The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book: Harnessing Photoshop's Most Powerful Tool, covers Photoshop CS3

Description

Imagine yourself in total control of every adjustment to your photos. Youve seen the illustrations in glossy magazines, the fine art reproductions in museum catalogs, the award-winning pictures of professional photographers. To produce this kind of magic, understanding how to use layers for your entire breadth of image correction is key.

Discover the best ways to showcase your talent with the full power of layers from best-selling author/digital image specialist Richard Lynch. Learn what layers can do for you as an integral part of organizing image development, creating and storing image versions with nondestructive editing, and promoting a positive workflow.

Timeless, not version specific, this book will help you take layers to a new level to increase your efficiency and produce better end results, whatever release of the software you use. Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to

Dont make your work harder than it needs to be when you can use layers to control any adjustment using multiple forms of blending concurrently transparency, clipping, opacity/fill, masking, modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and styles.

Author Richard Lynch is a photographer, designer, editor, web developer, and author of the popular Hidden Powers series on Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. He also writes for PCPhoto, Popular Photography, Digital Photographer, and Digital Photography Techniques.

* Leverage layer power to correct and enhance color, fix problems in composition, repair damage or flaws, and isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts

* Incorporate layers in a workflow that extracts the maximum from your camera, exploits the potential in every image and helps you organize your perceptions and ideas according to your unique vision

* Recombine layers to form new images in a nondestructive process that preserves both the original image and intermediate layers for further editing - or tomorrow's inspirations

* Dip into the accompanying CD with a robust library and presets of practice images. Create your own set of favorite composition techniques

描述

想像一下，你完全掌控著對照片的每一個調整。你曾經在光鮮亮麗的雜誌插圖、博物館目錄的藝術複製品、專業攝影師的獲獎照片中看到過這種魔力。要實現這種魔力，了解如何使用圖層來進行全面的圖像校正是關鍵。

從暢銷作家/數位影像專家Richard Lynch那裡，發現如何以圖層的全部功能展示你的才華。學習圖層作為組織圖像開發、創建和存儲圖像版本的重要組成部分，以及促進積極工作流程的能力。

這本書不受版本限制，將幫助你將圖層提升到一個新的水平，提高效率並產生更好的結果，無論你使用的軟體版本是什麼。逐步的說明和實際示例展示了如何使用多種混合形式的透明度、剪裁、不透明度/填充、遮罩、模式、通道定位、混合、樣式等來控制任何調整。

作者Richard Lynch是攝影師、設計師、編輯、網站開發人員，也是關於Photoshop和Photoshop Elements的熱門Hidden Powers系列的作者。他還為PCPhoto、Popular Photography、Digital Photographer和Digital Photography Techniques撰寫文章。

* 利用圖層的力量來校正和增強顏色，修復構圖中的問題，修復損壞或瑕疵，並對圖像區域進行更改、調整和實驗性概念的隔離。
* 將圖層納入工作流程中，從相機中提取最大的潛力，充分利用每一張圖像，並根據你獨特的視覺組織你的感知和想法。
* 重新組合圖層以形成新的圖像，這是一個非破壞性的過程，可以保留原始圖像和中間圖層以進一步編輯-或明天的靈感。
* 使用附帶的CD中的豐富圖庫和練習圖像預設。創建你自己喜歡的構圖技巧集合。