Get Creative!: The Digital Photo Idea Book

by Kate Binder (Conducted by)

Overview

This text shows the reader how to have fun converting digital photos into artistic creations. Design everything from a hand-tinted period photo to a kitschy 40s travel postcard to photomontages and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072227215
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
Publication date:	03/24/2003
Series:	Digital Photography Ser.
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.24(h) x 0.77(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
Part I	Getting Started
1	Recipes for Images	3
	Your Photos: More Than Just Pictures	4
	Turning Photos into Real-Life Objects	4
	How to Take a Good Picture	9
2	Boot Camp	15
	Software Requirements	16
	Hardware Requirements	20
	When to Scan, When to Photograph	25
	About Size and Resolution	26
	Saving Files	30
	Printing Techniques and Media	33
	Creating Web Images	36
Part II	Patterns, Textures, Filters, and Backgrounds
3	Making Your Images "Touchable"	45
	Creating Surface Textures	46
	Creating Seamless Repeating Images	59
	More Great Ideas	68
4	Out of Thin Air	71
	Making a Curtain Call	73
	Other Settings	79
	Combining Photos and Settings	79
	More Great Ideas	80
5	Roll Over, Michelangelo	83
	Painting with Pixels	84
	Making a Menu Marvelous with a Mosaic	89
	Tips for Budding Pixel Artists	93
	More Great Ideas	94
Part III	Colors and Tinting
6	Deal Yourself a Winning Hand	99
	Making a Good Black and White Photo	100
	Simulating Period Color	109
	More Great Ideas	114
7	Turning Back the Calendar	117
	Back in the Olden Days	117
	Rolling Back the Years--Making a Hand-Tinted Portrait	119
	Making a "Vintage" Photo	129
	Where to Look for Inspiration	134
	More Great Ideas	134
8	Housewarming, 1850s Style	137
	Mass Market Color Before Color Photography	138
	Finding Inspiration	138
	Saddle Up! Preparing the Image for Coloring	141
	Applying Colors	147
	Making a Four-Fold Note Card	154
	Bottoms Up--Making Custom Drink Coasters	156
	More Great Ideas	160
9	With Color, Less Really Can Be More	163
	What's a Duotone?	164
	Duotone It the Easy Way	166
	The More Colors, the Merrier	172
	Sure, You Can Fake a Duotone	180
	More Great Ideas	181
10	Simple Gifts	183
	Line Up! Turning Photos into Drawings	183
	Get the Red Out...and the Green, and	189
	Crayon Power: Making Coloring Book Pictures	192
	More Great Ideas	196
Part IV	Combining Elements
11	No Scissors, No Paste	201
	Building Images Piece by Piece	202
	Silhouetting the Saint's Head	203
	Creating the Saint's Body and Paws	206
	He's Been Framed--Creating an "Ancient" Frame in 3D	209
	On Your Mettle! Let's Make Some--Metal, That Is	214
	Moving On	217
	More Great Ideas	218
12	Getting It Together	221
	Seeing Things in the Right Light	222
	Creating an Opulent Background	222
	The Head Bone Is Connected to the Neck Bone	224
	Aging Photos by Several Hundred Years	227
	Halo, Everybody, Halo--Creating That Saintly Glow	230
	Let There Be Light--on St. Guinefort	231
	Where Do We Go from Here?	233
	More Great Ideas	234
13	What I Did on My Summer Vacation	237
	Creating a Large-Letter Postcard	238
	Designing a Background	240
	Adding the Type	245
	Warping the Type	248
	Silhouetting Images Within the Letters	250
	Applying Layer Styles to Type	254
	To Mail It or Not to Mail It?	255
	More Great Ideas	256
Part V	Other Fun Stuff
14	What Fools These Mortals Be	261
	I Can't Believe It's Not a Butterfly!	262
	Placing the Picture Elements	263
	Creating a Real-World Shadow	265
	Leaving Other Things Lying Around	270
	More Great Ideas	271
15	Hey, They Took My Camera!	275
	Scanner, Camera, What's the Diff?	276
	How to Scan an Elephant--Or Not	277
	Brushing Up on Your Scanning Technique	279
	Cleaning Up After Your Scanner	281
	Let's Finish What We Started--Our Projects!	289
	More Great Ideas	293
16	Better Than Perfect	295
	How to Sell Your House: Enhancing a Photo Realistically	296
	Going Too Far: Adding a Little Fantasy	301
	Forget Being "Down to Earth"--Let's Fly to the Moon	304
	It's Been Real--or Has It?	310
	More Great Ideas	310
Part VI	Appendixes
A	The Software in Review	315
	Paint Shop Pro 7	316
	PhotoFix 3.4	317
	PhotoImpact 8	318
	Photo-Paint 11	319
	Photoshop Elements 2.0	320
B	How Do I Get There from Here?	321
C	Glossary	329
	Index	335