Digital photo editing techniques

Author: Li Jieke
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is specifically designed for amateur digital photography enthusiasts and beginners who want to enhance digital photos. The text is written in easy-to-understand language, clearly explaining the step-by-step procedures for implementing each technique. Readers can also use the sample images provided in the accompanying CD-ROM to practice while reading. Compared to traditional printed photos, the great advantage of digital photos lies in the ability to modify and retouch them as needed. This book introduces 40 digital photo enhancement techniques, such as adjusting brightness and contrast, converting color photos to sepia or black-and-white, coloring black-and-white photos, removing red-eye and facial blemishes, improving facial lines, transforming regular photos into ID photos, cleaning and compositing images, resizing images, creating reflections, text, zoom effects, and other special effects, etc. Additionally, some techniques for applying photos on the Web are also introduced.
Content of the accompanying CD-ROM: Sample images used in the book, allowing readers to practice while reading. These images are organized by chapter, with each chapter folder containing the sample images used for processing in that chapter. The Final folder contains the final processed results of the sample files.