Book description
From the best-selling author, Philip Andrews even more professional Elements techniques!Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Picture credits
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Next Level
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2 Scanner and Camera Techniques
- The basics – resolution
- 2.01 How many pixels do I need?
- The basics – color depth
- 2.02 More colors equals better quality
- Digital shooting technique
- 2.03 Exposure Compensation
- Frame-by-frame control
- 2.04 Contrast
- 2.05 Color saturation
- 2.07 White balance control
- 2.08 Applying fine-tuning automatically
- 2.09 Customizing your white balance
- 2.10 Shooting RAW for ultimate control
- 2.11 Shooting workflows
- Film and print scanners
- 2.12 Scanning resolution
- 2.13 Color depth
- 2.14 Multi-sample
- 2.15 Highlight and shadow capture
- 2.16 Color cast correction
- 2.17 Dust and scratches
- 2.18 Noise reduction technologies
- 2.19 Color regeneration features
- 2.20 Scanning workflow
- Fixing common shooting problems
- Fixing common scanning problems
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3 Image Changes – Beyond the Basics
- Advanced selection techniques
- 3.01 Adding to and subtracting from selections
- 3.02 Saving and loading selections
- 3.03 Modifying selections
- 3.04 Transformimg a selection
- 3.05 Precise control of selection size
- Understanding layers
- Masking techniques
- 3.06 Painting masks with the Selection Brush
- 3.07 Fill and adjustment layer masks
- 3.08 Using selections with layer masks
- Converting color to black and white
- 3.10 Changing the mode to grayscale
- 3.11 Desaturate the color file
- Advanced dodging and burning-in
- 3.12 Using selections to change tone
- 3.13 Erase back through tonal layers
- Enhance your poorly exposed pictures
- 3.14 Screening image layers to enhance tones
- 3.15 Adding detail to highlights and shadows
- Tinted monochromes
- 3.16 Using Hue and saturation to tone your pictures
- Split toning
- 3.17 Select and tone
- 3.18 Two-layer erase
- Black and white and color
- 3.19 Layer mask and gradient map
- Border techniques
- 3.20 Simple borders
- 3.21 Sophisticated edges using grayscale masks
- Adding texture
- 3.22 Add Noise filter
- 3.23 Grain filter
- 3.24 Non-destructive textures
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4 Darkroom Techniques on the Desktop
- 4.01 Diffusion printing
- 4.02 Instant film transfer effect
- 4.03 Using the Unsharp Mask filter to add contrast
- 4.04 Lith printing technique
- 4.05 Correcting perspective problems
- 4.06 Add emphasis with saturation
- 4.07 Restoring color to faded images
- 4.08 Cross-processing effects
- 4.09 Digital hand coloring
- 4.10 Realistic depth of field effects
- 4.11 Beyond the humble drop shadow
- 4.12 Ring flash shadow
- 4.13 Hidden ‘Curves’ features
- 4.14 Dust and scratches be gone
- 4.15 Combining images seamlessly
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5 Making Better Panoramas
- Advanced shooting techniques
- 5.01 Positioning the camera
- 5.02 Camera support
- 5.03 Exposure
- 5.04 Focus and zoom
- 5.05 Depth of field
- 5.06 White balance
- 5.07 Timing
- 5.08 Ensuring consistent overlap
- 5.09 Dealing with the moving subject
- 5.10 Fixing misaligned picture parts
- 5.11 Coping with extremes of brightness
- 5.12 Creating artificially increased DOF
- 5.13 Correcting exposure differences
- 5.14 Adjusting for changes in color balance
- 5.15 Vertical panoramas
- 5.16 High resolution mosaics
- 5.17 Panoramic printing
- 5.18 Spinning panorama movies
- 5.19 Panorama workflow
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6 Extending Your Web Abilities
- Building websites – the basics
- 6.01 Web Photo Gallery websites
- 6.02 Customizing Web Photo Gallery templates
- Creating individual web assets using Photoshop Elements
- 6.03 Optimizing photos for the web
- 6.04 Button creation
- 6.05 Effective headings
- 6.06 Making seamless backgrounds
- 6.07 Creating downloadable slide shows
- 6.08 Assembling the site
- 6.09 Uploading the site
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7 Producing Effective Graphics
- Revisiting painting and drawing basics
- 7.01 Controlling brush characteristics
- 7.02 Changing an existing brush
- 7.03 Creating a new brush
- 7.04 Text
- 7.05 Adding styles to text layers
- 7.06 Customizing shapes
- 7.07 Adding pictures to shapes
- Text and pictures
- 7.08 Images in text
- 7.09 Text in images
- 7.10 Realistic text and image montages
- 7.11 Hand drawn logos
- 7.12 Reducing your picture’s colors
- 7.13 Posterized pictures
- 7.14 Kaleidoscopic images
- 7.15 Presentation backgrounds
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8 Finely Crafted Output
- Printing basics
- The inkjet printer
- Laser
- Dye sublimation
- Other printing processes
- Image resolution vs printer resolution
- 8.01 Basic print steps
- 8.02 Creating contact sheets
- 8.03 Multiple prints on a page
- Ensuring color consistency between devices
- 8.04 Setting up a color managed workflow
- 8.05 Calibrating your screen – Adobe Gamma
- 8.06 Calibrating your screen – ColorVision Spyder
- Getting intimate with your printer
- 8.07 Calibrating your printer – resolution, color and tone tests
- 8.08 Calibrating your printer – ColorVision PrintFIX
- 8.09 Making great black and white prints
- 8.10 Preparing your images for professional outsourcing
- 8.11 Shoot small print big
- 8.12 Printing workflow
- Appendices
- Index
Product information
- Title: Advanced Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2004
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136108051
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