Product Description

It′s time to see Photoshop as a tool of your craft



This book is not about "fixing it in Photoshop." It′s about how you, the serious nature photographer, can use technology to enhance your art. Rob Sheppard sees Photoshop not as an eraser for mistakes and the effects of careless shooting, but as an artist′s tool, one that assists you in the craft of producing art from your digital camera. He shows you how to use Photoshop CS2 to extend tonal range, remove color haze, correct lens distortions, create multi–frame panoramas, and so much more––all to reveal the work of art you knew was there all along.
∗ Learn to apply Photoshop techniques to the unique requirements of landscape and nature photography
∗ Be aware of correct exposure when shooting for Photoshop
∗ Use layers to enhance images and correct tonality and color for optimum images
∗ Discover a better way of dodging and burning
∗ Understand midtones and manage color correction with an eye to the finished product
∗ Process images twice in Camera Raw for better shadow and highlight detail
∗ Explore how Photoshop CS2 can support proven techniques used by the masters of traditional nature photography


Photoshop offers great power for controlling color so you can get natural, realistic colors that best express what you see in nature

Unsharp Mask is unmasked so that you can get the most from this powerful sharpening tool

Utilize the best methods of black–and–white conversion

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385710 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 379 pages

Review
"A beautifully presented guide...it’s easy to work your way through and experiment with the techniques." (Photoshop Creative, August 2006)

Review
"A beautifully presented guide...it’s easy to work your way through and experiment with the techniques." (Photoshop Creative, August 2006)

From the Back Cover
It′s time to see Photoshop as a tool of your craft

This book is not about "fixing it in Photoshop." It′s about how you, the serious nature photographer, can use technology to enhance your art. Rob Sheppard sees Photoshop not as an eraser for mistakes and the effects of careless shooting, but as an artist′s tool, one that assists you in the craft of producing art from your digital camera. He shows you how to use Photoshop CS2 to extend tonal range, remove color haze, correct lens distortions, create multi–frame panoramas, and so much more—all to reveal the work of art you knew was there all along.

• Learn to apply Photoshop techniques to the unique requirements of landscape and nature photography
• Be aware of correct exposure when shooting for Photoshop
• Use layers to enhance images and correct tonality and color for optimum images
• Discover a better way of dodging and burning
• Understand midtones and manage color correction with an eye to the finished product
• Process images twice in Camera Raw for better shadow and highlight detail
• Explore how Photoshop CS2 can support proven techniques used by the masters of traditional nature photography

Photoshop offers great power for controlling color so you can get natural, realistic colors that best express what you see in nature

Unsharp Mask is unmasked so that you can get the most from this powerful sharpening tool

Utilize the best methods of black–and–white conversion

Customer Reviews

Solved!
Even though I have a background in IT I could never get to grips with Photoshop, despite reading several other books on the subject before this one. This book is absolutely first rate and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to get there best out of their photographs with Photoshop. At the time I bought this book there were no other reviews, regardless I went ahead and bought it anyway, based mainly on the strength of the description.

What is unique about this book is that it explains Photoshop from a photographer's perspective. If you have ever developed and printed photographs, or admired the great landscape photographers like Ansel Adams, you will feel immediately at home with this book. The examples are clear, the steps to explain and educate are well paced and logically presented.

If I have any criticism I would like to have seen a larger section on printing, but as the author explains this is a big subject in itself - so Rob, get cracking on a book on printing, I can assure you of at least one sale!

Great book
I concur with the other reviewer. Its a great book. The author gives you a solid workflow approach to improving your images. He narrates an honest work through several of his images detiling approaches in photoshop to change things within the photo for the better, showing the compromises , benefits and disadvantages.
I work with his approch now when I get time to manipulate my photos. I've really made a substantive improvemnt to images. The approach isn't one that only realtes to landscapes, its general.
Thoughly recommended.