Digital Abstract and Macro Photography

Get ready to view your photographs as more than simply the images they have captured as you learn how to digitally transform them. Rather than a traditional step-by-step guide to photography, "Digital Abstract & Macro Photography" is meant to inspire with its images. It offers digital photographers a glimpse into the world of possibilities that exist for transforming traditional photographs into unique, abstract works of art. Each featured photograph is accompanied by a series of images, reflecting the major stages of the creation process. Take your vision to the next level as you discover the eye-catching techniques that can be applied to your photographs.

Ken Milburn¿s background as a digital artist is founded in an earlier career of fifteen years as a nationally published advertising and editorial photographer. His photographs have appeared in TV Guide, Look Magazine, and The Los Angeles Sunday Times Magazine. His advertising clients have included Southern California Gas, Cole of California, Universal Pictures, Capitol Records, Strega Liquer, and the Fluer Corporation. Today, Ken is also an internationally recognized digital artist. He specializes in the composition and manipulation of digitized images for the purposes of fine art and illustration. His work originates as photographs and he then uses computers to abstract them into works that appear to be paintings. Design Graphics Magazine has featured his work in multiple-page full-color in two of its issues. Computer Artist and Digital Video Magazine have also featured Milburn¿s work. He has written twenty computer books in the past five years. His most recent include: Digital Photography: Expert Techniques, Digital Photography: 99 Tips and Tricks to Make You Look Like a Pro, Photoshop Elements 2: The Complete Reference, The Photoshop 7 Virtual Classroom, The Digital Photography Bible (1st and 2nd Editions), Photoshop 5.5 Professional Results (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), Master Photoshop 5.5 Visually, Visually Master Photoshop 6.0, , and Cliff¿s Notes on Taking Digital Photographs (Hungry Minds).