The Photoshop Workbook: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips,
Tricks, and Techniques reveals the creative skills that photographer and
retoucher Glyn Dewis uses for his global clients. In this guide you will
learn not only his step-by-step Photoshop techniques, but how and when
to apply them so that you, too, can take your images to a whole new
level. Glyn starts by covering the individual Photoshop skills that are
the essential building blocks of his process:
- Mastering selections and cutouts with the Pen tool and other
important tools
- Dodging and burning, adding textures, transforming a location, and
using the "power of gray" for composites
- Applying lighting effects such as spotlights, beams, realistic
shadows, reflections, and street lighting to images
- Creating special effects, including snow and debris, and turning day
into night using a nondestructive workflow
It's one thing to learn the techniques, but to master them you need to
understand when to apply them and in what order. In the second part of
the book, Glyn brings everything together with his real-world projects.
He covers six complete, start-to-finish projects--including all the
images for you to download and follow along--that show you how to apply
the techniques to a variety of scenarios, including character portraits,
themed composites, and a landscape.