- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (16 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321604539
- ISBN-13: 978-0321604538
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Photoshop experts Scott Valentine and Dan Moughamian explain the key elements involved in planning and executing a composite imaging project. Readers will learn about the importance of the planning process, including tips on how to develop creative ideas and stay organized as their project evolves. In addition, they will pick up vital techniques for acquiring and perfecting source images in Photoshop CS4, before bringing them together as a seamless composite. The powerful new 3D features found in the Extended edition are also discussed as part of a 2D-3D workflow.
Serious photographers and digital artists wishing to produce photo-realistic imagery or surrealistic artwork by blending—or compositing—multiple images and light sources can learn all they need to know right here. Building from the reader's existing skill set of Photoshop fundamentals, the authors provide detailed examples and explanations that cover the newest features in Photoshop CS4 and also utilize a variety of tools and software applications.
More than just a Photoshop guide, this book takes a holistic approach, instructing readers on photographic planning and techniques, key design concepts, visual perception, and robust image editing techniques. This is an increasingly popular approach which requires the digital artist to become more involved in the presentation and concept of their images. Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 delivers the information readers need, to produce the best possible composite imagery.
Serious photographers and digital artists wishing to produce photo-realistic imagery or surrealistic artwork by blending—or compositing—multiple images and light sources can learn all they need to know right here. Building from the reader's existing skill set of Photoshop fundamentals, the authors provide detailed examples and explanations that cover the newest features in Photoshop CS4 and also utilize a variety of tools and software applications.
More than just a Photoshop guide, this book takes a holistic approach, instructing readers on photographic planning and techniques, key design concepts, visual perception, and robust image editing techniques. This is an increasingly popular approach which requires the digital artist to become more involved in the presentation and concept of their images. Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 delivers the information readers need, to produce the best possible composite imagery.
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In Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Photoshop experts Scott Valentine and Dan Moughamian explain the key elements involved in planning and executing a composite imaging project. Readers will learn about the importance of the planning process, including tips on how to develop creative ideas and stay organized as their project evolves. In addition, they will pick up vital techniques for acquiring and perfecting source images in Photoshop CS4, before bringing them together as a seamless composite. The powerful new 3D features found in the Extended edition are also discussed as part of a 2D-3D workflow.
Serious photographers and digital artists wishing to produce photo-realistic imagery or surrealistic artwork by blending—or compositing—multiple images and light sources can learn all they need to know right here. Building from the reader's existing skill set of Photoshop fundamentals, the authors provide detailed examples and explanations that cover the newest features in Photoshop CS4 and also utilize a variety of tools and software applications.
More than just a Photoshop guide, this book takes a holistic approach, instructing readers on photographic planning and techniques, key design concepts, visual perception, and robust image editing techniques. This is an increasingly popular approach which requires the digital artist to become more involved in the presentation and concept of their images. Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 delivers the information readers need, to produce the best possible composite imagery.
Serious photographers and digital artists wishing to produce photo-realistic imagery or surrealistic artwork by blending—or compositing—multiple images and light sources can learn all they need to know right here. Building from the reader's existing skill set of Photoshop fundamentals, the authors provide detailed examples and explanations that cover the newest features in Photoshop CS4 and also utilize a variety of tools and software applications.
More than just a Photoshop guide, this book takes a holistic approach, instructing readers on photographic planning and techniques, key design concepts, visual perception, and robust image editing techniques. This is an increasingly popular approach which requires the digital artist to become more involved in the presentation and concept of their images. Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 delivers the information readers need, to produce the best possible composite imagery.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I had high hopes being a "Real World" series but found this a very shallow work entirely lacking in "real world" application. Unlike the remarkable Katrin Eismans meticulous craftsmanship, or Bert Monroys almost painful but rewarding attention to detail in compositing and digital artwork, this book offered nothing but theoretical little examples to show what you might want to do. Like make a selection, woa! The main endeavour seemed dedicated to avoiding paying royalties to anyone responsible for real commercially-executed compositing. A generally poor show, relieved only by the odd helpful tip.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Don't Bother
6 Oct 2009
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This is really an instruction manual on how to sell a book with a misleading title and virtually no useful content for a hefty price. I kept waiting for the authors to quit wasting time and actually get to the "Industrial-strength Imaging Techniques" promised on the cover. It never happened. After 200 pages of filler, there are a few actual examples of compositing, but nothing you couldn't readily find online for free. A complete disappointment, especially considering it's published in association with Adobe Press. Some free advice for Adobe Press: before you put your name on it, try passing it by one of your editors, eh?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Real World Compositing for Photoshop CS4
10 Nov 2009
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I actually enjoyed all the chapters on preparation of your images and setups before tackling a compositing job, it was learning some new things mixed with reviewing/validating overall Photoshop features and workflow sequencing. I equated this book to being similar to painting a room. 90% of the work that will determine a superior quality paint (compositing) job lies in the hours spent getting the right materials, tools (images), and taping/prepping the room (prep-retouching/correcting). The actual painting (compositing) is just the almost-final step in the process, with some cleanup/tweaking at the end. Most important is to collect images with similar lighting source and image quality. It is very fakey to Photoshop-change the lighting on faces, buildings, landscapes, etc. to match other images' lighting if you don't have any artistic sense or experience.
My big gripe is the example composites in the back of the book. They were very amateurish, fakey and dorky, and did not show much of the tutorial lessons in them. One of the images of an old village countryside with a domed building - a mansion and a tree in the far background were too huge and out of proportion for their distance. I was hoping for more commercial compositing samples, like theatrical movie key art collages with FX layers, automotive brochure-type beauty shots and advertising art, and/or fantastic fantasy/sci fi composite imagery. This is not an ultra-advanced book, seemed aimed for high-beginner/low intermediate Photoshop students.
My big gripe is the example composites in the back of the book. They were very amateurish, fakey and dorky, and did not show much of the tutorial lessons in them. One of the images of an old village countryside with a domed building - a mansion and a tree in the far background were too huge and out of proportion for their distance. I was hoping for more commercial compositing samples, like theatrical movie key art collages with FX layers, automotive brochure-type beauty shots and advertising art, and/or fantastic fantasy/sci fi composite imagery. This is not an ultra-advanced book, seemed aimed for high-beginner/low intermediate Photoshop students.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
To the point, yet full of helpful information!
30 July 2011
Format:Paperback
Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 goes over the many processes of creating a photo composite in a clearly explained, and at times simplified manner.
Compositing topics such as color correction for compositing, creating 3D content, retouching, layers and layer masks,
blurring for selective focus, and getting your image ready for output are all included.
This book will have you feeling inspired, and will enable you to look at various compositing ideas and options you may have overlooked or didn't even know existed.
Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 is to the point, yet full of information,
making this book helpful both to a novice and experienced Photoshop user alike.
Compositing topics such as color correction for compositing, creating 3D content, retouching, layers and layer masks,
blurring for selective focus, and getting your image ready for output are all included.
This book will have you feeling inspired, and will enable you to look at various compositing ideas and options you may have overlooked or didn't even know existed.
Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 is to the point, yet full of information,
making this book helpful both to a novice and experienced Photoshop user alike.
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