Creating Photomontages with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook


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A guide to using Photoshop to create photomontages, featuring the work and commentary of digital imaging professionals, graphic artists, illustrators, and photographers such as Didier Cr?et?e, Lamia Dhib, and Odile Pascal.




Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook


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World-renowned French artists share their exciting and innovative digital creations in Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook, a first-time English translation of the cutting-edge French work. The images in this book will energize image professionals, graphic artists, photographers, computer graphics designers--all creators of images, whether still or animated--and will forever change the way you see and perform your design work. Photoshop is best known among photographers as a photographic image manipulation tool; it is used largely for retouching and photomontage. But Photoshop is also a powerful and highly sophisticated tool for creating quality digital drawings and artwork. Artists, like the ones showcased within, use it to realize their unique vision through illustration. In this lavish, full-color collection, nine French graphic artists--well-known professionals from a vibrant culture with a reputation for taking creative risks and producing incomparable graphics and art--are turned loose with Photoshop. Ranging from advertising to children's book illustration, science fiction to settings for graphic novels and role-playing games, their groundbreaking creations will inspire you to see your industry anew, appreciate graphic design from a changed perspective, and revitalize your work. Representing the very finest of French creation in the world of graphic design and digital imaging, this notebook leads you into the heart of each author's artistic approach, guiding you through the inception and making of nine unparalleled works of art that spring from widely varying sources of inspiration. But you'll come away with more than ideas and inspiration--you'll find detailed, step-by-step information on making Photoshop do anything and everything you want to accomplish your ideal digital illustration. Unlike any other available, this visually stunning book will give you the creative license and technical know-how you need to create one-of-a-kind digital illustrations with Photoshop that are limited only by your imagination.




Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook


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Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook is at once eye candy, artistic inspiration, and incomparable technical guidance for intermediate-to-advanced digital imaging professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating digital images or animations. A visual splendor, this full-color book showcases a one-of-a-kind collection of superb and innovative photo-retouching solutions by well-known French artists. The new English translation of a cutting-edge French work, Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook presents high-quality photo retouching from the unique cultural perspective of the French. Reflecting the very best of French creation in graphic design and digital imaging, this book offers an enlightening and stunning glimpse into a vibrant culture known for pushing the limits of imagination with photography, graphics, and art. Filled with beauty, energy, and creative risks, the images inside will forever change the way you see and perform your own photo manipulation and graphic design. You'll see what other top-notch imaging professionals are able to do to and create with their photographs with Photoshop, and you'll be guided, step-by-step, through the editing process of each project--from original shot to polished print. But most importantly, you'll gain both insight and experience into how each visionary artist imagined, conceptualized, and ultimately created his or her final exquisite image. With the book's inspiration and education, you'll be able to exert precise control over every aspect of your own photo restorations and retouching challenges so you can consistently achieve expert, dramatic results while always preserving the integrity of the photographs. Part coffee-table book, part art inspiration, and part design guide, the lavishly illustrated Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook will redefine what it means to retouch a photograph--taking the procedure from simple, mindless manipulation to elaborate, intentional, highly rewarding art form.




Assembling Panoramic Photos


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In this full-color Designer's Notebook, eight expert French photographers reveal their secrets in using Photoshop and a collection of dedicated applications to create extraordinary panoramic photos--including some amazing 360-degree images. For anyone involved with digital imagery or animation, this groundbreaking volume demonstrates a new way of thinking about what's possible and what's required to produce these images. Originally published in France, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook is available in English for the first time. Part art book, part how-to guide, this stunning work takes you right into the studio and sits you down next to renowned digital artists as they advance step-by-step toward their final images. The showcased pieces are inspiring and avant-garde, and the techniques are instructive for a wide range of amateur and professional photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists. The artists featured in this Designer's Notebook show how they use Photoshop, Stitcher, PanaVue ImageAssembler, and other specialized tools to create high-quality panoramas and wide-angle images from a series of photographs They also show how to create virtual reality scenes with Apple's QuickTime VR in conjunction with leading-edge technologies that support 360-degree one-shot photos, cubic images, and 3D views of objects. The results are interactive, often startling, and bear the hallmark of each artist's original vision and skill. Reflecting the very best of French photography, graphic design and digital artistry, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook offers advanced Photoshop instruction that goes beyond opening this menu, or clicking that palette. You receive expert aesthetic guidance, from start to finish, with notes and views that reveal every step of the process. This book is a goldmine for any digital artist who wants to learn new Photoshop techniques and exploit them for maximum effect. At home on either your coffee table or desktop, the book itself is dazzling in concept and design. There's nothing else quite like this Designer's Notebook available in the U.S.




How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4


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* New! Zip through the learning curve in a snap with the free DVD! * Hundreds of new Photo Objects, companion project files, QuickTime movie tutorials, sample plugins, and more. * Don't miss the website www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com complete with Reader Forum where Steve answers your questions directly! When you're short on time with crunching deadlines, but there's no way you can sacrifice quality, this book/DVD comes to the rescue. Nobody knows more about how to work fast under pressure and still produce top-notch photographic images than hands-on graphic artist and journalist, Steve Caplin. Steve cuts through the grind with on-the-job, do-it-now skills, techniques, and shortcuts guaranteed to show you how to work faster, smarter, and better to produce the best work of your life. With a lifetime of practical experience in photo-montage Steve is the go-to person for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, photographic retouchers, and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CSX, this must-have resource is also backwards compatible - relevant to any version of Photoshop. 'How to Cheat in Photoshop CSX' helps you "cheat in" (or take advantage of) Photoshop in two important ways. You learn how to make images look like photographs, when they're not so that you can create photographic work without a studio. And you find useful shortcuts to work more efficiently, economically, and with quick solutions to achieve the same superb results that come from long, complex operations that take forever. Whether you're working for print or the web, dip into this book and extract the info you need - fast. Icons mark where Photoshop files or movie tutorials are available for you to open immediately to try for yourself. Stuck? Visit the Reader Forum on the web and question the author directly (and expect other readers to weigh in, too!) at www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com. Crammed with gems that other books simply don't cover, and unique in that it's written by a working professional sharing his tips on how he makes money producing this imagery, this book/DVD excels in practical tips to turn the ordinary into the awe-inspiring, quickly. Don't miss how to create new artwork from scratch from starting points that aren't always obvious. This fully updated new edition shows you how to get the most out of Photoshop CSX, including the Quick Selection and Cloning tools, and more. Yet it's backwards compatible with previous releases of Photoshop. The book's step-by-step tutorials alongside the DVD packed with hundreds of images, project files, and live tutorials show you how to: * Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions - the simple way * Take years off someone's appearance * Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes) * Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface * Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CSX's new Quick Selection tool... and more A host of timesaving techniques and insider secrets teach you to work faster and more adeptly moving from the problem to the solution to get fantastic results! Steve Caplin is a professional graphic artist, author and journalist.




How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5


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In this invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, and graphic artists, photomontage master Caplin shows exactly what methods he uses to create stunning imagery used in advertising, publishing, print media, and more. Includes a DVD with video tutorials.




Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers


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A recipe-format handbook that covers the fundamental principles and techniques of image retouching and manipulation offers step-by-step instructions and solutions to a variety of common issues--from exposure problems to adjusting focus and lighting.




Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers


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Annotation Cory Barker, Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the Photoshop Guys of Photoshop User TV, brings you this handy and inspiring volume in the Down Create custom brush effects from scratchSee type as a design elementCreate Hollywood-style effects that actually look like Hollywood-style effectsTake mundane photos and turn them into something mind-blowingCreate eye-popping commercial effects that clients will drool overGet creative with 3D in Photoshop CS5 ExtendedCreate popular advertising effects you've seen in movies, on TV, and on the WebMaster dazzling photo effects for designers and photographers alikePlus, there are so many other things throughout the book that you'll be bursting with new ideas!




DIG PHOTO WITH,


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Since the publication of this book, Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop Elements (version 2). We have chosen not to upgrade our book, as it is possible to follow all of the tutorials using either the first or second version of Photoshop Elements. Here, at friends of ED, we firmly believe in the saying “If it ain't broke, dont fix it”. There are, though, some differences between the two versions of the program, so we have created a handy guide to show you how best to enjoy Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop Elements using Photoshop Elements 2. This is viewable either online, or available as a pdf download. Digital cameras have become an essential item, with the advent of ever cheaper and ever more sophisticated models. The benefits over their celluloid-and-chemical cousins are enormous. Never again need you worry about running out of film! There will be no more anxious waits for the local developing shop to open! What's more: There's an ocean of possibility when it comes to digital image manipulation and Adobe's Photoshop Elements has become an essential tool for photographers. This full-color book provides an approachable introduction to Photoshop Elements, offering tips and insights into the vital aspects of photo manipulation. Illustrated throughout, Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop Elements offers the clearest possible route to achieving great images with Photoshop Elements. Practical examples are shown throughout, enabling you to achieve impressive results from the outset. Whether it's just a quick retouch or a 180-degree panorama you're looking to build, Digital Photography with Photoshop Elements equips you with the required knowledge and invaluable advice from two of the most respected Photoshop designers in the business. The CD accompanying the book contains a full 30-day trial version of the Photoshop Elements software, plus the original artwork source files from the authors. With this complete package, you can work through the examples or branch out with your own Photoshop ideas!