The Photoshop Darkroom 2

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. Introduction
6. 1. A Ballet with Reality
   1. Workflow and digital asset management
   2. The RAW advantage
   3. Shooting RAW and JPEG at the same time
   4. In which Ed’s feet make an appearance
   5. Multi-RAW processing using Lightroom
   6. Multi-RAW processing: Lightroom or ACR?
   7. Bringing a flower to life
   8. Layers and masking
   9. Painting on a layer mask
   10. Using Screen blending mode
   11. Using Multiply to darken
   12. Creating a high-key image
   13. Cloning and retouching
   14. The Patch Tool
   15. Checkpoints and workflow
   16. Content-Aware Fill
   17. Spiderweb Studio
   18. Soft Light Blending Mode
   19. Creative coloring and toning
   20. Processing the same capture three times
   21. Desaturating with black and white
   22. Welcome to the real world
   23. Transformations are for people, too!
   24. Multi-RAW processing a glamour shot
   25. Contrasting a figure with a black background
   26. Using hand-HDR to get a completely black background
   27. Photographing kids on a black background
   28. Smoothing skin
   29. Head, shoulders, knees, and toes
   30. Glamorous gams
   31. Alice works out at the virtual gym
   32. Eyebrows
   33. Eye checklist
   34. Painting catch lights
7. 2. Making the Unseen Visible
   1. Photographing flowers in water
   2. Photographing on a lightbox
   3. Hand-HDR Imaging for Transparency
   4. Creating a transparent poppy medley
   5. ACR or Lightroom for RAW conversion
   6. Automated HDR vs. hand-HDR for transparency
   7. Lightboxes aren’t only for flowers
   8. Variations and inversions
   9. Combining layers for transparency
   10. Using HDR to create complex imagery
   11. Revealing details at night
   12. Blending in the moon
   13. Faking star trails
   14. Stacking star trails–the real deal
   15. Onward & Upward: Beyond Reality
   16. Photo compositing to create a world in a shadow
   17. Photographing to create the shadow
   18. Creating a translucent marble and its shadow
   19. Thinking about content, color, shape, and scale
   20. Inserting a new world
   21. Marble of power
   22. Shadow play
   23. Photographing the infinitesimal
8. 3. Building the Impossible
   1. Harold’s Manifesto Losing the Chains of Reality
   2. Creating an abstraction
   3. Stairs à la Escher
   4. Steps toward the impossible
   5. Creating the basic building block
   6. The Compositor’s Cafeteria
   7. Creating the “Twisted Stairs”
   8. Fixing the mesh point
   9. Creating the “Stair Knot”
   10. Complexity vs. simplicity
   11. Do plants think?
   12. A Poke in the Eye
   13. LAB The neglected color space
   14. LAB channel inversions and equalizations
   15. Using different color spaces to add color effects
   16. Creating a world in a pine cone
   17. Creating a magical portal
   18. Onward & Upward: This challenge is for you!
9. Glossary
10. Index