Picture Editing: An introduction - Softcover

Ang, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240514696 ISBN 13: 9780240514697

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Picture Editing is an introduction to the art and discipline of picture editing and picture management. It provides a thorough grounding in the subject. It discusses the varied context in which picture editing operates, including the thorny subject of image manipulation, and provides a framework for understanding picture editing as a many-stranded and complex task.


Picture Editing is an introduction to the art and discipline of picture editing and picture management. It provides a thorough grounding in the subject. It discusses the varied context in which picture editing operates, including the thorny subject of image manipulation, and provides a framework for understanding picture editing as a many-stranded and complex task.

The book combines detailed descriptions of the work involved with checklists, reference sources and exercises to help the student or trainee, and is illustrated with many photographs, including over forty colour photographs in the plate section.

Picture Editing has been written for those who want to learn how to edit pictures, understand how picture editing works and learn about the debates that currently concern the subject. It will be useful to photography students, photographers new to the profession and to those contemplating a career in photography.

Topics covered include:
* Picture selection
* Commissioning
* Legal issues
* Ethical and moral issues
* Electronic picture desks
* Tools
* Entering the production cycle
* Picture research
* Picture editing contexts

Tom Ang is a freelance photographer and senior lecturer in photographic practice and course leader of BA (hons) Photography and Multimedia (part-time) in the School of Communications at the University of Westminster. he has worked on various magazines.

Review:

' A comprehensive guide to the art of picture editing for newspapers and
magazines.'
Professional Photographer

About this title

Review

' A comprehensive guide to the art of picture editing for newspapers and
magazines.'
Professional Photographer, December 1996.

Synopsis

This illustrated text is an introduction to the contexts and aspects of picture editing, such as briefing a picture researcher, the equipment required, legal aspects, editing and publishing. Topics include image manipulation, ethical issues and the production cycle, with checklists throughout.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240514696
• ISBN 13: 9780240514697
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240