Press Release
October 20, 2005
Photoshop Digital Studio Cookbook Series: Photoshop Users Get Recipes for Success
Sebastopol, CA--Photoshop is the digital artist and photographer's premier
choice for editing and manipulating digital photos. And with the mounting
interest in digital photography, the demand for practical guidance, expert
techniques, tips and solutions--recipes for success if you will--continues
to grow. It's exactly all of this and more that O'Reilly delivers in its
beautifully designed and visually stunning new series, the Photoshop
Digital Studio Cookbooks.
Packed with hundreds of full color images, inspiring digital imagery, and
authoritative information and advice, the books provide everything the
reader needs to retouch, create effects, use blending modes, and filter
effects, with professional results. With the books in this collection, the
digital artist or photographer doesn't need to be a Photoshop expert to
succeed. The Photoshop Digital Studio Cookbook Series includes the
following:
Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers (Huggins,
O'Reilly, US $29.95)--Teaches
readers with straight-forward, easy-to-follow recipes how to adjust,
correct, retouch, and manipulate photos:
- Fix exposure, focus, and color problems
- Add special effects such as motion blur, lens effects, and surface
texture
- Improve portraits: remove red eye, wrinkles, and blemishes
- Add and remove objects, use lighting effects, restore faded and damaged
photos
- Give new shots a vintage, old-fashioned look
- Create posterized and hand tinted images
Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook (Shelbourne, O'Reilly, US
$29.95)--Readers can simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques
without having to learn Photoshop inside and out. Hundreds of full color
examples cover:
- Create graphic art effects: posterization, watercolor, pen and ink,
woodcut
- Lighting effects: neon glows, lens flares, fire, and flame effects
- Simulate nature: rain, clouds, rainbows, lightning, and snow
- Adapt traditional techniques: film grain, contrast masks, hand-tinting
- Simulate textures like stone, metal, glass, and plastic
- Make mattes, vignettes, frames, borders, signatures
- Assemble multi-layered images and photomontages
Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia Cookbook (Pring, O'Reilly, US
$29.95)--A comprehensive practical reference that provides step-by-step
instructions for using filters that produce stunning effects including:
- Creating selective focus and simulating motion blur
- Adding special lens and filter effects
- Working with artificial lighting and modifying day for night
- Simulating textures and making flat objects three-dimensional
- Creating multi-layered images and photomontages
Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook (Beardsworth, O'Reilly, US
$29.95)--The only recipe format book to cover blending modes specifically
for digital photographers. The book covers:
- Changing hue, saturation, luminosity, and color
- Correcting basic color shifts and repairing highlights
- Sharpening or softening focus, adjusting lighting, and controlling
contrast
- Creating surface effects and textures
- Adding interest to landscapes and urban scenes
- Enhancing portraits of children and adults
Additional Resources:
Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers
Barry Huggins
ISBN: 0-596-100302, 176 pages, $29.95 US, $41.95 CA
Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook
Tim Shelbourne
ISBN: 0-596-100221, 176 pages, $29.95 US, $41.95 CA
Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia Cookbook
Roger Pring
ISBN: 0-596-100213, 176 pages, $29.95 US, $41.95 CA
Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook
John Beardsworth
ISBN: 0-596-100205, 176 pages, $29.95 US, $41.95 CA
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