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Photo Craft: Creative Mixed Media and Digital Approaches to Transforming Your Photographs
Digital Photography and Mixed Media–a creative match made in heaven! Love photography? Want to make yours better? Want to use your photography as a springboard for fabulous and diverse mixed media and digital projects?
Photo Craft will help you elevate the average into the extraordinary! Using Adobe Photoshop Elements and following thorough, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn to make basic adjustments to your photographs that will yield stunning and artistic results. You
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An instant gem!,
I was so excited to receive this book in the mail. Coming from someone who has always enjoyed shooting photos I was hoping to gain a glimpse of how to take my amateur photography to the next level. In Photo Craft, Christy Hydeck and Susan Tuttle have created quite a gem. It is a personalized tutorial of how to get the creative juices flowing in unexpected and exhilarating ways. Everything about the book is inviting. They have each found a way to make the complicated seem manageable and approachable. Christy and Susan seem to have left nothing out. How many times have each of us yearned to know how someone was able to create something, only to have them tell you how to do it, but leave out a few steps so it doesn’t quite turn out the same? Christy and Susan guide you through every project and method step-by-step, in so far as letting you in on their methods and the tools and materials they used to create their brilliant works of art. They have invited you into their personal and professional world in a witty and whimsical way.
I especially enjoyed Christy’s sentiments and methods throughout. It felt more like she invited you into her home, treated you like family and let you in on her trade secrets. Her inspiring, words of encouragement will foster a level of creativity in you that you never knew you had. She gives you more than just a tutorial and step-by-step method into how to create works of art and emotionally impactful images. She invites you in with a method of story telling that showcases just how photography can change our lives in a myriad of heartbreaking, joyful and inspiring ways. You won’t be disappointed in this one!
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|Powerhouse of Creativity,
The title of Susan and Christy’s book, PhotoCraft, fits this book perfectly. It is CRAFTED with great detail, thought, illustrations, photographs, written directions, new techniques, easy to follow photo manipulation and layout design. One can sense the energy and ideas that flowed through their hearts and hands into creating this book for a wide market. I am a photographer and a painter. This superb book gave me many ideas to mix painting with photography. Reading some of their specific chapters, gave me ideas to use in my own way. They lay the ground for both photographers and artists in mixed media or painting…. The book layout is very impressive: laid out in steps that are logical, well written and illustrated. The reader understands what to do, there is no residual guessing. I have taken several of Susan’s photography workshops and she puts her whole heart and soul into them. One is always inspired to do better and have the skills necessary after taking one of her classes. I own her other books, but this one is my very favorite. It is very diverse, something for everyone. I look forward to seeing more of Christy’s work. They make a great team. If I could only purchase one book this year, it would be PhotoCraft.
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|Inspiration x2,
I love this book! Susan and Christy are both such inspirational photographers and artists and I’ve enjoyed their photos on their blogs and instagram. This book is amazing. There are great tips on basic photography, but I love all of the ideas they offer on creating textures and transforming your photos into works of art. I’m also inspired by the wonderful projects using various mediums – modeling paste, gesso and wax. So many ways to use photos – very inspiring!!
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