Image Processing Art - Photoshop CS Implementation

Author: Barry Haynes [USA]
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: For intermediate and advanced users who want to achieve the best results with their photos, this book is an in-depth and comprehensive tutorial on mathematical image processing. Through step-by-step example exercises, gain a deep understanding of many complex techniques, such as calibration and color management. Master the relationships between various tools in Photoshop and traditional photographic zone system. Learn how to use features like BrushDynamics, LayerStyle, ShapeLayers, Healing, FileBrowsing, CustomWorkspaces, and ToolsPresets. Create and output beautiful high-quality prints, as well as images for the web in GIF, JPEG, and WebphotoGalleries. Want to master digital images? This book is your first choice! Starting with basic knowledge of graphics and images, it focuses on fundamental concepts and knowledge, explaining the principles and basic techniques of various tools, and teaching how to perform color correction in high-quality and efficient ways in calibration environments such as scanners, digital cameras, monitors, and printers. The book includes many conceptual explanations, such as color correction, calibration, 16-bit file formats, 8-bit file formats, compression, duotone, selections, masks, layers, layer masks, adjustment layers, fill layers, shapes, layer styles, blending modes, histograms, history actions, and channels. The book creates multiple application examples, combining the specific needs of photographers, painters, and product artists, to provide a more in-depth introduction to color correction techniques and detailed explanations of Photoshop CS usage. By explaining various Photoshop color correction, composition, and image enhancement techniques, it helps readers understand the basic principles of examples that are relatively clear in theory but quite complex in practice.