If you've jumped into the digital realm, it's time to learn how to enhance, correct, and manipulate your photos. Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers teaches you how to take your images into Photoshop and turn them into masterpieces. Photoshop CS is jam-packed with new features designed especially for digital photographers. Using Photoshop CS is essentially like having your own digital darkroom right on your desktop, which includes all the tools you need to achieve professional quality results. To help you master these tools, Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers teaches you professional techniques to overcome the many challenges presented by digital photography. By using these techniques, you'll be able to produce professional-quality results, and you'll establish an efficient workflow. Everything from the basics of organizing pictures and removing blemishes, to adding special effects is taught through practical tutorials and projects. Some of the topics include creative cropping, color and brightness correction, color shifting variations, removing wrinkles and red eye, nose reduction and eye enlargement, and framing techniques. In addition, special effects that teach how to turn your photos into paintings or change the time from day to night are also provided. With the techniques and skills taught throughout the book, you'll learn how to manipulate your digital photos into truly customized and personalized images, and you'll master many of the powerful features of Photoshop CS. This no-nonsense, easy-to-read, full color guide is the one resource digital photographers need!
Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning new-media designer who has caused a stir in the design community with his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed entirely in Photoshop. Colin is also known as a pioneer of HDR photography. He is founder of the world's most popular Photoshop resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com, which boasts over 20 million visitors.
With over 15 years of experience in the creative industry, Colin was formerly Senior Editor and Creative Director for VOICE magazine. He is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine. He has been featured in most major imaging magazines including, Computer Arts, Macworld, After Capture, PSD Photoshop, Advanced Photoshop, Photoshop Creative, Digital Photographer, Web Designer magazine and a host of others..
Colin's graphic design work has been recognized with numerous awards, including, MacWorld Digital Design and 3 Guru awards at Photoshop World 2001 and 2002, for his work in both Illustration and Web Design. He's authored or co-authored more than eighteen books on Photoshop, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS and CS2 (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2005) and award-winning Photoshop Most Wanted: Effects and Design Tips (A Press/Friends Of Ed, 2002). Colin is also creator of the Photoshop Secrets Video training series (PhotoshopCD.com). He is in high demand across the United States as a lecturer, presenting his Photoshop techniques to Photographers and graphics professionals across the nation. He has been a speaker at such conferednces as Flash Forward, NVision, Photoshop World, PIDE, WPPI, PIDE, DL Expo, Creative Suite Conference, Cre8, Create Chaos, Deviant Art Summit and many more. In 2008 Colin was the featured speaker for a Sold out Multi-City Tour (Flash Summer Camp) Sponsored by Adobe and Lynda.com. Colin has consulted such companies as Adobe Systems, Edison International, Apple and Disney Studios.
