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Re: [Digital BW] PS Masks & blending modes

2001-09-04 by ternahan

Another good option is Ben Wilmores Digital Mastery site...sign up for the
Photoshop Tip of the Week and check out the archives at
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trish
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> From: Todd Flashner <tflash@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 01:00:15 -0400
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] PS Masks & blending modes
> 
> The best thing I found was the Total Training Photoshop series of Video
> tapes, for PS 5.5.
> 
> http://www.totaltraining.com/index2.htm
> 
> It's authored by Deke McClelland, who wrote The Photoshop Bible. There is a
> new one out for PS 6, but he shows a different masking technique on that one
> I don't like as well. This video series is expensive, but it's also
> extensive. The 5.5 series is 20 tapes which total 32 hours. If I remember
> correctly the 6.0 series is shortened to 12 tapes. Either way they are good
> learning tools. As I have the 5.5 series, and 6.0, I've been meaning to sell
> the 5.5 series. Contact me off list if you are interested. Figure around
> $200 delivered, as it's in mint condition. Most of the tapes haven't even
> been viewed.
> 
> Todd
> 
> PS, other than that Real World PS is pretty good. Actually I find most books
> are too shy on masking to really recommend one over another, it takes
> looking at a few to get the hang of it. Unfortunately, even when you fully
> get the idea how they work, the workflow for them is not intuitive. That
> more than any other reason is probably why I prefer the video. It's easier
> to follow the continuity of the manuevers.
> 
> I bet there are lots of free tutorial out there on the net. Try a search on
> Google for photoshop+masking, I'll bet you'll get a bunch of stuff. Here, I
> tried it, see if this link loads my search results for you:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=photoshop%2Bmasking&btnG=Google+Search
> 
>> I've been learning masking techniques and blending layers
>> mostly by trial and error. Anybody got any suggestions about a
>> solid book/ video/CD re: learning this.
>> 
>> regards,
>> H. Gregory Porter
>> The Porter Gallery
>> 
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