Photoshop Now,  Digital Photography Now, Elements and You, InDesign Now, Film Photography Now

You're not a dummy or an idiot, but you don't have time to read an 800 page Photoshop Bible either. You need to learn (or teach!) Photoshop Now.

Photoshop Now CS3, recently updated and expanded, was designed specifically for you and your students. It's concise; practical, down-to-earth, easy to read, even humorous in places. 10 chapters, 15 projects, over a hundred photographs to work with, chapter test(and answers) available. With time for projects, the book will require about one typical school semester to complete.

Photoshop Now teaches all the stuff you would expect a basic Photoshop book to teach; for instance, how to use Photoshop's many tools. But Photoshop Now also teaches a student how to actually do something. Such as create a product sheet, fix a badly shot photograph, make a portfolio for a fashion model, make a billboard, a CD sleeve, layout a magazine ad and many other projects. Also includes 20 "Cheap Tricks" to wow your students and keep their interest high.

Qualified teachers can receive a free copy of Photoshop Now.

174 pages, 8.5x11, coil-bound to lay flat beside the computer. Images provided on CDs for schools or downloadable from this website. $28. plus S&H. Buy Photoshop Now

Or, download Chapter One and Two(.pdf format) for free.

More Photoshop Now is a Photoshop projects book that builds on the techniques learned in Photoshop Now. The advanced techniques and projects in this book are more in-depth and involved. Topics covered include portrait retouching, architectural rendering, advanced color correction, compositing techniques, artistic scanning, technical illustration and more. Includes 20 projects and 14 cheap tricks.

160 pages. 8.5x11, coil-bound to lay flat beside the computer. Includes hundreds of photos, designs, plus good and bad examples of projects.

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Photography (digital or film) is difficult for some people to teach (or learn) because photography is both art and science. To teach either one without the other is like rowing with only one oar in the water.

Digital Photography Now teaches both the art and science of photography. Some of the short, easy-to-digest chapters are technical, others artistic and others designed purely to inspire, intrigue and motivate your students.

Topics include exposure, metering modes, white balance, shooting portraits, image editing, shooting sports, Some chapters are more peripheral, such as how to get a good results from an inkjet printer. And some are just good to read with a cup of coffee, like how to shoot dead people (Doug was a forensic photographer) or Shooting in the third world.

Qualified teachers can receive a free copy of Digital Photography Now.

160 pages, 8.5x11, coil-bound to lay flat beside the computer.. $28. plus S&H. Buy Digital Photography Now

Or, download several sample chapters for free(.pdf format)..

InDesign is Adobe's page layout program, used for creating ads, brochures, magazines, books, and, yes, school yearbooks. Step by step instructions, projects, examples, including how to layout and produce a school yearbook. Teaches how to use frames, master pages, manipulating text, exporting .pdf files,

Also covers those important peripheral issues, not usually mentioned in other textbooks such as how to work with a print shop, how to get reliable color and how to use a digital camera to improve the photos from which you have to work. Complete with projects, examples (both good and bad) of completed projects, images, photos and text from which to build your projects.

In short, easy-to-digest chapters Doug Henderson, explains in his usual conversational style how to make InDesign work for you.

138 pages, 8.5x11, coil-bound to lay flat. $28. plus S&H. Buy InDesign Now.

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This book combines teaching Adobe Photoshop Elements and digital photography together to help students not only improve their photographs in Elements, but how to shoot them better to begin with. Many practical tips and work practices on shooting your photos, organizing your collection, improving your photos and creating projects such as web gallerys, photo books, composites and more. If you or your students know nothing about photography or image editing this book is a great place to start.

Short chapters, conversational, easy-to-read style. Lots of photos, diagrams and screen captures.

162 pages, 8.5x11, coil-bound. $28 plus S&H. Buy Elements, a Camera and YOU.

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Yes, yes, we all know this is the digital age. But in spite of that, some teachers (and students) still want (and deserve) a good, up-to-date book on conventional, film-based photography. While this book covers the theory of photography, exposure, light, film, developing and printing,
it also explores the art of composition, posing people, thinking about photography. Also chapters on pin-hole photography, medium and large format cameras and much more.

Multiple chapters dedicated to the place of film in the digital age, scanning negatives, computer manipulation of film images. Advantages/disadvantages of film compared to digital.

150 pages. 8.5x11, coil-bound. $28. plus S&H. Buy Film Photography Now. Download samples chapters of Film Photography Now.