Masks and composition in Photoshop. 2nd ed. Katherine Iismann, Sean Duggan, James Porto

Artists, photographers, illustrators and designers create fantastic and realistic images in Adobe Photoshop for illustrations for commercial advertising, art exhibitions and various publishing products. Mastering complex methods and means of masking and layout of the images reveals wide horizons in front of a landscape photographer for elegant improvement of photo images; in front of a portrait photographer - for a smooth replacement of a static background with a more dynamic; in front of the artist - for the creation of attractive images expressing complex concepts and worthy shows in galleries and even museums; And before the illustrator of publications - to combine images to such an extent that it is already difficult to determine where one image ends and another begins.

The authors of this fully recycled, second edition of the popular guide for masking and layout of images in Photoshop, mastic Photographers and teachers, Katherine Iissmann, Sean Duggan and James Porto, show on numerous educational and richly illustrated examples of how to use various Photoshop tools for processing the source photo images, separation of their elements from the background, masking and layout of images. This solid guidance begins with a brief history of images layout. Then readers will get acquainted with various methods of photographing and lighting in the preparation of the source materials, means and techniques of quick and accurate highlighting elements, skillful masking, coordination of color, texture and lighting. All this will allow you to get beautiful and exciting imagination constituent images. This book can serve both for learning and as a source of inspiration. It gives works and stories about their work of famous masters of modern photography, photo illustration and visual art.

The book will help you:

• to master all the stages of a complex compilation: from the sketch to the sketch to finished image.
• Plan a photograph of the source materials taking into account the features of the drawn up, including lighting, prospects, shooting points and scale.
• Work with groups of layers, obstructive masks and intellectual objects, Not destroying anything at the same time.
• to master in five stages with professional techniques of masking.
• Improve the realism and the volume of constituent images.