Beschrijving

Master Photoshop 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. This title includes step-by-step instructions and practical examples that 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; and, 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. It helps you unleash the full power of Layers in Photoshop for limitless non-destructive creative image editing. It presents step-by-step real-life projects that take you through every aspect of the layers tool, including masking, blending, and modes, all in the context of a practical photoshop workflow. The ancillary CD contains all the practice images used in the book.