Advanced Techniques Integrating Photoshop Derek Lea offers good imagery and explanation to incorporate Photoshop with a variety of 2D and 3D applications. This book demonstrates hows how artists can integrate Photoshop CS4, or CS5 with 2D and 3D applications into a comprehensive, creative environment. For example, Poser and Cinema 4D are 3D character animation environments [...]

Acquiring Essential Skills For all digital photographers, there are four levels of Adobe Photoshop software (Photoshop Elements 9, Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5, and Photoshop CS5 Extended). The book Photoshop CS5 Essential Skills by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews is written for intermediate to professional photographers with some experience using photo editing software, and want to [...]

Sweet Visions A common slang term for visually appealing persons, or effects used to draw mass attention is “eye candy”.  Eye Candy 6 by Alien Skin is a cool Photoshop plugin that lives up to its name.  Eye Candy 6 enables graphic artists to create stunning visual effects that  draw mass attention.

Virtual Photo Pro In Print Imagine you’re out taking pictures in the field. The lighting is tricky, but no worries, as you have Scott Kelby standing behind your shoulder. He’s softly providing quick tips and guidance to improve that one shot. If, like most amateur to semi-professional photographers, you can’t afford a personal tutoring session [...]

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Show and Tell With HDR In the book A World in HDR by Trey Ratcliff, the author takes time to share the experience of creating and capturing each image in high dynamic range (HDR). This book not only provides vivid pictures, but describes the experience and how to create opportunities to capture stunning imagery. This [...]