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 Creative Photoshop: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques, Covering Photoshop CS3
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 Type.................: Ebook
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 Posted by............: ~tqw~
 
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 Welcome to the world of art and imagination. Derek Lea, one of the world's top 
 100 digital artists, shows how to use Photoshop in extraordinary ways to 
 transform the mundane into incredible images. His work is a unique combination 
 of original photography, traditional illustration, and digital art.
 
 If you are a digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist or designer 
 who is familiar with Photoshop, but want to push the program to the limit, this 
 book is for you. Lea combines the inspirational with the practical, showcasing a 
 wide range of artistic styles from graffiti and pop art, to Bosch and Art 
 Nouveau.
 
 Discover how to get professional results from the paint features within 
 Photoshop and try features such as sculpting and layering. Explore texture, with 
 spray paint effects and scanned elements or age faces and objects. Use stencil 
 tags and comic book coloring techniques. Bring 3D art to life by using Photoshop 
 and Poser together. Also maximize your creativity AND efficiency with invaluable 
 information on working between Photoshop and Illustrator.
 
 Foreword vii
 Introduction ix
 Acknowledgements xv
 Part 1: Drawing and Painting
 Chapter 1: Painting in Photoshop 2
 Chapter 2: Creating Characters with Shape Layers 18
 Chapter 3: Graffi ti Spray Paint Art 36
 Chapter 4: Creating Stencil Art 48
 Chapter 5: Tracing Photographs 58
 Chapter 6: Illustrating from Sketches 76
 Chapter 7: Retro Art Effects 90
 Chapter 8: Coloring Comic Art 104
 Part 2: Unconventional Methods
 Chapter 9: Antique Effects 118
 Chapter 10: Photocopier Meets Photoshop 136
 Chapter 11: Urban Lowbrow Art 154
 Part 3: Illustrative Photography
 Chapter 12: Creature Architecture 168
 Chapter 13: The Third Dimension 194
 Chapter 14: Ageing Effects 222
 Chapter 15: Realistic Surrealism 242
 Part 4: Photoshop and Other Programs
 Chapter 16: Bringing Stale 3D to Life 272
 Chapter 17: Poser and Photoshop: Create an Old Master 294
 Chapter 18: Art Noveau: Pasting Vector Art from Illustrator 322
 Chapter 19: Changing Patterns: Using Illustrator Files as Smart Objects 340
 Index 351
 About the CD 359
 
 Product Details
 
 * ISBN: 0240520467
 * ISBN-13: 9780240520469
 * Format: Paperback, 360pp
 * Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
 * Pub. Date: August 2007
 
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