Achieve new levels of creativity in digital art with Advanced Photoshop CS4 Trickery and FX. This fully revised new edition shows digital artists how to blend their traditional artistic skills and vision with the powerful tools and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Photoshop CS4 Extended combines 2D, 3D, and video into its interface, truly enabling artists to combine mediums such as painting, photography, and sculpting into their digital creations. Each chapter is laid out as a complete tutorial that shows you how to use each of the amazing new Photoshop CS4 features to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. Youall also find projects that illustrate the more practical uses of Photoshop to help you master your photo editing skills. All of the files needed to complete the tutorials are included online so you can spend more time expanding and challenging your creativity and less time worrying about the technical details. Get ready to harness the power of Photoshop CS4 to create both realistic images and fantastic effects.

This guide helps digital artists blend traditional artistic skills with the tools and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, which combines 2D, 3D, and video to help enable artists to mix mediums such as painting, photography, and sculpting with digital creations. Each chapter consists of tutorials on the program's features for creating digital effects and artwork, including simplifying the interface, texturing, animation, layer blend modes, masking, advanced selection techniques, smart filters, custom perspectives, editing UV maps, and painting. A working knowledge of the program's interface and the functionality of its tools is assumed, as well as how to use layer masks and adjustment layers. Images and files are included on the CD, and files can be downloaded online. Burns is a photographer, corporate instructor and lecturer on the application of digital art and design, and an author of books and articles on digital techniques with Photoshop and 3D applications. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A fully revised edition of this specialized book for Photoshop that want to go beyond the basics. The book takes digital artists to the next level of creativity by teaching them how to blend their artistic talent seamlessly with the powerful tools of Photoshop CS4. Packed with full color photos, fun projects, and demos of the amazing new features of Photoshop CS4, readers will learn how to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. All of the core tools of Photoshop CS3 used for effects are put to use in hands-on projects as you learn new techniques for creating realistic and fantasy effects.