Explains how to transform one's digital photographs into a wide variety of artistic creations, offering detailed instructions on how to use digital scans and photos as elements in artwork and presenting a wide variety of entertaining projects, including colorizing, photomontages, postcards, and customized calendars, that can be done with the Photoshop Elements image editing program. Original. (Intermediate)Offers advice and suggestions for creating art and art projects using a digital camera and image editing programs.
Part I: Getting Started 1: Recipes for Images 2: Boot Camp Part II: Patterns, Textures, Filters, and Backgrounds 3: Making Your Images “Touchable” 4: Out of Thin Air 5: Roll Over, Michelangelo Part III: Colors and Tinting 6: Deal Yourself a Winning Hand 7: Turning Back the Calendar 8: Housewarming, 1850s Style 9: With Color, Less Really Can Be More 10: Simple Gifts Part IV: Combining Elements 11: No Scissors, No Paste 12: Getting It Together 13: What I Did on My Summer Vacation Part V: Other Fun Stuff 14: What Fools These Mortals Be 15: Hey, They Took My Camera! 16: Better Than Perfect Part VI: Appendixes A: The Software in Review B: How Do I Get There from Here? C: Glossary
Kate Binder is a production artist, Photoshop expert, and author or co-author of several computer books including SVG For Designers, The Photoshop 6 Cookbook, Easy Adobe Photoshop 5/6, Photoshop Complete 4, and Teach Yourself QuarkXPress 4 in 14 Days. Richard Binder is an artist, designer, and technical writer who works in both traditional and electronic media.
