How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography - Softcover

Davis, Jack; Willmore, Ben

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9780321227997: How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography

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ISBN 10: 0321227999 ISBN 13: 9780321227997

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2004

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Wouldn't it be great if you could have two of the world's most sought-after Photoshop teachers sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate through the infinite possibilities of your digital photographic darkroom? How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography is the next best thing. It's the brainchild of two Photoshop powerhouses--Jack Davis and Ben Willmore, both world-renowned authors and educators, who have developed an effective way to help you reach your full creative potential. Jack and Ben guide you step-by-step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and go-home-at-night speed! You'll receive tips and techniques on everything from streamlining your workflow to solarizing without chemicals to balancing out skin tones. Whether it's optimizing the color and tone of your image, retouching cosmetic undesirables, reconstructing priceless heirlooms, or creating sepia color treatments, you'll be given the tools at every stage of the creative process in order to learn How to Wow!

The book begins with the essentials of workflow (including color management, Photoshop's File Browser, and Camera Raw), and then moves on to adjusting and optimizing and retouching and repairing. Next comes the fun stuff, with projects focusing on enhancing and exaggerating aspects of your photos for maximum impact, followed by projects on color and black-and-white treatments and artistic effects and overlays. Finally, there is a chapter devoted to combining your images and creating custom photo collages using instant Wow Tools Presets, available on the CD-ROM accompanying the book.

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How to Wow Practical instruction and examples from the core of this Photoshop volume and author of "The Photoshop Wow! Book". The everyday creative and production challenges faced by photographers serve as the starting point for each Photoshop lesson. Full description

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Simple step-by-step instructions equal easy, elegant solutions in this volumegeared exclusively toward photographers using Photoshop. Just like readers'favorite cookbooks -- the ones with short, clear-cut instructions andmouthwatering photos of the delectable concoctions -- this book identifieschallenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs ininspirational photos of the glorious results. Realizing that serious shutterbugsare more interested in the artistic concepts that drive Photoshop's use than thetechnology behind it, the authors provide enough theoretical grounding so thatreaders can use the program effectively but leave out the tech-heavy under-the hooddiscussions that represent the core of other Photoshop tomes. Readerswill find recipes for dealing with common workflow problems (colorcorrection, dodging and burning, retouching), and they'll learn the excitingphoto enhancing techniques that can give their work that extra wow: tinting,softening, collaging, you name it! Along the way they'll get up to speed on all ofPhotoshop's newest, snazziest tools: the Healing Brush, the Pattern Makerplug-in, and more.A

UTHBIO = Award-winning designer, illustrator, and photographer Jack Davis is also thebest-selling author of numerous books, including the landmark PhotoshopWow! Book. He also writes "The WOW! Factor" column for Photoshop Usermagazine. His co-author, Ben Willmore , founded the well-regarded training andconsulting firm Digital Master and has written several books on Photoshophimself.

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