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How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4: The art of creating photorealistic montages
Do you want to let your creativity run wild in Photoshop, but don't know where to start? Are you having trouble getting your ideas out of your head and onto the screen? Do you need your photomontages to look convincing... and fast? Nobody knows more about how to work quickly under pressure and still produce top-notch results than hands-on digital artist, author and journalist Steve Caplin. This guide is packed with real-world examples, timesaving hints and tips and detailed step-by-step instructions that make the impossible seem possible. Fully updated for Photoshop CS4, this must-have-resource is also backwards compatible with any previous version of Photoshop.
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448 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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June 16, 2015
There are a LOT of Photoshop tools to help with convincing photo montage and manipulation and editing work, many of which are detailed in this book, with examples taken from Steve Caplin's professional design and teaching career.
This book has taken me a nice long time to read, since I read it during occasional periods of downtime at work. After reading the similar book on using Flash, I thought a Photoshop edition would be even more up my alley, since my focus at work has shifted to using this program instead, and since my background has always been more in Photoshop. It DID have a lot of interesting tips and tricks and explanations for tools that I didn't even know existed, but it didn't really have a LOT that related to the kind of work I actually do. These tutorials more detail ideas specifically to help with photo montage work, while my work is a little more about actually creating art in Photoshop. Some of the tools described applied to work I do, but most of them seemed more aimed at people who want to economize their time working on photo manipulation. It includes a CD-ROM with files referred to in the chapters, though I didn't even open it for some reason. The text was fairly readable, but some of the art he presented didn't seem THAT impressive to me (though the methods he used were usually impressive... just not his execution? Maybe I just don't prefer his style as a digital artist), they almost seemed amateurish at times, though they usually managed to get the point of the tutorial across, which is the point. As a general point of interest, there were some surprising typos, especially in the last couple of chapters (though I should also say that a LOT of work obviously went into this book, not only figuring out what to include, but gathering samples and screencaps of everything).
This was another book provided by work, and it was sometimes interesting to read through, even though it took me forever and the tips and tricks usually didn't actually relate to the kind of work I do in Photoshop. It's probably more useful as a reference book to glance through when you're trying to find out how to do something specific in Photoshop, though I knew if I didn't read it straight through I probably wouldn't refer to it at all, at least not as much as I should. Even if it's more about photo montage and less about original art creation, it's still a good resource, and still taught me a few tricks that will help make my Photoshop use run a little more smoothly and efficiently.
This book has taken me a nice long time to read, since I read it during occasional periods of downtime at work. After reading the similar book on using Flash, I thought a Photoshop edition would be even more up my alley, since my focus at work has shifted to using this program instead, and since my background has always been more in Photoshop. It DID have a lot of interesting tips and tricks and explanations for tools that I didn't even know existed, but it didn't really have a LOT that related to the kind of work I actually do. These tutorials more detail ideas specifically to help with photo montage work, while my work is a little more about actually creating art in Photoshop. Some of the tools described applied to work I do, but most of them seemed more aimed at people who want to economize their time working on photo manipulation. It includes a CD-ROM with files referred to in the chapters, though I didn't even open it for some reason. The text was fairly readable, but some of the art he presented didn't seem THAT impressive to me (though the methods he used were usually impressive... just not his execution? Maybe I just don't prefer his style as a digital artist), they almost seemed amateurish at times, though they usually managed to get the point of the tutorial across, which is the point. As a general point of interest, there were some surprising typos, especially in the last couple of chapters (though I should also say that a LOT of work obviously went into this book, not only figuring out what to include, but gathering samples and screencaps of everything).
This was another book provided by work, and it was sometimes interesting to read through, even though it took me forever and the tips and tricks usually didn't actually relate to the kind of work I do in Photoshop. It's probably more useful as a reference book to glance through when you're trying to find out how to do something specific in Photoshop, though I knew if I didn't read it straight through I probably wouldn't refer to it at all, at least not as much as I should. Even if it's more about photo montage and less about original art creation, it's still a good resource, and still taught me a few tricks that will help make my Photoshop use run a little more smoothly and efficiently.
August 24, 2009
Mixed. Poor results shown, but good techniques
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