Fine Art Photoshop: Diving Into the World of Photographic Art

Award-winning photographer and accomplished instructor Ella Putney Carlson provides a comprehensive guide to using photographs to make art using the Photoshop software. Readers will learn the creative process of making art that can be used with most raster graphics editing software. Readers will learn how to transform initial image captures into a series of art work in addition to specific transformative techniques and constructive concepts that help build unique images. Carlson reveals and details the inspiration for image series, how new images are assembled from original captures, layer mode techniques, and painting-layers-in methods. In addition, she covers piecing image selections, maintaining lighting consistency, delight and worth of artistic series, and much more. AUTHOR: Ella Putney Carlson is a photographic illustrator and educator. She has her MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and she has earned the professional photography degrees of Master Photographer, Master Artist, Craftsman, and Certified Professional Photographer. She has also earned her Educational Associate degree from the American Society of Photographers. She has earned multiple Kodak Gallery Awards, Fuji Masterpiece Awards and Courts of Honor awards. SELLING POINTS: Learn to transform your photographs into fine art Choose the right filters and settings for great Photoshop effects Learn to use post-production to create fine art image series