The Peachpit Press Beyond Digital Photography Transforming Photos with Photoshop helps unite the once-separate disciplines of painting and photography in a beautiful instructional that uses timeless design principles.Digital cameras, advances in color printing, and software tools have changed the landscape of photography forever. The challenge now is to go beyond the basic digital photograph and print, and move toward the next level of expression. For many, this means pushing the technologies available and combining the artistic tools found in both photography and painting.
Geared for intermediate to advanced users brings the separate disciplines together in a beautiful and instructive book that uses time-honored design principles and basic drawing and painting skills, and applies them to digital photographs. The easy-to-follow, step-by-step format allows you to practice a variety of Photoshop and Painter techniques and gives you the confidence to achieve your own expressive goals with great results.
Features:
Shoot and select photos with good composition and lighting for painting
Emulate the look of pop art, woodcuts, and dry media texture
Create Old Masters-style oil paintings, watercolors, contemporary paintings, and abstract art
Add edge treatments and textured borders with brushwork