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 photos 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #688603 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Back Cover

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 photos 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.

Customer Reviews

Great for the intermediate - advanced user
This book is at the next level compared to many books on Photoshop. This is not the step by step guide how to use Photoshop that someone starting out needs. It assumes a working knowledge of the programme. It is full of tips, short cuts and smarter ways of working. It includes a useful section on how best to use raw images. The book also presents a whole work flow method for processing images and getting the most out of them. The books mantra is 'quality, flexibility and speed'. It scores maximum points on all three. The book is not a complete run through of all the capabilities ogf Photoshop. It does not delve into the graphic design and video uses of the programme. Its focus, as the title implies, is photopgrahy and it illustrates how you can best use Photoshop to get the most out of your images. It looks at the important areas that the photographer needs to know and delivers answers to pertinent problems. I can't reccomend this book highly enough. I found lots of new ways of working and I am sure that it needs to be on the shelf of every Photoshop power user.