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SITEGRINDER 3 MEDIALAB http://www.medialab.com / £TBC SiteGrinder is one of the best-known web design plug-ins for Photoshop. I ...

TOPAZ SIMPLIFY TOPAZ LABS http://www.topazlabs.com / Approx £24/$40 Not everyone is a natural with a paintbrush, digital or oth ...

E X P O S URE 5 ALIEN SKIN SOFTWARE http://www.alienskin.com / Approx £89/$149 Alien Skin Software creates a wide range of high ...

3D INVIGORATOR DIGITAL ANARCHY/ZAXWERKS INC http://www.digitalanarchy.com / Approx £119/$199 Although Photoshop now includes 3D ...

SOCIAL KIT SOURCE http://socialkit.madebysource.com / Free This is a Photoshop extension that is designed to make light work of ...

028 Master retouching Use Photoshop to produce an image that combines standard retouching techniques with creative ones 034 Prod ...

PAGE 046 PAGE 052 PAGE 040 When retouching, direct the viewer's eye to where you want them to go ...

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USE PHOTOSHOP TO PRODUCE AN IMAGE THAT COMBINES STANDARD RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES WITH CREATIVE ONES MASTER RETOUCHING W hen workin ...

QUICK TIP Photoshop CC now supports linked Smart Objects. This means you can work on a full size image in great detail. After sa ...

12 BEGIN THE BLENDING Now that you can begin to see it come together, you can really start fine-tuning the layer masks for the t ...

GROUNDING THE SCENE ADD DEPTH, EMOTION AND CHARACTER WITH THE FINISHING 14 ADD TEXTURE LIGHT Above the Texture layer, add a Curv ...

QUICK TIP By using the Brush panel’s Shape Dynamics, you can adjust the Size Jitter, Fade Jitter, and Roundness Jitter. When you ...

PRODUCE CREATIVE LIGHTING EFFECTS LEARN HOW TO BUILD A DYNAMIC ADVERTISING IMAGE WITH 3D ELEMENTS, RENDER PASSES & LIGHTING ...

FROM RAW RENDER IMAGES TO FINAL AD WORK IN PROGRESS Progress 2: Add the occlusion pass and ground shadow path Progress 3: Add gl ...

06 ADD THE OCCLUSION PASS AND GROUND SHADOW PATH First, drag and drop the Occlusion pass onto your scene. A dialog box will appe ...

11 ADD GLOW TO THE CAR In reality, any specular or highlight reflection has some glow in it. In order to make this glow on the c ...

WHY DO WE HAVE TO CLIP THE LAYERS? In some images you may notice that the edge of the composited image has a dark outline. This ...

QUICK TIP You can also use the ZDepth pass provided on FileSilo to add depth of field to the image. Add the ZDepth into the chan ...

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