One of the hottest trends in wedding photography is the storybook wedding album - taking photographs and turning them into eye-catching collages and artistic images. Join Scott Kelby, best-selling author and editor of Photoshop User magazine, as he reveals the secrets to creating amazing images that you can reuse over and over again by creating templates.
If theres one thing youve learned as a wedding photographer, its this: When it comes to weddings, real life isnt good enough. Without Photoshop to turn gray skies blue, make red eyes clear, and transform not-so-storybook events into fairytale affairs, youd be in a heap of trouble. With this DVD, you’ll discover how to create reusable storybook wedding templates. Uniting both mediums is author Scott Kelbys easy-to-follow format and fun, fast narrative. Between the disc and guide, youll will learn how to use Photoshop to correct image color, remove blemishes, change backgrounds, create sepia-toned prints, tint images and more as you discover how to employ custom layouts, create re-usable templates, and produce

Duran Duran came back out of nowhere in early 1993 with a new album and a huge hit, "Ordinary World." The group sounds more relaxed and mature than it did during their glory days, but not all that much has changed; instead of personifying the days of early-80s synthesized dance-pop, the music is smooth dance-pop for the 90s. Taken on its own terms, Duran Duran works every bit as well as Duran Duran, Rio or Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

Wedding Album Maker is an easy-to-use software which allows you to create an amazing wedding photo album with background music, Pan&Zoom and transition effects. With Wedding Album Maker, you can quickly and easily produce professional-looking wedding photo slideshow DVD disc and share your love story and excitement of your wedding day on home big screen TV with standard DVD player in the comfort of your living room.

Wedding Album Maker is an easy-to-use software which allows you to create an amazing wedding photo album with background music, Pan&Zoom and transition effects. With Wedding Album Maker, you can quickly and easily produce professional-looking wedding photo slideshow DVD disc and share your love story and excitement of your wedding day on home big screen TV with standard DVD player in the comfort of your living room.

Master the demanding lighting needs for weddings of any variety with this comprehensive guide from an industry expert. All the basics are covered, including how to choose and use the right equipment, how to control light and shadow while outdoors, how to utilize ambient room light and natural light, and how to ensure the best color balance for each image. Technical tips from 40 top wedding photographers cover such specifics as producing window-light images and using such tools as scrims, umbrellas, and gobos. With the right lighting know-how, a photographer can capture with ease the candid looks and pure emotions of the wedding party.

From creating a strong internet presence and high-quality, eye-catching mailers to ensuring happy customers and promoting word-of-mouth referrals, this indispensable handbook details the multitudinous ways wedding and portrait photographers can supercharge their marketing efforts to bring in more clients and better profits. Containing a step-by-step guide to the power marketing method—a systematic, proactive approach that takes advantage of the best possible resources available—photographers will learn how to understand their customers, identify their hook, and establish program goals and objectives. Five of the biggest and most oft-encountered mistakes made by both new and struggling studios are discussed, as well as how to establish an effective pricing strategy and become comfortable with self-promotion. By incorporating these proven sales and presentation strategies, photographers will be able to put forth their best sales approach, point out the features and benefits of their product, and overcome client objections to close the sale.

From creating a strong internet presence and high-quality, eye-catching mailers to ensuring happy customers and promoting word-of-mouth referrals, this indispensable handbook details the multitudinous ways wedding and portrait photographers can supercharge their marketing efforts to bring in more clients and better profits. Containing a step-by-step guide to the power marketing method—a systematic, proactive approach that takes advantage of the best possible resources available—photographers will learn how to understand their customers, identify their hook, and establish program goals and objectives. Five of the biggest and most oft-encountered mistakes made by both new and struggling studios are discussed, as well as how to establish an effective pricing strategy and become comfortable with self-promotion. By incorporating these proven sales and presentation strategies, photographers will be able to put forth their best sales approach, point out the features and benefits of their product, and overcome client objections to close the sale.

Successful wedding photographers have to master all different types of coverage, perform under pressure, and work in an extremely limited time frame. Every step of the process is examined in-depth in this manual written for professionals by a professional—from selecting equipment, attracting clients, and framing shots, to the final creation of the wedding album and the revolutionary changes made possible by digital photography. All of the events of a wedding ceremony and reception are covered, with handy advice on getting the best shot for each one.

Wedding Album Maker Gold - is a professional software for creating photo albums, which creates an impressive slide show of wedding photos with music, transitions, DVD menus. This program allows you to quickly and easily create stunning wedding albums in DVD video discs. The new version supports more output formats such as: MPEGI, MPEGII, MPEG-4, MP4 for iPod, PSP, 3GP mobile phone, FLV, XVid AVI, AVI, video formats for Anrchos, Creative Zen Vision, iRiver PMP 100, YouTube, MySpace.

AKVIS Chameleon is an efficient tool for photo collage creation. This ingenious software makes the process easy and entertaining. Earlier one had to thoroughly select an object before pasting it into a new background; with this software this tedious part of work drops out. You can concentrate on the creative part and forget about complicated selection techniques. The tool is very easy to handle as it does not require precise selection of objects... You can use AKVIS Chameleon in many ways. You can create customized postcards for your loved ones; make a wedding album using all kinds of photos and backgrounds; correct closed eyes (by implanting open eyes from another photo of the series), change the appearance of a person, etc. Designers will appreciate this tool as it allows them to combine images with entirely different color ranges, to create the effect of drawing on a texture surface (crumpled paper, wood, etc), and all that with only a mouse-click.