| Introduction | ix |
| Part I | Getting Started | |
| 1 | Recipes for Images | 3 |
| Your Photos: More Than Just Pictures | 4 |
| Turning Photos into Real-Life Objects | 4 |
| How to Take a Good Picture | 9 |
| 2 | Boot Camp | 15 |
| Software Requirements | 16 |
| Hardware Requirements | 20 |
| When to Scan, When to Photograph | 25 |
| About Size and Resolution | 26 |
| Saving Files | 30 |
| Printing Techniques and Media | 33 |
| Creating Web Images | 36 |
| Part II | Patterns, Textures, Filters, and Backgrounds | |
| 3 | Making Your Images "Touchable" | 45 |
| Creating Surface Textures | 46 |
| Creating Seamless Repeating Images | 59 |
| More Great Ideas | 68 |
| 4 | Out of Thin Air | 71 |
| Making a Curtain Call | 73 |
| Other Settings | 79 |
| Combining Photos and Settings | 79 |
| More Great Ideas | 80 |
| 5 | Roll Over, Michelangelo | 83 |
| Painting with Pixels | 84 |
| Making a Menu Marvelous with a Mosaic | 89 |
| Tips for Budding Pixel Artists | 93 |
| More Great Ideas | 94 |
| Part III | Colors and Tinting | |
| 6 | Deal Yourself a Winning Hand | 99 |
| Making a Good Black and White Photo | 100 |
| Simulating Period Color | 109 |
| More Great Ideas | 114 |
| 7 | Turning Back the Calendar | 117 |
| Back in the Olden Days | 117 |
| Rolling Back the Years--Making a Hand-Tinted Portrait | 119 |
| Making a "Vintage" Photo | 129 |
| Where to Look for Inspiration | 134 |
| More Great Ideas | 134 |
| 8 | Housewarming, 1850s Style | 137 |
| Mass Market Color Before Color Photography | 138 |
| Finding Inspiration | 138 |
| Saddle Up! Preparing the Image for Coloring | 141 |
| Applying Colors | 147 |
| Making a Four-Fold Note Card | 154 |
| Bottoms Up--Making Custom Drink Coasters | 156 |
| More Great Ideas | 160 |
| 9 | With Color, Less Really Can Be More | 163 |
| What's a Duotone? | 164 |
| Duotone It the Easy Way | 166 |
| The More Colors, the Merrier | 172 |
| Sure, You Can Fake a Duotone | 180 |
| More Great Ideas | 181 |
| 10 | Simple Gifts | 183 |
| Line Up! Turning Photos into Drawings | 183 |
| Get the Red Out...and the Green, and | 189 |
| Crayon Power: Making Coloring Book Pictures | 192 |
| More Great Ideas | 196 |
| Part IV | Combining Elements | |
| 11 | No Scissors, No Paste | 201 |
| Building Images Piece by Piece | 202 |
| Silhouetting the Saint's Head | 203 |
| Creating the Saint's Body and Paws | 206 |
| He's Been Framed--Creating an "Ancient" Frame in 3D | 209 |
| On Your Mettle! Let's Make Some--Metal, That Is | 214 |
| Moving On | 217 |
| More Great Ideas | 218 |
| 12 | Getting It Together | 221 |
| Seeing Things in the Right Light | 222 |
| Creating an Opulent Background | 222 |
| The Head Bone Is Connected to the Neck Bone | 224 |
| Aging Photos by Several Hundred Years | 227 |
| Halo, Everybody, Halo--Creating That Saintly Glow | 230 |
| Let There Be Light--on St. Guinefort | 231 |
| Where Do We Go from Here? | 233 |
| More Great Ideas | 234 |
| 13 | What I Did on My Summer Vacation | 237 |
| Creating a Large-Letter Postcard | 238 |
| Designing a Background | 240 |
| Adding the Type | 245 |
| Warping the Type | 248 |
| Silhouetting Images Within the Letters | 250 |
| Applying Layer Styles to Type | 254 |
| To Mail It or Not to Mail It? | 255 |
| More Great Ideas | 256 |
| Part V | Other Fun Stuff | |
| 14 | What Fools These Mortals Be | 261 |
| I Can't Believe It's Not a Butterfly! | 262 |
| Placing the Picture Elements | 263 |
| Creating a Real-World Shadow | 265 |
| Leaving Other Things Lying Around | 270 |
| More Great Ideas | 271 |
| 15 | Hey, They Took My Camera! | 275 |
| Scanner, Camera, What's the Diff? | 276 |
| How to Scan an Elephant--Or Not | 277 |
| Brushing Up on Your Scanning Technique | 279 |
| Cleaning Up After Your Scanner | 281 |
| Let's Finish What We Started--Our Projects! | 289 |
| More Great Ideas | 293 |
| 16 | Better Than Perfect | 295 |
| How to Sell Your House: Enhancing a Photo Realistically | 296 |
| Going Too Far: Adding a Little Fantasy | 301 |
| Forget Being "Down to Earth"--Let's Fly to the Moon | 304 |
| It's Been Real--or Has It? | 310 |
| More Great Ideas | 310 |
| Part VI | Appendixes | |
| A | The Software in Review | 315 |
| Paint Shop Pro 7 | 316 |
| PhotoFix 3.4 | 317 |
| PhotoImpact 8 | 318 |
| Photo-Paint 11 | 319 |
| Photoshop Elements 2.0 | 320 |
| B | How Do I Get There from Here? | 321 |
| C | Glossary | 329 |
| Index | 335 |
