Photoshop for Artists


Book Description

ENRICH, ENHANCE, AND TRANSFORM YOUR ART WITH THE MAGIC OF PHOTOSHOP® For artists, Adobe® Photoshopâ offers an exciting entry into a new world of limitless color, textures, and effects that can be applied with just the touch of a keyboard or click of a mouse. Intended for serious artists -- painters, photographers, and printmakers ‑- Photoshop for Artists provides a comprehensive series of detailed tutorials, cataloging the various tools, techniques, and methods for producing an infinite variety of creative imagery with Photoshop. With thirty tutorials divided into sections for fine artists, photographers, and printmakers, this book contains easy-to-follow step-by-step examples that include all the information serious professional artists need to master the digital art techniques of Photoshop. Each tutorial features screenshots and detailed directions, so artists can see exactly how the specific effects are achieved and applied to artwork. Featuring stunning and dramatic imagery produced by the author and other accomplished artists, Photoshop for Artists is essential reading for artists looking to take their work to the next digital level.




Photoshop Artistry


Book Description

The first book to address the needs of a rapidly expanding segment of the Photoshop 3.0 market--high-end users such as photographers, artists, and imaging professionals--Photoshop Artistry is a self-paced, hands-on course that teaches the process of creating digital art. The CD contains original and final images, as well as masks, layers, and channels used to complete the exercises.




Photoshop Artistry


Book Description

Artistry is the key word here: competent doesn't cut it. When you want to create museum-quality art prints, professional advertising effects, and dazzling digitally manipulated images, Photoshop CS2 Artistry is the place to start. Providing a focused approach to the advanced features of Photoshop CS2, this beautiful full-color guide tackles complex yet essential topics like color calibration and correction. Along the way, you'll learn how Photoshop's newest features-32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) color creation and editing (ideal for advanced compositing and professional photography), Vanishing Point, Image Warp, Spot Healing Brush, Smart Sharpen, and more-can aid in your quest for the perfect image. Throughout, the authors emphasize the relationship between Photoshop CS2 tools and traditional photographic techniques to provide essential context for complex tasks. Detailed, step-by-step exercises and a companion CD with before-and-after images, masks and tool settings extend the book's tutorials and enhance the learning process.




Photoshop 6 Artistry


Book Description

Computing Methodologies -- Text Processing.




Photoshop 4 Artistry


Book Description

"Photoshop 4 Artistry is an in-depth course in digital imaging for intermediate and advanced users who want to make the best photographic images. Read the reference chapters and follow the step-by-step, hands-on exercises to understand the intricacies of Photoshop. Learn the relationship between Photoshop tools like Adjustment Layers, Levels, and Curves and traditional photography's Zone System. See how to calibrate your system. Create beautiful images for print and fine art as well as GIFs and JPEGs for the World Wide Web." "The CD-Rom supports the Photoshop 4 Artistry master class with before and after images, masks, and tool settings for the 30 tutorials contained in this book."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved




Painting for Photographers


Book Description

Painting isn't just for artists anymore.Photographers nowadays are interested in turning their digital photosinto paintings in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop.And now Painting for Photographers, published by Artistry Books, shows both the art lessons and software steps for transforming photos into works of art.Written and illustrated by Karen Sperling, one of the world's foremost Painter authorities, having penned the first several Painter manuals and three previous Painter books, Painting for Photographers is the first art book for photographers.It starts with a look at the art concepts that photographers need to know to paint their photos and describes the materials needed to create art, in this case, the software program tools and features.Next, Painting for Photographers provides step-by-step instructions and four-color illustrations for creating paintings in Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop from popular photo subjects, including portraits, landscapes, pets and wildlife, covering various styles of art, including oils, watercolors and pastels. There's also a chapter on creating abstract art, Karen Sperling's specialty, having exhibited abstracts in New York art galleries.Additionally, Painting for Photographers shows how to paint with traditional acrylics and oils on top of the digital artwork after it's printed to canvas and includes a chapter by world-renowned artist and photographer Laurence Gartel about how to market the results.Painting for Photographers appeals to both professional photographers who would like to sell paintings to their clients and to hobbyists who are interested in painting photos of their kids and grandkids.




Photoshop 7 Artistry


Book Description

"Photoshop 7 Artistry" is one of the most successful advanced-level Photoshop books available. Its initial appeal for photographers has been transcended; the basic principles the authors teach apply to all Photoshop users--particularly more-advanced users--and the advent of digital photography has further boosted the book's popularity.




Photoshop 5 & 5.5 Artistry


Book Description

Photoshop 5.5 Artistry is for serious photographers who gravitate to using digital technology and the Web as their processing and distribution tools of choice. New Riders is here with the updated version of Photoshop 5 Artistry, including material that covers all of Photoshop 5.5's new critical features. This book is an in-depth course on digital imaging for intermediate and advanced users who want to create the best possible photographic images. Over fifty small sections show you a focused approach to doing specific tasks. As you work through chapters and step-by-step, hands-on excercises, you will gain in-depth understanding of the complex topics, such as calibration and ICC color management, and master the relationship between Photoshop tools.




100% Photoshop


Book Description

Just when you think you've learned all that you could ever know about working in Photoshop, digital artist and photomontage king Steve Caplin comes along with yet another masterful method for creating incredible works of art in Photoshop. This time, he'll show you how to create complete images, from start to finish, entirely within the software program. No source material, photographs, or existing files from other software packages are needed, saving you valuable time and resources. The techniques you'll learn in this ground-breaking new book will help you combine your artistic vision and skills with an understanding of how to manipulate the built-in Photoshop filters to produce impressive, eye-catching artwork. Each chapter opens with a complete double page illustration, created entirely in Photoshop. Then, carefully laid out step-by-step instructions show you how each element in the illustration is created, and how they are all combined in the end to make a convincing final image. Using Steve's proven methods for success, you'll be able to produce images that reflect a more finely crafted, hand drawn approach, whether you're an artist for your own enjoyment or a working professional looking for a leg up on the competition.




Painting with Light


Book Description

Throw your preconceptions about light-painting out the window and prepare for a creative journey that will revolutionize your photography. Light painting is a classic photography technique that involves selectively illuminating sections of a dark subject by moving a light source (like a flashlight) over the subject during the course of a seconds- or minutes-long exposure. This results in uniquely nuanced depictions with a high level of technical artistry. As Eric Curry shows, however, today’s hardware and software allow you to produce light-painting images that are anything but traditional! In this book, you’ll learn, step by step, how to plan and execute incredible, nuanced images using simple gear, a whole lot of imagination, and today’s powerful postproduction software. With these techniques, your imagination is the only limit to what you can create!