Creative Wedding Album Design with Adobe Photoshop

Book excerpt: Pairing photographic creativity with digital-manipulation techniques, this unique manual teaches the use of Photoshop® to design artful, distinctive, and compelling wedding albums. Showing that the artistic process need not stop at the click of the shutter, the steps for album creation are detailed—reviewing the images, forming a story line, and conveying the tale through well-designed montages. Offering 10 projects with varying levels of complexity and covering diverse skill sets, step-by-step techniques are demonstrated with detailed screen shots. Strategies for designing album covers are also included, and a companion website features downloadable practice files for easy review. Highlighting the sophistication and robustness found in image manipulation, this dynamic guide inspires and enables while emphasizing the marketable edge of adding imaginative graphic design capabilities to any photo studio business.