How To Use Adobe Photoshop CS2

Part 11. Digital Photography Features

Task

1 How to Build a Contact Sheet 224

2 How to Make Picture Packages 226

3 How to Use the Red-Eye Tool 228

4 How to Reduce Noise 230

5 How to Build Panoramas 232

6 How to Organize Images with Custom Metadata 234

7 How to Work with Camera Raw Images 236

Photoshop CS2 offers many enhancements that attempt to simulate traditional photographic methods. It's curious that an established software program with a name like Photoshop would take so long to build in features and enhancements that target the digital photographer. Although Photoshop has always worked with photographic images, it always manipulated them using digital terminology and methods. Bit depth, pixels, and color models have always dominated the Photoshop terminology landscape, confusing many traditional photographers who were used to f-stops, shutter speeds, and correction filters.

In this part are tasks that explain how to create a contact sheet and create picture packages for easier photo printing. Additional tasks outline how to eliminate red-eye reflections, build image panoramas, and work with 16-bit camera raw files.

Finally, you'll find a task that outlines how to enter and modify keywords and metadata for individual images, making it easier to track, search, and sort your image collection.

Some of these tasks and features have been in Photoshop for some time, whereas others are new with the release of Photoshop CS2. The net result of these photo features is a powerful imaging application that's intuitive and photographer friendly. ••