The hidden power of Adobe Photoshop : mastering blend modes and adjustment layers for photography

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Preface & Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION WELCOME Personal Note How to Approach This Material Wacom Graphics Tablets Monogram Creative Console Retouching Toolkit Ergonomic Keyboard Adjustable Lighting Your Brain A Note on Language How Photoshop “Sees” Your Images Seeing Images as Data Staying Ahead of the Curves Seeing In Colors Shades of Gray Onward, Dear Reader! USEFUL INFORMATION Layer Operations Adding Adjustment Layers Masking Clipping Layers Channels Blending Controls Blending Modes, Opacity, and Fill Blending Options Blend If “Trapping” Blend If Transparency Stamp Merge Visible (The Claw) PART II: TECHNIQUES SELECTIONS & MASKING Channel Selections Using Calculations Gradient Map Luminosity Selection Hue/Saturation Selection Tweaking Channels & Masks Promote the Mask Levels Tweaking Multiply Blend for Group Masking Painting with Blending Modes DODGE & BURN Dodge & Burn Methods Overlay Using Curves D&B Best Practices Instant Image Enhancement Hard Mix Contrast Graduated Neutral Density Filter Creative Vignettes Removing Vignettes Bright Eyes COLOR & VALUE Color Grading Solid Color Fill Layer Hue/Saturation Adjustments Gradient Maps Color Lookup Tables Color Replacement Specific Color Targets Remove Color Cast Color Matching Gradient Zone Control B&W Control Freak HELPER LAYERS Invert Luminosity Solarize Color, Hue Threshold Saturation Mask EFFECTS Orton Eeffct Rain and Atmosphere Stamped Portrait Smudge Tool Mixer Brush Tool Dissolve Portrait PART III: PROJECTS PROJECT EXAMPLES Creating the Workbench Files Gradient Experiments File Basic Color Bars RGB Triangle Hue Wheel Solving Problems Now What? Basic Portrait Retouching Rembrandt Portrait Frequency Separation Variations PART IV: REFERENCES ADJUSTMENT LAYERS Brightness/Contrast Levels Curves Exposure Vibrance Hue/Saturation Color Balance Black & White Photo Filter Channel Mixer Color Lookup Invert Posterize Threshold Selective Color Gradient Map Solid Fill Gradient Fill Pattern BLENDING MODES Opacity & Fill Blending Mode Math The Reference Images Normal Dissolve Darken Darken Multiply Color Burn Linear Burn Darker Color Lighten Lighten Screen Color Dodge Linear Dodge (Add) Lighter Color Contrast Overlay Soft Light Hard Light Vivid Light Linear Light Pin Light Hard Mix Inversion Difference Exclusion Subtract Divide Component Hue Saturation Color Luminosity INDEX A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z Adobe Photoshop holds an incredible amount of power, which is sometimes locked behind a dizzying array of features and tools. Scott Valentine not only shows you the keys to unlocking that power, he also demonstrates how the keys work. You will get hands-on experience with experiments and examples as you explore new techniques for editing your images. Written for both professionals and hobbyists, this book presents essential techniques and discusses when and how to try innovative solutions. By focusing on two core capabilities blending modes and adjustment layers―you will discover how Photoshop gives you deep control over your images to address some of photography’s most challenging problems. Photoshop users of all levels will find clear explanations and step-by-step procedures for expert techniques. Advanced users will enjoy exploring new ideas that can inform their own workflow. Through richly illustrated examples with clear explanations__, The Hidden Power of Adobe Photoshop__ teaches you: * Multiple approaches to problem solving and creative exploration * How to see your images as data that you can control * Underlying principles that drive industrial-strength techniques * Instructions for building your own Photoshop experiment files "Adobe Photoshop holds an incredible amount of power, which is sometimes locked behind a dizzying array of features and tools. Scott Valentine not only shows you the keys to unlocking that power, he also demonstrates how the keys work. You will get hands-on experience with experiments and examples as you explore new techniques for editing your images. Written for both professionals and hobbyists, this book presents essential techniques and discusses when and how to try innovative solutions. By focusing on two core capabilities blending modes and adjustment layers--you will discover how Photoshop gives you deep control over your images to address some of photography's most challenging problems. Photoshop users of all levels will find clear explanations and step-by-step procedures for expert techniques. Advanced users will enjoy exploring new ideas that can inform their own workflow." -- Back cover A guide to mastering Photoshop provides hands-on examples and projects designed to give photographers an edge in technical, personal, and commercial projects, as well as indispensable advanced techniques for image enhancement and correction, offering expert insights and approaches for using blending modes and adjustment layers, and using special effects, compositing, and illustration techniques more creatively