50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques : Covers Photoshop, Photoshop Le, Photodeluxe, Paintshop Pro, Photoimpact Photopaint and Other Products with Cdrom

by Gregory Georges

• ISBN13: 9780764535789
• ISBN10: 0764535781
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques is an immensely useful book for anyone wanting to take advantage of photo-quality printers, digital cameras, Web technologies, Adobe2s Photoshop, and other top photo editing apps. The techniques are valuable to those with artistic skills as well as those without -- they enable everyone to enjoy successful creation of fine art images and prints! The step-by-step and richly illustrated collection of awesome techniques are easily accessible and understandable to users on every level. This is a new kind of Photoshop book -- one that can help both casual users and professional users create and enjoy fine art prints without having to become an expert in Photoshop.

Author Biography

Gregory Georges, a photographer for more than 25 years, has worked with medium-format, 35mm, and digital cameras to produce more than 18,000 photographs and 1,500 digitally edited images. He is the author of the bestselling Digital Camera Solutions and a contributing writer at eDigitalPhoto magazine.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xxxiii
Creating a Master image	1	(34)
Getting Your Image into Shape	3	(6)
Removing Dust and Scratches	9	(4)
Adjusting Color and Saturation	13	(4)
Improving Tonal Range and Image Contrast	17	(6)
Removing Color Cast	23	(4)
Sharpening Images	27	(4)
Fixing and Replacing ``Stuff''	31	(4)
Quick and easy techniques	35	(22)
Creating a Graphic Art Image	37	(4)
Creating a Poster-Like Image	41	(4)
Painting with the Sumi-E Brush	45	(4)
Making a ``Brush-Like'' Painting	49	(4)
Creating a Unique Image with Multiple Filters	53	(4)
Image coloring techniques	57	(26)
Changing colors	59	(4)
Adding Light and Atmosphere	63	(4)
Changing the Color of Image Elements	67	(4)
Performing Radical Color Transformation	71	(4)
Using a Monochromatic Scheme	75	(4)
Getting Color from a Second Image	79	(4)
Combining Two or More Images	83	(28)
Compositing Two Images	85	(4)
Adding Objects to an Image	89	(4)
Making a Panorama by ``Stitching'' Images	93	(4)
Putting sky from One Image into Another	97	(4)
Cloning One Image into Another	101	(6)
Creating a Photomontage	107	(4)
Techniques for People Pictures	111	(28)
Turning a Digital Photo into the Best Print It Can Be	113	(6)
Creating a Vignette	119	(6)
Creating Digital Caricatures	125	(4)
Making an Album Page	129	(6)
Animating to Show Personality	135	(4)
Traditional Photographic Techniques	139	(26)
Turning a Color Photo into a Black and White Photo	141	(4)
Creating a Hand-Painted Black and White Photo	145	(4)
Making a Sepia-Toned Photo	149	(4)
Adding Grain to a Black and White Photo	153	(4)
Creating Depth of Field	157	(4)
Adding Motion to an Image	161	(4)
Natural Media Techniques	165	(34)
Creating a Line Drawing	167	(8)
Creating a Watercolor-Like Painting	175	(6)
Creating a ``Pen and Ink'' Sketch with a Watercolor Wash	181	(6)
Creating an Inventive Digital Painting	187	(4)
Simulating a Gouache or Tempera Painting	191	(4)
Creating Multimedia Artwork	195	(4)
Creating Backgrounds, Textures, and Frames	199	(30)
Making Your Own Digital Background	201	(6)
Using an Image to Make Texture	207	(4)
Creating Picture Edges	211	(6)
Adding a Matte Frame to an Image	217	(6)
Framing Images for Online Viewing	223	(6)
Thinking ``Outside the Box'' Techniques	229	(18)
Creating Mixed Media	231	(4)
Using Scanned Backgrounds	235	(4)
Flipping Portions of an Image	239	(4)
Using Plug-in Modules	243	(4)
Appendix A: What's on the CD-ROM	247	(2)
Appendix B: Image editor feature translation tables	249	(16)
Appendix C: Other resources	265	(2)
Index	267	(21)
About the Author	288	(1)
Colophon	289	(1)
Hungry Minds, Inc End-user License Agreement	290	(2)
CD-ROM Installation Instructions	292