Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4

Dan Moughamian is an experienced compositor and fine art photographer of landscapes and urban architecture. He has more than 14 years of experience with Adobe Photoshop and is an Adobe Certified Expert. As a veteran member of their testing programs, Dan has worked directly with Adobe Systems and the Photoshop team, to help define and enhance many of the core compositing functions in Photoshop. Dan has also channeled his passion for teaching Photoshop and photography, into a series of new training videos available from designProVideo.com. Dan resides in suburban Chicago with his wife Kathy. Scott Valentine is an award-winning experimental photographer and long-time Photoshop user in both artistic and technical capacities. He contributes considerable time to the Photoshop and digital photography communities at AllExperts.com, CommunityMX.com and one of the longest-standing Photoshop web communities, PhotoshopTechniques.com. Scott has a deep understanding of digital imaging and optical physics, and served as a subject matter expert in microphotography and technical image analysis at a national laboratory. As a member of Photoshop's prerelease teams, Scott has access to all the latest features and thinking from Adobe on "what's next." Keep up with Scott at blog.lightningsymphony.com

Introduction
Chapter One: System Considerations
Chapter Two: Brainstorming
Chapter Three: Choosing the Scene and Subject
Chapter Four: Using Stock Images
Chapter Five: Capturing the Scene and Subject
Chapter Six: Organizing and Evaluating Images
Chapter Seven: Processing Raw Source Files
Chapter Eight: Enhancing Source Images
Chapter Nine: Creating 3D Content
Chapter Ten: Compositing Source Materials
Chapter Eleven: Output Options
Appendix: Project Examples
Index