Photoshop CS2 Channels & Masks Review

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Photoshop CS2 Channels & Masks ReviewThis video is for the artist looking to pull an image of a kid out from a busy background and place that same child in the clouds. I have worked with several artists thought out my career, but none were able to tell me how to remove people from pictures using just channels and masks. Deke McClelland has written several self-help books on various desktop publishing apps, worked on the Total Training team & is currently working for the Lynda.com team as well, he is witty and he makes the learning experience fun. This is not a video that is just a group of mind numbing lessons on channels and masks, instead this is video on various methods to improving one's own creativity & productivity. If you don't believe me, just know that I haven't even finished studying Deke's tutorials and already my list of potential clients has triple since I studied and practiced some of his teachings.Photoshop CS2 Channels & Masks OverviewThe elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. Selections, layer boundaries, masks, the Quick Mask mode, layer masks, knockouts, and masking with the Channels palette all rely on alpha channels. In Photoshop CS2 Channels and Masks, award-winning author and Photoshop expert Deke McClelland teaches channels and masks comprehensively. From channel masks to blue screens, blend modes to displacement maps, Color Range to Calculations, this training leaves no pixel unturned. Deke also covers how to select and composite highlights, shadows, people, fabric, feathers, glass, flames, lighting, and wispy hair. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.Topics Include:
Exploring how channels work in different color modes
Creating, saving, and loading alpha channels
Working with the Color Range command and Quick Mask mode
Building an organic, highly accurate mask from a color channel
Selecting an image of a person, including hair, and seamlessly merging it onto a new background
Editing masks by dodging highlights, burning shadows, and Overlay painting
Using blend modes and luminance blending
Combining masking with layers as transparency masks, layer masks, clipping masks, and knockouts
Correcting images using a host of specialty masks, including luminance masks, density masks, color masks, exposure masks, depth masks, and edge masks
Using the Calculations command to build a base alpha channel from the best of two color channels
Masking an image photographed against a blue screen or a cloudless sky
Selecting translucent elements, such as natural shadows and flames
Masking detailed images against busy backgrounds
Using a displacement map to wrap one image around the contours of another
Duration: 21.75 hoursOn 1 DVD-ROM

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