Creative Photography Ideas Using Adobe Photoshop: 75 Workshops to Enhance Your Photographs

In-computer editing is now as important as in-camera shooting; this book provides ingenious creative techniques to immediately enhance images through this medium. Presents 75 comprehensive workshops that have been specifically designed for photographers; each offers a clever and creative technique that can be immediately applied. Takes a specific, unique slant to provide a wide range of creative tips and tricks designed to appeal primarily to photographers, but also to other 'creatives' using the programme. From basic techniques to more advanced, all guidance is 'best practice' and shown via clear explanatory texts, photos, 'before, during and after' manipulations and screen grabs.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1: Making Simple Tonal and Colour Changes 1. Manipulating Contrast Using Curves 2. Boosting Contrast Using Levels 3. Increasing and Decreasing Saturation 4. Dealing With Colour Casts in Photoshop 5. Dealing With Colour Casts in ACR 6. Using Gradient and Quick Mask 7. Adding a Graduated Colour Filter 8. Creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image 9. HDR Using Tone Mapping in Photomatix Pro 10. Creating an HDR File Manually 11. Creating an HDR Image From a Single Raw File 12. Making Local Colour and Tonal Changes Using Selections 13. Making Selections Using Color Range 14. Dodging and Burning Using a Gray Fill Layer 15. Making Tonal Adjustments Using the Shadows/Highlights Command 16. Producing High-Key Images 17. Adding a Soft Filter Effect Chapter 2: Mono Effects 18. Converting a File to Monochrome 19. Sepia Toning 20. Blue Toning 21. Copper Toning 22. Dual Toning Using Duotone 23. Creating an Infrared Effect 24. Creating a Lith Effect 25. Creating a Digital Cyanotype 26. Adding Grain for a Film Noir Effect 27. Going for Gold 28. Selective Colouring Chapter 3: Creative Use of Filters 29. Improving a Portrait Using Blur Filters 30. A Digital Model Makeover Using Surface Blur 31. Differential Focusing Using Lens Blur 32. Creating the ‘Big Stopper’ Effect 33. Bas-Relief Effect Using the Find Edges Filter 34. Simulating a Speeding Car Using Motion Blur 35. Noise and How To Overcome It 36. Reflected Water Using Motion Blur and Ripple 37. Creating a Ghostly Effect Using Radial Blur 38. Creating a Retro Comic-Book Effect 39. Achieving the Pop Art Look Chapter 4: Further Image Manipulation 40. Cropping 41. Removing Intrusive Elements Using Contents Aware 42. Removing Intrusive Elements Manually 43. Removing Intrusive Elements Using the Clone Tool 44. Correcting Sloping Horizons 45. Correcting Converging Verticals Using Transform 46. Sharpening the Image 47. Constructing Panoramas 48. Making Adjustments Using Adobe Camera Raw Chapter 5: Retro Photography 49. Creating a Pinhole Camera Digitally 50. Creating the Lomo Effect 51. Mimicking the Cross-Processing Effect Digitally 52. Distressing the Image 53. Adding a Polaroid Border 54. Adding Further Borders and Edges Chapter 6: Composites and Further Special Effects 55. Dropping in a Sky 56. Blending in a Sky 57. Producing Sunbeams 58. Constructing a Narrative 59. Producing Droplets of Water 60. Creating a Composite by Making Simple Selections 61. Creating a Composite Using Blending Mode 62. Creating a Composite Using Refine Edge 63. Making Selections Using Channels 64. Creating a Composite With Multiple Layers 65. Generating a Reflection 66. Creating a Shadow on a Hard Surface 67. Creating a Shadow on a Soft Surface 68. Creating a Rainbow Using the Gradient Tool 69. Producing the Illusion of Lightning 70. Presenting Images in Sequences 71. Making a Constructed Image 72. Celebrating Texture Using the Blending Mode 73. Creating a ‘Joiner’ or ‘Still Movie’ 74. Creating a Mirror Image 75. Joining Two Landscapes Index

About the Author :
Tony Worobiec is author of several photography titles. He has won numerous awards and his work is held in collections throughout the world. He is regular contributor to photography magazines and has taught photoshop for the prestigious Royal Photographic Society. Tony lives in Dorset.