• Author:
  • Ames, Kevin
• Subject:
  Business Applications
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
• Published:
  25/08/2006
• Price:
  $52.99
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"Very few books have the power to change the way you work, impact your career, and suddenly change everything. This is one of them."
-- From the Foreword by Scott Kelby, Editor, Photoshop User magazine

Renowned photographer and digital magician Kevin Ames shared his secrets for making photographs of women look better than their best in the previous edition of this book. In this fully updated new edition, he:

• guides you through the latest CS2 tools, including Camera Raw 3, Adobe Bridge, RAW files in layers, and Smart Objects.
• shows you how to solve the greatest challenge of all -- being your own photo lab.
• puts your skills into practice with specific projects.

Whether you're shooting high fashion, portraits, lingerie, or swimsuits, in the studio or on location, your "secret assistant" is fully updated for Photoshop CS2 and illustrated with the Ames's own photographs. Order your copy today and master photographic and retouching techniques, learn efficient archiving and distribution workflows, and much more.

KEVIN AMES is a successful commercial photographer who holds the Professional Photographers of America Craftsman degree and, as the lead of Ames Photographic Illustration, has worked with such clients as AT&T, Westin Hotels, Verifone, and Honda. Kevin writes the monthly "Digital Photographer's Notebook" column for Photoshop User and is a Dream Team instructor at Photoshop World conferences nationwide.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Part 1: Workflow: From Capture to Digital Postproduction.

Chapter 1: Illuminating Light: How Light Works in Photography.

Chapter 2: Bit Depth, Image Quality, and Color by the Numbers.

Chapter 3: Adobe Camera Raw 3.

Chapter 4: Adobe Bridge and the Digital Archiving Workflow.

Chapter 5: Distribution: Presenting Digital Photography.

Chapter 6: Unlimited Undos Forever: Non-destructive Photoshop.

Part 2: Projects: Behind the Camera and In Front of the Computer.

Chapter 7: Barbie: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime.

Chapter 8: Pinups: Modern Girls in a Digital World.

Chapter 9: From Many, One: A Digital Portrait.

Chapter 10: Retouching Beauty.

Chapter 11: Sixteen Million Shades of Gray.

Chapter 12: Lingerie: A Day Being a Girl.

Chapter 13: Indoors, Outdoors.

Chapter 14: On the Beach: Swimwear.

Appendix A: Resources.

Appendix B: Photoshop CS2 Shortcuts and Tools.

Index.

File Download Information.