Book Description
Experience the highly visual format of the Art of Photoshop: Digital Photography Workshop and learn how to take good source photos and transform them into display-quality digital works of art with visual effects used in Adobe Photoshop. Using the beauty of the Tuscan region of Italy as a backdrop, author and artist/photographer Daniel Giordan, will take you through the steps of how to capture good source materials, how to explore the artistic effect of those images, and how to turn those explorations into richly layered and visually complex artwork using the tools available in Photoshop. This is your chance to look over the author's shoulder as he guides you through a process of creative exploration through which he creates 10 artistic montages.
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I believe good photographers are simply artists who never learned how to paint with traditional media. As an author and a photographer who spends most of days looking for ways to make good photos into works of art I find this book to be a well spring of ideas and techniques. The author doesn't waste pages rehashing user guide tool descriptions or clutter the book with endless paragraphs of tongue in cheek blather. Instead the author choose to use his excellent photos as a visual baseline for teaching a variety of techniques to create dramatic and sometimes stunning effects using Photoshop. The book takes a well balanced approach for the reader in that doesn't assume you're a Photoshop expert but it also doesn't assume that this is the first time you have ever seen the program either. The publisher shows the respect that this work deserves by printing it on sumptuous quality paper with attention to color accuracy and a compelling layout. This book is a essential part of the library of any Photoshop user that wants to beyond ordinary digital photography.
A final word of advise for those that buy this book. Do the exercises! It is easy to just look at the book as a work of art and forget that you actually must sit done and do the tutorials to learn anything.
About the Author
Daniel Giordan is an artist, photographer, and creative professional who takes pride in sharing his passion for digital design with those eager to create digital art. Trained as a traditional artist, Dan made the shift to digital art in 1995 and has worked since then to translate his organic, hands-on aesthetic to the digital domain. He has written three books for Que and Sams: Art of Photoshop, How to Use Photoshop 7, and How to Use Photoshop CS. When he isn't pushing pixels, Dan works as the Creative Director for AOL Web Properties directing the design efforts for such entities as Netscape, CompuServe, AIM, and others.
# 288 pages
# Publisher: Sams (August 29, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0672327139
# ISBN-13: 978-0672327131
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