Learn how to take amazing photos with your SLR, and how to get professional results by improving them in Photoshop with our expert image processing techniques. Discover how to take your photography to the next level with over 70 creative photography projects.

 

Whether you’re a beginner and you want to know the easy techniques for taking professional-looking photos, or you’re a seasoned photographer in need of some inspiration, Teach Yourself Creative Photography has everything you need and more. We’ve packed in hundreds of crucial tricks and techniques that are certain to improve your photography skills. The first chapter provides expert guides to help you master key photography techniques for shooting everything from slow-shutter seascapes that tame raging seas to amazing multiple exposures. Each of these projects focuses on how to set up your equipment to capture the photos, along with photo-editing tips to create finished pictures that are good enough to hang on your wall. Chapter two is packed with tutorials that you can follow in Photoshop Elements, while chapter three moves onto its more advanced big brother Photoshop CC. Where necessary, we provide project files for you to hone your skills on. As well as the tutorial files you’ll find more than 70 videos on FileSilo. 

 

- Slowing the seas

- Get the high-key look

- Tilt-shift on the cheap

- Shoot the breeze

- Impressionist architecture

- A time for reflection

- A flash in the pan

- In the shallow end

- Tone it around

- Double vision images

- See the bigger picture

- Blurred lines

- Flour power

- Splash without flash

- The light fantastic

- Dramatic portraits

- Say it with shadows

- Spin a Spirograph

- Aim for the stars

- Mirror, mirror

- Strobe the walls

- Drag your camera

- Brighten up your day

- Hover-craft

- Candlelit winner

- Ring of fire

- Freeze frames

- A line in the sand

- A bit of a blur

- Optical wizardry

- Let’s twist again

- Out of the shadows

- Stack ’em up

- In at the deep end

- Pop-up portraits

- Flaunt your curves

- Frequent fliers

- Round the world

- Colour-foil effects!

- Solar power

- Three is the magic number

- It’s a small world after all

- Brilliant black & white

- Let there be light!

- Keep it in the dark

- Seeing stars!

- The body beautiful

- The perfect blend

- Make photo colours pop

- Add atmosphere to your pictures

- Turn over a new leaf

- Make a movie poster

- Get the retro look

- Get the party glowing 

- Splash and splatter

- Portraits that sparkle

- Get a smart new look

- Fun with fireworks 

- Rediscover your inner child

- Get the infrared look

- Create beautiful bokeh for portraits

- Textural portraiture

- Creative block

- HDR in Photoshop

- Get the gritty look 

- Fantasy landscapes

- A light blub moment

- Plot a portrait with polygons

- Mood lighting

- Brush up on your photo painting skills

- Blended to perfection

- Seeing double