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Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook: 61 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers,...
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by Tim Shelbourne
Sales Rank: 203300
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Discount: 34 %
$8.47
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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. November 7, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596100221
ISBN-13: 978-0596100223
Product Dimensions:
10 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Book Description
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.
Publisher Description
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.
Cook-Off Sponsors include: Adobe, Creative Pro, "Digital Photo Pro," Epson, ExpoImaging, Flickr, Friesen's: The Yearbook Company, Graphics.com, Gretag Macbeth, iView Multimedia, Imaginginfo.com, Imaging Resource, iStock Photo, Lensbabies, Lowepro, Lynda.com, Nik Software, "Outdoor Photographer," Pantone, "PC Photo," Pentax, Pexagon Technology, Photos.com, Photoshopsupport.com, "Photo Trade News," "Professional Photographer," "Rangefinder," Silicon Power, Shutterstock, Software Cinema, "Studio Photography," Total Training, Wetzel & Company.
Don't miss out--O'Reilly's 2006 Photoshop Cook-Off is a great way to cultivate your creative genius, showcase your talent, and take home fabulous prizes. Fire up Adobe Photoshop and get cooking now!
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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Customer Reviews & Comments
After developing a smooth workflow to transfer digital images from their camera through Photoshop (PS) to a digital print or an on-line image, many photographers start to think about using PS for something other than exposure and color corrections. There's an itch to see if they can create something beyond a good image. The "Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook" is aimed at those readers. Like most PS cookbooks, this volume provides a series of recipes for transforming pictures. The book is divided into 9 sections. After a very brief review of the tools of PS, the sections deal with different types of effects, like tonal and color effects, lighting effects and presentation effects. Each of the sections contains several recipes. For example, the section on distortion effects contains recipes for photo mosaic, soft focus and selective depth of field, movement and motion blur effects, and fish-eye lens effects. The problem with many cookbooks, including this one, is that they give recipes without explaining exactly what is going on as each of the steps is taken. For example, in one instruction on using the lighting effects filter, the reader is told to set the height slider to 28, without any explanation of what this setting will accomplish. You might wonder if there is some magic in 28. To further complicate matters, each recipe uses a picture that is available for download on the web. That might appear handy, except that irrelevant steps are required to set up the picture to the point where the effect can be applied. I found this to be particularly true of several recipes like the one for simulating studio lighting. So many different steps were involved in manipulating the particular image before one got to the studio lighting effect that someone trying to apply the recipe to his or her own photo might become lost in the irrelevant steps. A better cookbook set-up is to provide a recipe for a single effect that a photographer can look up and then apply. This problem may be related to the author's apparent indecision about whether he was providing a cookbook, where a list of steps to achieve a goal is provided, or a tutorial, where techniques are taught by following a specific example. If it were the latter, there should had been much more depth in the discussions. Another problem was the lack of consistency in the level of detail in providing instructions. The simplest example was that the author would sometimes tell you to click OK when finished with a menu, and at other times not tell you even though required. Since there were times when I was expected to leave a menu on-screen while performing another step, this led to confusion because I wondered whether the menu should be left on screen before going to the next step or closed. Still, several of the recipes proved useful like the recipe for high key effects (although even that recipe provided for the destructive flattening of an image as part of the process). I also found the recipe for contrast masking to be a useful tool for adjusting contrasty pictures. Recognizing that some of the effects may prove useful, the reader will have to determine if, despite the inadequate instructions, this book is worth having.
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