Photography : Digital Photography

You've captured great images with your DSLR, now what? Jerry Courvoisier provides an easy-to-follow road map for importing, organizing, and editing your images using the best features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS3. The combined power of using both programs--automation with Lightroom and specialized processing in Photoshop--offers a complete and flexible solution for serious hobbyists and pro photographers alike. In this accessible and beautifully illustrated guide, learn about: *The essential DSLR gear, with suggested computer and laptop configurations, digital darkroom and color management setups, and best capture formats for your style of shooting. *General preferences and display options to customize and enhance your workflow.*The Lightroom 2 modules to effectively organize, process, and catalog your images.*Integration with Photoshop CS3, including making panoramas and high dynamic range (HDR) images. *Advanced Photoshop CS3 techniques to create stunning results: converting images to black and white, painting with light, selective focus, diffusion effects, layer masking, and special blending modes.Loaded with tips and techniques from a seasoned photographer, including a pre-shoot checklist for camera settings, Courvoisier delivers a digital workflow system that allows you to spend less time at your computer and more time behind the camera capturing great images. more...

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* Published in conjunction with the next version of Paint Shop Pro software, this easy-to-use reference shows how to edit photos and create high-quality, professional-looking graphics * Covers how to capture images from a variety of different media-paper, camera, and screen * More advanced topics include retouching, adjusting colors, creating artistic effects, adding layers of text and shapes, masking layers, and creating Web images * A sixteen-page color insert features before-and-after image edits and graphics highlighting the visual effects that people can achieve more...

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* The complete For Dummies Photoshop resource-ten minibooks with more than 800 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations * Covers Photoshop fundamentals, image essentials, selections, painting, drawing and typing, working with layers, channels and masks, filters and distortions, retouching and restoration, Photoshop and the Web, and Photoshop and print * Explains how to create and manage layers, use channels and masks, make corrections with filters, fix flaws and imperfections, and much more * Updated and revised throughout for Photoshop ''X,'' which Adobe expects to release in Fall 2003 * Features sixteen pages of full-color examples * Written by veteran For Dummies author Barbara Obermeier, a leading design and graphics author more...

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Loaded with the latest Photoshop tips and techniques. The secrets of digital image editing — explained in plain English!. Photoshop CS3 is a powerhouse, and here's the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This friendly guide helps you get images into Photoshop — and then turn them into dazzling works of art. more...

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The perfect companion to Adobe’s newly released Photoshop Album software, showing the reader how to organize, fix, and share photos with this new digital imaging programCovers the key features including importing, organizing, and managing photos; locating and viewing them; editing, sharing, and printing photos; creating projects with images; and more Adobe is working on distribution agreements with several original equipment manufacturers to package Photoshop Album with new digital cameras, scanners, PCs, and printers, creating an ever-expanding marketAuthor is a professional graphic designer and instructor at Ventura College and the University of California, Santa Barbara more...

Price: $21.99