Using professionally designed projects (and a DVD crammed with project files), the latest edition of this bestselling encyclopedia of Photoshop explores all of the application's most important features, including those new to both Photoshop and Photoshop Extended CS3 and CS4.
In a combined Windows/Macintosh edition, Wow! staffers provide step-by-step tips on the fundamentals and specific techniques for utilizing Adobe Photoshop 6 visual communication software. With color artwork by contributing artists and photographers, they cover such topics as retouching/enhancing photos, combining images, special effects for type and graphics, and optimizing Web art. Appendices include Wow styles samplers. The companion CD-ROM offers tutorials, before and after image files, custom presets, demos and tryouts, Photoshop 6.0.1 Updater, and a teaching and study guide. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A worldwide bestseller! Full color throughout, this book shows exactly how professional artists employ Photoshop 3 to manipulate scanned images and create an astonishing array of special effects. Each chapter deconstructs an actual piece of art, showing step by step how it was created. Most examples were created for real-world commercial uses. There's also a section showing the effect of scores of filters from Adobe, Aldus, HSC, and other vendors. The companion CD contains Photo CD images and a variety of filters and utilities.
