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 todays 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 masterworksPerfect an image by removing scratches and correcting colorCreate a quick brush-like painting or filter effectPlay around with saturation, gradation, and other color transformationsCombine and clone images for panoramas, photomontages, and moreEmbellish portraits with soft focus, mixed media, or caricature effectsMimic sepia, depth-of-field, motion blur, and other traditional photo techniquesTransform photos into "pen-and-ink sketches" or "watercolors"Build frames and backgrounds to show off your photosCD-ROM includes:Images from the bookBrowser-based slide show of all 50 "before" and "after" imagesAdobe Photoshop Elements tryout and evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro32 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
- ISBN13 9780764535789
- Publish Date 1 July 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
- Pages 400
- Language English