Synopses & Reviews
Learn from a professional illustrator how best to make Photoshop work for you. Each section is divided into double page spreads on illustrative techniques, giving you bite size chunks with all you need to know in a highly visual, approachable format. Most of the original Photoshop files are provided on the free CD so you can then go on to try out the techniques for yourself.
What makes this book different is the fact that Steve Caplin shows you step-by-step how to work from the problem to the solution in creating photorealistic images, from the viewpoint of the illustrator who has been commissioned to create a job. This is both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration, packed full with new ideas that you will be dying to try! Benefit from Steve's invaluable time saving tips too, which he's included to make sure you meet your deadlines and get more work.
Push your artistic skills to the outer limits with this innovative and comprehensive guide to creating real world Photoshop montages.
· Learn how to take your creative Photoshop abilities into another dimension
· Real world examples demonstrate how to put each technique into practice
· Full color, high quality illustrations show you what you can achieve
Review
book's credentials are clear - many of the examples and case studies are taken from real-world commercial projects. There's a goldmine of practical and downright useful tips, tricks and step-by-step workthrough in this book.'
Keith Martin, MacUser, Sept 2002.
Synopsis
Learn from a professional illustrator how best to make Photoshop work for you. Each section is divided into double page spreads on illustrative techniques, giving you bite size chunks with all you need to know in a highly visual, approachable format. Most of the original Photoshop files are provided on the free CD so you can then go on to try out the techniques for yourself.
What makes this book different is the fact that Steve Caplin shows you step-by-step how to work from the problem to the solution in creating photorealistic images, from the viewpoint of the illustrator who has been commissioned to create a job. This is both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration, packed full with new ideas that you will be dying to try! Benefit from Steve's invaluable time saving tips too, which he's included to make sure you meet your deadlines and get more work.
Push your artistic skills to the outer limits with this innovative and comprehensive guide to creating real world Photoshop montages.
· Learn how to take your creative Photoshop abilities into another dimension
· Real world examples demonstrate how to put each technique into practice
· Full color, high quality illustrations show you what you can achieve
Table of Contents
Natural Selection; The Perfect Set-up; Hiding and Showing; Graphics Tablets; Composing the Scene; Digital Cameras; Light and Shade; Sourcing Images; Heads and Bodies; The Freelance Artist; Shiny Surfaces; Photoshop Actions; Metal, Wood and Stone; The Point of Illustration; Paper and Fabric; Upgrade and Replace; The Third Dimension; Reality Overload; Hyper Realism; Photomontage Ethics; Carry on Spending; Index. What's on the CD.