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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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| jada | 02/05/10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thanks Scott your information was very easy ..... |
| John | 12/04/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Awesome! Thank you so much, this helped ..... |
| 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! |
Recent Answers from Scott Valentine
2010-02-04 resolution:
Hi Jada, Unfortunately, there is no simple way to change the resolution to make larger images. When you try to make an image larger, you are moving the pixels further apart. You are effectively asking
2009-12-21 Extracting from an image:
Hi Gunter, I would start by looking at the RGB channels individually, and using one of those as a starting point for a mask. This really depends on how much contrast or difference there is between the
2009-12-20 Photoshop Crashing:
Hi Derrick, The obvious things to try are resetting the preferences file, and checking for any updates to Photoshop, your operating system and video card drivers (or a full system update if you want
2009-12-18 pixelated text in photoshop:
Hi Jayson, The first thing I need to point out is that Photoshop rasterizes all text when it outputs to print (even PDF in most cases). This is different than applications like Illustrator or InDesign
2009-12-07 Photoshop Extract fliter:
Hi Robin, It sounds like you are using Mac. If so, the instructions can be found in the Optional Plug-ins folder as a PDF file. This PDF has some good information, but the summary is that you need to
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