With the introduction of affordable and easy-to use digital cameras, people are takingphotographs like never before. While the digital medium greatly simplifies thephotographic process, it also offers photographers unprecedented opportunities tomanipulate their images on their personal computers.
Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers tells you everything you need to know to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 to adjust, correct, retouch, and manipulate your photographs-without making you first learn everything there is to know about the application. These straightforward, easy-to-follow recipes give you specific directions so you can quickly and easily:
<ul>
<li>Fix exposure, focus, and color problems</li>
<li>Add special effects like motion blurs, lens effects, and surface textures</li>
<li>Improve portraits by removing red eye, wrinkles, and blemishes</li>
<li>Add and remove objects from photos seamlessly</li>
<li>Use lighting effects to create more dramatic images</li>
<li>Restore faded and damaged photos</li>
<li>Give new shots a vintage, old-fashioned look</li>
<li>Create posterized and hand-tinted images</li>
<li>Assemble and fine-tune composite photos</li>
<li>Correct perspectives</li>
</ul>
The book tackles each real-life project in full color, with a hands-on approach. The fully illustrated recipes produce reliable and immediate results, and include "at a glance" panels and tip boxes that cover key techniques in detail. 
Barry Huggins, the author of Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers, has created the only recipe-format manual on photographic retouching targeted specifically to digital photographers. Founder of a highly successful multimedia training and consulting company, Huggins is uniquely qualified to deliver step-by-step instruction in digital retouching methodology, with easy-to-follow recipes that address specific problems and teach "best practices" techniques. This is his fifth book on digital imaging and graphics software.

Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers: 113 Easy-to-Follow Recipes to Improve Your Photos and Create Special Effects

Arts & Photography

Huggins, Barry

Photography & Video

O'Reilly Media

From bringing sunshine into cloudy day pictures to creating underwater effects, photographers can add realistic drama to their images with Photoshop. The techniques are all here, brilliantly illustrated and explained in this bestselling guide--now updated for the next version of Adobe Photoshop with new instructions and screen grabs. Find out about light sources; different types of light, such as candlelight and neon; manipulating light; and color temperature. Replicate classic studio lighting setups, and give portraits a touch of Hollywood glamour. Abundant information on shadows, projections, reflections, special effects, shortcuts for Mac and Windows, filters, and third-party plug-ins, make this is a must-have. "You'll be both inspired and informed with a new arsenal of techniques."--eDigitalPhoto "Higgins has written the comprehensive guide to creative lighting in the age of digital photography."--Digital Camera

Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques (A Lark Photography Book)

Lark Books

Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques, Revised and Updated (A Lark Photography Book)

Union Square & Co.

Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Lighting Techniques (A Lark Photography Book)

"Surreal Digital Photography" covers the use of digital imaging software to turn digital photographs into artistic works through montage or colour enhancements. It demonstrates the techniques involved through practical projects, many of which produce a "surrealist" end result. The book is broken down to cover landscape, portrait, and studio photography, and the methods involved can be used to create amazing results from any digital photos. Creative showcase sections also highlight the best work from dynamic digital artists, with breakdowns to show the behind-the-scenes work. The book combines practical techniques with a more artistic approach to digital imaging, where it's not just about fixing problems or creating realistic results, but about exercising the imagination and being more playful with your photography.

Surreal Digital Photography

Probert, Ian

Cengage Learning PTR

From bringing sunshine into cloudy day pictures to creating underwater effects, photographers can add realistic drama to their images with Photoshop. The techniques are all here, brilliantly illustrated and explained in this bestselling guide--now updated for the next version of Adobe Photoshop with new instructions and screen grabs. Find out about light sources; different types of light, such as candlelight and neon; manipulating light; and color temperature. Replicate classic studio lighting setups, and give portraits a touch of Hollywood glamour. Abundant information on shadows, projections, reflections, special effects, shortcuts for Mac and Windows, filters, and third-party plug-ins, make this is a must-have. You'll be both inspired and informed with a new arsenal of techniques.--eDigitalPhoto Higgins has written the comprehensive guide to creative lighting in the age of digital photography.--Digital Camera

Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques, 3rd edition (CANCELLED)

The digital revolution has brought unprecedented freedom for photographers. No longer tied to the darkroom, they are now able to create images of amazing depth and sophistication, using a dazzling array of techniques and special effects. Surreal Digital Photography takes you behind the scenes with some of the leading exponents of this fledgling art form. As the experts take the lid off the digital trickery that underlies so many of the images we see every day, you will learn how to manipulate, edit, enhance, and combine digital images to produce fantastic results. From simple photo-editing tricks to complex digital montages, Surreal Digital Photography offers the inside track on digital special effects, and will help you take your work to a whole new level.

Surreal Digital Photography : The Photographer's Digital Trickery Handbook

ILEX

Brand new book that has only been leafed through a couple times. Never written in or highlighted in. Will wrap to insure safe shipment.

Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques

Computers & Technology

Software

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