A Ballet with Reality -- Workflow and digital asset management -- The RAW advantage -- Shooting RAW and JPEG at the same time -- In which Ed's feet make an appearance -- Multi-RAW processing using Light room -- Multi-RAW processing: Lightroom or ACR? -- Bringing a flower to life -- Layers and masking -- Painting on a layer mask -- Using Screen blending mode -- Using Multiply to darken -- Creating a high-key image -- Cloning and retouching -- The Patch Tool -- Checkpoints and workflow -- Content-aware fill -- Spiderweb studio -- Soft Light blending mode -- Creative coloring and toning -- Desaturating with black and white -- Welcome to the real world -- Transformations are for people, too! -- Multi-RAW processing a glamour shot -- Contrasting a figure with a black background -- Using hand-HDR to get a completely black background -- Photographing kids on a black background -- Smoothing skin -- Head, shoulders, knees, and toes -- Glamorous gams Alice works out at the virtual gym -- Eyebrows -- Eye checklist -- Painting catch lights -- Making the Unseen Visible -- Photographing flowers in water -- Photographing on a lightbox -- Hand-HDR imaging for transparency -- Creating a transparent poppy medley -- ACR or Lightroom for RAW conversion -- Automated HDR vs. hand-HDR for transparency -- Lightboxes aren't only for flowers -- Variations and inversions -- Combining layers for transparency -- Using HOR to create complex imagery -- Revealing details at night -- Blending in the moon -- Faking star trails -- Stacking star trails -- the real deal -- Onward a Upward: Beyond Reality -- Photo compositing to create a world in a shadow -- Photographing to create the shadow -- Creating a translucent marble and its shadow -- Thinking about content, color, shape, and scale -- Inserting a new world -- Marble of power -- Shadow play -- Photographing the infinitesimal -- Building the Impossible Harold's manifesto: Losing the chains of reality -- Creating an abstraction -- Stairs a la Escher -- Steps Loward the impossible -- Creating the basic building block -- The compositor's cafeteria -- Creating the "Twisted Stairs'" -- Fixing the mesh point -- Creating the "Stair Knot" -- Complexity vs. simplicity -- Do plants think? -- A poke in the eye -- LAB: The neglected color space -- LAB channel inversions and equalizations -- Using different color spaces to add color effects -- Creating a world in a pine cone -- Creating a magical portal -- Onward & Upward: This challenge is for you!.
Summary:
Provides information on retouching, color correcting, and photo compositing images using Adobe Photoshop.
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