Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks Bible

by Stephen Romaniello

Book Overview

Add sizzle to your images with these invaluable tools. If you're using Photoshop without working with channels and masks, you're missing out on some of the most powerful and creative features Photoshop CS3 has to offer. Let this comprehensive reference teach you to use these valuable tools the way professionals do. Create dazzling composites, speed your workflow, get awesome color--it's all here and more with step-by-step instructions, techniques, and examples. If you want to tap the full potential of Photoshop channels and masks, this striking full-color Bible is the book you need to succeed.You'll learn to: Harness channels and masks for faster workflow. Unravel the secrets of creating, mixing, and converting digital color. Add lighting effects, 3D, and other channel pyrotechnics. Create composite layer content with advanced blending. Reveal, conceal, and refine your images with layer masks. Combine selections from single and multiple documents. Posterize, create textures, correct faded images, and more. Use type masks to add an artist's sparkle to the text. Work with soft-edged selections. Select and composite transparent shadows. Blend layers. Inside, you'll find brilliant full color throughout, including hundreds of color screen shots and examples. Order your copy today

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470102640
• ISBN13: 9780470102640
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"