Photoshop CS3 One-on-One Beyond the Basics

Course Description.

Photoshop is the tool of choice for most creative professionals and has quickly become household name synonymous with computer art and image manipulation. In␣␣Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Beyond the Basics, internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland teaches such digital-age wonders as masking, filters, layers, blend modes, Liquify, Vanishing Point, and vector-based type. Along the way, Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, trimming away jowls and fat, and wrapping one image around the surface of another. Plus, the training teaches how to construct and organize the elements in a composition so you can edit them easily in the future. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.Ready for more Photoshop CS3 training with Deke? Check out␣␣Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Advanced Techniques.Note: Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: The Essentials is a recommended prerequisite to Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Beyond the Basics.Download Deke's customized keyboard layouts for Photoshop from the Exercise Files tab.

10-Masking Essentials

01-Welcome to Photoshop CS3 One-on-One Beyond the Basics

02-Selecting glass aand water

03-Establishing a base layers

04-The Color Range command

05-Selecting sparkles

06-Setting sparkles to Screen

07-Selecting and compositing hair

08-When Color Range falls short

09-Selecting a base channel

10-Enhancing the channel's contrast

11-Dodging the highlights

12-Putting the mask in play

13-Reducing the edge fringes

14-Adding a layer mask

15-Creating a gradient quick mask

16-Blurring the layer mask

17-And thats just the beginnings

11-Sharpening Focus

01-Edge-enhancement parlor tricks

02-The subterfuge of sharpness

03-The single-shot sharpness

04-Unsharp Mask

05-Understanding the Radius value

06-Gauging the best settings

07-Sharpening the luminance data

08-USM vs Smart Sharpen

09-Smart Sharpens Remove settings

10-High-resolution sharpening

11-Leave More Accurate off

12-Turn More Accurate on

13-The Advanced options

14-Saving Smart Sharpen settings

15-Accounting for camera shake

12-Blurring and Averaging

01-Why the heck would you blur

02-The bell-shaped Gaussian Blur

03-The Linear Box Blur

04-Median and its badly named progeny

05-Surface Blur and the rest

06-The Motion Blur filter

07-The Radial Blur variations  Spin and Zoom

08-The Captain Kirk-in-love effect

09-Averaging skin tones

10-Addressing the stubborn patches

11-Combining Gaussian Blur and Average

12-Blurring surface details

13-Smoothing blemishes while matching noise

14-Reducing digital noise

15-Smoothing out JPEG artifacts

13-Layer Essentials

01-Behold  the layered composition

02-The Layers palette

03-Enlarging the hand

04-Erasing with a layer mask

05-Moving a layer

06-Combining layers into a clipping mask

07-Hair and stacking order

08-Adding a frame and expanding the canvas

09-Adding a vignette

14-Groups and Layer Comps

01-Organization  It sounds dull but it rocks

02-The terrible battle

03-Assembling the base composition

04-Adding adjustment layers

05-Creating a layer group

06-Grouping selected layers

07-Making the TV lines

08-Introducing layer comps

09-Saving your own layer comps

10-Final footnotes

15-Opacity and Blend Modes

01-Parametric operations

02-The power of blend mode

03-Changing the Opacity value

04-Opacity vs Fill Opacity

05-Meet the blend modes

06-Blend mode shortcuts

07-The darkening modes

08-Tempering a Burn effect with the Fill value

09-Saving a blended state

10-The lightening modes

11-The contrast modes

12-The comparative modes

13-The composite (HSL) mode

14-The brush-only modes

15-Blending groups

16-Transform, Warp, and Liquify

01-At this point there is a great shift

02-Messing with the masters

03-Scaling a layer to fit a composition

04-Merging clock face and cardinal

05-Rotating the minute hands

06-Replaying the last transformation

07-Second hand and shadows

08-Series duplication

09-Skews and perspective-style distortions

10-The envelope-style Warp function

11-Introducing the Liquify command

12-Adjusting the brush settings

13-Viewing layers and the mesh

14-Incrementally undoing undesirable effects

15-Twirl pucker and bloat

16-Push, mirror, and turbulences

17-Protecting regions with a mask

18-Applying a digital facelifts

19-Saving and loading mesh settings

17-Vanishing Point 2.0

01-Planes and perspectives

02-The Blue Gallery

03-Introducing Vanishing Point 2

04-Drawing out perpendicular planes

05-Exporting the gridlines to a layer

06-Cloning an image from one plane to anothers

07-Blending the image into its new home

08-Healing away the sockets

09-Importing a new image

10-Masking and shading the image

11-Flat in perspective out

12-Adding perspective type

13-Swinging planes to custom angles

14-Wrapping art around multiple surfaces

18-Creating and Editing Text

01-Type  The great imaging exception

02-Creating an independent text layer

03-Editing vector-based text

04-Working with area text

05-Resizing the text frame

06-Obscure but important formatting options

07-Text editing tricks and shortcuts

08-Adding a ghostly cast shadow

09-Backlighting the texts

10-Creating type on a path

11-Pasting text along the bottom of a circle

12-Flip and baseline shift

13-Warping texts

14-Scaling the warped text to taste

To Be Continued

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