Photoshop CS2 Before and After Makeovers

Taz Tally

John Wiley & Sons, Mar 31, 2006 - Computers - 374 pages

You're no stranger to Photoshop. But sometimes, it certainly would simplify your life if you had a step-by-step recipe for fixing this problem or creating that effect. And wouldn't it be nice if you could see the expected result? Open this book and that's what you'll find. From basic enhancements like sharpening contrast and tweaking lighting to radical makeovers that change backgrounds or add elements, you simply pick your project, follow the directions, and watch blah "befores" become amazing "afters"!

The cream of the makeovers crop, including:

• Dimensional makeovers, such as adding image area, altering dimensions, or creating a panorama.
• Exposure enhancements--bringing subjects out of shadow or adjusting contrast.
• Color corrections using highlights, adjusting color object by object, or matching color across images.
• Controlling composition by desaturating, removing distracting objects, and creating a focal point.
• Mode makeovers--interchanging black-and-white, color, grayscale, and transparency.
• Repurposing images from digital to print or print to the Web.
• A companion Web site with bonus makeover chapters, images from most of the projects in the book, and more.

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Contents

• Chapter 1 ESSENTIAL MAKEOVER TOOLS: 7
• Chapter 2 DIMENSIONAL MAKEOVERS: 37
• Chapter 3 EXPOSURE MAKEOVERS: 63
• Chapter 4 COLOR MAKEOVERS: 87
• Chapter 5 COMPOSITION MAKEOVERS: 113
• Chapter 6 REPAIR MAKEOVERS: 159
• Chapter 7 COLORMODE MAKEOVERS: 185
• Chapter 8 ADDING ELEMENTS AS A MAKEOVER: 219
• Chapter 9 SHARPENING MAKEOVERS: 255
• Chapter 10 SHADOW MAKEOVERS: 275
• Chapter 11 EFFECTS MAKEOVERS: 297
• Chapter 12 EXTREME MAKEOVERS: 323
• Index: 363
• Bonus Chapter 1 REPURPOSING MAKEOVERS: 376
• Bonus Chapter 2 COLLECTION MAKEOVERS: 7

About the author

Dr. Taz Tally is President of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer publishing, consulting, and training company. He is the author of numerous books—including Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers, Acrobat and PDF Solutions, Avoiding the Output Blues, Avoiding the Scanning Blues (a Doubleday Book Club featured selection), The UMAX MagicScan Manual, and SilverFast: The Official Guide—and he served as a contributing author to The Photoshop World Dream Team Book. He has produced numerous instructional videos, CDs, and DVDs on scanning images, prepress issues, Photoshop, color correction, font management, and keyboard shortcuts, and was the instructor for the video training series DeskTop to Print. A frequent presenter at seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S., Taz is also a member of the Photoshop Dream Team—mainstays at the biannual Photoshop World conventions. He is also a frequent contributor to Photoshop User magazine, for which he writes a regular prepress column.
When he is not touring the country presenting his seminars, Taz generally heads off to the outdoors. One of those outdoor places he especially enjoys is his home in glorious Homer, Alaska, where he revels in mountain biking, kayaking and hiking, Nordic skiing, and nature photography with his Cardigan-Welsh-Corgi Zip. Taz has also been sighted skiing the powder snows in Utah, diving with the whales in the waters off of Hawaii, and prowling the terrains of the desert Southwest and Mexico.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Photoshop CS2 Before and After Makeovers
• Author: Taz Tally
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2006
• ISBN: 0471793175, 9780471793175
• Length: 374 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Image Processing