Overview
Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX is a completely updated edition of this specialized book for Photoshop users wishing to go beyond the basics. It takes digital artists to the next level of creativity by teaching them how to blend their artistic talent seamlessly with the powerful tools of Photoshop CS3. The book is packed with full color photos showing before-and-after touch-up examples and demos of the amazing new features of Photoshop CS3. Using a mixture of fun and practical projects, you will learn how to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. This edition also includes more real-world projects to illustrate practical uses of Photoshop's tools. The book assumes a fundamental level of skill with Photoshop and builds upon those skills by helping you learn how and why Photoshop does what it does. Throughout the book, you will learn to work with the tools that come with Photoshop, but aren't used on a regular basis, and are therefore not covered in depth in general purpose Photoshop books. Armed with this knowledge, you can to take on new challenges and work though the practical, fun tutorials throughout this book. All of the core tools of Photoshop CS3 used for effects are put to use in hands-on projects as you learn new techniques for creating realistic and fantasy effects!
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584505976 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Course Technology PTR |
| Publication date: | 01/07/2007 |
| Sold by: | CENGAGE LEARNING |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 37 MB |
| Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
About the Author
Stephen M. Burns has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 28 years ago and, in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His influences include the great Abstractionists and the Surrealists, including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini. Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 12 years. He has been exhibiting digital fine art internationally at galleries such as Durban Art Gallery in South Africa, Citizens Gallery at the Yokohama Museum of Art, and CECUT Museum of Mexico to name a few. One of his exhibitions won first place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Simplifying the Interface 2
Photoshop CS3 Layout 4
Understanding the Paintbrush Engine 14
Creating Your Own Animated Paintbrush 15
Creating Your Own Custom Brush Palette 18
The Adobe Bridge Interface 21
Workflow in Bridge 27
Creating Keywords for Each Image 28
The Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) Interface 33
Cutomizing ACR4 Through the Options Panel 39
What You Have Learned 55
Mastering Photoshop Fundamentals 56
Layer Blend Modes 58
Photoshop's Native 8-Bit Environment 67
Demystifying the 8-Bit Environment 70
Understanding Selections 71
Saving Selections 72
Layer Masks Demystified 74
What You Have Learned 93
Smart Filters to Aid Artistic Vision 94
Using Photographs as a Creative Medium 96
Applying Motion Blur to Accentuate Movement with Smart Filters 103
Adding Detail to the Background 105
Applying the Foreground City Shapes 108
Creating the Background Cityscape 112
Using HDR and Smart Objects to Composite Photos 126
Creating the Foreground 133
Creating the New Architecture 136
Adding Lights to Architecture 139
Loading Custom Brush Palettes 143
Giving the Scene a Sense of Night 144
Adding Third-Party Filters 149
What You Have Learned 151
Custom-Created Concepts 152
Custom-Created Meteor Field 154
Adding the Light Source 164
Using the Lens Blur Command to Create Depth of Field 171
Custom-Created Tornado 175
What You Have Learned 197
Integrating Photography and 3D Objects 198
Creating the Initial Landscape Using Auto Align Layers 200
3D Objects as Bitmaps 228
Reflections Applied in LightWave 8 247
What You Have Learned 251
Integrating 3D Concepts with Photography 252
Creating the Initial Landscape 254
Working with 3D Layers 258
A Creative Way to Integrate the 3D Model 266
Creating the Appearance of 3D by Using the Vanishing Point 275
Using the Vanishing Point 287
What You Have Learned 291
Working with People and Backgrounds 292
Creating the Background and Mask 294
Creating the Winged Woman 304
What You Have Learned 317
Fine Art Approaches 318
Using People to Integrate into Your Art 320
The New Printing Dialogue 338
What You Have Learned 342
About the CD-ROM 343
Index 347