How to cheat in Photoshop CS5 : the art of creating realistic photomontages / Steve Caplin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caplin, Steve, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Photoshop.

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fully updated to cover all of the new features in Photoshop CS5, this book is also backwards-compatible and can be used with any version of Photoshop. The accompanying DVD for Mac and PC contains over two and a half hours of video tutorials for additional training, and on the book's popular website www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com, you'll find even more resources such as an ""Ask the Author"" forum, sample images from other How to Cheat fans, and weekly challenges so that you can test your own skills and see where your creativity can take you.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""How to Cheat, and Why""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""How to Use This Book""; ""1. Natural Selection""; ""Selection: the Fundamentals""; ""The Lasso and Magic Wand""; ""Quickmask 1: Better Selection""; ""Quickmask 2: Tips and Tricks""; ""Quickmask 3: Transformations""; ""The Quick Selection Tool""; ""Refine Edge: Fuzzy Logic""; ""Refine Edge: Going Further""; ""The Pen Is Mightier�""; ""The Pen Tool by Numbers""; ""Putting the Pen into Practice""; ""Losing the Edges""; ""Lock and Load""; ""Find and Replace""

""Color by Numbers""""Brush-on Color""; ""Interlude: the Perfect Setup""; ""2. Transformation and Distortion""; ""The Free Transform Tool""; ""Step and Repeat Rotation""; ""Introducing Image Warp""; ""Image Warp in Combination""; ""Cloning in Perspective""; ""Special Effects with Cloning""; ""Puppet Warp: Animal Tamer""; ""Puppet Warp: Get to Grips""; ""Transformation in Practice""; ""Content-aware Scaling""; ""Content-aware Fill 1""; ""Content-aware Fill 2""; ""Interlude: the Freelance Artist""; ""3. Hiding and Showing""; ""Texture with Layer Modes""; ""Layer Masks 1: Intersections""

""Layer Masks 2: Soft Edges""""Layer Masks 3: Smoothing""; ""Layer Masks 4: Auto Masking""; ""Blending 1: Fire Power""; ""Blending 2: Plane View""; ""Interlude: Graphics Tablets""; ""4. Image Adjustment""; ""Shadows and Highlights""; ""Learning Curves""; ""Matching Colors with Curves""; ""Major Color Changes""; ""Selective Hue and Saturation""; ""Multi-layer Enhancement""; ""Sharpening: Unsharp Mask""; ""Natural Healing""; ""Interlude: Getting Started""; ""5. Composing the Scene""; ""Location Is Everything""; ""Relative Values: Interaction""; ""I Only Have Eyes for You""

""Back to the Foreground""""Composition Tips and Tricks""; ""People and Cars""; ""Interlude: the Final Checklist""; ""6. Getting into Perspective""; ""Establishing the Horizon""; ""Introducing Vanishing Points""; ""Two Point Perspective""; ""Three Point Perspective""; ""Correcting Perspective""; ""Fixing Wide Angle Objects""; ""Using Existing Perspective""; ""Crop Circles Demystified""; ""Boxing Clever: Doubling Up""; ""Vanishing Point Filter 1""; ""Vanishing Point Filter 2""; ""Cropping in Perspective""; ""A Piece of Cake""; ""Interlude: Photomontage Ethics""; ""7. Light and Shade""

""Shadows on Wall and Ground""""Tricky Ground Shadows""; ""Creating Complex Shadows""; ""Light from Windows""; ""Multiple Shadowed Objects""; ""Shading on Hard Light Layers""; ""Visible Light Sources""; ""Turn the Lamp on""; ""Shading Using Dodge and Burn""; ""Shading Using Light Modes""; ""Reverse Shading with Curves""; ""Making Smoke Without Fire""; ""Making Fire Without Smoke""; ""Lighting Up: Perfect Neon""; ""Day for Night""; ""Interlude: Sourcing Images""; ""8. Heads and Bodies""; ""Making the Head Fit""; ""Complex Head Fitting""; ""Combining Body Parts""; ""Stand Up Straight""

""Changing History""

Notes:

"Includes DVD for Mac & PC with over 4 hours of video tutorials"--cover.

First published as How to cheat in Photoshop CS5 in 2010.

ISBN:

1-136-11038-0

1-282-70009-X

9786612700095

0-240-52205-2

9780240522050

OCLC:

652759274