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HOW TO CHEAT IN PHOTOSHOP
How to Cheat in Photoshop
The art of creating photorealistic montages - updated for CS2
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Third Edition

By
Steve Caplin, Graphic artist/illustrator, contributing editor for MacUser magazine and the best-selling author of How to Cheat in Photoshop

Description
How to Cheat in Photoshop helps you cheat in two ways: it shows you how to create images that look like photographs and also offers shortcuts and invaluable tips to help you work faster and more efficiently. This new edition of Steve Caplin's bestseller includes new techniques showing how to make the most of the power of Photoshop CS2. New chapters are also now included on perspective, transformation and distortion, time-saving techniques, and working for print and the web. Steve Caplin shows you how to work from the problem to the solution, gaining the best possible results from Photoshop CS2. On every double page spread there is a new step-by-step project, making 150 projects in total. On the companion CD you?ll find QuickTime movies of the projects illustrated in the book, along with free sample plug-ins and high resolution images allowing you to experiment with each technique and create your own montages.

Audience
Professional photographers, designers, illustrators and retouchers who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Also design and media and photography students. Beginner Photoshop users. There are over one million Photoshop users!

Contents
Natural Selection; Transformation and distortion; Hiding and showing; Image adjustment; Composing the scene; Getting into perspective; Light and shade; Heads and bodies; Shiny surfaces; Metal, wood and stone; Paper and fabric; The third dimension; Hyper realism; Time saving techniques; Print and the web

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 384 pages, publication date: AUG-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-51985-2
ISBN-10: 0-240-51985-X
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS

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Last update: 5 Sep 2009
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