1. Minimal text and maximum illustrations
2. Task-oriented, step-by-step approach
3. Navigational aids connect instructions to illustrations
4. Self-contained, two-page lessons
5. Uniform layout makes it easy to read less, learn more

• Study your subjects in their natural habitat—observe how they react and interact
• Discover simple techniques for improving photos of babies and children
• Learn to capture facial expressions
• Tell a story with a series of candid photos
• Add interest to large-group shots

This book includes a DVD that contains "screencast" lessons created by the author that let you watch the specific steps of each project on your screen while you do them yourself. The DVD also includes trial versions of the software used in the book as well as sample images from the text.

• Finding images and video clips.
• Changing size and resolution.
• Using the Quick Selection tool.
• Adjusting hue and saturation.
• Applying Smart Filter effects.
• Creating a contact sheet.
• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks.
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task.
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step.
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules.

Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book is the only Photoshop manual written by a full-time professional nature photographer. It features a real-world approach that simulates the rich workshop experience, teaching nature photographers practical Photoshop skills that will solve their most common problems.

Written cover-to-cover to fit the unique needs of nature photographers, this practical book addresses the tools, techniques, and workflow ideally suited for natural subjects. You'll figure out how to plan for overlapping landscape exposures, sharpen animal eyes, edit sky and land separately, and repair image elements as delicate as butterfly wings. You'll discover effective shooting tips. And above all, you'll learn what it takes to become a master in the digital darkroom using Photoshop. more

This new book from Sybex, "Photoshop CS3 Workflow - The Digital Photographers Guide" is designed to show you how to organize your photographic process, business and/or hobby. What is the best way to get your digital images out of your brain, captured by your camera, then into your computer for editing, correction and transformation into a final product ready to share to with the world?

If you are new to Photoshop, this book is even more valuable. It walks you through the various adjustments and corrections you can make to your digital images; providing you with a recommended order of corrections and effects. Should you start by rotating and cropping or should you take care of image clean-up first? Tom Grey provides his excellent guidance and explanation of what should be done and in what order. more

Rob Sheppard shows pro photographers and serious hobbyists can improve workflow and produce better photos with Lightroom. Its all about how to become a more productive photographer.

• Streamline the process of importing, managing, developing, and presenting quantities of images
• Explore nondestructive image processing and color-managed printing
• Work with tone curve, adjust white balance, fine-tune vibrancy and saturation, easily correct color
• Create presets to use again and again based on adjustments you use regularly
• Create eye-popping prints, show-stopping slideshows, and Web galleries.

Big print with plenty of diagrams and good layout, this book is an essential for digital photographers wanting how to improve their work by using Adobe's new Lightroom product.

This is a beautiful hardbound book perfect for the beginner who wants to get started in exploring the macro world around us - more

It demonstrates how you can get perfect color in your digital images. Learn to fine-tune brightness, contrast, and tone with Photoshop® Elements.

Shooting great photos is only half the battle—tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and spectacular ones. This book is packed with examples to guide you through understanding color basics, correcting brightness and contrast, getting the exact tone and hue, and creating perfect prints—in full color, of course!

Digital Photography - The Missing Manual

If you are new to digital photography or are buying someone their first digital camera, this book would be a great book to have as well. Targeted to the beginner with aspirations of making great looking images with their camera and their Windows computer, this book walks you through camera basic and advanced features, as well as how to handle and manipulate images with your Windows computer. It covers several common digital image editing and management programs like FlickR, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Kodak EasyShare, Picassa, SnapFish, Shutterfly, etc, as well as Windows XP image options. It covers everything you need to know from first aiming and capturing the image, to image correction and editing, to sharing the finished piece of photographic genius via CD, DVD and the Internet.

Learn how to make your digital photos more interesting by adding additional elements and effects and by painting on them by using using Adobe PhotoShop and Corel Painter

Discover how the computer can be used to paint on photographs, incorporating other visual materials into images. "Digital Collage and Painting: Using Painter and Photoshop to Create Fine Art" explores technical aspects of aesthetic concerns of the new digital media as a medium for creative and imaginative work. Basic knowledge of Painter and Photoshop is needed. This book is both Mac and Windows based. Digital artists are looking to take their imagery to the next level and this book speaks to this hot topic.

* Discover how the computer can be used to paint on photographs, incorporating other visual materials into images
*Learn from step-by-step examples for painting, collage, and panoramics
* The associated website contains the art samples used in the book so that you can practice the different techniques

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 2 All in One has all the answers to your Adobe Creative Suite questions in one easy-to-use book. You will learn all of the products and technologies in a logical, well-integrated fashion. It covers the basics of:

• Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Adobe Illustrator CS2
• Adobe GoLive CS2
• Adobe InDesign CS2
• Adobe Version Cue CS2
• Adobe Bridge
• Adobe Stock Photos
• Adobe Acrobat 7.0

The Art of RAW Conversion shows digital photographers how to work with the RAW files generated by a digital camera to produce the best possible image quality in finished photos. The authors (both experts in digital photography, file processing, printing, and color management) describe the conversion tools used to enhance RAW files and maximize photo quality. All techniques covered are based on practical experience and explained with step-by-step instructions, so that readers will be able to apply what they learn and create their own fine art-quality photographs. Covers Adobe Photoshop CS and other leading RAW converters.