Book description
If you already have a good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and are looking to advance your skills, Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop is the book you've been waiting for. Renowned photographers Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe impart their Photoshop tips and workflow, showing you how to use a vast array of rarely seen advanced Photoshop techniques. Whether the subject is serious retouching work, weird and wonderful compositions, or planning a shoot before you've even picked up a camera, you can be sure that the advice is based on years of practical experience.
Full of inspirational photographs and hundreds of full-color screenshots to show you how it's done, this book features:
-Advice on becoming a retouching master with advanced masking and compositing techniques
-A detailed workflow for preparing your images for the best possible output, showing you how to meet both deadline and budge without sacrificing quality
-26 movie tutorials on the included DVD, offering over 3 hours of movie content
The ideal companion to Photoshop CS5 for Photographers, this is a must-have resource for any serious user of Adobe Photoshop.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Before you shoot: Concepts and planning before you use Photoshop
- 2. Camera Raw workflow: Getting things right in Camera Raw first
- 3. Raising your IQ: How to improve your image quality
- 4. Mending and blending: Photoshop repair work
- 5. Now you see it, now you don’t: Some easy ways to retouch your photographs
- 6. Retouching people: Tips for retouching portraits
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7. Masking and compositing: How to combine images and solve tricky problems
- Compositing work
- Layer Styles
- How we created the cover image
- 8. Photoshop after dark: Using Photoshop to process photos taken at night
- 9. Photomerges: Blending images together in Photoshop
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10. Cooking with Photoshop: Taking your Photoshop skills to the next level
- Content-aware scaling
- Digital darkroom effects
- Image border effects
- 11. Robo Photoshop: Using Photoshop automation to develop an efficient workflow
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12. Photoshop output: Tips and advice on inkjet and CMYK print output
- Printing in Photoshop
- How inkjet printers work
- The ideal inkjet
- Photographic print quality
- Image preservation
- Inks and media
- Third-party inks
- Inkjet economies
- Canned printer profiles
- Building custom printer profiles
- DIY custom printer profiles
- Printing a printer test target
- Target printing workaround
- Getting the most from your printer profiles
- Display gamut versus printer gamut
- Soft proofing via the display
- Display simulation options
- CMYK output
- CMYK proofing with an inkjet
- Simulation and rendering intents
- Preparing files for output
- Delivering files for output
- Is CMYK for you?
- Spot color channels
- Fine-art printing workflow
- 13. Minding your own business: Suggestions on how to use Photoshop in your business
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136089572
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