Arranged in an easy-to-read A-Z format, a collection of techniques for taking digital photography to a new creative level for beginners and experienced digital photographers includes information on correcting and touching up photos, adding special effects, and much more. Original.
Lee Frost is a photographer and bestselling author of photography technique books, with more than 250,000 copies sold worldwide. He contributes to numerous photography magazines and leads workshops through his company Photo Adventures.
Ok, first of all its not "digital photography" if you take the pictures on film, scan them in and then add a photoshop filter to it. That's called (bad) photo editing. There's even a section on how to put the finished product BACK on film!
Second, it may be in alphabetical order, but when I see something that is "a-z" I think "complete set of information" not "look they found a filter for each letter of the alphabet."
Third, it's no defense that this book was written in 2006 and is out of date. I was taking digital photos then too and they were looking a lot better than some of the shots in this book. I was also using photoshop in 2006 to add similar filters and deciding they looked stupid and scrapping them. But I guess that's just me.
Whatever. The book was BAD. It was not helpful to me as a newly minted "professional" photographer and I am VERY glad I didn't actually spend money on it.
Many of the techniques in this book will be familiar to Photoshop users. For those who aren't, this book is a great jumping off place to get your feet wet with Photoshop.