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Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic Composites
 
 

Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic Composites [Kindle Edition]

Matt Kloskowski
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Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic Composites


Compositing is one of the hottest trends in Photoshop and photography today for portrait photographers, designers of all walks of life, and even retouchers. Everywhere you look, from group photos, to school graduation or sports portraits, to magazines, movie posters, and DVD covers, chances are, you’ve seen compositing.

In Photoshop Compositing Secrets, Matt Kloskowski takes you through the entire process behind creating convincing, well-executed, and captivating composites. You’ll see how to create images that run the gamut from real-world portraits for corporate, graduation, or group photos to sports portraits, templates, and collages, and even the surreal, dramatic composites that clients clamor for.

You'll learn:

  • One of the most important secrets to compositing: how to master selections in Photoshop (yes, even wispy hair),
  • What background color, and camera and lighting setups work best for compositing,
  • How to move a subject from one background to another, and the Photoshop lighting and shadowing techniques to make it look real,
  • And all the Photoshop tips, tricks, and special effects you need to pull off a convincing, professional composite.

No matter if you're a professional, an aspiring professional, or a hobbyist, Photoshop Compositing Secrets will sharpen your skills and open up a whole new avenue of photographic expression in an easy-to-understand way that will have you creating your own composites in no time.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
CS5 27 Nov 2011
Format:Paperback
Great book. Nowhere does it say that it is for photoshop CS5 users only. If you don't have CS5 then don't buy it.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Matt Kloskowski is one of my favourite writers and broadcasters about all items photoshop. This book is a very good instruction on this popular but sometimes difficult technique. All images in the book are available to download from the web, and so you can use them to perfect the different techniques explained, and compare your efforts with his.

A basic working knowledge of photoshop is required, but you do not need any more than that. It is well laid out as a book to read, or to dip into for ideas and advice. Highly recommended.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Excellent book 7 Sep 2011
Format:Paperback
I thought I knew my way around Photoshop CS5 pretty well with good use of many techniques I'd learnt over the years. I bought this book thinking I might be a little disappointed at its content but because it was written by Matt Kloskowski ( I have some of his other books) I thought I'd give it a try. I'm glad I did. Not only did it highlight some of my bad habits, it also showed me that I'm wasting a lot of time doing it the way I was. The book has a link to a download site for files and videos etc for all the chapters totally over 3.2GB if I remember correctly so you can practice with the actual images used in the book. I feel the book is slightly overpriced but still worth the money as its already saved me a lot of time in only 2 days! A good read and worth having in my opinion.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great Book - Does even more than it says on the tin!
A great book for learning techniques for planning and carrying out composites. But in doing so, it teaches you other great techniques that cover many other aspects of Photoshop.
Published 1 month ago by Ralph Pru
Photoshop Composting
This book was delivered in perfect condition the next day. Excellent service.
The book was all it said it would be, a wealth of information about selections in... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Bill
nice one
Great book from Matt Kloskowski. Good for all photoshop users and photographers. The transaction was timely and delivery was flawless
Published 6 months ago by seun
Great projects - should mention CS5!
A great book with projects that really inspired me to go out and do composites. The only negative is, that it utilizes a lot of features that are only available in CS5. Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. Kallio
Photoshop Compositing
You are invited to look inside and adds that the number of pages shown are limited, actually it could hardly be more limited and is quite useless. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Richard Selby
Compositing secrets
Compositing secrets, does exactly what is says on the tin.

Amazing book well thought out and put together! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mr. L. R. Ramsden
Good for learning by numbers
I didn't rate this as excellent as it does something so many Photoshop trainers do - they tell you exact numbers to set each parameter to. Please stop it. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Anglosaxon
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With the layer mask still active and the Brush tool still selected, up in the Options Bar, set the blend Mode to Overlay. Then, choose a brush size that is about the size of the fringe you see, set your Foreground color to black (because black will hide whatever we paint on), and start painting on that fringe. &quote;
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If you dont have wispy hair or any stray details that are really far out of the original selection (like in this example), then you can get by with a low setting of around 1015 pixels or so. &quote;
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Go to Layer>Matting>Defringe, enter a Width setting of 1 pixel, and click OK. Most of the time, youll immediately see the fringe disappear. If it doesnt, go to Edit>Undo and reapply Defringe with a 2-pixel setting instead. Like I said before, it doesnt happen for all photos, but if you do see a small fringe around the edges, the Defringe feature works great. &quote;
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