Book description
Have you ever struggled to make the vision in your mind come to life on your screen? Then this book can help you realise your goal. In this comprehensive revision of the best-selling How To Cheat in Photoshop, photomontage guru Steve Caplin shows you how to get optimum results in minimum time, by cheating your way to success.
As a professional digital artist, Steve knows all about creating great work under pressure. In this book he combines detailed step-by-step instructions with invaluable real-world hints, tips, and advice to really let your creativity run wild. Fully updated to cover the latest features in Photoshop CC, this invaluable resource shows exactly what methods Steve uses to create his own stunning imagery used in advertising, publishing, and print media, in a project-based approach that is sure to improve and inspire your own work.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- How to use this book
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1 Natural selection
- Selection: the fundamentals
- The Lasso and the Magic Wand
- QuickMask 1: better selection
- QuickMask 2: tips and tricks
- QuickMask 3: transformations
- The Quick Selection tool
- Refine Edge: fuzzy logic
- Refine Edge: going further
- The Pen is mightier
- The Pen tool by numbers
- Putting the Pen into practice
- Lock and load
- Find and replace
- Color by numbers
- The color of her face
- Brush-on color
- The perfect setup
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2 Transformation and distortion
- Free Transform distortion
- Step and repeat rotation
- Image Warp: flag waving
- Cloning in perspective
- Special effects with cloning
- Puppet Warp: animal tamer
- Puppet Warp: get to grips
- Cappuccino with sprinkles
- Content-Aware Scaling
- Content-Aware Fill 1
- Content-Aware Fill 2
- Content-Aware Moving 1
- Content-Aware Moving 2
- Choose your distortion
- Straightening with Camera Raw
- Wide-angle wonder
- Easy panorama correction
- Spin the bottle 1
- Spin the bottle 2
- The freelance artist
- 3 Hiding and showing
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4 Image adjustment
- Shadows and highlights
- Learning Curves
- Matching colors with Curves
- The photographer’s level
- Selective hue and saturation
- Sharpening: Unsharp Mask
- Sharpening: Smart Sharpen
- Adjustment layers
- Hard Light layer adjustment
- Camera Raw 1: combined effects
- Camera Raw 2: selective effects
- Camera Raw 3: the jpeg filter
- What’s so great about Camera Raw?
- 5 Composing the scene
- 6 Getting into perspective
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7 Light and shade
- Shadows on wall and ground
- Tricky ground shadows
- Light from windows
- Multiple shadowed objects
- Visible light sources
- Turn the lamp on
- Shading using Hard Light mode
- Shading on multiple objects
- Reverse shading with Curves
- Making smoke without fire
- Making fire without smoke
- Lighting up: perfect neon
- Day for night
- I want to tell you a story
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8 Heads and bodies
- Up close and personal
- Putting heads on bodies
- Complex head fitting
- Combining body parts
- Detailed hair cutting
- The solution for flyaway hair
- Cutting hair with Refine Edge
- The problem of hair loss
- Instant hair growth
- Beards and stubble
- The ageing process
- Reversing the ageing process
- It’s all in the eyes
- Face changing with Liquify
- Liquify: turning heads
- Skin patching and healing
- Cosmetic makeover
- Coloring black and white images
- A change of skin
- Compiling the compiler
- Sourcing images for free
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9 Shiny surfaces
- Introducing… Plastic Wrap
- I’m forever blowing bubbles
- Water: moats and reflections
- Making water from thin air
- Submerging in water
- Snow and icicles
- Catching snow as it falls
- Making it rain
- Getting the glazing bug
- Glass: refraction
- Combining reflections
- Complex reflections
- Putting things in bottles
- Glass: adding a pair of specs
- A refracting glass case
- Photographing glass
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10 Metal, wood and stone
- Instant metal with Curves
- Metal with Layer Styles
- Turning silver into gold
- Metal with Lighting Effects
- More on Lighting Effects
- Spray-on rust and decay
- Making a better impression
- Timber floors with varnish
- Making statues from life
- Bringing statues to life
- Carving words in stone
- A grave business
- The point of illustration
- 11 Paper and fabric
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12 The third dimension
- Adding depth to flat artwork
- An open and shut case
- Flipping makes sense
- Opening the hamper
- Matching existing perspective
- Building boxes
- Displacement maps 1
- Displacement maps 2
- Drawing pipes and cables
- 3D layers: getting started
- 3D layers: reshaping
- 3D layers: texture and more
- 3D layers: revolution
- 3D layers: inflation
- 3D layers and instances
- 3D layers: scene integration
- 3D layers with Vanishing Point
- Image-based lighting
- Manipulating memories
- 13 Hyper realism
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14 Advanced techniques
- Putting it all together 1
- Putting it all together 2
- Front and back
- Working with Smart Objects
- Layer groups and layer comps
- Watercolor with Filter Gallery
- Working with Shapes
- Round-cornered heaven
- Complex repair work
- Distortion through glass
- Complex strokes
- Custom brush design 1
- Custom brush design 2
- Natural media brushes
- Background Eraser tricks
- Making the most of Bridge
- Photoshop Actions
- DeBlur with Shake Reduction
- Misusing Shake Reduction
- Portable shadows
- Take a fresh look
- 15 Print and the internet
Product information
- Title: How To Cheat In Photoshop CC
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781134662012
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