书名 : How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3: The art of creating photorealistic montages (How to Cheat in)
作者 : by Steve Caplin (Author)
出版 : Focal Press publisher
版本 : 4th
日期 : May 28, 2007
语言 : English
ISBN-10: 0240520629
ISBN-13: 9780240520629
《Photoshop以假乱真的照片拼贴》着眼于拼贴画创意的电脑实现及其所需酫的软件技术，深入浅出地讲述了Photoshop CS3的使用技巧。这是本书区别于其他以介绍软件技术为主的图像处理图书的显著特点。作者将丰富的拼贴画创作实践经验，用深入浅出的话语娓娓道来，带您进入丰富多彩的Photoshop拼贴画创作世界。
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Provides on-the-job, do-it-now skills, techniques, and shortcuts to show you how to work faster to produce better results using Photoshop CS3. This book alongside the DVD is packed with hundreds of images, project files, and live tutorials to get a better understanding of the software.
Updated to make the most of Photoshop CS3, this practical handbook offers a variety of professional tips, tricks, and step-by-step workthroughs for creating a photorealistic montage; features complete tutorials in the fundamentals of Photoshop CS3; and includes a DVD that encompasses all the images from the book, as well as free high-resolution stock footage images. Original. (Intermediate)
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"Brilliant illustrations, step-by-step instructions and packed full of tricks from one of the finest masters of them all" TOM ANG, WIDELY EXHIBITED PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER TEACHER, EDITOR & AUTHOR"
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Zip through the learning curve in a snap with the free DVD! Hundreds of new Photo Objects, companion project files, QuickTime movie tutorials, sample plugins, and more. When you're short on time with crunching deadlines, but theres no way you can sacrifice quality, this book/DVD comes to the rescue. Nobody knows more about how to work fast under pressure and still produce top-notch photographic images than hands-on graphic artist and journalist, Steve Caplin. Steve cuts through the grind with on-the-job, do-it-now skills, techniques, and shortcuts guaranteed to show you how to work faster, smarter, and better to produce the best work of your life.With a lifetime of practical experience in photo-montage Steve is the go-to person for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, photographic retouchers, and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CS3, this must-have resource is also backwards compatible - relevant to any version of Photoshop.'How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3' helps you "cheat in" (or take advantage of) Photoshop in two important ways. You learn how to make images look like photographs, when they're not so that you can create photographic work without a studio. And you find useful shortcuts to work more efficiently, economically, and with quick solutions to achieve the same superb results that come from long, complex operations that take forever. Whether you're working for print or the web, dip into this book and extract the info you need fast.Icons mark where Photoshop files or movie tutorials are available for you to open immediately to try for yourself. Crammed with gems that other books simply don't cover, this book/DVD excels in practical tips to turn the ordinary into the awe-inspiring, quickly. Don't miss how to create new artwork from scratch from starting points that aren't always obvious. This fully updated new edition shows you how to get the most out of Photoshop CS3, including the Quick Selection and Cloning tools, and more. Yet its backwards compatible with previous releases of Photoshop.The book's step-by-step tutorials alongside the DVD packed with hundreds of images, project files, and live tutorials show you how to: Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions the simple way; Take years off someones appearance; Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes); Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface; Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CS3's new Quick Selection tool... and more.A host of time saving techniques and insider secrets teach you to work faster and more adeptly moving from the problem to the solution to get fantastic results! Steve Caplin is a graphic artist, author and journalist. This work includes extensive new material to show you how to take your Photoshop skills even further. The DVD includes all the brand new images from the book, 300 high resolution AbleStock images plus over 2 hours of QuickTime movies of the projects. Benefit from a professional illustrator's time saving tips and tricks!
Table of Contents
How to cheat, and why vi
Acknowledgments viii
How to use this book
Natural selection
Selection: the fundamentals
The Lasso and Magic Wand
QuickMask : better selection
QuickMask : tips and tricks
QuickMask : 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
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
Transformation in practice
Interlude: The freelance artist
Hiding and showing
Texture with layer modes
Layer masks 1: intersections
Layer masks 2: transparency
Layer masks 3: soft edges
Layer masks 4: smoothing
Blending 1: fire power
Blending 2: plane view
Interlude: Graphics tablets
Image adjustment
Shadows and highlights
Learning Curves
Matching colors with Curves
Major color changes
Multi-layer enhancement
Sharpening: Unsharp Mask
Natural healing
Interlude: Getting started
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
Getting into perspective
Establishing the horizon
Introducing vanishing points
Two point perspective
Three point perspective
Correcting perspective
Using existing perspective
Boxing clever: doubling up
Vanishing Point filter
Vanishing Point filter
Vanishing Point filter
Cropping in perspective
Interlude: Photomontage ethics
Light and shade
Shadows on the ground
Shadows on the wall
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 images
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
Beards and stubble
A fuzzy hairbrush
The ageing process
Reversing the ageing process
A change of clothing
It's all in the eyes
A change of expression
Liquify: turning heads
Sleep and the art of healing
Coloring black and white images
A change of skin
Interlude: Sourcing images for free
Shiny surfaces
Introducing... Plastic Wrap
Blood and gore, no sweat
Getting hot and sticky
I'm forever blowing bubbles
Water, water everywhere
Making water from thin air
Snow and icicles
Making it rain
A cool glass of water
Getting the glazing bug
Glass: refraction
Glass: reflection
Complex reflections
Putting things in bottles
Distortion with backgrounds
Glass: putting it all together
Through grimy windows
Interlude: The photographic studio
Metal, wood and stone
Instant metal using Curves
Metal with Adjustment Layers
Metal with Layer Styles
Turning silver into gold
Metal with Lighting Effects
More on Lighting Effects
Rust, grime and decay
Reflection on a knife edge
Photographing shiny objects
The art of woodturning
Making a better impression
Timber floors with varnish
The philosopher's stone
Bringing statues to life
Carving words in stone
A grave business
Interlude: The point of illustration
Paper and fabric
How to make a load of money
Judging a book by its cover
Paper: folding and crumpling
Folds and wrinkles
Ripping and tearing
Simulating old photographs
Waving the flag
Making custom fibers
Ribbon and tape
Interlude: Upgrade and replace
The third dimension
Adding depth to flat artwork
An open and shut case
Opening the hamper
Matching existing perspective
Building boxes
Displacement maps
Displacement maps
Wrapping labels without CS
Drawing pipes and cables
D Transform filter: boxes
D Transform filter: cylinders
D layers: the new approach
D layers: using Sketchup
D layers: cross sections
Illustrator and Photoshop
The Poser phenomenon
Interlude: Reality overload
Hyper realism
Blurring for speed
More blurring techniques
Cartoon distortions
Breaking glass
Smashing things up
Smashing things up
Chaos and complexity
The fall of the house of cards
Zombie pensioners from hell
Interlude: Carry on spending
Time-saving techniques
Front and back
Avoiding white outlines
Using Smart Objects
Layer groups and layer comps
Watercolor with Filter Gallery
Smart Filters
Making the most of Bridge
Photoshop Actions
Interlude: Self promotion
Working for print and the web
Image size and resolution
Working for print
Working for the web
Making it move
Test yourself
Index
