Adobe Photoshop CS4 for photographers : the ultimate workshop / Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evening, Martin.

Contributor:

Schewe, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Photoshop.

Photography--Digital techniques.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Focal Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Professional commercial photographer and digital imager Jeff Schewe (based in Chicago, USA) has teamed up with best-selling Photoshop author Martin Evening to provide advanced Photoshop users with never before seen tips and techniques.Building on Martin Evening's successful Adobe Photoshop for Photographers series of titles, this new guide takes Photoshop users to further depths exploring the power of Photoshop CSX. Highly visual, with clear, step-by-step tutorials, this advanced guide will appeal to those who want to take Photoshop beyond the boundaries.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Before you shoot; Before you shoot that picture!; Interpreting a brief; Shooting multiple elements - intelligently; Multi light blending technique; Complex composite work; Fashion and beauty retouching; When not to use Photoshop; Chapter 2: Raising your IQ; Optimizing images; Camera Raw or Photoshop?; Camera Profiles in Camera Raw; Optimizing the image tones; Optimizing an image in Camera Raw; Optimizing the highlights; Optimizing the blacks; Optimizing both the highlights and blacks

Cut-outs against a white backgroundEssential image editing steps; Crop; Color; Tone; Exposure; Recovery; Blacks; Fill Light; Brightness; Contrast; Finesse; Clarity; Vibrance; Capture sharpening; Amount and Radius; Detail and Masking; Noise reduction; Perspective corrections with Camera Raw; Capture sharpening workflow; Improving camera capture sharpness; Choice of camera lens; Shooting with a tripod vs. hand-held; Improved sharpness using mirror-up mode; Noise reduction; Photoshop noise reduction; Third-party noise reduction; Targeted noise reduction; Removing noise using multiple exposures

Sculpting photosImproving midtone contrast; High radius Unsharp Mask technique; Chapter 3: Mending and blending; General retouching; Healing brush strategies; Adding lens flare; Simulating film grain; Removing foreground objects; Layer blending to remove tourists; Median rendering; Merging objects with displace distortion; How to create a spotlight effect; Fashion and beauty retouching; Adding lightness and contrast to the eyes; Repair work using a copied selection; Removing stray hairs; Tidying hair against a busy backdrop; Coloring hair roots; Beauty skin retouching

Disguise your retouchingBrush blending modes; Beauty/fashion retouching; Retouching portraits; How to remove reflections from glasses; How to create a sparkle brush shape; Vanishing Point; Vanishing Point planes and measurements; Editing objects in 3D; Chapter 4: Masking and compositing; Compositing work; Creating a realistic composite; Masking hair; How it works; Getting the different elements to match; Refine Mask command; Snapshot painting; A different way of compositing; Slicing an image; Image warping; History basics; Making snapshots; The channels; The blending; The wrap up

Combining imagesThe best way to combine exposures; Cheating a mask; Masking an object with a path; Working with Smart Objects; Adding atmospherics; Simulating the effect of motion; Embossing the word; Adding motion; Adding Lens Blur; Extending the depth of field; Merging studio exposures; Layer Styles; How to add extra water drops to a glass; Copying layer styles; How to remove edge flare; Chapter 5: Cooking with Photoshop; Photomerge; Resizing the source images; A simple, one-step Photomerge; A three-step Photomerge; Extreme wide-angle Photomerges; Filter effects

How to create a fisheye lens effect

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612646010

9781136100857

1136100857

9781282646018

128264601X

9780080928357

0080928358

OCLC:

808998502