make your photographs of women look better than their best As every professional photographer knows, there is work to be done after the shoot wraps. Photographer and digital magician Kevin Ames takes you behind the scenes of his fashion work to reveal his thinking behind the camera as well as in front of the computer. Using full-color examples, he shows you step by step how to use Photoshop to digitally refine beauty and fashion photos, from correcting color and smoothing skin to sculpting bodies and removing blemishes, and much more. Whether you're shooting high fashion, portraits, lingerie,... View More...
With a mantra like There are no bad originals, only bad Photoshop operators, you know best-selling author Dan Margulis is serious about exposing people to the magic of Photoshop. Nowhere is that magic more apparent than in its LAB color processing capabilities, which can make even the subtle canyon colors of rock, sand, and dirt come to vivid life. However, you may be wary of taming the complex beast. Here s your guide In these pages, Dan shows that you can derive enormous benefits from just a few simple tools and techniques. He also demonstrates that you can take these techniques as far as y... View More...
Designers, photographers, and artists are using Photoshop to create fantastic and realistic images for illustrations, fine art, and editorial content. Whether they're landscape or portrait photographers, illustrators or fine artists, masking and compositing are essential skills to master for combining images to the extent that it is impossible to tell where one image stops and the other one begins. Photoshop artist and educator Katrin Eismann takes readers through numerous step-by-step examples, highlighting the tools and techniques used for masking and combining images. Featuring work by lead... View More...
This guide to planning a career in computer graphics includes descriptions of more than 130 positions along with salary information, 100 interviews with real-life practitioners, and advice from more than 75 different practitioners from studios such as PIXAR Animation, Blue Sky, Will Vinton, PDI/ DreamWorks, and Disney Interactive. Daily duties, educational needs, salary, and resources for further inquiry into the areas of specialty are explained, and practitioners' general advice to beginners and advice on portfolio issues is also provided. View More...
LaTeX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of The LaTeX Companion, this new book will be an invaluable LaTeX resource for incorporating pictures into text. You will learn how to: *Incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document *Program technical diagrams using several different languages *Produce color pictures *Achieve specia... View More...
A guide for students new to digital illustration as well as computer graphics and arts teachers and working graphic artists looking for fresh ways to use Adobe Illustrator software. It explains the features of the software's latest release and shows how to create vector graphics and drawings for pri View More...
The RAW file format used by digital cameras is essentially the raw data that a camera captures when it takes a photo. RAW files allow the digital photographer to edit and manipulate their photos with less data loss than in other file formats (such as JPEG). There are many RAW conversion tools, and it's often a good idea to use more than one to get optimal results.The Art of RAW Conversion shows digital photographers how to work with the RAW files generated by a digital camera to produce the best possible image quality in finished photos. The authors (both experts in digital photography, file p... View More...
Presents tips on attaining professional results using Photoshop CS and Photoshop 7. This project-based approach teaches common techniques Photoshop professionals use in the digital darkroom. It provides information on how to scan, archive, and manage digital images, plus the removal of dust, scratches, and other flaws. View More...
Written by a well-known multimedia artist, this cross-disciplinary survey examines the impact of today's high-level computer and video technologies upon contemporary art. It draws connections between the production, dissemination, value and creation of art-past and present-serving as a frame-of-reference for the future. View More...
"This has to be the most unusual book on Photoshop ever published. A very clever one, too, and a must-have for dedicated Shopoholics." --DingBat Magazine Photoshop Secrets of the Pros is not your typical Photoshop book, laboriously marching you through features, filters, and techniques. This book throws you right into the thick of things, dropping you ringside for a series of digital duels and artistic collaborations. In this groundbreaking guide top artists challenge each other in a series of Photoshop Tennis matches--and you get to peer over their shoulders. You'll watch them put Photoshop t... View More...
From adding animation to Web pages to creating movies for the Web, this book gives readers a solid background in Flash so they can create professional projects right away. The Web Wizard series is perfect for anyone who wants to create, design, or learn more about Web sites. Each full-color book provides a concise, easy-to-read, step-by-step introduction to a Web-related topic. View More...
A visual, task-based guide to using Keynote 2, Apple's latest revision of it graphically elegant presentation software. Filled with tips, sidebars and anecdotes drawn from the author's personal experience. View More...
The revised edition of this introductory text on computer graphics has been reduced in length by half. Its presentation of key concepts is geared to students and provides worked examples in C. View More...
