Masks and composition in Photoshop

You are offered to your attention a stunning full-color book Masks and Composition in Photoshop about masks and compositions in Adobe Photoshop. The wonderful author of Catherine Aismann, who wrote a lot of books about digital photo processing, tells about the main techniques for creating masks and composite images in Adobe Photoshop. In particular, the following topics are considered: creating dedicated areas, work with the SELECT menu and PEN tool, efficient use of masks and layers, selection of small parts and transparent objects, the creation of photorealistic compositions, as well as a creative composition and much more.

The book Masks and Composition in Photoshop - the most competent and comprehensive manual for creating digital images in Adobe Photoshop. Artists, photographers, illustrators and designers work in Adobe Photoshop over fantastic and realistic images for illustrations for commercial advertising, art exhibitions and diverse publishing. Mastering complex methods and means of masking and layout images reveals wide horizons

Before the landscape photographer for elegant improvement of photo images,
In front of the portrait photographer - for smooth replacement of static background to more dynamic,
In front of the artist - for the creation of attractive images expressing complex concepts and decent shows in galleries and even museums,
Before an illustrator of publications - to combine images to such an extent, it is already difficult to determine where one image ends and another begins.
The authors of this fully recycled, the second edition of the popular masking guide and layout of images in Photoshop, mastystyle photographers and teachers, Catherine Aismann, Sean Duggan and James Porto, show on numerous educational and richly illustrated examples, how to use various photoshop tools For processing the original photo images, separating their elements from the background, masking and layout of images. This solid management begins with a brief image layout history. The readers will then get acquainted with various methods of photographing and lighting when preparing the source materials, means and techniques for quick and accurate elements, skillful masking, color matching, texture and lighting. All this will allow you to get a wonderful and exciting imagination. Composite image. This book can serve both for learning and as a source of inspiration. It provides works and stories about their works of famous masters of modern photography, photo film and visual art.

The book will help you:

Send all the stages of the complex process of drawing up the sketch to the finished image.
Plan a photographing of the source materials, taking into account the characteristics of the image being written, including lighting, perspectives, shooting points and scale.
Work with groups of layers, clipping masks and intellectual objects, destroying it at the same time.
Send in five stages by professional masking techniques.
Improve the implementation of the realism and the volume of composite images