The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers- P2:This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client's socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard. | The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers Thumbnail generation extraordinaire One of the main features that I love about the File Browser is that it does something wonderful to digital camera images It automatically creates fullcolor thumbnails of any images you open within It. Tor example when you open a folder or CD of images for just a moment you ll see the generic icons as shown at right just as you would if you opened the memory card from your computer. As you can see when it comes to finding an image these generic icons are basically worthless. However in just a second or two Photoshop automatically generates gorgeous thumbnails in their place below right . Photoshop is pretty quick about it too but obviously the more images you have the longer it will take it could take up to three or four seconds bur believe me it s worth the wait. Also it builds thumbnails from the top down so even though you see thumbnails in your main window if you scroll down rhe thumbnails further down could still be drawing just be patient and they ll appear coming soon to a Browser window near you . ÔÔÔ File Browser The File Browser takes the lame default cons and transforms them intO- Flle Browser .full-color thumbnails. Ahhhhh that s betted 16 Chapter 1 Mastering the File Browser The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers If you look ar either picture on the left-hand page you can see that the Browser is divided into four different panels and each panel has its own set of features and functions. Here s a quick look ar rhe four panels and the essential techniques you ll need to get the most out of the Browser. Browser Essentials y I-J Desktop Í PSVorld Concert Sh I j Chapter 1 captures f Dflitai Photo book f Macintosh HD Image Description Make SONY F llenóme DSCu 11 36 JK Díte Created 3 14 02 9 3 Dite Modified 3 14 02 9 3 age Format JPEG Width 2048 Height 1S36 Color Mode RGB File Size 1 NAVIGATION The top-left panel is designed to let you navigate to your digital camera s
