The Hidden Power of Adobe Photoshop: Mastering Blend Modes and Adjustment Layers for Photography
內容描述
The Hidden Power of Adobe Photoshop for Photographers is about mastering your tools as a path towards mastering your art. Renowned Photoshop teacher Scott Valentine combines expert recipes and instructions with insightful technical and philosophical discussions that help you experiment and expand your knowledge, so you're no longer dependent on specific settings or cookbook-style presentations. Now revamped to focus specifically on digital photography, this edition contains dozens of hands-on examples and projects designed to give you an edge in technical, personal, and commercial projects - as well as indispensable advanced techniques for image enhancement and correction. Valentine offers expert insights and approaches for using blending modes and adjustment layers, and using special effects, compositing, and illustration techniques more creatively. If you crave deeper understanding, greater flexibility, and more effective workflows - and you don't just want to simulate someone else's work - this is the Photoshop guide you've been searching for.
作者介紹
Scott Valentine is an experimentalist by nature, drawing on his background in physics, music, and theater to bring a unique perspective to sharing knowledge with other photographers and Photoshop users. For more than 20 years, Scott has supported the greater imaging community through hosting user groups, teaching at conferences, and writing. He has been an invited speaker at the Art Directors Invitational Master Class (ADIM), Adobe MAX, and Photoshop World. Scott also writes "Photoshop Proving Ground," a monthly column featured in KelbyOne's Photoshop User magazine. He is always up for helping fellow creative professionals and hobbyists. Scott's previous two books have become must-have resources for colleges and instructional programs, valued for their combination of technical and creative elements, an approachable style, and straightforward language. Aside from pushing pixels, Scott enjoys playing guitar, ice hockey, backpacking, and spending time with his family.
