Idea to Image in Photoshop CS2: Rick Sammon's Guide to Enhancing Your Digital Photographs

by Rick Sammon

From "America's Most Popular Photo Expert" comes this beautiful book on working and playing with the Photoshop digital darkroom. World-famous, award-winning professional photographer and writer Rick Sammon, author of 25 books and host of 2 television programs, shares his favorite creative enhancements for turning "straight" digital pictures into more creative and imaginative images. With this book you will become not only a well-rounded photographer but also a self-motivated artist in the powerful age of digital imaging. Rick begins the book with advice on seeing creatively and outlines his winning artistic process to help you learn to visualize the end-result before taking a picture. He then turns to the technical aspects of taking photographs, including his philosophy of using features like Camera Raw in Photoshop and how it is a must to obtain the best possible images. Step-by-step lessons follow, each showing how Rick transforms his digital photographs into compelling images. Detailed screenshots of the process accompany Rick's stunning photography and amusing anecdotes of photo shoots from around the world.  

202 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was okay. It was rather thin with not as much content as a normal textbook on Photoshop, but I did not know this when I bought it. I really liked other Rick Sammon guides, but since I have flipped through a few of his, the images are all the same, more or less, in every guide. Also, this book gave tips on how to do effects I am not interested in at all, like doing montages with a shadowy tiger in the background, etc. Ew. I will get some basic training out of it, though and as I only paid 5 bucks for it...there ya go.