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Adobe Photoshop/Expert Profile
Expertise
Author, "Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 (Peachpit)". Beginning to expert questions for Photoshop CS3 and CS4 Extended, including 3D capabilities. I am also an expert here for Digital Photography. Please - NO questions on Lightroom, Elements, Express or versions earlier than CS2. These questions will be discarded.
Experience in the area
Author, "Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4" (available from Peachpit.com in January, 2009). I have been a professional level user since 1999, and have used Photoshop for photography, fine art, graphic design, web design, and technical image analysis. I have also conducted classes at the college level in both artistic and technical uses. I am currently an Adobe User Group manager.
Organizations
National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Los Alamos Multimedia Users Group.
Publications
CommunityMX.com, Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 (Adobe Press).
Education/Credentials
Bachelor's degree, Physics
Awards and Honors
Several awards for digital photography.
What do you like about this subject?
What do I like? Hey, it's Photoshop! What's not to like?
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?
Everything I can. My current efforts are focused on combining photographic processing with illustration techniques, so I am also learning Illustrator.
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:
In CS4 Extended, you can import *and* export 3D OBJ models and textures.
Something controversial or provocative about this subject
"Photoshop" is not a verb. Because it is so easy to manipulate images, we now must rely on human integrity to have any kind of truth in pictures.
Average Ratings
Recent Reviews from Users
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| Katie | 11/20/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | PERFECT! Thank you so much. That's exactly ..... |
| Waise | 11/17/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Mr. Scott can easily bring a smile ..... |
| Leah | 09/24/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thank you so much! |
| Rob | 09/18/09 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | very honest answer, thanks. |
| Rob | 09/17/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | very helpful, rapid response, thanks. |
Recent Answers from Scott Valentine
2009-11-11 Setting up a 1 color (PMS) book:
Hi Katie - sorry for the delay! If you are being restricted to one color plate, but have full-color photos, you can use any trick you want to convert to grayscale. From there, you can simply provide
2009-10-02 trouble getting white:
Hi Jess, You may have some kind of color space or color profile set for Photoshop that is preventing you from seeing white. If you press D with any document open, you should get the default white/black
2009-09-22 Making Digital Stamps using a scanned hand drawing:
Hi Leah, Here are some links to cleaning up the scanned drawings: http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/199/en/ http://www.gamersdigart.com/features/34-features/53-tutorial You can also try
2009-09-20 Making Digital Stamps using a scanned hand drawing:
Hi Leah, Cleaning up these drawings can take a lot of time, more than actually drawing them in an illustration program to begin with. So, the first solution I'd suggest that you try is to 'trace' your
2009-09-17 cut outs.:
Hi Rob, Unfortunately, I don't have any recommendations for you, as I stick pretty much to Photoshop so am not aware of capabilities in other packages. From a business standpoint, I do suggest that
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