This installment of Photoshop CC for Photographers goes beyond the basics and focuses on the features and techniques that will dramatically improve your photographs and maximize your efficiency. Photographer and teacher Chris Orwig first illustrates the strengths of Bridge, the Adobe Photoshop companion program, as an organizational tool and a device for batch processing photographs. He then moves on to mastering Photoshop, starting with layers—targeting, moving, and merging them with greater speed and efficiency. Then learn how to make better selections, refine their edges, and paint in adjustments, as well as increase the color accuracy of your images with Levels and Curves. Plus, learn to work with blending modes, apply creative color effects, and use the Burn and Dodge tools to improve contrast—a classic photographic technique updated for the digital age. Chris also covers correcting perspective and distortion, creating photo composites and panoramas, and working with DSLR video in Photoshop.
Topics include:
Optimizing your workflow with Bridge
Correcting color casts
Becoming an expert with layers
Improving the edges of the mask and using masking shortcuts
Creating hand-painted masks
Discovering the power of blending modes
Replacing and changing color
Burning and dodging
Creating an HDR image
Applying Smart Filters
Using Camera Raw as a Smart Filter
Working with the Blur Gallery of effects
Correcting lens distortion and perspective problems
Chris Orwig is a celebrated photographer, author, and teacher who brings passion to everything he does. He is on the faculty at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. As a teacher, Chris subscribes to W. B. Yeats's idea that "education isn't about filling a pail, but igniting a fire." As a photographer, he agrees with Marc Riboud's observation that "taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second." For more information and inspiration, visit www.chrisorwig.com.
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