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Photoshop LAB Color: Solving the Canyon Conundrum
With a mantra like ??There are no bad originals, only bad Photoshop operators,? you know best-selling author Dan Margulis is serious about exposing people to the magic of Photoshop. Nowhere is that magic more apparent than in its LAB color processing capabilities, which can make even the subtle canyon colors of rock, sand, and dirt come to vivid life.
However, you may be wary of taming the complex beast. Here??s your guide! In these pages, Dan shows that you can derive enormous benefits from just a few simple tools and techniques. He also demonstrates that you can take these techniques as far as you wish, employing the power-user features he describes in later chapters. Starting with canyons and progressing to faces, you will see just how quickly you can begin improving your images by following the ??recipes? included here. Each chapter includes a sidebar with review questions and exercises as well as a ??Closer Look? section that examines some of the principles behind the techniques. A CD includes exercise files.
CONTENTS:
The canyon conundrum
LAB by the numbers
Vary the recipe & colour
The centre point
Sharpen & blur
Myths & dangers
LAB & the workflow
The impossible retouch
Selections & masking
Command, click, control
Contrast
Blending
CD contains most of the images from the book
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