Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers (Before & After Makeovers) [Paperback]

Taz Tally (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 047174901X | ISBN-13: 978-0471749011 | Publication Date: January 18, 2006 | Edition: 1

You're no stranger to Photoshop. But sometimes, it certainly would simplify your life if you had a step-by-step recipe for fixing this problem or creating that effect. And wouldn't it be nice if you could see the expected result? Open this book and that's what you'll find. From basic enhancements like sharpening contrast and tweaking lighting to radical makeovers that change backgrounds or add elements, you simply pick your project, follow the directions, and watch blah "befores" become amazing "afters"!

The cream of the makeovers crop, including:

• Dimensional makeovers, such as adding image area, altering dimensions, or creating a panorama.
• Exposure enhancements--bringing subjects out of shadow or adjusting contrast.
• Color corrections using highlights, adjusting color object by object, or matching color across images.
• Controlling composition by desaturating, removing distracting objects, and creating a focal point.
• Mode makeovers--interchanging black-and-white, color, grayscale, and transparency.
• Repurposing images from digital to print or print to the Web.
• A companion Web site with bonus makeover chapters, images from most of the projects in the book, and more.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"...great resource..." (Advanced Photoshop, July 2006)

From the Back Cover

Watch as you make the magic happen

You're no stranger to Photoshop. But sometimes, it certainly would simplify your life if you had a step-by-step recipe for fixing this problem or creating that effect. And wouldn't it be nice if you could see the expected result? Open this book and that's what you'll find. From basic enhancements like sharpening contrast and tweaking lighting to radical makeovers that change backgrounds or add elements, you simply pick your project, follow the directions, and watch blah "befores" become amazing "afters"!

The cream of the makeovers crop, including

• Dimensional makeovers, such as adding image area, altering dimensions, or creating a panorama
• Exposure enhancements—bringing subjects out of shadow or adjusting contrast
• Color corrections using highlights, adjusting color object by object, or matching color across images
• Controlling composition by desaturating, removing distracting objects, and creating a focal point
• Mode makeovers—interchanging black-and-white, color, grayscale, and transparency
• Repurposing images from digital to print or print to the Web

Companion Web Site

Find bonus makeover chapters, images from most of the projects in the book, and more at www.wiley.com/go/makeovers

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Product Details

• Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047174901X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471749011
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,948,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Author Overview, March 5, 2006

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Taz Tally (Kachemak Bay Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers (Before & After Makeovers) (Paperback)

Hello, Taz Tally here, the author of Photoshop CS2 Before and After Makeovers.
Greetings from glorious Alaska!

I thought you might like to know a bit more about what is in my book and why I wrote it.
For years, I have been teaching my Photoshop production techniques in my seminars. I have received numerous requests to gather many of my production techniques and tips in one volume ... well, this is it. I like to work quickly (to provide plenty of time for kayaking) as well as to produce good results, so I use lot's of shortcuts, many of which I include in this book.

Some jobs and images require careful detailed work, and some do not ... often a quick and dirty technique is just as effective as a longer more time consuming one. I share with you how to recognize those images and challenges that require only Q&D attention, and those that require more. And you will learn a whole slew of the time tested approaches and Photoshop techniques that I use.
I hope you enjoy this book ... please let me know what you think.
Also, if you have your own Before and After projects and techniques you would like to share, please send them to me ... I am collecting projects and techniques for the second volume of Photoshop Before and After and am eager to include other peoples work and wisdom along with my own ... so feel free to send me your project ideas, and you might just get published! You can contact me via email at <<[e-mail]>>

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best hands on introduction to Photoshop CS2, March 8, 2008

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Sandune Florida (Saint Petersburg, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers (Before & After Makeovers) (Paperback)

For novices, learning their way around Photoshop can be daunting to say the least. No technophobe, me, with limited patience for technobabble, I was able to dive right on in with Tally's hands on tutorials.

Too often, in my opinion, some of the reviews of books on software applications are written by people needing to tell/impress the world with how smart they are. The attitude is: "I can understand all this arcane junk, and you can't." As a professional newspaper photographer for many years, knowing your f-stops and your film are far more apt to lead to your photo ending up on page one than is knowing that a Nikon camera has 1,000 plus parts.

Yes, it's a beginner's book, but one I find myself going back to for reference time and again. A reader friendly introduction to Adobe's Photoshop. Highly recommended.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers Taz Tally, January 1, 2008

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R. J. Smith (wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers (Before & After Makeovers) (Paperback)

A disappointment, I expected more. Details a little muddy, hard to follow in area's, I wasted time trying to figure out steps that had been missed. This is not a book I would purchase again; there are better more detailed books out there.