By
Richard Lynch, Richard Lynch has written six books on Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, including his bestselling Hidden Power series. A photographer,
designer, editor, and web developer, he writes for PCPhoto, Popular Photography, Digital Photographer and Digital Photography Techniques.
Richard Lynch, Richard Lynch has written six books on Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, including his bestselling Hidden Power series. A photographer,
designer, editor, and web developer, he writes for PCPhoto, Popular Photography, Digital Photographer and Digital Photography Techniques.
Description
MasterPhotoshop CS4 with this visual, hands-on guide to using layers, under the expert guidance of digital imaging specialist Richard
Lynch. Layers, Photoshop’s most powerful feature, is the core of a nondestructive image-editing workflow.
Step-by-step instructions
and practical examples illustrate how to…
* Polish: correct and enhance color, fix composition problems, and repair damage or flaws
* Manipulate: isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts
* Understand: use all forms of layer blending,
including transparency, clipping masks, opacity/fill, layer masks, layer modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and Effects/Styles
The
accompanying DVD comes complete with a generous library of practical actions based on techniques from the book that add functional power
to Photoshop, along with practice images for all the exercises in the book.
This focused, highly accurate, comprehensive, and practical
guide offers invaluable advice for all users of Adobe Photoshop CS4.
Audience:
All Photoshop users-regardless of what you are using Photoshop for, a good understanding of the layers tool is absolutely key to mastering the software
