One-on-One Installation and Setup
Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One is designed to function as an inte-
grated training environment. So before embarking on the lessons, I’m
going to request that you install a handful of files onto your hard drive:- Lesson files used in the exercises (700MB in all)
- One-on-One Creative Suite color settings
- Custom collection of keyboard shortcuts called dekeKeys
- A custom color workflow settings file
- The twelve lesson videos (if you want to view them offline; play-
ing them online doesn’t require any downloading) - QuickTime Player software (if it is not already installed and you
want to watch downloaded versions of the videos offline)
As you’ll see, these files are all available at http://www.oreilly.com/go/deke-
PhotoshopCS5, with the exception of QuickTime Player, which you can
download from http://www.apple.com/quicktime.I’ll also have you change a few preference settings. These changes
are optional—you can follow along with the exercises in this book
regardless of your preferences. Even so, I advocate these settings for
two reasons: First, they make for less confusion by ensuring that you
and I are on the same page, as it were. Second, some of Photoshop’s
default preferences are just plain wrong. So, welcome to your first
one-on-one style exercise:- Go to http://www.oreilly.com/go/Deke-PhotoshopCS5. This is the
companion site for the book, where you can get all the supple-
mental materials you’ll need. It’s also where I’ll be posting tech-
nical updates (in the event that Adobe makes significant changes
to Photoshop), bonus content, and other things I find relevant. If
you already have an oreilly.com account, you’ll be asked to log
in to the site straight away. If you need to create an account (it’s
free), you’ll be taken through that process and returned to the
companion page when you’re done. - Examine the table of contents. At the companion site, you’ll no-
tice that each lesson has an entry in the table of contents. That’s
where you’ll find each lesson’s complement of sample files, ar-
chived in a separate .zip file for easier downloading. Once you
get those files on your hard drive, you can right-click the .zip
file and choose Extract All to create an unzipped folder for each
particular lesson.
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