| 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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