Product Description

There’s no limit to what the Photoshop enthusiast can achieve – as long as they know how.

This exceptional step-by-step guide to every aspect of lighting and associated effects extends user expertise way beyond the manual.

Photo-specific examples encompass every specialized area, from enhancing backgrounds to the delicate treatment of shadows or shading.

It elevates Photoshop to a completely new and exciting level – all with easy-to-follow pictorial sequences, minimal technical jargon and hundreds of visually inspiring examples.

An inspirational and practical guide to creating stunning photographic lighting effects

Amateur and professional alike will benefit from the hints, secrets and tips

Easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials help to get straight to the creativity

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #325413 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Digit Magazine, July 2004
Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques gives you the know-how you need over 43 in-depth examples.

About the Author
Barry Huggins developed his skills during the early Internet years when he saw the medium as a golden opportunity to marry his passion for art, photography, design and creativity with the new emerging technologies.

He now has his own training and consultancy company in London, Matrix Training, where he specializes in graphics and multimedia applications for both the Internet and print. He has also taught photography and advanced Photoshop

Customer Reviews

Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques
Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques
ISBN 1-904705-23-5

Barry Huggins
ILEX

Review by John Shaw, Timeless Digital Imaging

One of the most powerful and useful techniques that Photoshop has to offer is the ability to change lighting. This subject, however, is one of the most neglected amongst Photoshop books I have reviewed.

Well, here is a book that changes all that. This new publication by ILEX books concentrates solely on lighting techniques, packed with useful projects that will transform your photographs. The book discusses the various types and qualities of light, showing you how to create warm and cold hues, High and Low key images etc. It also includes a very useful chapter on using the Lighting Effects Filter and includes an explanation of its many settings, vital if you are to create a realistic lighting effect.

Each project is neatly covered in a chapter tackling a particular type of lighting. Examples include creating reflections on water, metal, glass etc, a chapter showing how to manipulate lighting and weather to make an overcast day appear sunny, create sunsets from daylight scenes including realistic rainbows and so on.

The layout is refreshingly easy to follow with minimum use of technical jargon and short step by step guides, accompanied by photographs and illustrations, showing the result of each manipulation of the picture. The projects are short and snappy, so you can work through different techniques quickly and efficiently.

A nice touch would have been an accompanying CD containing the photographs used in the various projects for you to practice with, as some techniques required a specific subject matter, which some people may not have in their collection e.g. a jet engine to show heat haze.

Overall a well presented and intuitive book, which allows you to experiment with new techniques in whatever order you choose. A must buy for every enthusiastic Photoshop user.

Highly Recommended

Skip the walking, and just run with it!
I bought this, looking for something that was as inspiring, and as informative as some magazine tutorial articles I've read for people like me; imaginative, not happy with "ordinary" photos, and eager to run before I can walk.

Although not just for beginners, by any means, it did just that ...... inform, and instruct. It does this in easy to follow, tutorial style, chapters which can be dipped into for any given result. In no time at all, you will be enabling realistic but larger than life results, which draw the extraordinary from the ordinary and mundane.

As is often the case, ........... it's (relatively) easy when you know how.

Buy it! You won't be disappointed!

Skip the walking, and just run with it.

Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques
Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques
ISBN 1-904705-23-5

Barry Huggins

One of the most powerful and useful techniques that Photoshop has to offer is the ability to change lighting. This subject, however, is one of the most neglected amongst Photoshop books I have reviewed.

Well, here is a book that changes all that. This new publication by ILEX books concentrates solely on lighting techniques, packed with useful projects that will transform your photographs. The book discusses the various types and qualities of light, showing you how to create warm and cold hues, High and Low key images etc. It also includes a very useful chapter on using the Lighting Effects Filter and includes an explanation of its many settings, vital if you are to create a realistic lighting effect.

Each project is neatly covered in a chapter tackling a particular type of lighting. Examples include creating reflections on water, metal, glass etc, a chapter showing how to manipulate lighting and weather to make an overcast day appear sunny, create sunsets from daylight scenes including realistic rainbows and so on.

The layout is refreshingly easy to follow with minimum use of technical jargon and short step by step guides, accompanied by photographs and illustrations, showing the result of each manipulation of the picture. The projects are short and snappy, so you can work through different techniques quickly and efficiently.

A nice touch would have been an accompanying CD containing the photographs used in the various projects for you to practice with, as some techniques required a specific subject matter, which some people may not have in their collection e.g. a jet engine to show heat haze. P>Overall a well presented and intuitive book, which allows you to experiment with new techniques in whatever order you choose. A must buy for every enthusiastic Photoshop user.

Highly Recommended