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Books : Arts & Photography : Photography : Preservation & Collecting
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Featuring the artwork of over 25 leading artists with name recognitionAs art journaling grows in popularity (even attracting a new breed of scrapbookers who call themselves "life artists"), there is a movement afoot toward creating more authentic, personal, what some people call "raw" journals. These journals are filled with not just attractive, well-composed pages, but pages that are filled with personal, meaningful content.
True Visions is focused on ways to bring authenticity and meaning into one's art journaling. The book will examine themes and topics common to all while offering activities and exercises to create rich meaningful content. Each chapter will highlight familiar subject areas such as life events, spirituality, childhood, and even an artist's favorite writings. Within each topic, readers are given guided activities and exercises for developing content, provided one or two artistic techniques, and are shown inspiring examples of work by a variety of talented art journal artists.
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Bring out all your old storage boxes of photos, and open up all the images you've shot that were just "okay." In his latest book, Matt Kloskowski shows you how to restore old photos and retouch newer ones to make your images go from so-so to great. Matt trains thousands of people each year, showing them exactly how to make their photos (and the people in those photos) look their very best. He won't bog readers down with unnecessary details, but instead will show them, with clear step-by-step instructions, the best techniques in Photoshop Elements to make the best images. Everyone wants their photos to look great, and to be appreciated and noticed by their family and friends. With Matt's newest book, readers will learn the most useful techniques for restoring old photos--from removing dust and mold to repairing scratches and tears--and retouching images of people--including specific sections about working on difficult areas, such as the eyes and mouth.
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Capture and preserve your family’s most precious moments! This complete guide to safe scrapbooking provides you with the proper photo-safe techniques to preserve cherished memories without the fear of ruining treasured photographs. Inside you’ll find:
- Over 500 inspiring page ideas
- Complete lists of necessary tools
- Detailed, step-by-step instructions
- Tips on arranging photos, photo cropping, page layouts, - and personal touches
- And so much more! Whether you are a scrapbooking novice or veteran, you’ll find ample inspiration to turn everyday photos into scrapbook works of art!
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Pets are beloved family members and a cherished part of countless events and memories. This inspiring guide offers pet lovers hundreds of creative ideas for immortalizing their favorite animals with specially designed scrapbook pages. Scrapbookers will discover:-Hundreds of innovative ideas for creating pages dedicated to domestic pets such as dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, fish, frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes and birds
-Inspiring journaling prompts for recording special moments with pets
-Tips and techniques for creating paw print cast molds
-Helpful pointers for taking top-notch pet photos and portraits
-Heartfelt ideas for remembering past pets
-Fun pet facts and stats for extra inspiration
Pet-loving scrapbookers will love this endearing guide to celebrating the ways their animals enrich their lives.
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Basic Astrophotography tells you how to take pictures of stars, galaxies, planets, the Moon, the Sun, comets, meteors and eclipses using equipment readily available to the amateur astronomer. The first section, 'Getting Started', presupposes little knowledge of photography or astronomy and concentrates on what can be done with minimal equipment. For example, an ordinary 35 mm camera on a tripod, aimed at the sky on a starry night, will photograph more stars than the unaided eye can see and will bring out an awesome variety of colours. Add a telephoto lens, a pair of binoculars, or a small telescope, and you have all that is needed to photograph an eclipse or the main surface features of the moon. The two subsequent sections, 'Advanced Techniques' and 'Equipment and Materials' cover the use of cameras in conjunction with telescopes and constitute a thorough handbook, including technical imformation on optical systems, film characteristics, and processing techniques. Throughout, the emphasis is on current practice. This book will become the standard handbook for amateur astronomers who want to take pictures of the stars and will also appeal to photography enthusiasts who know relatively little about astronomy but are intrigued by spectacular pictures.
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People love their pets—and now they can capture each playful, adorable antic and turn them into a fun scrapbook with the help of this colorful volume. It’s chock-full of creative ideas for every cute creature, including dogs, cats, critters, and even farm and zoo animals. The endless possibilities include lively pages that feature stamps, machine stitching, patterned paper, ribbon, beads, rub-ons, silk flowers tassels, tiles, a zipper pull—all the wonderful accessories that scrapbookers enjoy using. Find inspiration in pages dedicated to “Couch Kitty” and “Three Little Kittens”; “Every Dog Has its Day” and “Puppy Pick-Up”; “Hamster Head”; and “Kissing Frogs.” Special boxes offer tips on techniques, suggestions on thinking outside the scrapbook, and endearing quotations about animals.
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This mammoth book contains so much valuable information, and so many exciting examples of great work, it will become the must-have resource for every beginning and experienced scrapbooker’s library! In more than 300 pages, the history of the craft unfolds, from the old-fashioned albums of eras past to the renaissance of creative scrapbooking today. Interviews and profiles of leading designers and companies offer insight into the art, and there’s abundant advice for newcomers on improving their images and their layouts. They’ll find out how to take full advantage of the camera’s key components; store photographs and ensure archival quality; and create a powerful, balanced design on the page. Invaluable tips cover choice of materials, selecting and integrating type, and using words to enhance the images. And of course there’s a plethora of fabulous techniques to try, from cropping, matting and mounting photos to stamping, embossing, and distressing to creating custom papers on the computer. And the sample layouts spotlight those important moments that everyone most wants to commemorate: birthdays, graduations, weddings, and special family events.
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Establishing a well-put-together photography collection is an art in itself, and mastering the technique is as simple as reading—and looking closely at—this lush volume. It’s filled with practical advice on building and curating a collection, along with beautiful photographs by early and contemporary masters that showcase photography’s diverse genres, schools, and movements. Explore different types of collections, including biographical, historical, genre, and thematic. Browse through a plethora of inspiring images—landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lifes, fashion images, photojournalism, and more—each with in-depth analysis to train the mind as well as the eye.
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Photo Retouching & Restoration For Dummies shows readers how to take prints of old family photographs, badly shot digital images, and other hopeless cases and turn them into high quality digital images suitable for printing or posting online. Includes coverage of scanning existing prints, correcting color problems, correcting lighting problems, hiding dust and scratches, repairing holes in the image, improving focus, enhancing images for sharing, and printing and posting your final results. The Dummies series has been a favorite among digital imaging users thanks to its easy to follow instruction and expert advice. Dummies books on digital photography and Photoshop have combined to sell over 475,000 copies. ABOUT THE CD-ROM The CD-ROM of this book contains an assortment of images included in the book so readers can work through the steps with the same material presented in the text. The CD also includes a trial of Photoshop Elements (the software primarily used in the examples) as well as catalog programs like ThumbsPlus and ACDSee, scanning software like VueScan and SilverFast, FlipAlbum photo viewing software, and other image editing trials including PaintShop Pro.(All CD concontent tentative)
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With everything from advice on tools to the most beautiful designer layouts ever, this covers-it-all encyclopedia will be a must-have for the hundreds and thousands of scrapbooking fans.
Every technique, every major designer, every scrapbook possibility, described in glossary style, complete with photos and tips--that's what this A-to-Z encyclopedia contains, and that's why no scrapbooker can do without it. Exciting page layouts throughout, with how-to instructions, offer inspiration, while dozens of projects come from the most creative minds in the field including Andrea Grossman (Mrs. Grossman's Paper Company); Rhonda Anderson (Creative Memories); Bridgette Server (Making Memories); and Dee Gruenig. Eye-opening studio set shots present decorations and accessories, while charts, graphs, and blocked sections supply necessary information. A reference lists all the companies shown in the volume, with internet addresses and 800 numbers. Dr. Susannah Tucker, a professor from Tulane University, has provided an introduction and a timeline of scrapbooking since its inception to 1987.
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With step-by-step instructions, a glossary of techniques, and colorful examples of more than 100 pages of original scrapbook art, this book explores how to work with past and present materials. It also includes a PVC scrapbook template and two cropping tools.
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Life is filled with thrills—and sometimes a mass-produced, commercially available scrapbook just isn’t exciting or unique enough for the events it’s celebrating. What’s a scrapbooker to do? Create something original! These 25 inventive projects offer expressive ways to preserve, showcase, and share the good times. Craft a book from recipe cards to preserve fond family food memories, from big holiday dinners to that precious time spent baking cookies with Mom. Make an album out of driftwood to commemorate a vacation by the beach. Stitch up a single-signature pamphlet out of old sewing patterns for a sewing or quilting journal; glue a cloth measuring tape into the cover to use as a bookmark. You won’t find ideas like these anywhere else!
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The discovery of light-sensitive chemicals in mid-nineteenth-century Europe carried large implications -- for scientists, technicians, astronomers, and for the businesspeople who soon made family portraiture standard tabletop fare in middle-class homes. In The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science, M. Susan Barger and William B. White begin with a history of the process itself. Tracing the daguerreotype's origins and development, they proceed to discuss what researchers in this century have learned about the chemistry of the daguerreotype. They also address practical curatorial issues, describing how to restore and preserve the artifacts themselves. Richly illustrated, this survey of a fascinating and ubiquitous feature of mid-nineteenth-century life also provides a detailed technical study of the daguerreotype process.
"The original motivation for our work was to devise better ways to preserve and care for daguerreotypes. As materials scientists, we knew that we needed to understand exactly what a daguerreotype is and how it is formed before we could attempt the problem of how best to care for these images... Our scientific work also gave us the opportunity to take a new look and interpretation of the scientific and technological literature on the daguerreotype and to reevaluate its technical history." -- from the Preface to the 1999 edition
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Determined to be a tattoo artist at the age of ten and tattooing professionally since
1967, California native Don Ed Hardy has become one of the world's leading tattoo
artists. Inspired by traditional Japanese work, he was instrumental in developing the
medium's fine art potential and fueling the late-century international tattoo boom.
Tattooing the Invisible Man presents a survey of Hardy's paintings, etchings,
lithographs, drawings, photographs, and elaborate tattoos, over 500 color
illustrations, most never before published.
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The photo album as we know it has changed. Now you can learn to capture—and share—your life experiences in dramatic new ways with SHARING DIGITAL PHOTOS: THE FUTURE OF MEMORIES. This colorful and innovative guide expertly demonstrates how to turn static photos into compelling stories and presentations using everyday technologies such as your digital camera, Microsoft Windows®–powered PC, and the Web—with no HTML or Web design expertise required. Using easy-to-follow guidelines and examples, you’ll learn how to take better digital pictures and use them to build a visually rich narrative that you can share from your desktop or over the Web. The author shares best practices for digital storytelling—techniques that you can use even as the technology inevitably evolves.
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Scrapbooking is to today’s families what quilting was to the women of 19th-century America, with family heritage enjoying a revival among today’s crafters. Grandmother’s Scrapbook is a wonderful way for grandmothers to share their life stories with their grandchildren, allowing them to tell family stories in their own words, alongside treasured images. The text begins with the process of making a scrapbook: how to organize your thoughts, design a page, and create special effects such as paper folding, piercing, and quilting. The second part of the book presents beautifully illustrated removable mounting sheets in poly sleeves. Organized by theme, these mounting sheets include a design for a family tree, space for family stories, and printed frames ready to be filled with family photos.
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Nothing pulls a family closer together than the birth of a child. From the moment a new baby arrives, everything changes. Baby's Scrapbook helps family members celebrate and remember this special time by offering ideas for creating scrapbook pages that provide a detailed look at a child's first year. The first part of the book covers the basics: organizing and journaling thoughts; conceptualizing and designing a page; cropping, matting, and framing photos; using stickers and borders; and creating special effects. Shape templates are included, as well as four-color printed papers and alphabet stickers. The second part of the book presents 48 single-page, beautifully color illustrated, removable mounting sheets enclosed in protective poly sleeves organized by topics and themes. A pocket separator offers a special place to hold templates, papers, photos, and other memorabilia to easily preserve this special time.