Photoshop for Right-Brainers

Introduction

Chapter 1: Tools for Building Your Masterpiece

Using Blending Modes

Extracting an Image from a Background

Working with Layer Masks

Including Adjustment Layers

Displacement Mapping

Discovering the Power of Blend If

Chapter 2: Techniques for Embellishing Portraits

Enhancing Eye Color

Variation: Enhancing Lip Color

Altering Eye Color

Altering Hair Color

Whitening Teeth

Removing Acne and Blemishes

Erasing Wrinkles

Digital Liposuction

Face Swapping

Digital Face-Lift

Chapter 3: A Few Right-Brained Special Effects

Creating a Glass Sphere

Making a Chrome Sphere: Digital Manipulation

Creating Patterns from Photos: Floor Tiles

Generating Metal Text from Scratch

Generating Plastic from Scratch

Chapter 4: Texture, Color, and Layer Effects

Using Apply Image: Why I Love It

Applying a Technical Background

Applying a Montage Effect

Adding Color to Black-and-White Images

Method 1: Adding a Color Cast

Method 2: Re-creating the Hand-Tinted Look

Using Textures and Displacement Maps

Adding Real-World Texture to Skin

Creating Brush Effects by Using Photo Elements

Lightening, Darkening, and Coloring

Chapter 5: Effects in the Real World

Symmetrical Landscaping

Patterns in the Sky

Nature Patterns: Apply Image

Creating a Neon Reflection on Water

Changing the Mood

Chapter 6: Animals

Comical Critter Alteration

Attack of the Giant Bug--in 3D!

Creature out of Place

Crossbreeding Species

Crossbreeding Species 2: Pegasus

Chapter 7: Digital Alterations and Manipulations

Digital Woman

Enticement: Reverse Advertising

Common Images in Art

Enhanced Close-up: Macro Art

Chapter 8: Going beyond Canned Filters

Retro Photo: Aging

Photo to Line Art: Sketching

Pencil Drawings

Pen-and-Ink Art

Portrait to Painting: Artistic

Anime Woman: Vector Art

Chapter 9: People as Art: Digital Manipulation

Chex-Girl:

Al Ward, an independent software developer and trainer, writes a regular column for www.photoshopuser.com, the official Web site of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Al also created and maintains www.actionfx.com, a Web site devoted to Photoshop type treatments, actions, and automation.