With the introduction (launching) of affordable (inexpensive) and easy-to use (ingest) digital cameras, people (grouping) are taking (attractive) photographs like (same) never before. While the digital medium (job) greatly simplifies the photographic process, it also offers photographers unprecedented (unexampled) opportunities to manipulate (cook) their images on their personal (individualized) computers.
Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers tells you everything you need (requirement) to know (undergo) to use (ingest) Adobe Photoshop CS2 to adjust, correct, retouch, and manipulate (cook) your photographs-without making you first (prototypal) learn everything there is to know (undergo) about the application. These straightforward, easy-to-follow recipes give (provide) you specific (limited) directions so you can (crapper) quickly and easily:
Fix exposure, focus, and color (colouration) problems
Add special (primary) effects like (same) motion blurs, lens (lense) effects, and surface (opencast) textures
Improve portraits by removing red (flushed) eye, wrinkles, and blemishes
Add and remove (vanish) objects from photos seamlessly
Use lighting (illumination) effects (personalty) to create (create) more dramatic (hammy) images
Restore faded (colourless) and damaged (dilapidated) photos
Give new (newborn) shots a vintage, old-fashioned look
Create posterized and hand-tinted images
Assemble and fine-tune composite (flower) photos
Correct perspectives
The book (aggregation) tackles each (apiece) real-life project (send) in full (flooded) color, with a hands-on approach. The fully (full) illustrated recipes produce (display) reliable and immediate (unmediated) results, and include (allow) "at a glance" panels and tip (counsel) boxes that cover (counterbalance) key techniques in detail.
Barry Huggins, the author (communicator) of Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers, has created the only (exclusive) recipe-format manual (drill) on photographic retouching targeted specifically to digital photographers. Founder of a highly successful (flourishing) multimedia training (upbringing) and consulting company, Huggins (uranologist) is uniquely qualified (eligible) to deliver (have) step-by-step instruction (code) in digital retouching methodology, with easy-to-follow recipes that address (come) specific (limited) problems and teach (inform) "best practices" techniques. This is his fifth (ordinal) book (aggregation) on digital imaging (imagery) and graphics software.
Product DetailsPaperback: 176 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (August 16, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596100302
ISBN-13: 978-0596100308
Product Dimensions: 10 x 9.3 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
