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Creative Photoshop CS4

Author Derek Lea
Release Date: 2012/11/01
ISBN: 9780240521343
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Book Description

If you are a digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist, designer, or serious hobbyist looking for new and interesting ways to use Photoshop, this is the book for you! You already know how to use Photoshop as an image editing tool; now, challenge yourself and discover the more artistic aspects of the program with one of the world's best teachers by your side.

In addition to four brand new chapters on real world projects, this new edition of award-winning digital artist Derek Lea's bestselling Creative Photoshop contains several brand new features such as "What you'll learn in this chapter? summaries, so you can quickly find projects using the specific tools you'd like to focus on, and supplementary information at the end of each chapter, containing useful resources and additional gallery images to provide further study and inspiration. As you work through Derek's fantastic artistic methods, be sure to visit www.creativephotoshopthebook.com for more information, including the project files for each chapter, available for download for you to work with, a reader forum, and more.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. PART 1. Drawing and Painting
    1. 1. Painting in Photoshop
    2. 2. Creating Characters with Shape Layers
    3. 3. Graffiti Spray Paint Art
    4. 4. Creating Stencil Art
    5. 5. Tracing Photographs
    6. 6. Illustrating from Sketches
    7. 7. Retro Art Effects
    8. 8. Coloring Comic Art
  9. PART 2. Unconventional Methods
    1. 9. Antique Effects
    2. 10. Photocopier Meets Photoshop
    3. 11. Urban Lowbrow Art
  10. PART 3. Real World Photoshop
    1. 12. Sketch and Dry Brush Effects
    2. 13. Simulated Screen-Printing
    3. 14. Real World Collage
    4. 15. In and Out of Photoshop
  11. PART 4. Illustrative Photography
    1. 16. Creature Architecture
    2. 17. The Third Dimension
    3. 18. Aging Effects
    4. 19. Representational Surrealism
    5. 20. The Cover Challenge
  12. Index