By Tim Shelbourne
December 2007
Pages: 176
ISBN 10: 0-596-51504-9 |
ISBN 13: 9780596515041
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(5) (Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
With 53 easy-to-follow recipes, Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook shows you how to use Photoshop CS3 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 images, step-by-step instructions, and many practical tips, this book-and Adobe Photoshop CS3-are all you need to create professional graphic art effects from almost any image source.
Full Description
Whether you're just getting getting into Photoshop or have been using it for a while, you know that it's a many-faceted application that can be somewhat overwhelming to master. With 53 easy-to-follow recipes, Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook shows you how to use Photoshop CS3 to simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques and special effects--without making you first learn Photoshop inside and out.
The book covers:Packed with hundreds of full-color images, step-by-step instructions, and many practical tips, this book-and Adobe Photoshop CS3- are all you need to create professional graphic art effects from almost any image source.
Changing a sunny daytime scene to surreal night time scene, or snow covered winter storm scene, or rainy lightening scene were too much to pass up. So with camera in hand here are my before and after images:
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and all four in one:
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There's allot of exceptional tutorials here, 53 to be exact, and simulating natural phenomena are just a few.
The price is what got me. Most books of this caliber are double the price.
I'm giving this puppy 5 stars, and will definitely be looking for more titles once I'm done.
- Brian D. Watters
Here's my public portfolio for the Realistic Fire Sample and some of my other works:
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"Packed with hundreds of full-color images, step-by-step instructions, and many practical tips, this book and Adobe Photoshop CS3 are all you need to create professional graphic art effects from almost any image source."
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