Digital Photography: Expert Techniques, 2nd Edition

Chapter 1. A Plan for Nondestructive Workflow This chapter gives you an abbreviated overview of the workflow around which the rest of this book is structured. It's a sort of quick guide. More importantly, it orients you to the way this b...

Chapter 2. Be Prepared This chapter is about what you need to do to make sure that the pictures you shoot will be of the highest possible quality (given the circumstances you are shooting in at the time). When I start to shoot a job, I w...

Chapter 3. Bridging the Gap When it comes to managing the digital workflow, and especially your files, Bridge is the digital asset management answer where Photoshop CS2 is concerned. In fact, it's the DAM answer for the whole Adobe CS2 S...

Chapter 4. Streamlining Camera Raw Camera Raw immediately follows image management (Chapter 3) in any workflow that aims to do as much nondestructive editing as possible before rendering the final image. The exception is if you just shot...

Chapter 5. Nondestructive Layering The secret to a good nondestructive workflow lies in a regular system of organizing layers and layering techniques. The objective of keeping the workflow layered is that individual layers can be modifie...

Chapter 6. Nondestructive Overall Adjustments The workflow organization of this book is about maintaining nondestructive editing in as many ways as possible for as long as possible. So when it comes to making post-RAW or non-RAW overall...

Chapter 7. Making Targeted Adjustments There's not a big difference in the procedure for making adjustments when you're making targeted adjustments. The difference is primarily in how you adjust a specific area without losing or jeopardi...

Chapter 8. Repairing the Details This chapter covers all types of image "repair" and the tools you'll need to restore and retouch images in a variety of situations. We'll first cover some basic tools used for all types of repair and then...

Chapter 9. Collage and Montage This chapter is all about compositing. Compositing, in the context of this book, is the art of montage and collage. Montage is "seamless" compositing that creates an image of a time, place, space, or person...

Chapter 10. Creating the Wow Factor This chapter is about special effects, such as art and photo filters, warping, and Liquify, Lens Flare, and Lighting Effects filters. Also included are a number of scripts, both free and third-party th...

Chapter 11. Special Purpose Processing This chapter is about three highly useful techniques: image stitching, extended dynamic range images, and photopainting. All of these techniques can extend your marketing and creative capabilities s...

Chapter 12. Presenting Your Work to the World The last and perhaps most crucial step in the digital photographer's workflow is finding ways to share your images with the world, perhaps even to create income from something you enjoy doing...