50 fast digital photo techniques - Gregory Georges

50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques Whether you shoot your original photographs on film or work with a digital camera, image–editing software lets you do amazing things – and this unique book shows you how. Focusing on retouching techniques and artistic effects rather than software specifics, Gregory Georges walks you step by step through 50 of today's coolest, fastest, and most useful image–editing tricks from simple tweaks and fixes to eye–popping collages and hand–painted effects.
* Transform ordinary photos into artistic masterworks
* Perfect an image by removing scratches and correcting color
* Create a quick brush–like painting or filter effect
* Play around with saturation, gradation, and other color transformations
* Combine and clone images for panoramas, photomontages, and more
* Embellish portraits with soft focus, mixed media, or caricature effects
* Mimic sepia, depth–of–field, motion blur, and other traditional photo techniques
* Transform photos into "pen–and–ink sketches" or "watercolors"
* Build frames and backgrounds to show off your photos
CD–ROM includes:
* Images from the book
* Browser–based slide show of all 50 "before" and "after" images
* Adobe Photoshop Elements tryout and evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro
32 pages of color examples show you how to create stunning digital effects System Requirements: Pentium Class PC running Windows 98 or higher, Power PC running OS 8.6 or higher; 64 MB RAM; 300 MB available hard disk space; color monitor with 256 colors or better; graphics monitor with 800×600 or better resolution www.hungryminds.com