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Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook: 61 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers, Designers, and Artists | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Shelbourne
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 186089
Format: Illustrated
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Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 9.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0596100221
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780596100223
ASIN: 0596100221
Publication Date: November 7, 2005
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Product 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.
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 Good book but results may vary January 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are a lot of good ideas provided in this book for some very cool effects. However, please know that many of the effects/settings are very specific to the images they use in the examples. Your results will vary greatly with your own photos so it will take quite a bit of tweaking.
 Not that great a resource March 28, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a firm believer that cookbooks should remain in the kitchen. This book did not really provide me with any new recipes of use. The one recipe I did want to use for a client operation, I resourced the online materials and followed it through but was unable to have it turn out. If the experiment was a cake, it would have been in the compost bin.
Most of the book is taken up with two page layouts that show you how different effects work. Well I have been pretty familiar with the graphic pen filter for a long time, so most of the book which touched on those was wasted pulp.
There was nothing here that really wowed me about either the work, the layout or the subject matter. Maybe a first entry user of Photoshop might find it interesting , but I can't really recommend this title to a serious Photoshop user. I couldn't even give this book away at my user group meeting.
 If you know photoshop...you know most of this stuff in the book March 3, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just a pretty rehash of photoshop filters and effects.
Skip it if you know photoshop
If you don't and like big picture learning this will teach you effects...but it won't teach you photoshop.
 Next Level of Photoshop Artistic Quality January 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been Fooling around with Photoshop-CS2 for years, i have been able to produce Amazing Effects. Many of my greatest Photoshops were done by Accident, because i wasn't sure were to start or in what direction to go in. I got this book and right away i saw some i have done but wasn't sure how i did it. Plus they have Tons of other effects you can do, by the time your done you will have Museam Quality Photos. Most people will ask you to do Photos for them to hang up in there house as a Center Piece.
I use this book all the time... November 12, 2006
This is a great book that gives you well laid out instructions with invaluable visual aids throughout the book. I am constantly referencing this book for tips and techniques, and I have also combined many of the different areas I have learned into new effects. I would certainly recommend this book if you are looking for usefull tutorials that you can use in our work on a regular basis.. The best part is, this book is helpful for everyone from the beginner, to novice, to advanced users.
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