Creative Photoshop Landscape Techniques

Landscape photography is a popular and enduring genre, and capturing the natural beauty of a scene on camera is a very rewarding pastime. But the natural world is inherently unpredictable, and you won't always achieve the results you want. That's where Photoshop comes in. Whether your aim is converting a not-so-dramatic colour shot of a distant forest into a strong monochrome masterpiece making a montage where elements from two separate pictures will create a single, stronger image when combined or changing the weather conditions to give your landscape shots a wholly different atmosphere, Creative Photoshop Landscape Techniques will show you how. Beginning with a straightforward introduction to Photoshop's most useful features, the book moves from simple enhancements such as creating realistic shadows and reflections through more complex techniques such as simulating rain and snow, changing the seasons, and turning day into night to adding new features such as waterfalls and rivers to your landscapes. The easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials will also show you how to recreate popular and useful styles such as sepia effects, fish-eye lens effects, and the depth-of-field manipulation so prevalent in contemporary advertising. Creative Photoshop Landscape Techniques is an essential read for all digital landscape photographers.