{"id":22206,"date":"2018-11-26T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22206"},"modified":"2019-11-12T21:18:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T02:18:30","slug":"mastering-photoshop-retouching-part-two-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22206","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Photoshop: Retouching, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13335\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Comp-Remask-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13335\" title=\"161130-Comp-Remask-v2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Comp-Remask-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Photoshop Masking and Compositing (2nd edition)\" width=\"399\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Comp-Remask-v2.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Comp-Remask-v2-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photoshop Masking and Compositing (2nd edition)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two essential and challenging Photoshop skills are Masking and Compositing. Fortunately for all of us out in Photoshop land, Katrin Eismann (along with Sean Duggan and James Porto) have written a masterful book on developing these skills, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Photoshop-Masking-Compositing-Voices-Matter\/dp\/0321701003\/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=jimdotycom-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=b82189dce8c95be6b7afaecd60b8053a&amp;creativeASIN=0321701003\"><em>Photoshop Masking &amp; Compositing (2nd edition<\/em><em>)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Everything you need to know about Katrin Eismann is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=26008\">Mastering Photoshop: Retouching, Part One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this book you will learn about selection tools and techniques, how to use masks and layers, advanced selection techniques for difficult subjects like human hair, and how to do flawless composites.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know what all of this means, you need this book. If you know what all of this means and have found these skills difficult to master, you need this book. If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to move a subject from one background and place it in another background, you need this book. If you are having a hard time changing one part of an image without affecting the rest of the image, you need this book. If you&#8217;ve taken two different exposures of the same scene and are having a hard time blending the two together, you need this book.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=4661\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/katrin_mc.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You can also find the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Photoshop-Masking-Compositing-Katrin-Eismann\/dp\/0735712794\/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=jimdotycom-20&amp;linkCode=w00&amp;linkId=806d5848786edfe863d708da51fbd539&amp;creativeASIN=0735712794\">first edition<\/a> in the used marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can buy Eismann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, along with the other books in the Mastering Photoshop Series, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.jimdoty.com\/home\/photography-books\/digital-photography-books\/\">Digital Photography Books section<\/a> of my <a href=\"https:\/\/store.jimdoty.com\/\">photography store<\/a> and get Amazon.com\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great prices, fast delivery, and excellent service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mastering Photoshop Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22187\">The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mastering Photoshop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Series<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Series Overview<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22191\">Mastering Photoshop &amp; Lightroom: Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22195\">Mastering Photoshop: Advanced Color Correction, Part One<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22198\">Mastering Photoshop: Advanced Color Correction, Part Two<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22202\">Mastering Photoshop: Retouching, Part One<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22206\">Mastering Photoshop: Retouching, Part Two<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide Series<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mastering Photoshop Series is part of a larger series of over 60 articles that guide you to the best of all things photographic. The rest of the series is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=25634\">Buyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide: Recommendations For The Best Photography Equipment, Software, Books, Magazines, DVDs, Online Photo Labs and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two essential and challenging Photoshop skills are Masking and Compositing. Fortunately for all of us out in Photoshop land, Katrin Eismann (along with Sean Duggan and James Porto) have written a masterful book on developing these skills, Photoshop Masking &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=22206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-computing-and-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26012,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions\/26012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}