- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (23 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321227999
- ISBN-13: 978-0321227997
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 22.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #82 in Books > Computers & Internet > Digital Photography > Beginners > By Series > How To
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Wouldn't it be great if you could have two of the world's most sought-after Photoshop teachers sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate through the infinite possibilities of your digital photographic darkroom? How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography is the next best thing. It's the brainchild of two Photoshop powerhouses--Jack Davis and Ben Willmore, both world-renowned authors and educators, who have developed an effective way to help you reach your full creative potential. Jack and Ben guide you step-by-step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and go-home-at-night speed! You'll receive tips and techniques on everything from streamlining your workflow to solarizing without chemicals to balancing out skin tones. Whether it's optimizing the color and tone of your image, retouching cosmetic undesirables, reconstructing priceless heirlooms, or creating sepia color treatments, you'll be given the tools at every stage of the creative process in order to learn How to Wow!
The book begins with the essentials of workflow (including color management, Photoshop's File Browser, and Camera Raw), and then moves on to adjusting and optimizing and retouching and repairing. Next comes the fun stuff, with projects focusing on enhancing and exaggerating aspects of your photos for maximum impact, followed by projects on color and black-and-white treatments and artistic effects and overlays. Finally, there is a chapter devoted to combining your images and creating custom photo collages using instant Wow Tools Presets, available on the CD-ROM accompanying the book.
About the Author
Jack Davis is an award-winning designer, illustrator, and photographer as well as the author of numerous books on digital imagery, design, and online communication, including (with co-author Linnea Dayton) the best-selling The Photoshop Wow! Book. Davis also teaches as part of the "Dream Team" for Photoshop World and his national Wow Seminar Tour.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is at the next level compared to many books on Photoshop. This is not the step by step guide how to use Photoshop that someone starting out needs. It assumes a working knowledge of the programme. It is full of tips, short cuts and smarter ways of working. It includes a useful section on how best to use raw images. The book also presents a whole work flow method for processing images and getting the most out of them. The books mantra is 'quality, flexibility and speed'. It scores maximum points on all three. The book is not a complete run through of all the capabilities ogf Photoshop. It does not delve into the graphic design and video uses of the programme. Its focus, as the title implies, is photopgrahy and it illustrates how you can best use Photoshop to get the most out of your images. It looks at the important areas that the photographer needs to know and delivers answers to pertinent problems. I can't reccomend this book highly enough. I found lots of new ways of working and I am sure that it needs to be on the shelf of every Photoshop power user.
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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful
give your images a new lease on life - this book WORKS
14 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
I was looking for a book that concentrated on using Photoshop and digital photography together without getting too wild or too complex in skill level. As a person who has used Photoshop for 5 years, both for work and at home, I still felt like I wasn't getting the most out of it. And after taking 4,600 digital photos last year alone, I decided I wanted to actually do something interesting with them. So I poured over the plethora of books out there on Photoshop: tricks, tips, how-tos, guides, shortcuts, etc. at the bookstore for 2 hours. Some books were too novice, some too difficult - - I really don't need to know how to make a surreal collage of a planet pouring a waterfall into a floating baby's outstretched hand behind a rainbow thank you. What I was searching for was a basic primer on real-world techniques with some fun stuff thrown in to give my images punch and snap, but nothing too involved. I wanted something that would get me results the same evening. "How To Wow" is that book. Having been a photographer for half my life and worked in photo labs for years and then as a digital designer, this book still completely changed the way I see a digital image. I have gone through the book cover to cover and done all the techniques, tips and tricks and THEY WORK. Even the ones I didn't think I would like ended up pleasantly surprising me. Like if you want to convert a color image to black-and-white, don't use MODE-GREYSCALE, use the Channel Mixer instead. You do have to know a little bit of basic Photoshop, but most of the tips are 3-4 steps and the results are great. These guys write well and make it absolutely clear what your result will be and how to get there. I couldn't be happier with this book! The CD that comes with the book contains all the sample images, so you can use those or your own. I found it best to use theirs first, then try it on my own image to really get the feel of the technique. My favorite chapter is "Enhancing & Exaggerating" and using glows and tints. Your digital photos will never look the same! I guarantee you will add new pop and life to your images. The CD also comes with a gaggle of free presets, so you can load those up and do one-click framing styles and other cool stuff. I also liked that this book wasn't cheesy. A lot of Photoshop effects look like obvious filters and give a cheesy result. Not these - these effects are elegant and stylish and often subtle and don't have that "Photoshopped" look. I printed out many of my images and they translate well to paper. I just can't rave enough about this book. It's already dog-eared from me taking it with me everywhere. Get it if you've used Photoshop a bit but feel like you could do more with your images.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
a very good digital photo book
4 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I don't often give 5-star reviews but I think this book deserves one. It is clear and easy to follow, and has lots of good examples to get you going. I have a number of digital photography/Photoshop books and and this one stands out because it is very useful, but without being a 500-page encyclopedic volume on all things digital. I think if you become familiar with only a quarter of the techniques in this book you'll be a much improved digital photographer and photoshop user.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Great book full of tips!
27 Aug 2004
Format:Paperback
I have purchased every book jack and Ben wrote on Photoshop and have attended a 3-day workshop presented by Jack Davis and will attend his 2-day workshop in Honolulu. When it comes to Photoshop, Jack is the most knowledgeable person in the field. This book covers every trick you can think of and shows you how to solve the same problem with different approaches using Photoshop CS! The book is only 270 pages, easy to read, and with all the images on the CD, you can follow the instructions until you get it. For the beginner, you will be a pro in few weeks, for the advanced user, you will have all the tools you need in a handy concise book for fast reference. This is truly the photographer's Swiss Knife!
The best companion for this book is Ben Willmore's: Photoshop CS Studio Techniques, it covers the "why", while the How to Wow book shows you the "How" of Photoshop techniques.
Thank you Jack and Ben for these master pieces!
The best companion for this book is Ben Willmore's: Photoshop CS Studio Techniques, it covers the "why", while the How to Wow book shows you the "How" of Photoshop techniques.
Thank you Jack and Ben for these master pieces!
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