Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 374 pages
- Published by: Wiley January 18, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 047174901X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471749011
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Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 8.5 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Product Review
"great resource" (
Advanced Photoshop, July 2006)
Product Description
You're no stranger to Photoshop. But sometimes, it certainly would simplify your life if you had a step-by-step recipe for fixing this problem or creating that effect. And wouldn't it be nice if you could see the expected result? Open this book and that's what you'll find. From basic enhancements like sharpening contrast and tweaking lighting to radical makeovers that change backgrounds or add elements, you simply pick your project, follow the directions, and watch blah "befores" become amazing "afters"!
The cream of the makeovers crop, including:
- Dimensional makeovers, such as adding image area, altering dimensions, or creating a panorama.
- Exposure enhancements--bringing subjects out of shadow or adjusting contrast.
- Color corrections using highlights, adjusting color object by object, or matching color across images.
- Controlling composition by desaturating, removing distracting objects, and creating a focal point.
- Mode makeovers--interchanging black-and-white, color, grayscale, and transparency.
- Repurposing images from digital to print or print to the Web.
- A companion Web site with bonus makeover chapters, images from most of the projects in the book, and more.
Order your copy today!
Reader Reviews
Hello, Taz Tally here, the author of Photoshop CS2 Before and After Makeovers. Greetings from glorious Alaska! I thought you might like to know a bit more about what is in my book and why I wrote it. For years, I have been teaching my Photoshop production techniques in my seminars. I have received numerous requests to gather many of my production techniques and tips in one volume ... well, this is it. I like to work quickly (to provide plenty of time for kayaking) as well as to produce good results, so I use lot's of shortcuts, many of which I include in this book. Some jobs and images require careful detailed work, and some do not ... often a quick and dirty technique is just as effective as a longer more time consuming one. I share with you how to recognize those images and challenges that require only Q&D attention, and those that require more. And you will learn a whole slew of the time tested approaches and Photoshop techniques that I use. I hope you enjoy this book ... please let me know what you think. Also, if you have your own Before and After projects and techniques you would like to share, please send them to me ... I am collecting projects and techniques for the second volume of Photoshop Before and After and am eager to include other peoples work and wisdom along with my own ... so feel free to send me your project ideas, and you might just get published! You can contact me via email at <<ttallyphd@aol.com
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