Take Control of Preview 1 Josh Centers Adam C Engst eBook
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Discover Preview's hidden features for editing images and manipulating PDFs!
Apple bundles the Preview app with every Mac, but few people realize what it's capable of. The Mac experts behind TidBITS, Adam Engst and Josh Centers, have plumbed Preview's depths to create a cheerful, colorful book that explains dozens of techniques for importing, viewing, editing, and converting images in Preview. The book also puts you in control of reading, annotating, manipulating, and encrypting PDFs.
Packed with real-world examples and tips, the book teaches you to bring files into Preview from a camera or scanner (or just from the Finder). Once you discover Preview's surprisingly capable collection of image-editing tools, you'll soon be editing imported photos by tweaking the exposure, color saturation, sharpness, and more. You can even mark up your images with circles, arrows, and text, plus numerous other shapes.
In the second part of the book, Adam and Josh focus on PDFs in Preview, describing how to configure Preview to make reading PDFs as fluid as possible. Since so many paper forms now come in PDF, the book shows you how to fill out PDF-based forms, complete with quick insertion of your digital signature. Those who read digital textbooks or who collaborate on documents will learn to annotate PDFs with highlights, notes, and bookmarks. You'll even learn how to create PDFs from a scanner, the clipboard, and the Print dialog. Finally, Adam and Josh cover the two types of passwords you can use to protect your PDFs, explaining what each is good for.
Preview is a veritable Swiss Army Knife -- don't miss out on the many ways it can make your life easier!
Did you know that you can do all these things in Preview?
- Import photos from your iPhone.
- Scan paper-based documents and images.
- Add a scanned page to an existing PDF.
- Take a screenshot that includes the pointer.
- Open hundreds of images in a single window.
- Trash unwanted images with a keystroke.
- Duplicate, rename, and move images without leaving Preview.
- Play a manually arranged slideshow of images or PDF pages.
- Create a PDF-based image catalog.
- Resize and change the resolution of images.
- Crop out undesirable content.
- Mark up screenshots with shapes and text labels.
- Magnify a portion of an image with a loupe.
- Add text captions and speech bubbles to photos.
- Tweak the white point and black point in photos.
- Make photos sepia or black-and-white.
- Edit a photo while comparing it to its original version.
- Export to any one of 19 formats.
- Create basic animated GIFs.
- Put thumbnails, table of contents, notes, or bookmarks in your sidebar.
- View search results by rank or page order.
- Copy text and images from a PDF.
- Highlight text just like you would in a college textbook.
- Add notes to highlighted text and as freestanding objects.
- Review notes in the sidebar or Annotations inspector.
- Create bookmarks to pages you want to revisit quickly.
- Annotate a PDF with customizable shapes and arrows.
- Fill in PDF forms, whether or not they're interactive.
- Create and insert a digital version of your signature into PDF forms.
- Add, remove, and rearrange pages in a PDF.
- Rotate PDF pages that were scanned at the wrong orientation.
- Encrypt PDFs so they can't be opened, edited, printed, or copied from.
Take Control of Preview 1 Josh Centers Adam C Engst eBook
(This review was originally published on MyMac.com)Once again, TidBITS hits it out of the park with their latest book, Take Control of Preview. Preview is an application that has been on the Mac since OS10 was released in 2001, but has been overlooked over the years and considered a not very useful app other than opening a PDF or viewing a photo. Josh Centers and Adam Engst wrote Take Control of Preview to change that perception.
Take Control of Preview is divided into three sections. The first section gets the reader familiar with Preview. Within the first 30 pages, Centers and Engst give a cursory explanation of the Markup Toolbar and the Main Toolbar, with a deeper dive on each button further in the book. That alone is worth its weight in gold.
The authors also explain what Preview can and cannot do. What are some of Preview’s capabilities? We already know it can open a PDF or photo, but Preview can crop, resize, and rotate photos, as well as convert and export images to other formats. Preview users can do some light editing on their photos; however, don’t expect it meet all your photo editing needs. Annotate documents with shapes, colors, and text; even add a digital signature with Preview.
Section Two of Take Control of Preview is dedicated to images. Did you know there are multiple ways to look at your images in Preview? Or that you can import images from a camera or scanner? If you didn’t, the authors give detailed instructions on how to get your images into Preview, then go on to discuss how to view and manage those images.
The focus of section three of Take Control of Preview is working with PDFs. As with images, there are many ways to view and read PDFs in Preview. Highlight text, add a note, insert shapes or text to the PDF. Work with the sidebar or add metadata to your PDF for easier Spotlight searching.
As with most Take Control books, as I read it on my iPad I followed along in Preview on my MacBook Pro. (You don’t have to; I do because it’s a method that works best for me.) I was thrilled to learn how to use the different tools in the toolbar other than cropping. Some tips can literally be life changing; for example, if you do genealogy research like I do, you know there are a lot of photos and documents available for download on various genealogy web sites. Rather than take a screenshot, click the Print dialogue. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see an Open PDF in Preview option. Choose that option, rename the document and save it. Now you have an important piece of history for your research, correctly named, and easy to organize. I use that trick with any document or web page that I need to keep but don’t want to physically print.
Want to make an animated GIF? Preview can do that! While the authors acknowledge there are better ways to do this, using Preview to create a quick GIF is actually a lot of fun. Word of warning: if you follow the instructions in the book, follow them exactly. When I tried shortcuts I was unsuccessful. Follow step by step and in no time you’ll have a fun little GIF.
Another quick tip: instead of zooming in to a PDF, which may make text unreadable, why not try the Magnifier, which can be found under Tools —> Magnifier. Learn more about that in Section Three.
There’s so much more in Take Control of Preview that I haven’t even touched on. If you want to learn more about how to make Preview the app you turn to more often, Take Control of Preview will make a great addition to your library.
MyMac.com Review Rating: 9 out of 10
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Take Control of Preview 1 Josh Centers Adam C Engst eBook Reviews
(This review was originally published on MyMac.com)
Once again, TidBITS hits it out of the park with their latest book, Take Control of Preview. Preview is an application that has been on the Mac since OS10 was released in 2001, but has been overlooked over the years and considered a not very useful app other than opening a PDF or viewing a photo. Josh Centers and Adam Engst wrote Take Control of Preview to change that perception.
Take Control of Preview is divided into three sections. The first section gets the reader familiar with Preview. Within the first 30 pages, Centers and Engst give a cursory explanation of the Markup Toolbar and the Main Toolbar, with a deeper dive on each button further in the book. That alone is worth its weight in gold.
The authors also explain what Preview can and cannot do. What are some of Preview’s capabilities? We already know it can open a PDF or photo, but Preview can crop, resize, and rotate photos, as well as convert and export images to other formats. Preview users can do some light editing on their photos; however, don’t expect it meet all your photo editing needs. Annotate documents with shapes, colors, and text; even add a digital signature with Preview.
Section Two of Take Control of Preview is dedicated to images. Did you know there are multiple ways to look at your images in Preview? Or that you can import images from a camera or scanner? If you didn’t, the authors give detailed instructions on how to get your images into Preview, then go on to discuss how to view and manage those images.
The focus of section three of Take Control of Preview is working with PDFs. As with images, there are many ways to view and read PDFs in Preview. Highlight text, add a note, insert shapes or text to the PDF. Work with the sidebar or add metadata to your PDF for easier Spotlight searching.
As with most Take Control books, as I read it on my iPad I followed along in Preview on my MacBook Pro. (You don’t have to; I do because it’s a method that works best for me.) I was thrilled to learn how to use the different tools in the toolbar other than cropping. Some tips can literally be life changing; for example, if you do genealogy research like I do, you know there are a lot of photos and documents available for download on various genealogy web sites. Rather than take a screenshot, click the Print dialogue. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see an Open PDF in Preview option. Choose that option, rename the document and save it. Now you have an important piece of history for your research, correctly named, and easy to organize. I use that trick with any document or web page that I need to keep but don’t want to physically print.
Want to make an animated GIF? Preview can do that! While the authors acknowledge there are better ways to do this, using Preview to create a quick GIF is actually a lot of fun. Word of warning if you follow the instructions in the book, follow them exactly. When I tried shortcuts I was unsuccessful. Follow step by step and in no time you’ll have a fun little GIF.
Another quick tip instead of zooming in to a PDF, which may make text unreadable, why not try the Magnifier, which can be found under Tools —> Magnifier. Learn more about that in Section Three.
There’s so much more in Take Control of Preview that I haven’t even touched on. If you want to learn more about how to make Preview the app you turn to more often, Take Control of Preview will make a great addition to your library.
MyMac.com Review Rating 9 out of 10
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