Book description
Have you ever wanted to summon magical powers? Create a stained glass style masterpiece? Or turn Summer into Fall? There’s a whole world of opportunity out there for creating fun photomontages, powerful panoramas, and dynamic distortions.
Redesigned and completely rewritten for Elements 11, this book starts you at the basics of photomontage with selection techniques, layers and transformations; leading up to full-length projects for creating magazine covers, fantasy scenes, poster artwork and much, much more.
This book also features a dedicated website where you can download images and tutorial videos that show you how to expand, develop, and master top techniques. As well as, full color images, a glossary of terms, useful keyboard shortcuts, and a detailed index that will help you locate that fantastic technique in a flash.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- How to cheat and why
- How to use this book
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- What’s new in Elements 11
- Getting up to speed
- 1 Selection techniques
- 2 Working with layers
- 3 Transformation and distortion
- 4 Hiding and showing
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5 Image adjustments
- Boosting contrast with levels
- Fixing color problems
- Shadows and highlights
- Working with color channels
- Bee flat to bee sharp
- Introducing adjustment layers
- The perfect respray
- Shifting the seasons
- Miracle healing
- Cleaning the scene
- Changing skies
- Catching the drops
- Adding depth of field
- Interlude: But is it art?
- 6 Working with text
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7 Quick techniques
- A splash of color
- Panorama power
- The need for speed
- Sunset silhouette
- Making rainbows
- A model village
- Making notepaper
- Writing in the sand
- Rubber stamp it
- Creating custom brushes
- Puzzle time
- Bobblehead caricature
- Letting the dust settle
- Casting a divine light
- Aging a photo in minutes
- Making sticky tape
- From day to night
- Flashlight illumination
- Instant candlelight
- Complex reflections
- Lifting the lid
- Room with a view
- The classic head-swap
- Interlude: Keeping it real
- 8 A change of scenery
- 9 Art & design
- Glossary
- Downloadable content
- Index
Product information
- Title: How To Cheat in Photoshop Elements 11
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781135052850
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