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Das Standardwerk zu Adobe Photoshop! Sibylle Mühlke und Jürgen Wolf vermitteln geballtes Photoshop-Wissen und erklären alle Werkzeuge und Funktionen der Software – vom Öffnen einer Datei bis hin zur Arbeit mit 3D und Video. Sie erhalten zahlreiche Tipps und Hintergrundinfos, verstehen, welche Regler und Buttons Sie klicken müssen und haben Ihre Software von A bis Z im Griff! Alle wichtigen Themen werden anhand von Praxisbeispielen erklärt, die Sie Schritt für Schritt nachvollziehen können. Das benötigte Beispielmaterial steht Ihnen natürlich als Download zur Verfügung. So steht perfekten Retuschen, professionellen Montagen und selbst digitalen Gemälden nichts mehr im Wege.Komplett in Farbe, mit Tastenkürzel-Übersichten und Zusatzinfos zum Download – hier finden Sie als Einsteiger oder Fortgeschrittener immer genau das, was Sie brauchen! Aus dem Inhalt:Starthilfe für Neueinsteiger•innenBilder korrigieren und optimieren: Kontraste, Helligkeit und Schärfe, Farbkorrektur und Schwarzweiß, TonwertkorrekturRaw-Entwicklung mit Camera RawWeichzeichnung und SchärfentiefeHDR und PanoramenInhaltsbasierte Retusche, Bild- und Objektivfehler beheben, Perspektivkorrektur, FluchtpunktMalen mit Misch-Pinsel und Co.Texte und TextformatePhotoshop-Techniken: Masken, Auswahlen, Kanäle, Mischmodi, Ebenenstile, Filter, Smartobjekte, Pfade, FormwerkzeugeVideo- und 3D-BearbeitungAutomatisieren, FarbmanagementAusgabe für Druck und WebDie Fachpresse zur Vorauflage: Designer in Action: »Wer auf der Suche nach einem Buch ist, das möglichst alle wichtigen Funktionen von Photoshop abdeckt, Paletten bis ins Detail erklärt oder Filter ausführlich vorstellt, der ist hier richtig.« NaturFoto: »Auf mehr als 1.100 Seiten erklären Sibylle Mühlke und Jürgen Wolf alles, was man über das Arbeiten mit Photoshop wissen muss – mehr Photoshop geht wirklich nicht! Das Referenzwerk für jeden, der die Werkzeuge, Funktionen und Techniken von Grund auf erlernen möchte.«

Unleash your digital creativity with an award-winning designer and Adobe Certified Expert and master complex editing tools and features to work smarter and faster for high-end resultsKey FeaturesCreate, manage, and deliver captivating visuals for print, screen, and the web using proven industry techniquesManage your digital projects with granular control and confidenceBecome an expert and eliminate last-minute Google searches to overcome challengesPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionUnlock the full potential of Photoshop, the go-to app for content creators, by mastering its complex tools and features. This book, drawing from the award-winning author's 25+ years of design experience, builds on your existing Photoshop knowledge with proven industry techniques, serving as a launchpad to develop professional skills and transformative personal growth. You'll fine-tune color and tone in your images with non-destructive adjustment layers and conceal content like backdrops with precise masking techniques for fine details like hair. Working through a series of real-world editing projects, crafting realistic brand mockups and traditional marketing collateral, you'll learn robust methods for building social media assets in Photoshop, from images to animated GIFs and videos. You'll also be able to bring your typography to life with styles and effects that are simple to edit and store as preset effects. The final section of the book encapsulates all of your learning to create complex montages using advanced masking and compositing techniques. You'll have fun elevating your designs with surreal art styles and conceptual imagery using retouching, blending, and liquify filters. By the end of this Adobe Photoshop book, you'll be equipped to create captivating visuals that leave a lasting impression on your audience.What you will learnDiscover new ways of working with familiar tools, enhancing your existing knowledge of PhotoshopMaster time-saving retouching techniques, ensuring flexibility for repeated edits without compromising on qualityCreate precise image cut-outs and seamless montages with advanced masking toolsMake Photoshop your go-to application for social media contentAutomate repetitive tasks with actions and scripts that batch-process hundreds of images in secondsIntegrate vector assets, type styles, and brand colors from other CC applicationsWho this book is forThis book is for designers, marketers, and online content creators who work with digital imagery regularly. If you use Photoshop to create projects for print, screen, or social, this book will help you take your skills to the next level.

Get in touch with your creative side using Photoshop Elements Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies covers the newest version of Adobe's beginner-friendly photo editing software. With the help of this Dummies guide, you'll discover the ins and outs of Photoshop Elements, so you can transform your images from ordinary to extraordinary. The software is packed with all the photo editing tools you need to turn your images into showstoppers. With the help of the easy-to-understand instructions in this book, you'll learn how to use the editing tools, utilize layers, make one-click fixes, brighten colors, add filters, and beyond. Get started with Photoshop Elements and make basic edits in quick mode Create different views of an image and use the history panel to find the best version of your image Replace backgrounds, merge photos, and do other neat editing tricks Understand camera raw to turn your camera's image data into a stunning photo This bestselling Dummies guide is the book you need to get started with Elements and learn the insider tips that will give your images that “wow factor.”

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book 2024 Release contains 15 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to: Create and improve digital images with AI-powered tools including Generative Fill. Seamlessly remove backgrounds, replace skies, and repair photos Select subjects with complex outlines, including hair, quickly and precisely Composite multiple images and typography Animate video, still, and type layers and export as a video Edit camera raw images Automate repetitive tasks Save as a Photoshop cloud document to easily edit across desktop and mobile devices Export your work for web, mobile devices, and print Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's'Getting Started'section to unlock access to: Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step What you need to use this book: Adobe Photoshop (2024 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

This book can serve as a missing guide for technical features of digital photography that many enthusiasts are unaware of or remain bewildered about. An interesting example is that cameras with sensor sizes differing by a factor of three or four can have the same size resolution. The advantages of sensors — found in larger and more expensive cameras — are elucidated to readers. Another example is the explanation to why the depth of field increases as the lens aperture becomes smaller. The transition from diffraction-limited to sensor-limited resolution is also discussed. Through these examples, one discovers that the optics of practical, thick compound lenses can be understood using the formulas for the more familiar thin lenses.The book further expounds on procedures that are necessary to obtain true color images. For example, CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensors are equipped with color filters such that the intensity of the red, green and blue colors are recorded separately. Since the colors must be combined for print and digital displays, the separate colors recorded in the camera must somehow be merged. This process known as demosaicing is vividly explained. In fact, the technology for defining colors is a separate issue that is also treated in this book.Readers will learn that both our vision and computer displays respond in a nonlinear fashion that requires an operation known as gamma mapping, which is built into all monitors. An important takeaway for camera and photography enthusiasts is that in order to avoid moiré effects in certain types of photographs, most cameras have an anti-aliasing filter that has the unfortunate effect of smearing the resolution. This filter can, however, be removed in certain high-end cameras.

Are you ready for an amazing new edition of the Photoshop book that breaks all the rules? Scott Kelby, Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine—and the #1 best-selling photography techniques author—once again takes this book to a whole new level as he uncovers more of the latest, most important, and most useful Adobe Photoshop techniques for photographers. This update to his award-winning, record-breaking book does something for digital photographers that has never been done before—it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.” It's not a bunch of theory; it doesn't challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure it out on your own. Instead, Scott shows you step by step the exact techniques used by today's cutting-edge photographers, and best of all, he shows you flat-out exactly which settings to use, when to use them, and why. That's why editions of this book are widely used as the official study guide in photography courses at colleges and universities around the world. The photographer's workflow in Photoshop has evolved greatly over time and, in the latest edition of this book, you'll learn how to leverage Photoshop's new AI-powered masking features and how to spend less time on boring production tasks, so you can spend more time being creative. Plus, you'll learn: The most useful retouching techniques for photographers, such as how to make “impossible” selections, like wind-blown hair (it's easy, once you know the secrets), and how to use layers like a pro. The sharpening techniques the pros really use. The pros'tricks for fixing the most common photo problems fast! How to seamlessly remove distracting things from your images. How to make the most of Camera Raw and when to work it into your workflow, even if you never shoot in RAW—it works great on JPEGs and TIFFs, too. The latest Photoshop special effects for photographers (there's a whole chapter just on these!). A host of shortcuts, workarounds, and slick “insider” tricks to help you get twice the work done in half the time. You also get four online bonus chapters with even more content, along with the images used in the book, for download, so you can follow right along. If you're ready to learn all the “tricks of the trade”—the same ones that today's leading pros use to correct, edit, retouch, and sharpen their work—then you're holding the book that will do just that.

Umfassend, aktuell und inspirierend – unser Standardwerk zur digitalen Fotografie in der 5. Auflage bietet Ihnen das komplette Wissen für Ihre Fotopraxis: Kamera- und Objektivtechnik, Regeln und Prinzipien der Bildgestaltung, Umgang mit Licht und Beleuchtung, Blitzfotografie, Techniken der Scharfstellung, Filmen, Bildbearbeitung u. v. m.Mit diesem Buch erarbeiten Sie sich eine solide Grundlage zum Verständnis der Digitalfotografie, und Sie lernen, wie Sie die technischen und bildgestalterischen Prinzipien in der täglichen Fotopraxis anwenden. Lassen Sie sich durch die Vorstellung der großen Fotogenres und zahlreiche Praxistipps für Ihren eigenen Weg in der Fotografie anregen. Egal ob Porträt, Natur und Landschaft, Makro, Reise oder Street, egal ob Einsteiger oder Fortgeschrittener: Dieses Buch ist Ihr unverzichtbarer Begleiter, der Ihnen immer zur Seite steht und neue Impulse für Ihre Fotografie gibt!Aus dem Inhalt:Kamera und ObjektivDie Technik hinter dem digitalen BildObjektivqualität einschätzenSinnvolles ZubehörScharfstellen und AutofokusSchärfentiefe und BlendeLicht, Belichtung, ISO-WertBlitztechnik, StudiofotografieMotive, Fotogenres, BildgestaltungSchwarzweißfotografieVideo mit DSLR und DSLMBildbearbeitung

The essential step-by-step manual to improving Photoshop Elements photo editing skills

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Gain skills in image and logo manipulation that will enhance your designs and make them more appealing--either in your portfolio or for your client's next graphic project.As Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator have evolved, new and unique features have been added to these programs that offer different options for warping and distorting graphics and shapes. For the beginner and intermediate student or graphic artist, choosing or knowing which distort or warp tool to use among so many available can become overwhelming and confusing.This book primarily focuses on teaching how to work with various warping tools and filters in Photoshop, though you will also be using graphics acquired from Adobe Illustrator. Knowing how to work between these two applications is a crucial part of understanding how to successfully manipulate your designs. In Photoshop, you'll see how to alter both raster images and vector graphics, and learn how to do this with layers in various non-destructive ways. Some of the filters mentioned in this book will be familiar to you, as you may have used them frequently. However, others are well hidden, are new, or perhaps you have never considered that you could use that tool, dialog box, or filter to warp or distort. What You Will LearnBecome proficient in using the warping and distorting tools and filters in Photoshop, as well as how to correct basic distortions in photos and add perspectiveGrasp transferring illustrations from Illustrator for use in PhotoshopDiscover how to warp and distort typeGenerate unique patternsWork with Smart Object Layers and Smart FiltersWork in combination with older tools and newer, enhanced ones Who This Book Is ForBeginner- and Intermediate-level readers interested in pursuing careers as graphic artists, photographers, or video artists/animators.

Nutzen Sie alle Möglichkeiten der Lightroom-Versionen Desktop und mobil! Dieses übersichtliche Workshop-Buch der Fotografin und Lightroom-Expertin Maike Jarsetz führt Sie Schritt für Schritt durch das komplexe Programm: von Import und Bildorganisation über die ersten Entwicklungsschritte und den optimalen Entwicklungsworkflow bis hin zur Ausgabe in Druck, Web, Fotobuch und Diashow. Durch die klare Gliederung des Buchs lassen sich die gewünschten Themen direkt ansteuern und anhand von Workshops erschließen. Das ist Lightroom auf den Punkt gebracht!Aus dem Inhalt:Die ersten SchritteLightroom-CrashkursKatalog und Bildimport, Sammlungen, MetadatenBildorganisation in der BibliothekDer richtige EntwicklungsworkflowRaw-Entwicklung im DetailKorrektur, Reparatur und RetuscheMit Lightroom auf ReisenDie mobile Lightroom-AppFotobücher, DiashowBilder ausdrucken und im Web präsentieren

Holen Sie das Beste aus Ihren Bildern heraus – mit Photoshop Elements 2024 und diesem umfassenden Handbuch! Der begeisterte Digitalfotograf Jürgen Wolf erklärt Ihnen verständlich und praxisbezogen, wie Sie Ihre Fotos optimieren, Bildfehler korrigieren oder kreative Montagen und Collagen erstellen. Schaffen Sie mit dem Organizer Ordnung in Ihrer Bildersammlung. Nutzen Sie spezielle Filter für einen ganz besonderen Foto-Look. Ihr Lieblingsbild hat einen Farbstich? Kein Problem! Egal, was Sie mit Photoshop Elements machen wollen – in diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie es geht!Selbst knifflige Aufgaben werden Sie erfolgreich bewältigen. Zahlreiche Workshops und Profi-Tipps helfen Ihnen dabei. Damit Sie alle Schritte anschaulich nachvollziehen können, stehen Ihnen Beispielbilder als Download zur Verfügung. So tauchen Sie Schritt für Schritt tiefer in die Bildbearbeitung mit Photoshop Elements 2024 ein.Aus dem Inhalt:Die neue Programmoberfläche kennenlernenBilder übersichtlich verwaltenUmfangreiche Bildkorrekturen meisternMit Farben die Bildwirkung beeinflussenAuswahlen erstellen und Objekte freistellenMit Ebenen gezielt und kreativ arbeitenPorträts perfekt retuschierenTexte und Formen einsetzenCollagen, Montagen und Panoramen mit Photomerge erstellenBilder wirkungsvoll präsentierenFarbprofile, Plug-ins und Tastenkürzel nutzenMit vielen Beispielbildern zum Download

This book offers an in-depth technical presentation of photography and details about the inner workings of the digital camera, while keeping the artistic principles in mind. Departing from the current stream, the book treats photography as a highly scientific and technical subject, and serves as a reference to those who seek for an understanding of the technical aspects relating to the photographic camera, the beating heart of photography. It offers insight on why the photographs are created the way they are, highlighting also the limitations. As the author of this book is an image technology scientist and a photography enthusiast who has been teaching photography for a long time, this treatise reflects his own constant search and study for an in-depth understanding.

The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy.New to this fourth edition: Completely updated and renewed to reflect social trends and technological advances Highly reconstructed Chapter 3: Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners Revamped Chapter 4: Exposure: Capturing the Light Entirely new Chapter 8: Digital Studio: The Virtual and the Material Worlds Expanded smartphone photography coverage Featuring nearly 300 international artists and over 360 innovative images and illustrations New engaging assignments Ideal for undergraduate students of digital photography and hobbyist photographers.

Master Adobe's friendliest tool for editing photos and making digital artwork, Photoshop Elements 2022, quickly and easily with step-by-step tutorials and full color images. Visual QuickStart Guides provide an easy, visual approach to learning, using tightly integrated video, images, and text. Purchase of the book includes access to the free Web Edition, which features more than three hours of video, enhancing and expanding the information in the text. Concise steps and explanations guide you through the foundations of using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022, getting you up and running in no time. Adobe Photoshop Elements has many of the same features as its older brother but with a simpler, streamlined interface designed for both the casual photographer and the serious hobbyist. Learn how to: Use new slideshow styles Extend photo backgrounds Manipulate overlays to fit any shape Apply moving animations Render your compositions with an art filter

Beeindruckende Produktfotos für Marketing, Verkauf und Social MediaPraktische Hilfe zu Licht, Requisiten und Setaufbau inklusive Tipps für ein kleines Budget Viele Beispiele u.a. zu Schmuck, Kosmetik und Food Ansprechende Produktfotos sind für die erfolgreiche Vermarktung und den Verkauf von Produkten unerlässlich. Der Produktfotograf Wolfgang Rottmann stellt Ihnen in diesem Buch zunächst das nötige Equipment vor und vermittelt die Grundlagen für optimale Licht- und Kameraeinstellungen. In einem großen Hauptteil zeigt er im Anschluss professionelle Beispiele für verschiedene Produktfotos und deren Entstehung, wie z.B. Schuhe, Kosmetika, Food sowie technische Geräte. Als praktische Anleitung dienen Making-of-Fotos, d.h. Aufnahmen vom Set, an dem das Produktfoto entstanden ist. Von einfachen Aufbauten mit Taschenlampen und Aufsteckblitzen bis hin zum professionellen Set mit vielen Blitzen und Lichtformern wird alles ausführlich erklärt. Dabei werden Hinweise zu alternativem (Licht-)Equipment nicht vergessen, um auch mit kleinerem Budget zu professionellen Fotoergebnissen zu kommen. Zudem erhalten Sie Anregungen für passende Requisiten und Hintergründe. So erfahren Sie, wie Sie fotografisch das Beste aus einem Produkt herausholen, damit es u.a. für Social Media optimal dargestellt und vermarktet werden kann. Aus dem Inhalt: Vorbereitung für ein erfolgreiches Produktshooting Checklisten für Kundenkommunikation und Produktfotoidee Technische Voraussetzungen: Blende, ISO und Brennweiten verstehen Foto-Ausrüstung und Requisiten Lichtequipment auch zum Eigenbau Praxisteil mit Setaufbau verschiedenster Produkte: Packshot Bierflasche und Bierglas Digitalradio Rumflasche auch für Social Media Lupenaufnahme Armbanduhr auch als Detailaufnahme Akkuschrauber Rasierapparat Teddybär Seife Lippenstift Schokoladenkekse Krustenbrot u.v.m.Wolfgang Rottmann ist seit über 25 Jahren als Produktfotograf tätig und arbeitet für regionale Kunden, aber auch für große Agenturen bis hin zu Global Playern. In dieser Zeit hat er so ziemlich jede Produktgruppe fotografiert und ständig kommen neue Bereiche hinzu. Als Coach hat er schon viele Schulungen und Präsentationen erfolgreich durchgeführt und viele Menschen für die Fotografie begeistert. Dabei coacht er nicht nur Anfänger, sondern in vielen speziellen Fotobereichen auch professionelle Fotografen. Viele Kunden schätzen über seine fotografische Tätigkeit hinaus auch sein umfangreiches Wissen über Märkte und Produktplatzierungen. So ist er bei vielen Produktentwicklungen schon in der Anfangsphase dabei und prägt so manches bekannte Label im Hintergrund mit.

Learn Adobe Photoshop with the Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way! Visual QuickStart Guide is an easy, visual approach to learning. Concise steps and explanations, using pictures to guide you through Adobe Photoshop get you up and running in no time. In addition, the free Web Edition of the book includes more than 4 hours of video, enhancing and expanding the information in the book while providing an alternative method for learning. Whether you're an experienced designer or an enthusiastic newcomer, Photoshop gives you all the tools you need to create almost any photographic image you can imagine, using a vast array of powerful tools and options. Learn best practices for flexible, collaborative workflows. Employ efficient production techniques to select, size, crop, mask, composite, color correct, and retouch. Enhance your images with editable type, vector artwork, and creative special effects. This book provides you with: An easy visual approach that uses pictures to guide you through Adobe Photoshop features and show you what to do Concise steps and explanations that help you get up and running in no time The best content and value around, page for page Access to the Web Edition, a free online version of the book with embedded video

A comprehensive textbook, Alternative Process Photography for the Contemporary Photographer explores the ways in which the materiality and science of photography and aesthetic concepts of contemporary photography can work together in an accessible way. The book explores processes such as calotype, wet plate collodion, cyanotype, platinum and palladium, gum bichromate and digital. It explains not only the historical context behind these processes but draws on examples from contemporary practitioners to show how the processes can be used within the field of contemporary photography.Author Morgan Post exemplifies the creative ways in which a contemporary photographer can engage with alternative process photography as a beginner and includes contributions from Takashi Arai, Alida Rodrigues, Binh Danh, Diana H. Bloomfield and many others from around the world. The textbook is accompanied by a companion website offering accessible step-by-step video instructions that demonstrate the processes explored. Bridging analogue and digital media, the textbook is ideal for students of photography and amateur photographers with an interest in alternative methods to photography.

Learn to create and edit images using Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to: Correct and improve digital images Seamlessly remove backgrounds, repair images, and replace skies Explore advanced filters that use machine learning and cloud processing Select subjects with complex outlines, including hair, quickly and precisely Composite multiple images and combine with typography Edit video, including transitions and motion effects Edit camera raw images Automate tasks Save as a Photoshop cloud document to easily edit across desktop and mobile devices Export your work for web, mobile devices, and print Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's'Getting Started'section to unlock access to: Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step What you need to use this book: Adobe Photoshop (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.) Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Photoshop software. This book covers Photoshop on desktop only. It does not address Photoshop on the iPad.

Adobe Photoshop Elements Advanced Editing Techniques and Tricks: The Essential Guide to Going Beyond Guided Edits is a must for those who want to go beyond automated features and Guided Edits and delve into the many advanced techniques that are possible using Adobe Photoshop Elements. LEARN HOW TO Perfect editing portrait images by performing techniques such as skin tone correction, frequency separations, skin smoothing, and enhancing facial features Properly edit and enhance a subject's eyes, lips, eyebrows, and facial lighting Apply advanced photo compositing techniques, utilizing rules for controlling perspective Use color grading techniques similar to those used by professional motion picture film editors Delve into advanced tools not included in Photoshop Elements such as curves, color range, selective color, working with color LUTs, and more With detailed step-by-step instructions, this book is targeted to intermediate and advanced users who want to take their photography to the next level. Additional tips using Photoshop Elements can be found on Ted's YouTube channel at www.YouTube/tedpadova.

This anthology investigates the interconnections between painting, photography, and the digital in contemporary art practices. It brings together 15 contributors, including internationally acclaimed artists Matt Saunders, Clare Strand, Elias Wessel, and Dan Hays, to write about a diverse range of art-making involving medium cross-over. Topics discussed here include reflections on the painted-on-photograph, reordering photographs into paintings, digital collage, printing digital landscapes onto recycled electronic media, viewer immersion in painted virtual reality (VR) worlds, photography created from paint, and the “truth” of the mediums. Underpinned by significant theoretical concepts, the volume provides unique insights into explorations of the mediums'interconnectivity, which questions the position of the traditional genres. As such, this book is essential reading for practitioners, theorists, and students researching the nature of painting, photography, and digital art practices today.

Say cheese! Explore this beginner-friendly guide to digital photography with the Nikon Z fc camera With a design that looks like an old-school film camera, the Nikon Z fc makes photographers want to grab this very-modern model off the shelf and start taking photos. But if you really want to set your pictures apart from the average snapshot, you need Nikon Z fc For Dummies. This book takes you on a comprehensive and user-friendly tour of the Nikon Z fc camera, its settings, and all of its automatic and manual options. You'll learn how to control exposure, take advantage of advanced focusing options, fix color problems, and get the best image quality. You'll also get: Accessible instruction on tried and tested photography techniques Instruction on how to adjust color and exposure settings Strategies for when to use your camera's auto options to when to take full control of settings Ideal for anyone who wants to get the most out of their Nikon Z fc camera, Nikon Z fc For Dummies covers the photography basics you need to understand to take fantastic pictures along with how to apply those techniques to the Nikon Z fc.

This full-color book is an essential guide to getting started with Adobe Photoshop. It's packed with tutorials, illustrations, and practical exercises to help you make sense of this complex and powerful software.You'll start with the basics of Photoshop, including an overview of its myriad tools and other options. Next, you will learn about some of the common tasks that can be performed in Photoshop, such as how to touch up images and basic applications in photography. You'll also be walked through how to leverage Photoshop for special and 3D effects. Each and every technique author Kevin Wilson presents is illustrated step-by-step using screenshots with concise, easy to follow text. Downloadable sample photoshop files and images are also provided, to help you work your way through the book.Whether you are a graphic design student, a photographer, or just a keen computer user, this book will provide you with a firm grasp of the underpinningfoundations of Photoshop and equip you with the skills needed to unleash its full power.What You Will LearnUnderstand Photoshop's many toolsUse Photoshop to execute common image manipulation tasks Touch up photographs and other images in PhotoshopRemove lens distortion and make photos look more professionalWho This Book Is ForStudents, those interested in starting graphic design, and photographers looking to enhance, clean up and manipulate their photos. No experience with image-manipulation software is needed.

Since Lightroom first launched 15 years ago, Scott Kelby's The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers has been the world's #1 top-selling Lightroom book (it has been translated into dozens of different languages), and in this latest version, Scott did his biggest update ever, sharing all his newest techniques, insights, and invaluable tips using his award-winning, plain-English style that makes learning Lightroom easy and fun. Scott doesn't just show you which sliders do what (every Lightroom book does that, right?). Instead, he shares his own personal settings, his time-tested techniques, and his proven step-by-step method of learning Lightroom, so you can begin using it like a pro from the start. Each year, he trains thousands of Lightroom users at his live seminars, online conferences, and through his blog at LightroomKillerTips.com, and he has learned firsthand what really works and what doesn't. He tells you flat-out which techniques work best, which ones to avoid, and why. You'll learn: His famous SLIM (Simplified Lightroom Image Management) system that will teach you, step by step, how to organize your images, back them up, and be able to find them quickly and easily. Scott's SLIM system is taught at colleges and universities around the world, because it's so simple, straightforward, and it works. How to make your images look like the pros, and how to take advantage of the camera, creative, and B&W profiles—you'll finally'get'the whole image editing thing, and you'll know exactly what to do, which sliders to move (and which to avoid) in what order, and why. How to unlock the power of Lightroom's Masking tools and how to'paint with light'to take your images to another level. How to use Lightroom along with Photoshop, and how to make the two work together absolutely seamlessly. You'll be surprised at what you'll be able to do, even if you've never used Photoshop before. How to expand Lightroom's power to your phone or tablet, so you can organize and edit your images from anywhere. How to share your images in print and in gorgeous coffee table books, or online, including how to do online client proofing or share images with a group. Download most of the same images used in the book to follow right along with. You'll get a killer collection of custom Lightroom Develop and Print presets to give you some of the most sought-after looks and effects, all with just one click. This is the first and only book to bring the whole process together in such a clear, concise, and visual way. There is no faster, more straight-to-the-point, or more fun way to learn Lightroom.