Adobe Photoshop CS2 offers professional and amateur photographers, artists, and designers unprecedented opportunities to manipulate images on their personal computers, but it's a complex application that can take years to master. With Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook, you don't have to be a Photoshop expert to create sophisticated effects. The 61 easy-to-follow, fully illustrated recipes in the book show you how to use Photoshop CS2 to simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques and special effects-without making you first learn Photoshop inside and out.
Author and digital artist Tim Shelbourne has assembled a collection of real-world techniques that you'll be able to apply immediately to your own images, whether you're working on photographs or digital illustrations. Digital files of the examples in the book are available for download, so you can easily follow along as Tim takes you through each recipe.
The book covers:
Creating graphic art effects: posterization, watercolor, pen and ink, woodcut
Working with lighting effects: neon glows, lens flares, fire and flame effects
Adapting traditional techniques: film grain, contrast masks, hand-tinting
Adding motion blurs and other special effects
Simulating textures: stone, metal, glass, plastic
Making mattes, vignettes, frames, borders, signatures
Assembling multi-layered images and photomontages
Packed with hundreds of full-color photographs, step-by-step instructions, and at-a-glance panels with many practical tips, Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook is all you need to quickly and easily create professional graphic art effects from almost any image source.
Tim Shelbourne worked for 20 years as a traditional artist and illustrator beforeconverting to digital image making. Tim specializes in digital fine art and photo-manipulation using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Corel Painter. His tutorialsare published regularly in Total Digital Photography magazine.
Comments about oreilly Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook:
The author's background in natural media shines through in the Graphic Arts Effects section. Here I found the first really plausible digital methods to create watercolor, oil, pencil sketch and woodcut in Photoshop. All the sections are very good, but this section shines. Alone these methods are worth the price of the book!
7/26/2006
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Photoshop: Photo Effects Cookbook
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Comments about oreilly Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook:
O'Reilly's Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook is another winner... well designed and easy step-by-step instructions will lessen the learning curve for beginners and bring even the most advanced Photoshop user into a deeper knowledge of the industry standard in photo enhancement and manipulation.