'Dereks edge is that he wont stand still. He has a knack for finding new corners of the program to exploit and innovative ways of doing so. Hes pushed the boundaries not only for his own art but also for thousands of up and coming artists who also want to create onscreen the visions they have in their minds. If youve bought this book, youre about to discover what I mean.'

-Garrick Webster, Editor, Computer Arts

Welcome to the world of art and imagination! Derek Lea, one of the worlds top 100 digital artists, shows you how to use Photoshop in unorthodox ways to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. His work is a unique combination of original photography, traditional illustration, and digital art.

If you are a digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist or designer who is familiar with Photoshop, but want to push the program to the limit, this book is for you! Learn how to get professional results from the paint features in Photoshop. Create sharp illustrations by combining vectors and pixels. Explore less-than-obvious composition methods, and discover the hidden potential in unlikely artistic resources and materials. Play around with texture using spray paint effects and scanned elements, or age faces and objects. Use stencil tags and comic book coloring techniques. Learn how to bring 3D art to life! Maximize your creativity AND efficiency with invaluable information on working between Photoshop and Illustrator.

This book/CD package provides clear, step-by-step tutorials that make it easy to emulate Leas techniques in your own work. With all the images from the book to play with, youll be creating stunning artwork in no time!

* Learn from an award winning digital illustrator how to think outside the box and create stunning art with Photoshop

* Be inspired by a wide range of artistic styles and real world techniques that you can adapt to your own work, including graffiti spray art, comic coloring, and antique effects

* Practice new skills with FREE tutorial files on the CD

"Derek's work, and the approach he takes to explaining his techniques, are excellent. His ideas are innovative, his methodology unique, and the results are breathtaking." Steve Caplin, UK based digital illustrator, author of How to Cheat in Photoshop

One of the worlds top 100 digital artists shows how to use Photoshop in unorthodox ways to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. This book-and-CD-ROM package provides clear, step-by-step tutorials that make it easy to emulate Leas techniques.

Learn how to think outside the box with Photoshop guided by the award-winning digital artist, Derek Lea. This is an ideal guide for aspiring digital artists who knows how to use Photoshop but now want to use it as something other than an image retouching tool.

Cited as one of the world's top 100 digital artists by Computer Arts magazine in 2005, Derek Lea shares his insider's secrets about how to get the most out of Photoshop to create stunning digital art. This book will teach you how to approach Photoshop from an illustrator's or artist's viewpoint.

A wide variety of illustration styles are covered within this graphic guide showing you how to get professional results from the paint features within Photoshop. Derek also covers using Photoshop alongside Illustrator as well as a few 3D packages and some unconventional scanner uses. The result is a vast array of enviable artistic styles that you may not even have considered until now. Push Photoshop to its limits with 'Creative Photoshop'.

A series of step-by-step projects combined with a vast collection of expert tips, tricks and techniques will transform your Photoshop art!

* Learn from an award winning digital illustrator how to think outside the box and create stunning art with Photoshop

* Be inspired by the wide range of artistic styles including real world, more unorthodox techniques, which you can easily adapt to your own work

* Clear and easy to follow step-by-step tutorials explain how to make the most of Photoshop and digital image software

Painting in Photoshop; Working with Shape Layers; Graffiti Spraypaint Art; Graffiti Stencil Tags; Urban Art using Real Paint and Innovative Photo Conversion Methods; Advanced Bitmap Methods for B-movie Poster Art; Tracing Photographs; Creating pop Art; Retro Art Effects; Illustrating from Scanned Sketches; Comic Coloring Techniques; Inkjet and Water; Antique Effects; Photocopier Meets Photoshop; Recycled Materials and Found Objects; Architectural Face;Simulating 3d Effects; Ageing Effects; Realistic Surrealism; Bringing Stale 3d to Life; Bosch, Photoshop and Poser Together; Art Noveau, Illustrator and Photoshop Together; Changing Patterns, Back and Forth between Apps