Topaz Adjust - Redefining Creative Exposure for Photoshop
"Creative exposure" takes on a whole new meaning with the new Topaz Adjust image manipulation plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Easily and effectively take full control over image exposure, color, and detail for stunning creative effects and automated exposure correction.

Digital artist Bert Monroy invites you into his personal studio in Berkeley, California, to share the inspirations and secrets behind his stunning art using Adobe Photoshop. In this streaming online video, Bert continues to develop the core principles of his book Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting, dissecting more paintings and taking you even further along on the path of your own creative process.

Just released by Mark Monciardini, Photoshop® Top Secret™ is an Extreme Photoshop Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe® Photoshop®. This student-friendly home study course includes four DVD-ROMs with over 16 gigabytes of video tutorials and project files. It also comes with a full-color gallery book (printed, not pdf) that shows the end result of each project in the course. You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors.
The course will teach you how to become the ultimate Photoshop® "black belt" for fun and/or profit.
You'll learn how to create top-level special effects for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, book jackets, brochures, mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a tremendously wide range of print ads and Web site graphics.
Home Page: http://www.photoshoptopsecret.com

How to bring sunshine into the picture! See live how Uli Staiger sun and light magic to pictures. He analyzes the position of the sun, painted with a matching brush and lightens up the atmosphere. Steel, light reflections and a natural lighting scene perfect the arrangement. With this technique, you bring each scene to shine![/center]

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Harness the power and flexibility of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, version 1.1, with this expert guide. Professional photographers David Huss and David Plotkin show you how to work smarter, faster, and more creatively with their personal tips, tricks, and techniques that you can incorporate into your own workflow.

Nothing beats the tight synergy of After Effects and Photoshop for creating professional-level effects, and nothing beats this book for showing you how Hollywood professionals really use these programs. In this second edition to Jeff Foster's bestselling book, TV and movie graphics veteran Jeff Foster provides all-new information on After Effects 7 and Photoshop CS2—plus expanded coverage of blue/green screening and titling, beautiful new images, and innovative real-world solutions for today's professionals. Better than ever, this must-have reference is still the only guide that shows how to use these two superpower programs together to achieve professional results.

Nothing beats the tight synergy of After Effects and Photoshop for creating professional-level effects, and nothing beats this book for showing you how Hollywood professionals really use these programs. In this second edition to Jeff Foster's bestselling book, TV and movie graphics veteran Jeff Foster provides all-new information on After Effects 7 and Photoshop CS2—plus expanded coverage of blue/green screening and titling, beautiful new images, and innovative real-world solutions for today's professionals. Better than ever, this must-have reference is still the only guide that shows how to use these two superpower programs together to achieve professional results.
Learn what the pros know, including how to:
* Add depth to your animation by mimicking real motion
* Grab your audience's attention with creative motion titling
* Shoot a clean blue/green screen
* Apply 3D animation to 2D images
* Remove backgrounds with blue-screen garbage mattes
* Retouch frame by frame with rotoscoping
* Construct realistic composites and locales with matte painting
* Make movies from stills by simulating 3D camera motion
* Produce realistic effects such as noise, clouds, and smoke

Photoshop CS3 Extended adds revolutionary support for 3D and video files. In Photoshop CS3 Extended for 3D and Video , Chad Perkins teaches users how to take advantage of Photoshop CS3 Extended's 3D capabilities.

Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows Essential Training highlights the important features of this comprehensive image organization and photo enhancement application. Photographer Jan Kabili shows how to use Photoshop Elements to organize and edit photos, build photos into projects like slideshows and photo books, and share photos with family and friends. Jan explains how to train Photoshop Elements 8 to recognize and tag faces, use the Smart Brush for targeted adjustments, and share photos using Adobe’s online service, photoshop.com. She also dives deep into the application’s editing tools, which rival those of the full product, Photoshop, in their ability to take snapshots and turn them into great photos. Exercise files accompany the course.

 

 

Improve your photos with the exciting new version of Photoshop Elements

Photoshop Elements has come a long way from its early days as Photoshop’s low-end cousin. Now a feature-rich editing program popular with professionals as well as hobbyist photographers, Elements boasts versatile tools and capabilities. With these self-contained minibooks, you’ll learn to make the most of every feature of Photoshop Elements 8.

 

 

Call it a control thing, but until recently–or, more specifically, until the availability of digital raw camera formats–you simply weren’t ready to make the move to digital photography. Raw formats, however, changed all of that by allowing you to retrieve images before any in-camera processing has been performed. Photoshop’s Adobe Camera Raw plug-in makes that process even easier by providing a standardized way of accessing and working with these uncompressed digital negatives in your favorite image-manipulation software.

Chapter 1: THE LIGHTROOM CATALOG & WORK ENVIRONMENT
1. Understanding the Lightroom Catalog
2. Overview of the Lightroom Interface
3. Personalizing Your Collection with Identity Plates

Brushes Collection for Photoshop CS3 CS4 sets a variety of the best brushes for Photoshop, allowing very easy and fast, with a few strokes to make a complete original form of any work. Among them, the brush, which can draw water effects, snow, birds, grunge, smoke, plants, paint stains, fingerprints, foam, cracks, abstract, butterflies, letters, dolls, skulls, scrolls and much more (collections are organized by category) .

Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level. Even knowing the technique is important in this kind of design, is more about creativity and experimentation. You will learn how to use the Art History Brush and combine it with watercolor custom brushes to create a nice background header image and more. Let's get it started!

Total Training for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 will teach you to effectively manage your image library and take full control of your digital photography workflow. You will learn Lightroom's sophisticated tools for organizing, optimizing, and outputting photographs, all within a single work environment. This course will allow you to master your growing image library and to effectively optimize your photographs with non-destructive image editing techniques that provide tremendous flexibility and stunning results. You will also discover how easily you can output your images to prints, the web, or a slideshow.