers palette. Notice how the
CD blends with the layers below it.
Now you’re ready to create and manipulate some
text. You will create the text with the type tool,
which places the text on its own type layer. You
will then edit the text and apply special effects to
its layer.
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8 Select the type tool ( ), and click the image in
the upper right corner.
9 Choose a font from the Font menu in the Type
Tool dialog box, and enter a point size in the Size
and Leading boxes (we used 22-point Lucida Sans
Bold with 43-point leading). At the far right of the
dialog box, select the right alignment option.
10 Type “MEZZO PIANO” in two lines in the
large text box at the bottom of the dialog box.
11 Click the color box on the left side of the dialog
box, select a color from the color picker, and
click OK.
12 Then select “PIANO,” and enter a larger point
size in the Size box.
13 With the Type Tool dialog box still displayed,
move the pointer into the image area. Notice that
the pointer temporarily changes to the move tool.
You can now reposition the text.
14 When the text looks the way you want it,
click OK in the dialog box. The text is automatically placed in the Layers palette on a new type
layer, marked with a T icon.
You can enhance any layer by adding a shadow,
glow, bevel, or emboss special effect from the
program’s assortment of layer effects. You can also
apply a combination of layer effects to the same
layer. Here you’ll apply the Drop Shadow and
Bevel and Emboss layer effects to the type.
15 Make sure that the MEZZO PIANO type layer
is active. Then choose Layer > Effects > Drop
Shadow.
16 In the dialog box, change the opacity to 60%
°
and set the angle to 150
17 Now choose Bevel and Emboss from the menu
.
at the top of the dialog box.
18 In the new dialog box, click Apply. Then
change the opacity for both Highlight and Shadow
to 50%, select Inner Bevel for Style, set Blur to
2 pixels, and click OK. The drop shadow and bevel
and emboss effects are now applied to the type.
Photoshop makes it easy to change text on a type
layer and assures that any layer effects applied will
automatically track changes made to the layer. You
can see how this works by changing the wording of
your text.
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19 Double-click the T icon on the Mezzo Piano
layer in the Layers palette. In the Type Tool dialog
box, select the word “PIANO” and change it to
“FORTE.” Notice how the layer effects are applied
to the new word.
20 If you like, try applying other layer effects to
the text. When you are finished, click OK.
21 Choose File > Save.
Filters
To quickly add special effects to your artwork, you
can choose from a wide variety of filters. In this
part of the tour, you’ll apply some filters to
transform the background.
1 Click the background in the Layers palette to
make it active.
2 Choose Filter > Distort > Wave. In the dialog
box, set Number of Generators to 3, Maximum
Wavelength to 350, Minimum Amplitude to 1, and
Maximum Amplitude to 20. Click OK.
3 Choose Filter > Brush Strokes > Angled Strokes,
and click OK to accept the default settings.
4 Then choose Filter > Fade Angled Strokes. In
the dialog box, set the opacity to 50%, select
Multiply for the mode, and click OK.
Explore some additional filters if you like.
Painting
With the Photoshop painting tools, you can add
color to your artwork using preset swatches, colors
you create, or colors you sample from existing art.
Now you’ll paint part of the background using the
paintbrush tool.
1 Double-click the paintbrush tool ( ), and
make sure that the opacity in the Paintbrush
Options palette is set to 100%.
Note: Each tool in Photoshop has its own Options
palette, which you can display by double-clicking the
tool in the toolbox.
2 Choose Window > Show Brushes, and click the
35-pixel brush from the bottom row of the
Brushes palette.
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Now you’ll paint arcs of four different colors over
the bell of the French horn. The first color is white,
which you’ll select through the toolbox color
selection box. This box sets the foreground color,
the color you paint with, and the background
color, the color used when you erase part of an
image. The default colors are black for foreground
and white for background.
3 Click the switch colors icon ( ) in the upper
right corner of the color selection box to make the
foregound color white.
4 Paint a white arc over the bell of the French
horn.
You can use the eyedropper tool to select
additional colors by sampling (copying) them
from artwork in the image. You’ll use a keyboard
shortcut to access the eyedropper when selecting
colors for the next three arcs.
5 Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS)
to temporarily change from the paintbrush tool to
the eyedropper tool ( ). Then click a yellow note
in the image. The foreground color in the color
selection box switches to the same yellow as in the
note, indicating that you can now paint with this
color.
6 Release the Alt/Option key, change the opacity
in the Options palette to 80%, and paint a yellow
arc just above the first white arc.
7 Now hold down Alt/Option, and click a red note
to change the foreground color to red. Release the
Alt/Option key, change the opacity in the Options
palette to 60%, and paint a red arc above the
yellow arc.
8 Repeat the process but this time sample the
foreground color from a green note, change the
opacity to 40%, and paint a green arc.
Next you’ll use the History palette to remove the
paint you just applied. The History palette records
changes you make to the image and lets you step
back through recent changes. Using this palette,
you can return to an earlier version of the image
and continue working from that point.
9 To display the History palette, choose Window>
Show History.
10 Click Fade Angled Strokes in the history list.
The image reverts to the way it looked right after
you applied the Fade Angled Strokes filter.
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You can now continue working from this version
of the image. All changes past Fade Angled Strokes
will be deleted, and new changes will be recorded
in their place.
Next you’ll try out a gradient fill to “paint” or
blend between two colors on the background of
the image.
11 Choose Window > Show Swatches, and click a
blue swatch to set your foreground color. Then
double-click the linear gradient tool ( ), and in
the Gradient Tool Options palette choose
Foreground to Transparent for the gradient, 30%
for the opacity, and Multiply for the mode.
12 Drag the gradient tool from the top left to the
bottom right corner of the background to set the
beginning and end of the gradient.
13 Choose File > Save.
Retouching
Adobe Photoshop provides a full range of tools for
retouching images, including dodge and burn
tools, as well as features for adjusting color, tone,
contrast, hue, and saturation. You’ll use a few of
these tools to do some basic color correction and
editing on an image.
1 Click Layer 2 in the Layers palette to make it
active.
2 To set the basic contrast and tonal range
between the highlights and shadows in the horn,
choose Image > Adjust > Levels.
3 In the dialog box, select the Preview option and
then drag the left and right triangles inward to
where the first spikes of the dark and light ends of
the histogram’s color range begin.
4 Click OK to apply the changes and extend the
tonal range of the image.
Notice that the midtones in the horn are still not
right; they need to be more red. To correct the
color, you’ll use the Color Balance command.
5 Choose Image > Adjust > Color Balance. A
dialog box appears for adjusting the mixture of
colors in the image.
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6 Select the Preview option in the dialog box, drag
the top slider away from Cyan toward Red, and
click OK. The horn turns more red.
Now you’ll remove a scratch on the horn with the
rubber stamp tool. This tool lets you sample part
of an image and then paint with a copy of the
sampled area.
7 Double-click the rubber stamp tool ( ) to
display its Options palette, and select the Aligned
option. Then choose a small feathered brush in the
second row of the Brushes palette.
8 Place the rubber stamp tool over the horn next
to the scratch. Hold down Alt (Windows) or
Option (Mac OS), and click to sample this area.
Release the Alt/Option key. Then drag the rubber
stamp tool to paint over the scratch.
Adobe Photoshop offers some ready-made actions
you can run on a file or set of files. You’ll use one
of these actions to add a vignette effect to the
image. But first, to get the best results from the
vignette, you’ll flatten the file’s layers into one
layer. Then you’ll make a selection to set the
vignette’s border.
1 Choose Layer > Flatten Image.
2 Hold down the mouse button on the elliptical
marquee tool, and drag to the rectangular
marquee tool. Then click approximately 1/8 inch
in from the upper left corner of the image, and
drag diagonally to 1/8 inch in from the lower right
corner.
9 Choose File > Save.
Actions
The Actions palette lets you combine a set of
commands into a single command or action and
then execute the action on a single file or multiple
files within a folder. With the Actions palette, you
can record, play, edit, and delete commands to
easily automate common techniques.
You can now apply the vignette action.
3 To display the Actions palette, choose Window>
Show Actions.
4 In the Actions palette, select Vignette (selection)
by clicking on its name.
5 Click the Play button ( ) at the bottom of the
palette.
6 In the Feather Selection dialog box, accept the
default feather radius of 5 pixels, and click OK.
The action is then run on the image, creating the
vignette.
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7 When the action is complete, choose Layer >
Flatten Image, and in the dialog box click OK to
discard the hidden layers.
Saving the file
Because you may want to return to a version of the
file with all its layers intact, you can use the Save As
command to save the flattened file with a new
name.
Choose File > Save As. Select a folder in which to
save the file, enter a new filename, and click Save.
Note that you can save files in various formats,
depending on how you plan to use the file. For
example, you can save a file in JPEG format for
display on the World Wide Web. (See About file
formats in Chapter 14.)
Congratulations, you’ve finished the tour.
Continue experimenting by creating your own
Photoshop artwork, or try some of the lessons
on the Tutorial CD.
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