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2001-09-04 by hgporter@yahoo.com
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
2001-09-04 by Todd Flashner
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 >
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 www.digitalmastery.com trish ternahan@...
> 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 >> > > > > Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, Polls and other > resources as they are often being updated. The page is at: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >