50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-7645-3578-9 (ISBN)
Description
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques Whether you shoot your original photographs on film or work with a digital camera, image-editing software lets you do amazing things and this unique book shows you how. Focusing on retouching techniques and artistic effects rather than software specifics, Gregory Georges walks you step by step through 50 of todays coolest, fastest, and most useful image-editing tricks from simple tweaks and fixes to eye-popping collages and hand-painted effects.Transform ordinary photos into artistic masterworksPerfect an image by removing scratches and correcting colorCreate a quick brush-like painting or filter effectPlay around with saturation, gradation, and other color transformationsCombine and clone images for panoramas, photomontages, and moreEmbellish portraits with soft focus, mixed media, or caricature effectsMimic sepia, depth-of-field, motion blur, and other traditional photo techniquesTransform photos into "pen-and-ink sketches" or "watercolors"Build frames and backgrounds to show off your photosCD-ROM includes:Images from the bookBrowser-based slide show of all 50 "before" and "after" imagesAdobe Photoshop Elements tryout and evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro32 pages of color examples show you how to create stunning digital effects System Requirements: Pentium Class PC running Windows 98 or higher, Power PC running OS 8.
6 or higher; 64 MB RAM; 300 MB available hard disk space; color monitor with 256 colors or better; graphics monitor with 800 600 or better resolution www hungryminds.com
6 or higher; 64 MB RAM; 300 MB available hard disk space; color monitor with 256 colors or better; graphics monitor with 800 600 or better resolution www hungryminds.com
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50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques with Photoshop Elements 3
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Gregory Georges has been an active photographer for over 25 years. During this time, he has taken pictures with medium format, 35mm, and digital cameras resulting in a collection of over 15,000 images. He is also the author of the book Digital Camera Solutions. Gregory is also a Contributing Writer for eDigitalPhoto magazine which is a new sister publication to Shutterbug magazine.
Content
Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: Creating a Master Image. Chapter 2: Quick and Easy Techniques. Chapter 3: Image Coloring Techniques. Chapter 4: Combining Two or More Images. Chapter 5: Techniques for People Pictures. Chapter 6: Traditional Photographic Techniques. Chapter 7: Natural Media Techniques. Chapter 8: Creating Backgrounds, Textures, and Frames. Chapter 9: Thinking "outside the Box" Techniques. Appendix A: What's on the CD--ROM. Appendix B: Image Editor Feature Translation Tables. Appendix C: Other Resources. Index. About the Author. Colophon. Hungry Minds, Inc End--User License Agreement. CD--ROM Installation Instructions.