Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

362 MARQUEE TOOLS

Marquee tools, 138

Elliptical Marquee tool, 144

Rectangular Marquee tool,

143

masks

adjustment layer masks, 263

color, 18-20, 259

grayscale images, 259

inverting, 157, 261

layer, 252-253

opacity, 259

Quick Mask, 156-157, 264

selections, 257-259

storing. Seealpha channels

unsharp mask filter, 192-197

visibility, 259-263

master boot records, FAT (File

Allocation Table), 104

media

digital cameras, 5

flash memory, 6

medium film speed, 39

megapixels, 175

memory, flash, 6

Merge Down command

(Layer menu), 240

Merge Visible command

(Layer menu), 241

merging

images, 262-263

layers, 240

micro lenses (macro lenses),

53

Microsoft Windows, gammas

(Internet images), 341

mirror lenses, 54

Mode command (Image

menu), 163

Mode

8 bits/channel command

(Image menu),

184-186

CMYK Color command

(Image menu), 305

Grayscale command (Image

menu), 328-329

LAB command (Image menu),

329

RGB Color command (Image

menu), 257

modes

LAB mode, converting color

images to black-and-white,

329

Quick Mask, 260-261

Modify, Border command

(Select menu), 167

Modify, Contract command

(Select menu), 166

moiré patterns, removing,

197-198

monitors

color reproduction, color

management, 297-306

gammas (Internet images),

341

images, viewing, 282

multimedia, CD-ROMs, 289

multiple printers, color man-

agement, 305-306

Museum of Contemporary

Art Web site, 344

museums, Internet resources,

344

N

naming layers, 238

National Press Photographers

Association (NPPA) Web

site, 343

navigation buttons, creating,

291

Nearest neighbor option

(interpolation), 187

negative color films, 295

negative film, 31

color balance, 66

exposure latitude, 67

professional, 32

New Adjustment Layer,

Curves command (Layer

menu), 231-232

New Adjustment Layer,

Levels command (Layer

menu), 231

New Channel icon, 262

New dialog box, 277

New Layer command (Layer

menu), 237

New Layer icon, 237

Nikon Web site, 14, 344

noise, adding, 335

Noise filters, 200-203

Noise, Add Noise command

(Filter menu), 335

Noise, Despeckle command

(Filter menu), 200

Noise, Dust & Scratches com-

mand (Filter menu), 203

normal focal-length lenses,

47-48

NPPA (National Press

Photographers Association)

Web site, 343

O

objects, vector, 249

offset printers, scanning

images for, 79

online galleries, 343-345

opacity

layers, 238-239

masks, 259

Open Drive icon, 100

Options, Files command

(Object menu), 102, 106

outdoor available light,

310-312, 320

Output levels, 225

Output Options option (Print

dialog box), 129

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