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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