50 Fast Techniques
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50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques with Photoshop Elements 3
by Gregory Georges and Kevin L Moss
Published 1 October 2005
Praise for "50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques": "Applying the lively techniques in this book will make anyone's digital camera a more productive tool." - Al Francekevich, professional photographer, on the first edition. Your digital camera is an amazing and versatile creative tool, with features and capabilities you probably haven't even explored until now. Here are step by step instructions for 50 hot new techniques that take advantage of all the latest camera features, fully illustrated with stunning color photos taken by the author. No matter what type of digital camera you have, this book will help you create more professional pictures. This is your guide to amazing results with your digital camera. Select the right shooting mode and change critical settings in seconds, use exposure and focal length to get sharper photos, shoot fantastic candid, nature, and pet pictures, learn the secrets of shooting dramatic skyscapes and urban landscapes, plan shots for creative digital manipulation, download and print your photos or share them on the Web, and create a photographic essay or convert color shots to artsy black and white.
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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
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
* Offers step-by-step techniques for a wide range of creative digital photography projects, from greeting cards, recipe pages, invitations, and illustrated books to panoramas, collages, bound photo albums, DVD slide shows, and Web galleries* Perfect for the exploding digital photography market, which has grown from 6.7 million cameras sold in 2000 to a projected 42 million in 2005* Released to hit stores right after the 2004 gift-giving season, it's the perfect companion to the author's previous bestsellers, which include 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques