Chapter 3. Creative-Image Artistry

CREATIVELY, YOU'RE AT THE MIDPOINT of this book. You've read about taking better pictures and applying some basic image adjustments to your images. If you've experimented with the techniques I suggested, you've gotten a glimpse of the power of seeing creatively when taking pictures and the power of Photoshop when working on your images in your digital darkroom.

Now it's time to dive a little deeper into the creative world of Photoshop. In this chapter, you'll learn how to create your own reality (with your images), which is totally cool. You'll see, among other things, how easy it is to change the time of day, control the weather, create an image that looks like it was taken before you were born, change one or all of the colors in a scene, put someone on the "Photoshop Diet," and, following our creative-image artistry theme, create the type of image that surrealist artist Salvador Dali might create if he were alive today and using a digital camera and Photoshop. Wallace Stevens wrote "Reality is the beginning not the end."

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? BEGIN!