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Author: Katrin Eismann
ISBN : B0092PUHDE
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Designers, photographers, and artists use Photoshop to create fantastic and realistic images for illustrations, fine art, and editorial content. Whether they're landscape or portrait photographers, illustrators or fine artists, masking and compositing are essential skills to master for combining images to the extent that it is impossible to tell where one image stops and the other one begins.
In this completely revised edition of her best-selling guide to masking and compositing, Photoshop artist and educator Katrin Eismann--along with compositing experts Sean Duggan and James Porto--takes readers through numerous step-by-step examples, highlighting the tools and techniques used for masking and combining images. Featuring work by leading artists and photographers, this book focuses on the techniques used to create compelling compositions, including making fast and accurate selections, mastering Photoshop's masking tools, and implementing the concept and photography from start to finish.
The book addresses working with Photoshop's selection tools; selecting and maintaining fine details and edges; and working with difficult image elements, such as cloth, hair, or translucent objects. All-new photographic examples, updated instruction to cover the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, and an expanded section on shooting photographs for composite work make this a must-have guide for anyone interested in photographing and creating professional composite images.
Visit www.peachpit.com/pmc2e to download dozens of the images featured in this book and practice the illustrated techniques with the same files used in the book. Also, download a full, free chapter on how to use the Pen Tool, one of the best selection tools in Photoshop.
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- Print Length: 492 pages
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- Publisher: New Riders; 2 edition (August 24, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0092PUHDE
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Free Photoshop Masking & Compositing
Back in February, 2012 when I pre-ordered this book, I was a bit concerned. Except for talking about a few new features added since the first edition was published, what more could be said - and the idea of co-authors worried me. Would they be taking over the writing and replacing Katrin Eismann who both knows Photoshop intimately and writes extremely well?
Well, all is well.
In its second edition, this is a great book made even better. In some ways, far better.
With this book, faithful attention (which means weeks of study), practicing with the examples and the willingness to persevere, you will become an expert in the techniques of Photoshop masking and compositing. No guaranty that you'll become artistically competent, but you will most certainly become technically proficient.
Brought up to date for Photoshop CS6, the book covers every aspect of using the program's tools for masking and compositing. The pen tool chapter is now a downloadable PDF item, a production decision I don't agree with, but no real harm done. The chapter on the pen tool has been revised and is more informative than its predecessor.
The chapter on using the Refine Edge tool is beyond outstanding. It is the best I've seen in a Photoshop book (and I've collected a lot of them) or online article. Eismann leaves no stone unturned in her exposition.
More material has been added on planning composites, which is nice, but the book would survive without it. The gallery section on masters of compositing has been expanded, which is also another of those things that is basically eye-candy. It adds in a way, but I could live without it.
First of all I don't understand why there are 3 authors needed to write a book about Photoshop titled Masking and Compositing
while it lies in Katrin Eisman's power to do this job by herself in an excellent way.
Her collegues (like Scott Kelby) and students don't understand either nor do they grasp why.
Sean Duggan seems always to have been selected as co-author but unfortunately he is by far not as talented as Katrin Eisman with reference to writing books.
Compared to the edition 0f 2004 this book lacks some of the in-depht tutorials as to selecting and extracting very intricate objects like smoke, hair and foliage.
Discussing the Pen Tool is fully neglected in this edition of 2012 while she makes clear in the former Edition
that the Pen Tool is one of her most favourites to use in Photoshop.
When I browse through the table of contents of the Book I can only conclude that it deals more with Compositing than
Selecting and Masking.
The Chapter History of Compositing Images included in this edition is written in that typical encyclopedian style, hence very boring and tiresome to read.
It consists of numerous dates, facts and names of Photo Artists referring to the History of Compositing Images.
And it gives the impression that this mind-numbingly drearly to read chapter is directly copied from an encyclopedia.
The following chapter The Creative Process is full of general statements and explanations which speak for themselves.
The last parts of the book involve general elementary philosophical theories and contemplations on the subject of compositing and postproduction images.
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