COMPANY: Beautiful-Landscape | URL: (See Buy link below) | TYPE: CD, mattes | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $49.95
								4x5 Viewfinder mattes
				Alain's Composition CD-1 features a complete system designed to help you study Composition in the field and in your studio using my photographs as examples. Composition is both one of the most important aspects of photography and one of the most difficult to learn. Without strong composition skills your photographs will not rise above a certain level. Yet, while you hear that all the time, not much is available to study composition at a professional level. Alain's Composition CD is the first composition teaching tool of its kind. It brings an end to this situation by providing you with help in several different ways: First, by offering you a tool to study composition in the Field and in the Studio. Second, by offering you a tool to study composition in all the most popular image formats, from 6x6 to 6x17 with every other format in-between. Third, by providing you with tutorials in essay form (in PDF format) and as Quiktime movies, in which Alain tells you exactly how to use the materials on the CD and the viewfinders. This is the first Beaux Arts Photography CD to feature movies. Fourth, by using Alain's photographs as examples and showing you exactly how each of Alain's photographs was composed. A total of 20 examples using Alain's Photographs are provided on the CD, in both vertical and horizontal format and for 10 different composition styles. These photographs are provided on the CD as layered Photoshop files. Fifth, by providing you with overlays on each Photoshop file, showing exactly the structure of each composition. These overlays are located on a separate Photoshop layer that can be turned on or off. Sixth, by providing you with Blank Overlays Photoshop files, in 10 different composition styles, onto which you can paste your own photographs and check the exact composition of each photograph to see if it matches the composition style of a specific overlay. The overlay layer contains a sketch of the composition lines for each composition style. This drawing appears over your photographs as lines when you pasts your images onto the Blank Overlay files. Seventh, by providing you with tools to practice cropping your photographs in ways you never dreamt possible until now. Alain's Composition CD comes with 6 Layered Photoshop Files which contain 3 different types of masks for the 8 most popular photographic formats. These masks allow you to create a border showing the photographic format of your choice, place a black matte around the border of the image and place a semitransparent colored overlay showing the boundaries of the composition of your choice. All the teaching materials on Alain's Composition CD-1 work together to offer you a virtual "Composition Lab" in which you can build and refine your composition skills like you never did before. When you head back into the field you will be armed with knowledge that will allow you to compose photographs with the underlying structure you need to have to guarantee a professional result. Alain is so confident that this CD will allow you to improve your composition skills that if you do all the exercises on it, use all the materials, watch all the movies, read all the essays and still do not improve your composition skills, he will refund your money! Here is the complete list of contents of this unique CD/Viewfinders package: Viewfinders: •PDF Article “How to use the Viewfinders in the field & In the Studio” •Eight viewfinders (see photograph above) in the following sizes: 6x6, 6x7, 4x5, 6x4.5, 6x9, 35mm, 6x12, 6x17 Cropping Masks in Layered Photoshop Files •PDF Article: How to use the Cropping Masks in Photoshop •Movie: Alain personally explains how to use the Cropping masks •Black masks •Border line masks •Solid color masks Composition Overlay files •PDF Article: how to use the Overlay files in Photoshop •Movie: Alain personally explains how to use the Overlay files •Overlays with Alain’s Photographs •Blank overlay files to paste your photographs on
								Cropping Masks PDF
								Blank overlays PDF