Photoshop Masking & Compositing Fundamentals

This is the introductory installment of Deke McClelland's four-part series on making photorealistic compositions.

The course shows how to make selections, refine the selections with masks, and then combine them in new ways, using layer effects, blend modes, and other techniques to create a single seamless piece of artwork. Deke introduces the Channels panel and the alpha channel, the key to masking and transparency in Photoshop; reviews the selection tools, including the Color Range tool , Quick Mask mode, and the Refine Edge command; and shows how to blend masked images so they interact naturally.  

Product Details:

List price: $99.95USD

Table of Contents:

  • Setting up a workspace
  • Working with the seven key selection tools
  • Using the Color Range command
  • Automating masking
  • Matching a scene with Smart Filters
  • Choosing the ideal base channel
  • Converting a channel to a mask
  • Painting with the Overlay and Soft Light modes
  • Using History to regain a lost mask
  • Working with the Calculations command
  • Extracting a mask from a Smart Object
  • Masking and compositing light
  • Masking with black and white
  • Working with path outlines
  • Combining pixel and vector masks
  • Creating and feathering a vector mask
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Direct me please for the courses i should buy

Submitted by GoldenWings on 15 October 2012 - 10:56am.

Hello
My name is mohamed alzaki i am a web designer / developer .
I have learned most of web development languages and techniques threw lynda.com.
And i am planning to self generate a full web sites / web application all on my own, without the need of designers crew .
so i'm planning to take designing learning serious in my progress, and i want to start as soon as possible but i am lost with lynda crowded courses about designing, i want to learn for example photoshop and illustrator .
and some one told me to learn photoshop first but when i came to lynda i didnt know what courses i should buy.
i found alot of photoshop courses such for photographers, designers, web designers , CS5 / CS6 , effects and such.
i found there is no mastery level for CS6 as CS5 ones , so i want your help for a 1 way direction .
like learn this then go to this then go to this now your a professional photo / web designer .
thanks,

Hello, Mohamed: Course on lynda.com for web design/Photoshop

Submitted by colleen on 15 October 2012 - 5:42pm.

Hi, Mohamed.

I would start with Deke's Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals, then if you want more graphic design skills keep going through Intermediate, Advanced, and eventually Mastery. (There is a Mastery for CS5; for that version there is only Fundamentals, Advanced, and Mastery, for CS6, we added Intermediate to follow Fundamentals.

For a web designer's perspective, you can also check out Justin Seeley's course called Photoshop for Web Design.

For Illustrator, you can follow the same advice, just substitute "Illustrator" for "Photoshop" in the titles.

Let me know if those work!

cw