Designers, photographers, and artists are using Photoshop to create fantastic and realistic images for illustrations, fine art, and editorial content. Whether they're landscape or portrait photographers, illustrators or fine artists, masking and compositing are essential skills to master for combining images to the extent that it is impossible to tell where one image stops and the other one begins.

Photoshop artist and educator Katrin Eismann takes readers through numerous step-by-step examples, highlighting the tools and techniques used for masking and combining images. Featuring work by leading artists and photographers, this book focuses on the techniques used to create compelling compositions, including making fast and accurate selections, mastering Photoshop's masking tools, and implementing the concept and photography from start to finish. The book addresses working with Photoshop's selection tools; selecting and maintaining fine details and edges; working with difficult image elements, such as cloth, hair, or translucent objects; and green-screen techniques. Katrin also addresses the creative aspects of image compositing, including how to start with a concept, plan and execute the photography, and seamlessly assemble the image. Combining technical direction and inspiration, this book will expand readers' imaginations, so they can fluidly and professionally create images with Photoshop.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 82 Ratings

Photoshop Essential - 2009-02-01
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Although written for Photoshop CS, "Photoshop Masking & Compositing" can easily be applied to CS3. Eismann's experience as a teacher enables her to present complex material in an easy to follow style. The magic of Photoshop jumps off the pages. If you can sit down at a computer and follow step by step instructions in a book, you will wonder how you ever lived without this book.

The Best - 2009-06-03
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For all the reasons every other reviewer mentions, and more, Katrin Eismann is the best on Photoshop. All the other writers are certainly sincere and well-meaning, but they talk and talk and talk, and you still can't figure out anything. Reading Eismann is like turning on a light. All of a sudden, everything is clear.

Photoshop textbook - 2009-02-24
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Easy to understand and follow the instructions with the practice pictures from the associated website. Would recommend this book without reservations for anyone looking to get past basic photoshop techniques.

Two Thumbs Up - 2008-11-09
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Step by step instructions, very easy to understand, with download excercise files make this one of the best photoshop Book.

Its good - 2008-10-06
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I like this book. It hasnt wowed me, but it is a good tool for learning a few of the many features in photoshop.

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