Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook: 61 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers, Designers, and Artists

Shelbourne, Tim

ISBN 10: 0596100221 / ISBN 13: 9780596100223

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2005

Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # M13C-01647

Synopsis:

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
• Simulating natural phenomena: rain, clouds, rainbows, lightning, snow
• 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.

About the Author:

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook: 61 ...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good