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The Digital Photo Idea Book

By: Kate Binder, Richard Binder

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Paperback | 24 March 2003

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Entertain yourself, your family, and your friends while you create beautiful, funny, and interesting compositions with your digital and printed photography. This thorough guide is loaded with answers, suggestions, examples, and techniques to help you with scanning, image editing, printing, and more.

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