Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook: 61 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers, Designers, and Artists - Softcover

Shelbourne, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596100221 ISBN 13: 9780596100223

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2005

Synopsis

Adobe Photoshop CS2 offers professional and amateur photographers, artists, and designers unprecedented opportunities to manipulate images on their personal computers, but it's a complex application that can take years to master. With Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook, you don't have to be a Photoshop expert to create sophisticated effects. The 61 easy-to-follow, fully illustrated recipes in the book show you how to use Photoshop CS2 to simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques and special effects-without making you first learn Photoshop inside and out.

Author and digital artist Tim Shelbourne has assembled a collection of real-world techniques that you'll be able to apply immediately to your own images, whether you're working on photographs or digital illustrations. Digital files of the examples in the book are available for download, so you can easily follow along as Tim takes you through each recipe.

The book covers:

• Creating graphic art effects: posterization, watercolor, pen and ink, woodcut
• Working with lighting effects: neon glows, lens flares, fire and flame effects
• Simulating natural phenomena: rain, clouds, rainbows, lightning, snow
• Adapting traditional techniques: film grain, contrast masks, hand-tinting
• Adding motion blurs and other special effects
• Simulating textures: stone, metal, glass, plastic
• Making mattes, vignettes, frames, borders, signatures
• Assembling multi-layered images and photomontages

Packed with hundreds of full-color photographs, step-by-step instructions, and at-a-glance panels with many practical tips, Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook is all you need to quickly and easily create professional graphic art effects from almost any image source.

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From the Publisher

Don't Miss Out!! The O'Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off Contest Deadline is August 15--No Entry Fee, Great Prizes!

O'Reilly's 2006 Photoshop Cook-Off Contest is an opportunity flex your imagination and ingenuity, have lots of fun, and win great prizes--like a Pentax K100D Digital SLR and DA 18 - 55 mm Lens Kit or an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 printer. The Grand Prize winner will receive a prize package worth more than $9,600. Five category winners will receive packages worth more than $3,000 each. The total value of all prizes exceeds $27,000.

It's easy to participate. Just take up to three of your own photos and manipulate them with Adobe Photoshop, using recipes from any of O'Reilly's five Photoshop Cookbooks Starting with an original photograph, choose an appropriate recipe (or two) and cook up a masterpiece, adapting the recipes as necessary for your creative vision. On the online entry form, you'll list the recipes you used, and submit both your original digital image and the "cooked" image you've created. The submission process is a snap, there's no entry fee, and anyone over the age of 14 can enter. Deadline for entry is August 15, 2006. Prizes will be awarded on November 2, 2006 at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York.

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Other important details:

-Deadline for entries is August 15, 2006. No entry fee.

-All entries must be created using recipes from one or more of the five O'Reilly Photoshop Cookbooks: "Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers," "Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers," "Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook," "Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia," and/or "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook."

-Winners will be announced on November 2, at a special awards ceremony to be held at Photo Plus Expo in New York.

-Legal U.S. residents only.

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About the Author

Tim Shelbourne worked for 20 years as a traditional artist and illustrator beforeconverting to digital image making. Tim specializes in digital fine art and photo-manipulation using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Corel Painter. His tutorialsare published regularly in Total Digital Photography magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0596100221
• ISBN 13: 9780596100223
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176