Synopses & Reviews
Travel to a side of Photoshop CS2 you may never have seen before! Here are nearly 50 wild, way-out effects, colorfully illustrated step by step to show you exactly how to work the magic. Learn to handle some of Photoshop's trickiest commands, including Knockout, Blend-If, and Clipping Masks. Create glass text, submerge a city under water, create mythical creatures, cross-breed your favorite fruits and that's just for starters. You'll love what you see on this side. Wild!
- Unlock the mysteries of Photoshop's new Vanishing Point filter and Smart Objects
- Learn non-destructive editing and compositing methods
- Experiment with aging effects, transform a photo into a woodcut, or multiply an image in different colors
- Build your dream body without diet or exercise, and turn your friend into a superhero
- Create cool reflections and multiple exposures, or recreate a portrait using text patterns
Review
Synopsis
A full-color cookbook of ideas, with step-by-step instructions for creating way-out, fun effects for photography, Web design, and commercial art Some possibilities include morphing a rhino's head onto a woman, dressing a wolf in sheepskin, turning a photo into neon art, submerging a cityscape beneath the sea, and aging a young person into a wrinkled senior citizen Among nearly 50 effects presented are type, lighting, and photographic effects, photo manipulations, visual puns, art styles, and wild backgrounds Shows the reader how to dive into the fun stuff, without a lot of text and theory
About the Author
Sherry London is a graphic designer, fiber artist, teacher, and author of a number of books on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter including Photoshop 7 Magic (with Rhoda Grossman), Photoshop Textures Magic, and Photoshop Special FX How To. Her Photoshop-designed fiber art has been featured in Fiber Arts magazine and exhibited at juried Embroiderer’s Guild of America Fiber Forum group shows nationwide.
Sherry is the owner of London Computing: PhotoFX, a digital art studio. She has taught for the prestigious Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference and the Professional Photographer’s of America seminars. She currently teaches a number of Photoshop courses via the Internet through colleges and universities worldwide. To find a college or university near you, go to Education To Go’s website at www.ed2go.com.
Sherry writes for a number of magazines. Her articles and reviews have appeared in MacWeek, MacUser, MacWorld, Computer Artist, Electronic Publishing, Desktop Publishing, and Pre- magazines. She currently writes the QuickTips column for Photoshop Users magazine as well as feature articles and reviews for both Photoshop User and Mac Design (now Layers magazine). Sherry’s web site is www.sherrylondon.com.
Table of Contents
About the Author.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
One: Metallics.
Chromicity.
Heavy Metal.
Metal with Style.
Flaming Metal.
Burnished.
Two: Patterns ’n’ Pieces.
Outline/Inline.
The Highway.
Through the Styled Glass.
Tessellations.
Repeat That Again, Sam.
Three: People.
Strange Perspective.
Model Material.
Warhol Coloring.
Standout.
Totem Pole.
Four: Places.
Woodcut.
Intense Focus.
Panning.
Window Shopping.
Atlantis Found.
Five: Faces.
Be a Clown.
Diffuse Glow Duotone.
Recursion.
Zebra Woman.
Black and White — and Purple all Over.
Letterformed.
The Stages of Life.
Six: Groups.
Steppin’ Out.
Photo Merge.
The ‘70s Rock Revival.
Superhero Sam.
Seven: Animal Farm.
Rhino Woman.
Meow Mix.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.
All Dressed Up.
Eight: Plant Life.
Scrimshaw.
Hidden in Plain Sight.
Living Tree.
Nine: Paranormal.
Jekyll & Hyde.
It Came From Outer Space.
Winged Lady.
Ten: Playing with Your Food.
Gingerbread Makeover.
Neon Bright.
Melon Surprise.
Index.