CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER 1 SIMPLIFYING THE INTERFACE -- Photoshop CS3 Layout -- Understanding the Paintbrush Engine -- Creating Your Own Animated Paintbrush -- Creating Your Own Custom Brush Palette -- The Adobe Bridge Interface -- Workflow in Bridge -- Creating Keywords for Each Image -- The Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) Interface -- Cutomizing ACR4 Through the Options Panel -- What You Have Learned -- CHAPTER 2 MASTERING PHOTOSHOP FUNDAMENTALS -- Layer Blend Modes -- Photoshop's Native 8-Bit Environment -- Demystifying the 8-Bit Environment -- Understanding Selections -- Saving Selections -- Layer Masks Demystified -- What You Have Learned -- CHAPTER 3 SMART FILTERS TO AID ARTISTIC VISION -- Using Photographs as a Creative Medium -- Applying Motion Blur to Accentuate Movement with Smart Filters -- Adding Detail to the Background -- Applying the Foreground City Shapes -- Creating the Background Cityscape -- Using HDR and Smart Objects to Composite Photos -- Creating the Foreground -- Creating the New Architecture -- Adding Lights to Architecture -- Loading Custom Brush Palettes -- Giving the Scene a Sense of Night -- Adding Third-Party Filters -- What You Have Learned -- CHAPTER 4 CUSTOM-CREATED CONCEPTS -- Custom-Created Meteor Field -- Adding the Light Source -- Using the Lens Blur Command to Create Depth of Field -- Custom-Created Tornado -- What You Have Learned -- CHAPTER 5 INTEGRATING PHOTOGRAPHY AND 3D OBJECTS -- Creating the Initial Landscape Using Auto Align Layers -- 3D Objects as Bitmaps -- Reflections Applied in LightWave 8 -- What You Have Learned -- CHAPTER 6 INTEGRATING 3D CONCEPTS WITH PHOTOGRAPHY -- Creating the Initial Landscape -- Working with 3D Layers -- A Creative Way to Integrate the 3D Model -- Creating the Appearance of 3D by Using the Vanishing Point -- Using the Vanishing Point.

What You Have Learned -- CHAPTER 7 WORKING WITH PEOPLE AND BACKGROUNDS -- Creating the Background and Mask -- Creating the Winged Woman -- What You Have Learned -- CHAPTER 8 FINE ART APPROACHES -- Using People to Integrate into Your Art -- The New Printing Dialogue -- What You Have Learned -- ABOUT THE CD-ROM -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.