How to cheat in Photoshop CS4 the art of creating photorealistic montages

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Caplin, Steve (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Focal Press 2009.
Edición:5th ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of 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 1; The Quick Selection tool 2; Refine Edges: 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 toolStep and repeat rotation; Introducing Image Warp; Image Warp in combination; Cloning in perspective; Special effects with cloning; Transformation in practice; Content Aware Scaling 1; Content Aware Scaling 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 changesSelective 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; Game, test and match; Back to the foreground; Composition tips and tricks; People and cars; Interlude: Digital cameras; 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
  • Boxing clever: doubling upVanishing Point filter 1; Vanishing Point filter 2; Vanishing Point filter 3; Cropping in perspective; Interlude: Photomontage ethics; 7 Light and shade; Shadows on wall and ground; Tricky ground shadows; Creating complex shadows; Light from windows; Mood, light and emphasis; Multiple shadowed objects; Shading on Hard Light layers; Visible light sources; The romance of candlelight; Turn the lamp on; Shading using Dodge and Burn; Shading using light modes; Extreme shading; Making smoke without fire; Making fire without smoke; Lighting up: perfect neon; Day for night
  • Interlude: Sourcing images8 Heads and bodies; Making the head fit; Complex head fitting; Combining body parts; Changing history; The perfect haircut; The solution for flyaway hair; The problem of hair loss; A fuzzy hairbrush; Beards and stubble; The ageing process; Reversing the ageing process; A change of clothing; It's all in the eyes; A change of expression; Liquify: turning heads; Cosmetic makeover; Sleep and the art of healing; Coloring black and white images; A change of skin; Interlude: Sourcing images for free; 9 Shiny surfaces; Introducing... Plastic Wrap; Blood and gore, no sweat
  • Getting hot and sticky