Photo Special Effects – My honest review First and foremost, I just want to clarify I will be giving you an unrestricted unbiased and honest review of Trick Photography and Special Effect ebook. What you are about to read are the ESSENTIAL details you need to know before purchasing the ebook.

1. Photo Special Effects – My honest review
First and foremost, I just want to clarify I will be giving you an
unrestricted unbiased and honest review of Trick Photography and
Special Effect ebook. What you are about to read are the
ESSENTIAL details you need to know before purchasing the ebook.
This is a review site: Click here to visit Trick Photography and
Special Effect Official Website.
When my dad got me my first camera, I was thrilled to show it off
to my friends at school. Initially, when I clicked a few shots, I felt I
was doing an “amazing job” as an amateur, and that my pictures
were brilliant pieces of art. Well, those initial pictures were actually

2. trash, and it was only thousands of shots later that I realized what
a good picture meant. Not that I could get anywhere close to get
some extraordinary shot. I kept dreaming of getting those cool
photo effects which I see in the magazines and on photography
sites. I was willing to learn, but there was one thing that I lacked-
patience. I wanted to learn to create photo special effects without
having to go through the organic learning curve.
Creating photo special effects
There were a lot of promises made on that site- along with a lot of
photo fun effects. It also guaranteed that my pictures would change
right from the next click onwards, and that I could achieve some
really tricky photo effects like 360 degree panoramic views and
surreal images with trick photography techniques, that too without
using Photoshop, and with just an entry-level DSLR. Well, it all
sounded like a marketing gimmick.
Let me be honest. I was desperate to find a shortcut to learn photo
special effects, and this deal was coming with a bonus kit with four
other mini e-Books on Photoshop plugins, How to make money with
Photography, photography fundamentals, and a guide on lenses and
filters. It was the add on books that got me interested initially, so I
decided to give it a try. After all, I had already spent far more than
that on my DSLR, without any improvement in the quality of my
pictures, let alone the “wow” photo special effects I wanted to
impress people with. It was just a little more investment, with
minimum risk.
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My first impression when I ran through this eBook was- OMG! 196
pages! Will I have to read through all of them to know about photo
special effects? It became easier when I rummaged through the list
of topics. It’s like, he has started with the basics. So you learn one
thing, and then apply that in your clicks.
Then move on to another topic, apply that one as well. And as you
reach the end, you would know how to apply ALL those tricks, in
combination, and get some really fun photos. And the fun, for me,

3. started right from the first chapter- which was on light paintings
and long exposure shots. There are so many nitty gritties of the
camera, but it was a lot of fun reading, and applying those
features.
The second section is where the REAL
fun lies. It is all about trick photo
special effects and in-camera illusions.
Infrared photography, time-
displacement photography, 360X180
panoramic effects- there are so many
ways you can use your camera to
achieve these effects, and you need not
use Photoshop always.
You just have to know some camera and
lens settings, and you are there!
The third section covers Photoshop effects, which you MAY use to
get some other effects, like the invisible man, fake tilt-shift etc. The
chapter on Layer masks and blending was superb, and was
explained in a very simple language.
Is this guide worth it?
Well, to put it bluntly, there is nothing in this book which you can’t
conjure up by reading camera manuals, and resources on the
internet, and some experimenting by yourself. But then again, only
a person with all the time in the world can do that. I was not one of
them, and as I told you earlier, I needed a shortcut to learn. This
book is a comprehensive guide to not just photo special effects, but
also someone who is at a beginner level, and who wants to reach
the expert level.
It is a step-by step guide to photography in general, with a focus on
image effects and fun photo editing. It is very easy to read, and
understand. Even the camera fundamentals, which are anyhow
present in the camera manual, but I hardly care to give it a look,
are explained in such a way that I wondered why had I not paid any
attention to such simple things before! Another feature which I like
in this book is that it does not expect you to memorize camera
specifications, and technical details of lens, filters etc. Rather, it

4. follows a do-it-yourself approach, and so you would obviously
remember what worked and what did not.
Since the book goes from the basics to the advanced topics, I did
not have to read the entire book before I could muster up enough
confidence to click my first trick photography image. When did I
take my first “wow” picture? Well, the very next day, after reading
the very first chapter! And that is when I remembered the
guarantee on the website, something about “1 photo improvement
guarantee”. That claim did not make me buy the book initially, but
it worked nevertheless.
I am still on my learning journey, I can’t say I am the master of the
trade already, neither are all my pictures worth a thousand dollars,
but the learning curve is definitely much better than what I had
before. In fact, what I learnt with my own experiments in the last
couple of years, I could’ve learnt in a day, had I got this book
earlier. I would definitely recommend this book to those who want
to learn photo special effects with some guidance on fun photo
editing. But if you are only looking for a Photoshop guide, this
might not be for you, although it does cover some highly beneficial
aspects of Photoshop.
And yes, this book has been just a small investment I made,
compared to the thousands of dollars I spent on my camera with
which I didn’t know what to do. My DSLR has been just a wild
beast so far, and I could only tame it with this book.
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