By
Steve Caplin, Graphic artist/illustrator and the best-selling author of How to Cheat in Photoshop
Description
Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers?
Feel like turning your photographs into
works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte?
Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings?
Then you need
Art and Design in Photoshop.
In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery
Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch your creative boundaries. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his best selling
How to Cheat in Photoshop titles, Steve's step-by-step instructions recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous design
effects. You'll learn how to design everything from wine labels to sushi cartons, from certificates to iPod advertising, from textbooks
to pulp fiction.
Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: how to get slick-looking results
with minimum fuss, with a 16-page Photoshop Reference chapter that provides an at-a-glance guide to Photoshop tools and techniques for
less experienced users. Steve explains both typography and the design process in a clear, informative and entertaining way.
All the
images, textures and fonts used in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this
book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, both amateur and professional.
Audience:
Creative Photoshop users looking to push the artistic boundaries of what the software can achieve; graphic artists and digital imaging amateurs and professionals.
