DIGITAL TECHNIQUES



 

Photoshop CS A-Z

Peter Bargh


An encyclopaedia for Photoshop is not a bad idea - gives an easily accessible visual guide to all Photoshop terms. The extra appendices also include comprehensive visual listings of Photoshop and system fonts, useful shortcuts, Photoshop related websites and record data sheets. Written by a UK author, previously technical writer for Practical Photography and Editor of Buying Cameras.

2004 Focal Press, Softback, 180 pp

Order Code: 46 795

Price: £16.99



 

Web Photoshop: Start Here

Peter Cope

If you need to get to grips with operating Photoshop for web purposes you could delve into the depths of some of the 3" thick door-stopper volumes, but preferably by far try this smaller volume. Attractively designed, colour throughout, it communicates the essentials clearly and rapidly. Main sections; Basic image manipulations; Optimising images for the web; Advanced image manipulations; Creating web elements; Animation.

2003 Ilex, Softback, 192 pp

Order Code: 47 145

Price: £14.95



 

Web Design: Start Here

Nick Nettleton

Frightened of the myriad 600 page slabs covering web design? This is a gentle approach for those who just want to sidle into the territory, and painlessly goes through basic web design, illustrated in colour throughout. Chapters include; Getting started; Basic techniques; Creating graphics; Designing with images; Navigation & rollovers; Advanced techniques; Animation.

2003 Ilex, Softback, 192 pp

Order Code: 47 400

Price: £14.95



 

Secrets of the Digital Darkroom

Peter Cope

Aimed at the enthusiast rather than the professional, who might be better off looking at Max Fergusons digital darkroom book. Clear, well illustrated in full colour, it makes a good bridge for anyone making the move from conventional photography into digital imaging.

2003 Ilex, Softback, 192 pp

Order Code: 47 158

Price: £ 19.95



 

Basic Digital Photography

Norman Breslow


Makes understandable the electronic manipulation of photographic images. The book introduces the essential computer concepts & demonstrates how they are used to create images. With additional information on publications, manufacturers, equipment & services available to the digital photographer.

1991 Focal Press, Hardback, 193 pages



 

Landscapes & Cityscapes
the digital photographers handbook

Simon Joinson


Good little Rotovision book that takes one through the photographic experience from the digital point of view, in an easily digested full colour picture box style with copious example pictures, diagrams linking to the Photoshop menus. Topics such as correcting converging verticals digitally are simply and clearly dealt with. There is a black and white section, although starting it off with 'you'll never need to buy a black and white film again...' does not endear it to SP management.

2002, Rotovision, 112 pp

Order code: 44 993

Price: £14.95



 

The Digital Photographers Handbook - Portraits

Simon Joinson

This hasn't got much to do with taking good portraits, coming more from the 'fix it all up in Photoshop later' school of technique. Aimed unashamedly at the novice, it succeeds in de-mystifying many of the Photoshop tools. Example-led, full of double spreads showing the transformation of run-of-the-mill shots into something worth presenting. Very high quality printing, typical of all the recent Rotovision books.


2002, Rotovision, 112 pp

Order Code: 47 172

Price: £14.95



 

Max Ferguson's DIGITAL DARKROOM

Max Ferguson

Aimed by Max to fit in alongside Martin Evenings 'Adobe Photoshop for X' series, it deals entirely with Photoshop techniques, but from the point of view of the printer who was brought up with the traditional wet darkroom, and who knows what they want when they convert to the digital side. It actually starts off with a darkroom section, before making the jump to digital, which is eased in gently through scanning, and the basic Photoshop tools. Reference is always being made back to the traditional, as in burning & dodging, toning effects andrestoring and repairing old images. A CD is included with examples of images from the book, supplied in layers that can be used to work the examples.


2000 Focal Press, Softback, 214 pages

Order Code: 47 184

Price: £29.99




 

Silver Pixels

Tom Ang


A useful book for the wet darkroom photographer looking to approach the digital domain. Those in need of a systematic explanation of Photoshop are probably better off with the Martin Evening ‘Photoshop for Photographers’ - this is aimed as a bridge between the old and new disciplines.


1995 Aurum, Softback, 128 pages

Order Code: 33 745

Price: £19.99