The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book:
Harnessing Photoshop's Most Powerful Tool, (covers Photoshop CS3)
Richard Lynch
Focal Press
ISBN: 0240520769
July 30, 2007
288 pages
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The First and Only Book Dedicated to Layers:
Photoshop's Most Powerful Tool
Get What You Want From Photoshop
Having invested in Photoshop as a premiere image editor, you want premiere results. You want flawless images, streamlined process, and corrections that make sense. The single key to unlocking your creativity, while gaining ultimate control over your images and releasing the total power of Photoshop, is by mastering layers.
You Can Master Photoshop, and Layers
Mastering Photoshop is a process closely linked to mastering layers. You need to understand what layers are, what they do, what they allow you to do, and how they fit into and help manage your workflow in Photoshop. Looking into layers is like peeling an onion, there is always another, deeper aspect to discover, explore and understand. It may take time, but you can master layers, and when you do, your images will improve dramatically, as will your speed and confidence with the corrections you make in Photoshop.
Imagine yourself in total control of every adjustment to your photos. You've seen the illustrations in glossy magazines, the fine art reproductions in museum catalogs, the award-winning pictures of professional photographers. To produce this kind of magic, understanding how to use layers for your entire breadth of image correction is key. Discover the best ways to showcase your talent with the full power of layers from best-selling author/digital image specialist Richard Lynch. Learn what layers can do for you as an integral part of organizing image development, creating and storing image versions with nondestructive editing, and promoting a positive workflow.
Timeless, not version specific, this book will help you take layers to a new level to increase your efficiency and produce better end results, whatever release of the software you use. Dont make your work harder than it needs to be when you can use layers to control any adjustment using multiple forms of blending concurrently transparency, clipping, opacity/fill, masking, modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and styles.
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