Art and Design in Photoshop - Steve Caplin

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Résumé :
Fancy really pushing the boundaries of what you can do with Photoshop? Feel like designing your own newspaper, or even a classic film poster? Want to recreate great art on your computer? Then you need Art and Design in Photoshop. In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch the creative boundaries of this powerful software. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his extremely popular How to Cheat in Photoshop titles, Steve's step-by-step instructions show you how to recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous graphic effects. * Turn a photograph into a stencil * Design a 1930s travel poster * Make a stained-glass window * ...and much, much more! Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: the tips and tricks that help you get slick-looking results with minimum fuss. All the images used in the book are supplied on the accompanying website along with QuickTime tutorials to support the lessons, showing you exactly what Steve did in real-time to get the results in the book. Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, amateur or professional.

Biographie:

Steve Caplin is a freelance artist and author working in London, England. His satirical photomontage work is commissioned by newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine, Radio Times, Readers Digest and L'Internazionale. Steve has worked for advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Lowe Howard Spink, and his work has won two Campaign Poster Awards and a D&AD Pencil award. He has lectured widely in England, Norway, France and Holland, and has taught digital design at the University of Westminster and the University of the Arts London. Steve is the author of ten books: How to Cheat in Photoshop (five editions), How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements (co-authored, three editions), Icon Design, Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements, The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration (co-authored) and Art & Design in Photoshop. He has also co-authored three mainstream books: Dad Stuff, More Dad Stuff, Stuff the Turkey and Complete and Utter Zebu. When he's not at his computer Steve plays the piano well, the accordion moderately and the guitar badly. He spends his spare time making improbable constructions out of wood and other materials. His first commissioned sculpture was for the Bethlem hospital - the original 'bedlam' - in 2010.