Photoshop CS5 for nature photographers - Ellen Anon

Enhance the beauty in your nature photos!Awardwinning nature photographers Ellen Anon and Josh Anon show you the secrets to creating stunning nature images using their fieldtested methods and Photoshop techniques. Youll find practical workflows and smart, timesaving ways to use Photoshops broad array of tools to optimize your images from improving tonal values to adding effects to creating surreal montages with composites. Youll also find valuable information on using Photoshop Elements.

The book includes the authors spectacular photographs shot in exotic places around the world, as well as additional striking examples from several of the most esteemed professional nature photographers today. Take inspiration from the works of Michael Reichmann, George Lepp, Joe McDonald, Arthur Morris, and John Shaw, and capture the beauty around you.

• Discover whats new in Photoshop CS5, including new ContentAware healing, HDR Pro, single image pseudo HDR, painterly effects, and major changes to the Lens Correction filter




• Use the Color Range option and adjust color to finetune detail and capture mood




• Use Smart Objects and Smart Brushes for more efficient and flexible workflows




• Create depthoffield and highdynamicrange composites to go beyond camera limitations




• Convert to blackandwhite or create multiple exposures to alter mood and effect




• Create actions, use shortcuts, and automate tasks to save time




• Explore the surprisingly rich toolset of Photoshop Elements

Learn how to transform your photos into painterly images with new bristle tips and wet brushes

Use Elements 8s new Photomerge Exposure to create HDR images