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If you’ve picked up this book, you are familiar enough with Photoshop to know layers are important, and smart enough to know they can help you
improve your images. I’ve been using layers for about 15 years, but I can still
remember how I worked before I was introduced to them and found out what
they could do for me.
Sometime in early 1993, just before I was introduced to Layers, I was working
for a how-to photography book publisher as an editor/designer. We had
Photoshop 2.5. I used Photoshop to make adjustments to scanned images
and make them ready for print. Photoshop was fairly new at the time; it didn’t
yet have all of the features that would, not much later, make it the industry
standard in image editing. One of the features yet to be adopted was layers.
T he project I was working on included topographic maps for a book on
waterfalls. The book had been self-published by an author who added the
maps to the book to give the reader an idea of the landscape around each
of the falls. The author had public domain maps scanned and placed in the
book at the original size. At that size, the maps accounted for the bulk of
the original book. We made the decision to reduce the size of the maps to a
single page in the reprint to save space and make the whole landscape visible
at a glance while saving some money in production costs. Regrettably, the
author had the original maps, but not the image fi les from the scans. We had
to rescan the maps for the new book. In line with saving costs, we decided to
scan the images in-house.

MasterPhotoshop CS4 with this visual, hands-on guide to using layers, under the expert guidance of digital imaging specialist Richard Lynch. Layers, Photoshop's most powerful feature, is the core of a nondestructive image-editing workflow.

Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to.

* Polish: correct and enhance color, fix composition problems, and repair damage or flaws
* Manipulate: isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts
* Understand: use all forms of layer blending, including transparency, clipping masks, opacity/fill, layer masks, layer modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and Effects/Styles

The accompanying DVD comes complete with a generous library of practical actions based on techniques from the book that add functional power to Photoshop, along with practice images for all the exercises in the book.

This focused, highly accurate, comprehensive, and practical guide offers invaluable advice for all users of Adobe Photoshop CS4.

* Unleash the full power of Layers in Photoshop for limitless non-destructive creative image editing
* Step-by-step real-life projects take you through every aspect of the layers tool, including masking, blending, and modes, all in the context of a practical photoshop workflow
* Ancillary CD contains all the practice images used in the book

From the Back Cover
Master Photoshop CS4 with this visual, hands-on guide to using Layers, under the expert guidance of digital imaging specialist Richard Lynch. Layers, Photoshop's most powerful feature, is the core of a nondestructive image-editing work flow.


Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to .


* Polish: correct and enhance color, fix composition problems, and repair damage or flaws
* Manipulate: isolate image areas for changes, adjustments, and experimental concepts
* Understand: use all forms of layer blending, including transparency, clipping masks, opacity/fill, layer masks, layer modes, channel targeting, Blend If, and effects/styles