11 Essential Photoshop and Painter® Techniques to Master

 

 

 

 

Although this book is not meant for absolute beginners in Photoshop and Painter, I realize that you may still need to improve some of your basic skills. What are the essential skills that are necessary to be proficient in these programs? This chapter addresses the most basic techniques that will form the foundation of your digital knowledge base.

If you pare Photoshop down to its barest essentials, it does two things: it allows the selection of an area of pixels to change and then the action that changes those selected pixels. That’s it!

A picture is something which requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a crime. Paint falsely, then add the ...

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