In the first part of this excerpt from his book “Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy,” Photoshop artist extraordinaire Bert Monroy showed his image-retouching techniques for repositioning elements, adding content, cleaning up highlights, and eliminating items while enhancing others.
In this second part of the retouching chapter, Bert covers adding shadows, color, motion and other ways to change the mood of a scene.
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Excerpted from “Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy” © 2004 New Riders Publishing. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as New Riders. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
This article was last modified on January 3, 2023
This article was first published on September 29, 2004
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