From "America's Most Popular Photo Expert" comes this beautiful book on working and playing with the Photoshop digital darkroom. World-famous, award-winning professional photographer and writer Rick Sammon, author of 25 books and host of 2 television programs, shares his favorite creative enhancements for turning "straight" digital pictures into more creative and imaginative images. With this book you will become not only a well-rounded photographer but also a self-motivated artist in the powerful age of digital imaging. Rick begins the book with advice on seeing creatively and outlines his winning artistic process to help you learn to visualize the end-result before taking a picture. He then turns to the technical aspects of taking photographs, including his philosophy of using features like Camera Raw in Photoshop and how it is a must to obtain the best possible images. Step-by-step lessons follow, each showing how Rick transforms his digital photographs into compelling images. Detailed screenshots of the process accompany Rick's stunning photography and amusing anecdotes of photo shoots from around the world.

Idea to Image in Photoshop CS2: Rick Sammon's Guide to Enhancing Your Digital Photographs

Arts & Photography

Sammon, Rick

Photography & Video

Peachpit Pr

A lavishly illustrated reference to digital photography and editing electronic images covers introductory digital photography for beginners, digital image and Photoshop techniques for experienced shooters, and an advanced bonus section on taking glamour shots, producing e-books, and setting up a home studio.

Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Digital Photography: 107 Lessons on Taking, Making, Editing, Storing, Printing, and Sharing Better Digital Images

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A lavishly illustrated reference to digital photography and editing electronic images covers introductory digital photography for beginners, digital image and Photoshop techniques for experienced shooters, and an advanced bonus section on taking glamour shots, producing e-books, and setting up a home studio. Simultaneous. 30,000 first printing.

Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Digital Photography

Rick Sammon leads us through twenty step-by-step workshops on how to edit our photographs using the most popular imaging software available.Rick Sammon's Digital Imaging Workshops picks up where his popular Complete Guide to Digital Photography leaves off. The earlier book gave us brief glimpses of the power of digital imaging. In his new book Sammon has selected twenty of the most common and effective imaging techniques that workshop participants request. Each richly illustrated workshop in the book is accompanied by Sammon's base images on the CD-ROM so that readers can follow step by step along with Sammon using the same image as portrayed in the book. This technique leads readers to develop their own ideas very rapidly. The book opens with a tour of Adobe Photoshop Elements tools and menus. For photographers who are visual learners, the book's CD-ROM also contains short movies that readers can view on their computer showing how to manipulate the most useful tools and menu actions in Elements. 600 color illustrations; CD-ROM.

Rick Sammon's Digital Imaging Workshops: Step-by-Step Lessons on Editing with Adobe Photoshop Elements

W.W.Norton&Company

Go on location around the globe to learn the techniques that professional photographers use to make great photographs. Whether traveling with family or friends, for pleasure or for business, more of us tote cameras along than ever before. Rick Sammon guides us through dozens of different shooting situations from action shots to portraits, from aerials to zoos, from low light to bright light, from landscape to cityscape, from close-up to panorama, from silhouettes to sense of depth. The book features how-to tips from a photographer who has traveled to over fifty countries, from photographing seals under the ice in Siberia's Lake Baikal to monarch butterflies on Mexican mountaintops. Sammon's thematically organized excursions take the reader to Vietnam, Kampuchea, Guatemala, India, Alaska, Singapore, Maine, Texas, New York City, Las Vegas, Botswana, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest, among many other locations.

Rick Sammon's Travel and Nature Photography

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“Clear, concise, lively, well-organized and opinionated.”―Popular Photography and Imaging In this thorough revision of his best-selling guide, Rick Sammon covers all the steps in the digital photographic process. The book teaches basic technical picture taking and the art of photography, plus introductory and advanced digital techniques. Orchestrating over 1,000 images into easy-to-read lessons, Sammon uses an approach of "learning to see and seeing to learn" with pairs of images, software screen shots, and the best photographs from his own shooting assignments. New for this edition, all the image editing tips feature the popular Adobe Photoshop® Elements®; file format discussions now include working with Camera RAW files; and more than 170 new color images have been added. 1000 color photographs

Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Digital Photography 2.0: Taking, Making, Editing, Storing, Printing, and Sharing Better Digital Images Featuring Adobe Photoshop® Elements®

How to capture and control light to make the best digital photographs.
Light is the essence of photography. Follow master photographer Rick Sammon at dawn in Kenya or nighttime in Miami as he demonstrates how to achieve the best composition with the available light, which camera settings are best suited to existing conditions, and how to obtain the best exposures in challenging situations. Sammon shows how to make photographs instead of just taking them, providing the tools necessary to take artistic command of the images you create. Drawing on intuitive analogies and technical tips, his in-depth lessons on light apply to every style and subject of photography.
In this beginner-to-intermediate-level guide, Sammon also teaches how to "rescue" potentially imperfect exposures with the resources available to the digital SLR camera owner. Technical exposure information images where relevant. 428 color photographs

Rick Sammon's Exploring the Light: Making the Very Best In-Camera Exposures

An easy-to-carry, quick reference to Rick Sammon’s tips and tricks for the digital photographer on the go. Inspired by Rick Sammon’s popular workshops given around the world, this indispensable handbook condenses the master photographer’s most important lessons into one easy-to-carry guide. Designed for outdoor and travel photographers of any skill level, this book will come in handy for a wide range of potential shooting situations. The Field Guide, illustrated with hundreds of Rick’s own photographs, offers great advice on how to get the best images with the resources at hand, and gives dozens of crucial lessons for the mobile digital photographer, each one crafted in Rick’s trademark nontechnical and intuitive manner. Readers will learn how to prevent bad exposures in less-than-ideal conditions and will discover how to fix images that may have unexpected flaws. This is the portable Rick Sammon all of his fans have been waiting for―small enough to fit in your camera bag. 263 photos

Rick Sammon's Field Guide to Digital Photography: Quick Lessons on Making Great Pictures

Go to any Rick Sammon workshop or seminar and it will be standing room only. The popular speaker and Canon Explorer of Light travels the country on behalf of Canon teaching amateur photographers how to shoot better pictures. He has hosted shows on the DIY network as well as on ESPN and the Outdoor Life Network. 
In this 1 1/2 hour video, Rick will show viewers all of the basic steps to taking great images. From camera basics to exposure, lenses, sport shooting, photographing in low light, close up photography, people and portraits, animals and pets, Rick breaks down complex topics into fun and interesting lessons. While other videos in this market feature an actor standing next to a camera on a tripod, Rick goes out on location to Universal Studios (Orlando, FL), Jungle World at the Bronx Zoo and other great places to entertain, educate and inspire viewers to becoming better photographers.

Rick Sammon's Canon EOS Digital Rebel Personal Training Photo Workshop [DVD Edition]

wiley

Learn the tips and tricks used by a top photographer in the digital photography industry in Rick Sammon's Top Digital Photography Secrets. Filled with beautiful photographs and the techniques Rick Sammon used to capture them, this book offers you motivation to capture stunning photographs and the tools and tricks you need to capture them. With more than 100 techniques for use behind the camera, this book will improve the camera skills of both amateur and experienced photographers. Additionally, this book includes a chapter on post-production secrets, and a Rick Sammon DVD Guide lighting, camera, and digital photography basics. In this 1-hour DVD, Rick shows you how to get great photos using a variety of lighting sources, camera-specific techniques, and basic rules of photography.

Rick Sammon's Digital Photography Secrets

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