Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
- Published by: Peachpit Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition July 3, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0321227999
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0321227997
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Product Description
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 photographs 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.
About The Author
Jack Davis is an award-winning designer, illustrator, and photographer as well as the author of numerous books on digital imagery, design, and online communication, including (with co-author Linnea Dayton) the best-selling
The Photoshop Wow! Book. Davis also teaches as part of the "Dream Team" for Photoshop World and his national Wow Seminar Tour.
Reader ReviewsI really liked the previous WOW! series of Photoshop books from Jack Davis. So I expected to like this one, too. I wasn't disappointed, but not for the reasons I expected. (I thought this was a Photoshop CS book.) It starts out explaining the set-up for your digital camera and the best workflow from camera to finished product. There are several pages on Camera Raw adjustments. And they tell you how to adjust your exposure settings on your camera to get an optimal picture to start with. For most of the book, it is somewhat like a cookbook, with recipes to achieve the various effects and perform the various feats of magic on the photos. The CD contains all of the photos used in all of the projects in the book, so you can do what they do and follow along. They strongly suggest in the book that you perform the tasks in chapters 1 & 2 before moving on to any of the others. These are the lessons that give you a foundation of skills and techniques to build on. After that, they say you are free to roam and work through their projects (recipes) in any order. You'll also find over 250 custom presets on the CD. A bunch of them are used in the projects throughout the book. The others are there for you to browse at your leisure. The presets are: ACTIONS for everything from enhancing and fixing photos to automating tasks like noise removal. CUSTOM SHAPE TOOLS to help you create instant and elaborate framing, soft-edged vignettes, ghosted backgrounds, etc. NATURAL MEDIA BRUSH TOOLS for use in creating expressive chalk and oil border treatments or turning your photos into water color paintings. SEAMLESSLY WRAPPING PATTERNS ranging from paper and canvas texture to fabric and woven materials, all of which can be applied with a single click. Even though it was written for "Adobe Photoshop 7 or later," it covers some features that are new to Photoshop CS (8), such as the Lens Blur filter and the new Shadow/Highlight feature under Image -
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