Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook

61 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers, Designers, and Artists

By Tim Shelbourne
November 2005
Pages: 176
ISBN 10: 0-596-10022-1 | ISBN 13: 9780596100223
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You don't have to be a Photoshop expert to create sophisticated effects. With 61 easy-to-follow recipes, Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook shows 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. Packed with hundreds of full-color photographs, step-by-step instructions, and many practical tips.
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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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Emulating natural media, February 23 2007

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The author's background in natural media shines through in the Graphic Arts Effects section. Here I found the first really plausible digital methods to create watercolor, oil, pencil sketch and woodcut in Photoshop. All the sections are very good, but this section shines. Alone these methods are worth the price of the book!

Photoshop: Photo Effects Cookbook, July 26 2006

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O'Reilly's Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook is another winner... well designed and easy step-by-step instructions will lessen the learning curve for beginners and bring even the most advanced Photoshop user into a deeper knowledge of the industry standard in photo enhancement and manipulation.

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"If your experience thus far with digital image manipulation consists of simple tonal adjustments and color corrections, you will be amazed with what more can be done. If you are a more advanced user, you will find the "Cookbook" an invaluable resource you can return to again and again...If you consider Photoshop to be your "kitchen" and follow the recipes provided in "Cookbook" (or your own adaptations of these recipes) you are all set to become a Master Chef in the graphics area."
-- Sam Gardner, Polk Computer Users Group

"This is a book I could grasp, because it is based upon pictures showing what effects you can accomplish with Photohshop, and then provides detailed step-by-step instructions telling you to make a new layer, choose a new brush, set brush options, and so forth. Most of the recipes in this book are 15 steps or less...the bottom line is that I now can flip through this book, and if I have a photo that just needs something to punch it up, I have 61 recipes to choose from and some succinct tutorials to help me waddle through what I'm trying to do."
-- Bill Davies, MacNexus, Sacramento Mac User Group

"This book has 61 easy-to-follow recipes for designers and artists. First of all, the cover is so well done it makes you want to get into the book right away...there is something for everyone in this book."
-- Clara Harold, eJournal of the Tucson Computer Society

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"...you will find the "Cookbook" an invaluable resource you can return to again and again."
--Sam Gardner, Polk Computer Users Group