50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques [Paperback]

Gregory Georges (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764535781 | ISBN-13: 978-0764535789 | Publication Date: July 15, 2001 | Edition: 1

50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques is an immensely useful book for anyone wanting to take advantage of photo-quality printers, digital cameras, Web technologies, Adobe's 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.

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From the Back Cover

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 today's 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 masterworks
* Perfect an image by removing scratches and correcting color
* Create a quick brush-like painting or filter effect
* Play around with saturation, gradation, and other color transformations
* Combine and clone images for panoramas, photomontages, and more
* Embellish portraits with soft focus, mixed media, or caricature effects
* Mimic sepia, depth-of-field, motion blur, and other traditional photo techniques
* Transform photos into "pen-and-ink sketches" or "watercolors"
* Build frames and backgrounds to show off your photos
CD-ROM includes:
* Images from the book
* Browser-based slide show of all 50 "before" and "after" images
* Adobe Photoshop Elements tryout and evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro
32 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

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764535781
• ISBN-13: 978-0764535789
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,459,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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66 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Way To Learn, September 14, 2001

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Lloyd Jewett (Oahu) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques (Paperback)

First of all it is worth mentioning that this book is really focused on being used in conjunction with Adobe's Photoshop Elements image editing program. Yes, you could probably use this book with other editing programs but it will not be as effective. As far as this being a fantastic way to learn Photoshop Elements...It receives an A++. I bought PS Elements and only had very limited knowledge of how to take advantage of the features. After going through each and every one of the 50 techniques I feel very confident. The CD-Rom that accompanies the book has all the images you will need to learn the 50 techniques and the author does a very good job of walking the reader through step by step. If you are diving into digital photography I would point you toward PS Elements for your editor and this book for learning how to get creative.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great if you want to learn Photoshop Elements, November 10, 2001

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Richard Patton (Palm Harbor, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques (Paperback)

I bought this book about 3 weeks prior to purchasing Photoshop Elements and began studying it before using the program. After loading the software, I was editing photos that evening and accomplishing remarkable techniques within 3 days. This is more than a re-writen instruction book- it is a step-by-step guide on how to accomplish 50 different, mostly easy projects that would have taken me weeks to figure out with the instruction manual alone. The results using Photoshop Elements, which is an exellent program, are outstanding.
If you want to use Photoshop Elements, wish to do more than just print snapshots, and want to unleash your full power of artistic license, buy this book.
The author also wrote "Digital Camera Solutions," which is an introduction to digital photography, and which I also enjoyed.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Photoshop Elements tutorial, January 2, 2002

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Judith Lahore (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques (Paperback)

"50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques" is basically a great tutorial on Photoshop Elements, better than the other 2 books I've seen in the bookstores. The CD contains before and after images so you can see how you do on the projects, and every one is self-contained, so you don't have to refer to some earlier project and do that first. All of the projects are quick and practical, and his results are really artistic. Two tables at the end of the book compare the commands of Photoshop Elements to Photoshop LE 5 and Photoshop 6; and to Paint Shop Pro 7, Photo-Paint 10, and Photoimpact 6, so you can also use the techniques with those other programs. I highly recommend this book, which is the best "hands-on" book on a graphics program I have ever used. I am currently trying out the demo version of PE included on the CD and will soon order PE to use with my new digital camera, and with other graphics programs, such as Painter. I am delighted with both the book and the Photoshop Elements program.