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Book Description

"More Than One Way to Skin a Cat: Create Eye-Popping Effects Using Aviary (Without Paying for Photoshop!)" shows you how to create humorous and imaginative images using Phoenix, a powerful yet simple browser-based image editor from Aviary.com. You'll start with the basics of Phoenix, learning about the features, tools, and layering systems you'll use to complete the tutorials in the book. Once you have a grasp of Phoenix, you'll work through some beginner tutorials that include simple effects such as colorization, face swapping, creating lighting and shadows, and even liquifying. From there you'll learn how to enhance those photos you have lying around, with helpful tips and instructions on retouching skin, cross-processing images, and even how to turn your photograph into a comic book panel or a Warhol-like image. You can use your new skills to create your own amazing images, from the humorous to the thought-provoking, applying them to photographs, or try your hand at the images in the final chapter full of tutorials. "More Than One Way to Skin a Cat" shows anyone with an imagination how to create fun and unique images.

Table of Contents

  1. Copyright
    1. Dedication
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. About the Author
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Phoenix Basics
    1. Phoenix Tools
    2. Understanding Layers
    3. Making Selections
  6. 2. Basic Tutorials
    1. Casting Shadows
    2. Matching Shadows
    3. Matching Lighting
    4. Background Cloning
    5. Layer Masks
    6. Three Ways of Color Replacement
    7. Precision Selection
    8. Lighting Effects
    9. Surface Reflections
    10. Motion Blur
    11. Perspective Sign
    12. Changing Skin Color
    13. Creating Lightning
    14. Foggy Day
    15. Snowy Day
    16. Rainy Day
    17. Flood
    18. Day to Night
    19. In the Clouds
    20. Behind Glass
    21. Tattoo Art
    22. Graffiti
    23. Face Swap
    24. Liquify—Melting
    25. Liquify—Displacement
    26. Liquify—Texturizing
    27. Clowning Around
    28. Coloring Line Art
  7. 3. Sprucing Up Photography
    1. Enhancing Saturation
    2. Borders
    3. Dodge & Burn
    4. Compositional Cropping
    5. Cross Processing
    6. Selective Desaturation
    7. Selective Inversion
    8. Aging a Photo
    9. Photo Retouching
    10. Coloring Hair
    11. Enhancing Eyes
    12. Warhol-izing
    13. Turning a Photo into a Comic Book Panel
    14. Miniaturizing
  8. 4. Fun with Phoenix
    1. Lemon Car
    2. Chocolate
    3. Aliens!
    4. Aging a Person
    5. Animal Hybrids
    6. Edible Architecture
    7. Gender Bending
    8. Flying Cars
    9. Toiletbot
    10. Inanimate Objects
    11. Unzipped
    12. Fire!
    13. Water
    14. S-s-smokin’
    15. Chrome
    16. Stone
    17. Canvas Earth
    18. Robot Frog
    19. Animal Dress-Up
    20. Creating an MP3 Player
    21. Anatomy Scramble
    22. Creating a Sea Monster
    23. Cyborg
    24. Dragons
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