Advanced Photoshop Cs4

Author : Dan Moughamian,Scott Valentine
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132104661

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Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Dan Moughamian,Scott Valentine Pdf

In Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Photoshop experts Scott Valentine and Dan Moughamian explain the key elements involved in planning and executing a composite imaging project. Readers will learn about the importance of the planning process, including tips on how to develop creative ideas and stay organized as their project evolves. In addition, they will pick up vital techniques for acquiring and perfecting source images in Photoshop CS4, before bringing them together as a seamless composite. The powerful new 3D features found in the Extended edition are also discussed as part of a 2D-3D workflow. Serious photographers and digital artists wishing to produce photo-realistic imagery or surrealistic artwork by blending—or compositing—multiple images and light sources can learn all they need to know right here. Building from the reader's existing skill set of Photoshop fundamentals, the authors provide detailed examples and explanations that cover the newest features in Photoshop CS4 and also utilize a variety of tools and software applications. More than just a Photoshop guide, this book takes a holistic approach, instructing readers on photographic planning and techniques, key design concepts, visual perception, and robust image editing techniques. This is an increasingly popular approach which requires the digital artist to become more involved in the presentation and concept of their images. Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 delivers the information readers need, to produce the best possible composite imagery.

Author : Martin Evening
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781136108228

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers by Martin Evening Pdf

Renowned Photographer and Photoshop hall-of-famer, Martin Evening returns with his comprehensive guide to Photoshop. This acclaimed work covers everything from the core aspects of working in Photoshop to advanced techniques for refined workflows and professional results. Using concise advice, clear instruction and real world examples, this essential guide will give you the skills, regardless of your experience, to create professional quality results. A robust accompanying website features sample images, tutorial videos, bonus chapters and a plethora of extra resources. Quite simply, this is the essential reference for photographers of all levels using Photoshop.

Author : Chris Orwig
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321635488

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 How-Tos by Chris Orwig Pdf

Build your Photoshop expertise, one technique at a time Why spend time searching through a thick reference book when you can focus on the essential techniques? In Adobe Photoshop CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, author Chris Orwig brings you the best techniques to quickly organize and correct your digital images using the world’s most powerful photo-editing program. Complete with illustrations and practical tips, these bite-size lessons from Chris’s experience as a photographer and instructor provide just the information you need. You can explore the program at your own pace, spending less time at your computer and more time behind the lens taking great pictures. • Discover the Application bar [#4] • Work with and arrange multiple documents [#8] • Use the Photo Downloader in Adobe Bridge [#24] • Make localized nondestructive adjustments with Camera Raw [#38] • Set highlight and shadow target values using Curves [#69] • Adjust tones with the Dodge and Burn tools while protecting values [#77] • Create a layer mask[#78] • Retouch portraits to improve eyes [#86] • Create Web galleries to share your images [#97]

Author : Richard Lynch
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781136098949

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The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book by Richard Lynch Pdf

MasterPhotoshop CS4 with this visual, hands-on guide to using layers, under the expert guidance of digital imaging specialist Richard Lynch. Layers, Photoshop's most powerful feature, is the core of a nondestructive image-editing workflow. Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to. * Polish: correct and enhance color, fix composition problems, and repair damage or flaws * Manipulate: isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts * Understand: use all forms of layer blending, including transparency, clipping masks, opacity/fill, layer masks, layer modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and Effects/Styles The accompanying DVD comes complete with a generous library of practical actions based on techniques from the book that add functional power to Photoshop, along with practice images for all the exercises in the book. This focused, highly accurate, comprehensive, and practical guide offers invaluable advice for all users of Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Author : Martin Evening,Jeff Schewe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136100864

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop by Martin Evening,Jeff Schewe Pdf

Professional commercial photographer and digital imager Jeff Schewe (based in Chicago, USA) has teamed up with best-selling Photoshop author Martin Evening to create this goldmine of information for advanced Photoshop users. Building on Martin Evening's successful Adobe Photoshop for Photographers series of titles, this new guide takes the same winning approach and applies it to a professional Photoshop workflow. Highly visual, with clear, step-by-step tutorials, this advanced guide will really appeal to those who want to see how the experts approach Photoshop, producing consistent top-quality results on time and to budget. The authors describe in detail how to carry out some of their favorite Photoshop image editing and retouching techniques using examples taken from real-life professional shoots. The techniques described here don't just show you clever things you can do in Photoshop, they show how you can use Photoshop in a professional context, meeting the demands of art directors and fulfilling tricky briefs. Highly practical, unique and inspiring, this is essential reading for all professional and aspiring professional photographers, and anyone else looking for high-quality results using Photoshop. * Gain a unique insight into a professional Photoshop workflow, with industry experts Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe * Become a retouching master with advanced masking and compositing techniques * Prepare your images for the best possible output.

Author : Steve Johnson,Perspection Inc.
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 1445 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132174183

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Demand by Steve Johnson,Perspection Inc. Pdf

Need answers quickly? Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Includes Workshops ACE Exam Objectives More than 600 Essential Photoshop CS5 Tasks Inside the Book • Improve productivity with the CS5 interface and templates • Use automatic layer alignment and blending to work with objects • Use live filters to view and modify the results of opening files • Use more precise color correction to enhance a photo • Use content-aware options for scaling and fill • Use image trickery to change or enhance an image • Create eye-catching bevels and special effects • Transform plain text into a show-stopping image • Create and manipulate 3D models using presets and custom options • Use tool presets to construct the right tool for the right job • Test content on different target devices Bonus Online Content Register your book at queondemand.com to gain access to: • Workshops and related files • Keyboard shortcuts

Author : Jamie Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adobe Photoshop
ISBN : 1877433721

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Advanced Photoshop CS4 by Jamie Campbell Pdf

Author : Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan
Publisher : Adobe Press
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132316439

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques by Ben Willmore,Dan Ablan Pdf

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. They'll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations. Streamlined for this new edition, the book will distill Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know for a full understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for the photographer. Beginning with a quick "refresher course" on the working foundations of Photoshop, you'll move on to real-world production techniques. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you'll feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.

Author : Lesa Snider
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596554361

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Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider Pdf

Photoshop is the world's most widely used photo-editing and graphics program. But with all its fantastic new features and options, the CS4 version can bewilder even the most seasoned professional. That's where Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual comes in: packed with tips, tricks, and lots of practical advice, this visually rich four-color guidebook teaches you everything you need to know to edit photos and create beautiful documents in Photoshop. Whether you're an absolute beginner or a power user ready to try some advanced techniques, author and graphics pro Lesa Snider King offers crystal-clear, jargon-free instructions to help you take advantage of these powerful tools -- not only how they work, but when you should use them. You'll quickly get up to speed on new CS4 features such as: Photoshop's completely revamped workspace Smoother image display and quick zoom, including the new pixel grid view New Masks and Adjustments panels The Vibrance adjustment layer Hand-painting adjustments and using graduated filters in Camera Raw Enhanced Adobe Bridge And much more. You'll also find out which features work well, and which aren't worth your time. Written with the clarity, humor, and objective scrutiny that are hallmarks of the Missing Manual series, Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual is the friendly, thorough resource you need. Why settle for anything less? "Lesa did a great job on the book, and in my mind, it is the new Photoshop Bible."-- Scott Kelby, Photoshop Insider

Author : Leslie Alsheimer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136098703

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Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom by Leslie Alsheimer Pdf

The essential, inspiring resource for all digital photographers shooting in monochrome.

Author : Conrad Chavez,David Blatner
Publisher : Peachpit Press
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132104555

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Real World Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers by Conrad Chavez,David Blatner Pdf

This edition of Real World Photoshop is more tightly focused for the needs and demands of the professional digital photographers. From acquiring images to using an efficient processing workflow to maintaining image quality and final output quality all within the powerful feature set of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4. Coverage of new features includes: live, non-destructive corrections in the Adjustments panel, re-editable, feathered, density controlled masks, enhanced auto-align, auto blend, 360 degree panoramas, and more. The book's new focus helps readers understand the core workflow tasks, main print and web output options as well as the commercial printing information necessary to hand off images for prepress. Essentials information on file formats, color settings, image adjustment fundamentals, sharpness, detail, noise reduction, and image storage and output is also included. Photoshop Extended is covered where it relates specifically to photographers.

Author : Derrick Story
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596521936

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The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers by Derrick Story Pdf

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Author : Martin Evening
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781136100949

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers by Martin Evening Pdf

Master the power of Photoshop CSX with an internationally renowned photographer by your side. New edition even more easily accessible! Adobe's Photoshop CSX comes with powerful new features offering huge payoffs, but it can be overwhelming to learn. Now updated to focus more fully on the core aspects of Photoshop, this new edition, of acclaimed photographer Martin Evening's best-seller is ideal whether you are a beginning Photoshop user wanting to get up to speed fast or more advanced in your Photoshop skills but need a reliable reference for CSX. * Illustrated throughout with before-and-after pictures - over XXX professional, color illustrations * Practical techniques and real-life assignments * Step-by-step tutorials * Keyboard shortcut reference guide Includes FREE DVD with (TO BE UPDATED): * QuickTime movie tutorials for MAC and PC * Searchable tips on tools, palettes layer styles, and shortcuts * Images selected for you to experiment with getting you up to speed fast with everything in the book, including new Photoshop CSX features Get the pre-eminent advice from a highly successful working photographer as Martin completely updates you on the core aspects of working with Photoshop, including organizing your digital workflow, and improving accessibility. Real-life examples, diagrams, illustrations, and step-by-step explanations ensure that you're up to speed with the next generation of digital photography in no time! Foreword by John Nack, Photoshop Product Manager, Adobe (TBC)

Author : Stephen Burns
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1584506830

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Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery & FX by Stephen Burns Pdf

Achieve new levels of creativity in digital art with Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery and FX. This fully revised new edition shows digital artists how to blend their traditional artistic skills and vision with the powerful tools and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Photoshop CS4 Extended combines 2D, 3D, and video into its interface, truly enabling artists to combine mediums such as painting, photography, and sculpting into their digital creations. Each chapter is laid out as a complete tutorial that shows you how to use each of the amazing new Photoshop CS4 features to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. You'll also find projects that illustrate the more practical uses of Photoshop to help you master your photo editing skills. All of the files needed to complete the tutorials are included online so you can spend more time expanding and challenging your creativity and less time worrying about the technical details. Get ready to harness the power of Photoshop CS4 to create both realistic images and fantastic effects.

Author : Scott Kelby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0321619110

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Mastering Camera Raw in Photoshop CS4 DVD by Scott Kelby Pdf

In his latest DVD-ROM, Scott Kelby once again simplifies the way people learn about Photoshop and working with your digital photos. In Mastering Camera Raw in Photoshop CS4, you'll learn Camera Raw in an entirely new way. A way that, in the end, sticks and really makes you feel like a pro when you're working on your photos. Scott goes way beyond just showing the controls to adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, and color. Instead, after you learn the basics of Camera Raw, Scott takes you through real-world developing of real photos. In each project he adds new controls and new sliders so you're learning everything in context while working on a real project. Camera Raw is quickly becoming the tool where digital photographers spend most of their time. Join Scott to find out just how to take advantage of this essential tool in any photographer's workflow. DVD-ROM. Running time: 191 minutes.