Photoshop For Photographers Book

The ultimate guide to getting the most out of your photography

Portrait
- Retouch your people pictures to perfection.

Landscape
- Produce and edit your best ever landscapes.

Black & White
- Create monochromatic masterpieces.

Architecture
- Shoot and edit beautiful buildings from around the world.


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Ultimate guides
- The ultimate guide to Photoshop
- The ultimate guide to photography

Portrait
- Perfect portraits on location
- 20 great tips for portrait photographs
- Master the Clone Stamp tool
- Use the Refine Edge tool
- Turn a photo into a sketch
- Photomontage your photographs
- Clone composites
- Fake a light leak
- Remove red-eye

Landscape
- Shoot stunning landscape photos
- 20 great tips for landscapes
- Fix exposure
- Build a new landscape
- Get the Lomo look
- Edit your photographs with histograms

Black & White
- Master monochrome photography
- 20 great tips for black and whites
- Convert images to black and white
- Get a classic effect with gradient maps
- Hand tint black-and-white images
- Emphasise the eyes
- Achieve high-key effects

Architecture
- Master architecture photography
- 20 great tips for incredible interiors
- Fix barrel distortion with Lens Correction
- Edit colours with the Photo Filter tool
- Make a silhouette
- Create line art
- Get sketching

Macro
- Capture striking macro shots
- 20 great tips for photographing flowers
- Merge textures and photos
- Make a magic selection
- Make a macro mosaic
- Rescue dull shots with Brightness/Contrast

Wildlife
- Capture perfect wildlife pictures
- 20 great tips for wildlife
- Master the lighting effects filter
- Capture perfect pet portraits
- Design animal hybrids

Low light
- Perfect low-light photographs
- 20 great tips for low light
- Add drama with Dodge and Burn
- Blend the light
- Fake a star trail
- Set off some digital fireworks
- Create a sunset using gradient maps
- Fix noise with the Reduce Noise filter

Still life
- Paint with light
- 20 great tips for still-life photography
- 20 great tips for photographing food
- Re-create realistic shadows
- Experiment with Masks
- Inject a new colour

Travel
- Document the streets
- 20 great tips for travel captures
- Transform a cityscape
- Paint a travel photograph
- Control HDR with layers
- Create a wood effect painting

Creative
- Create a comic book effect
- Produce smoke art
- Add impact to your photos
- Miniaturise your photos
- Fake a motion blur
- Add a fisheye effect to your shots
- Turn photos into 3D images
- Make a vintage travel poster
- Add a retro filter to your shots


Free with this bookazine...
- The ultimate creative tools to help you learn Photoshop.
- All the tutorial files you need.
- Video guides from the pros
- 30 creative stock images

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tutorial Pdf Classroom in a Book
2012 | PDF + EPUB | 480 pages | 181 MB



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Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tutorial PDF Classroom in a Book (2012)

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 Scott is Editor, Publisher, and co-founder of Photoshop User magazine, Executive Editor and Publisher of Light It (the how-to magazine for studio lighting and off-camera flash), and is host of The Grid, the weekly live videocast talk show for photographers, as well as co-host of the top-rated weekly videocast series, Photoshop User TV.

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History, theory, tips and tutorials an insight into the word on icon design

Introduction Icon For designer


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A Picture Tells a Thousand Words

With roots stretching as far back as the 1970s, the humble icon has come a long way. Evolving from black and white representations of office items into beautifully rendered illustrations of objects, symbols, characters and the same office items from the very beginning, icons have become a visual language that is understood the world over.


Where a picture will tell a thousand words, a computer icon informs, educates and reassures its audience. Because icons are used for such specific purposes, creating a successful icon design is more of a science than an art.

 I came to icon design almost by accident. My first year out from University, I was hired to work in-house for a software company who needed an icons and UI illustrator. With two degrees in Multimedia and Communication Design and a portfolio of digital illustration, I stood out as a good candidate for the job.

I had never given icon design much thought beyond the occasional replacement set, but knowing that this was a rare opportunity, I decided to jump in the deep end (with both feet!). I took the offer and a week later I was up to my eyeballs in specifications, requests and a back catalogue of previous designs. I was spending most of my time in review meetings with the development team, product management and even marketing. I quickly learned that when asked, everyone has an opinion, right or wrong.

So here I was, stuck in the middle of the technical requirements of the development team and the aesthetic guides from marketing. To top it off, I was spending hours rendering images and all I had to show at the end of the day was a handful of pixels! It was really frustrating to move from print design and illustration to screen.As time progressed, I settled into the role of “icon lady” and started to see the craft and beauty in small images.

 I also developed a system of project management that greatly improved my workflow (less meetings = more productivity).

During the course of Icon designer book, I will share my experiences in the field of icon design, look at rendering styles and ways to achieve them, and the many uses for icons today. This book won’t teach you how to emulate others. It won’t focus heavily on one OS over another; nor will it turn you into a master overnight. Instead it will help you create designs that will stand up to the test of time and help you better understand the constraints (and the joys) of pixel perfect rendering.

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Step 1: open any picture in Photoshop you feel right for this effect.



Step 2: Duplicate copy of the Background by Selecting the Duplicate Layer Option from the Layer Menu. We do this just in case any mistake is done then we do not end up ruining the original Image.





Step 3: Now Increase the brightness of the photograph by select the option Shadow/Highlight from the image menu as shown in the screenshot below.



In the Shadow/Highlight Dialog box take the shadow slider to 100% to fully brighten up the image.





Step 4: Go to the Filter menu and select the Find Edges menu, this option will convert the Photograph into an image given below.





Step 5: Using the Fade Find Edges option in the Edit menu we will get the desired effect.



In the Fade Find Edges Dialog box change the Mode Menu to Luminosity from Normal and move the Opacity Slider till you get the desired effect.



The Final Image is given below.