Digital Image Compositing Fundamentals - Couverture souple

Jackson, Wallace

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1484216393 ISBN 13 : 9781484216392

Editeur : Apress, 2015

Synopsis

Digital Image Compositing Fundamentals is an introductory title covering concepts central to digital imagery and digital image compositing using software packages such as Adobe Photoshop or the open source GIMP software, which is used for this book because it is free for commercial use.

This book builds on the fundamental concepts of pixels, color depth and layers, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering pixel transparency using the alpha channel, pixel blending using Porter-Duff blending and transfer modes, and digital image file formats and key factors regarding a data footprint optimization work process.

What You'll Learn:

• What are the most common memes in digital imaging
  
• What comprises a digital image compositing pipeline
  
• What are the concepts behind digital imaging
  
• How to install and use GIMP 2.8 or 2.9
  
• What are and how to use the concepts behind color depth and image optimization

Audience:

This book is for those new to image compositing, editing. Ideal for web developers, game developers who need to learn these kinds of fundamentals quickly and effectively.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wallace Jackson has been writing for leading multimedia publications about his work in new media content development since the advent of Multimedia Producer Magazine nearly two decades ago, when he wrote about computer processor architectures for centerfolds (removable "mini-issue" insert) distributed at SIGGRAPH. Since then, Wallace has written for several other publications about his work in interactive 3D and new media advertising campaign design, including 3D Artist,Desktop Publishers Journal, CrossMedia, AVvideo and Kiosk Magazine.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Digital Image Compositing Fundamentals introduces the reader to the concepts and terminology behind digital imaging, including pixels, channels, layers, compositing, alpha, masking, compression, blending, dithering, color depth and the like.

What You'll Learn:

• What are the most common memes in digital imaging
  
• What comprises a digital image compositing pipeline
  
• What are the concepts behind digital imaging
  
• How to install and use GIMP 2.8 or 2.9
  
• What are and how to use the concepts behind color depth and image optimization

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Apress
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1484216393
• ISBN 13: 9781484216392
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH; ProductSafety@springernature.com; ; Europaplatz 3; Heidelberg; 69115; Allemagne