How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4 - The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages

Do you want to let your creativity run wild in Photoshop, but don't know where to start? Are you having trouble getting your ideas out of your head and onto the screen? Do you need your photomontages to look convincing... and fast? Nobody knows more about how to work quickly under pressure and still produce top-notch results than hands-on digital artist, author and journalist Steve Caplin. This guide is packed with real-world examples, timesaving hints and tips and detailed step-by-step instructions that make the impossible seem possible. Fully updated for Photoshop CS4, this must-have-resource is also backwards compatible with any previous version of Photoshop. \* Extensive new material to show you how to take your Photoshop skills to a professional level\* DVD includes all the brand new images from the book, 300 high resolution AbleStock images plus over 2 hours of QuickTime movies of the projects \* Benefit from a professional illustrator's timesaving tips and tricks! How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4: The Art of Creating Realistic Photomontages 2 Copyright Page 3 Contents 4 How to cheat, and why 7 Acknowledgments 9 How to use this book 10 Chapter 1. Natural selection 12 Selection: the fundamentals 13 The Lasso and Magic Wand 15 QuickMask 1: better selection 17 QuickMask 2: tips and tricks 19 QuickMask 3: transformations 21 The Quick Selection tool 1 23 The Quick Selection tool 2 25 Refine Edges: going further 27 The Pen is mightier 29 The Pen tool by numbers 31 Putting the Pen into practice 33 Losing the edges 35 Lock and load 37 Find and replace 39 Color by numbers 41 Brush-on color 43 Interlude: The perfect setup 45 Chapter 2. Transformation and distortion 48 The Free Transform tool 49 Step and repeat rotation 51 Introducing Image Warp 53 Image Warp in combination 55 Cloning in perspective 57 Special effects with cloning 59 Transformation in practice 61 Content Aware Scaling 1 63 Content Aware Scaling 2 65 Interlude: The freelance artist 67 Chapter 3. Hiding and showing 70 Texture with layer modes 71 Layer masks 1: intersections 73 Layer masks 2: soft edges 75 Layer masks 3: smoothing 77 Layer masks 4: auto masking 79 Blending 1: fire power 81 Blending 2: plane view 83 Interlude: Graphics tablets 85 Chapter 4. Image adjustment 88 Shadows and highlights 89 Learning Curves 91 Matching colors with Curves 93 Major color changes 95 Selective hue and saturation 97 Multi-layer enhancement 99 Sharpening: Unsharp Mask 101 Natural healing 103 Interlude: Getting started 105 Chapter 5. Composing the scene 108 Location is everything 109 Relative values: interaction 111 I only have eyes for you 113 Game, test and match 115 Back to the foreground 117 Composition tips and tricks 119 People and cars 121 Interlude: Digital cameras 123 Chapter 6. Getting into perspective 126 Establishing the horizon 127 Introducing vanishing points 129 Two point perspective 131 Three point perspective 133 Correcting perspective 135 Fixing wide angle objects 137 Using existing perspective 139 Boxing clever: doubling up 141 Vanishing Point filter 1 143 Vanishing Point filter 2 145 Vanishing Point filter 3 147 Cropping in perspective 149 Interlude: Photomontage ethics 151 Chapter 7. Light and shade 154 Shadows on wall and ground 155 Tricky ground shadows 157 Creating complex shadows 159 Light from windows 161 Mood, light and emphasis 163 Multiple shadowed objects 165 Shading on Hard Light layers 167 Visible light sources 169 The romance of candlelight 171 Turn the lamp on 173 Shading using Dodge and Burn 175 Shading using light modes 177 Extreme shading 179 Making smoke without fire 181 Making fire without smoke 183 Lighting up: perfect neon 185 Day for night 187 Interlude: Sourcing images 189 Chapter 8. Heads and bodies 192 Making the head fit 193 Complex head fitting 195 Combining body parts 197 Changing history 199 The perfect haircut 201 The solution for flyaway hair 203 The problem of hair loss 205 A fuzzy hairbrush 207 Beards and stubble 209 The ageing process 211 Reversing the ageing process 213 A change of clothing 215 It’s all in the eyes 217 A change of expression 219 Liquify: turning heads 221 Cosmetic makeover 223 Sleep and the art of healing 225 Coloring black and white images 227 A change of skin 229 Interlude: Sourcing images for free 231 Chapter 9. Shiny surfaces 234 Introducing... Plastic Wrap 235 Blood and gore, no sweat 237 Getting hot and sticky 239 I’m forever blowing bubbles 241 Water, water everywhere 243 Making water from thin air 245 Submerging in water 247 Snow and icicles 249 Making it rain 251 A cool glass of water 253 Getting the glazing bug 255 Glass: refraction 257 Glass: reflection 259 Complex reflections 261 Putting things in bottles 263 Distortion with backgrounds 265 Glass: putting it all together 267 Through grimy windows 269 Interlude: The photographic studio 271 Chapter 10. Metal, wood and stone 274 Instant metal using Curves 275 Metal with Adjustment Layers 277 Metal with Layer Styles 279 Turning silver into gold 281 Metal with Lighting Effects 283 More on Lighting Effects 285 Rust, grime and decay 287 Reflection on a knife edge 289 Photographing shiny objects 291 The art of woodturning 293 Making a better impression 295 Timber floors with varnish 297 Recycling old wood 299 The philosopher’s stone 301 Bringing statues to life 303 Carving words in stone 305 A grave business 307 Interlude: The point of illustration 309 Chapter 11. Paper and fabric 312 How to make a load of money 313 Judging a book by its cover 315 Paper: folding and crumpling 317 Folds and wrinkles 319 Ripping and tearing 321 Simulating old photographs 323 Waving the flag 325 Making custom fibers 327 Ribbon and tape 329 Interlude: Upgrade and replace 331 Chapter 12. The third dimension 334 Adding depth to flat artwork 335 An open and shut case 337 Opening the hamper 339 Matching existing perspective 341 Building boxes 343 Displacement maps1 345 Displacement maps 2 347 Drawing pipes and cables 349 3D layers: managing models 351 3D layers: intersections 353 3D layers from primitives 355 3D layers from grayscale 1 357 3D layers from grayscale 2 359 Illustrator and Photoshop 361 The Poser phenomenon 363 Interlude: Reality overload 365 Chapter 13. Hyper realism 368 Blurring for speed 369 More blurring techniques 371 Cartoon distortions 373 Breaking glass 375 Smashing things up 1 377 Smashing things up 2 379 Magical realism 381 Zombie pensioners from hell 383 Interlude: Carry on spending 385 Chapter 14. Advanced techniques 388 Front and back 389 Avoiding white outlines 391 Using Smart Objects 393 Layer groups and layer comps 395 Watercolor with Filter Gallery 397 Smart Filters 399 Making tricky selections 401 Patch and match 403 Portrait restoration 405 Mix and match skies 407 Complex strokes 409 Custom brush design 1 411 Custom brush design 2 413 Precise scale matching 415 Easy multiple adjustments 417 Background Eraser tricks 419 Making the most of Bridge 421 Photoshop Actions 423 Working with Camera Raw 425 Interlude: CS4 interface changes 427 Chapter 15. Working for print and the web 430 Image size and resolution 431 Working for print 433 Working for the web 435 Making it move 437 Anatomy of an animation 439 Test yourself 441 Index 443 What’s on the DVD: thefullmontage 447 Art & Design in Photoshop 449 • New! Zip through the learning curve in a snap with the free DVD! • Hundreds of new Photo Objects, companion project files, QuickTime movie tutorials, sample plugins, and more. • Don't miss the website www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com complete with Reader Forum where Steve answers your questions directly! When you're short on time with crunching deadlines, but there's no way you can sacrifice quality, this book/DVD comes to the rescue. Nobody knows more about how to work fast under pressure and still produce top-notch photographic images than hands-on graphic artist and journalist, Steve Caplin. Steve cuts through the grind with on-the-job, do-it-now skills, techniques, and shortcuts guaranteed to show you how to work faster, smarter, and better to produce the best work of your life. With a lifetime of practical experience in photo-montage Steve is the go-to person for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, photographic retouchers, and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CSX, this must-have resource is also backwards compatible - relevant to any version of Photoshop.'How to Cheat in Photoshop CSX'helps you'cheat in'(or take advantage of) Photoshop in two important ways. You learn how to make images look like photographs, when they're not so that you can create photographic work without a studio. And you find useful shortcuts to work more efficiently, economically, and with quick solutions to achieve the same superb results that come from long, complex operations that take forever. Whether you're working for print or the web, dip into this book and extract the info you need - fast. Icons mark where Photoshop files or movie tutorials are available for you to open immediately to try for yourself. Stuck? Visit the Reader Forum on the web and question the author directly (and expect other readers to weigh in, too!) at www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com. Crammed with gems that other books simply don't cover, and unique in that it's written by a working professional sharing his tips on how he makes money producing this imagery, this book/DVD excels in practical tips to turn the ordinary into the awe-inspiring, quickly. Don't miss how to create new artwork from scratch from starting points that aren't always obvious. This fully updated new edition shows you how to get the most out of Photoshop CSX, including the Quick Selection and Cloning tools, and more. Yet it's backwards compatible with previous releases of Photoshop. The book's step-by-step tutorials alongside the DVD packed with hundreds of images, project files, and live tutorials show you how to: • Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions - the simple way • Take years off someone's appearance • Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes) • Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface • Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CSX's new Quick Selection tool... and more A host of timesaving techniques and insider secrets teach you to work faster and more adeptly moving from the problem to the solution to get fantastic results! Steve Caplin is a professional graphic artist, author and journalist. When you're short on time with crunching deadlines - but there's no way you can sacrifice quality - this book comes to the rescue. Cutting through the grind with on-the-job techniques and shortcuts guaranteed to show you how to work faster, this guide to Photoshop demonstrates how you can take your skills to the next level Do you want to let your creativity run wild in Photoshop, but dont know where to start? Are you having trouble getting your ideas out of your head and onto the screen? Do you need your photomontages to look convincing... and fast? СКАЧАТЬ