Key Features
Learn from an award winning digital illustrator how to think outside the box and create stunning art with Photoshop
Be inspired by a wide range of artistic styles and real world techniques that you can adapt to your own work, including graffiti spray art, comic coloring, and antique effects
Practice new skills with FREE tutorial files on the CD:
"Creative Photoshop shows how to maximize creativity and efficiency with invaluable information on working between Photoshop and Illustrator."
-- PSA Journal, December 2007
"Derek's work, and the approach he takes to explaining his techniques, are excellent. His ideas are innovative, his methodology unique, and the results are breathtaking."
-- Steve Caplin, UK based digital illustrator, author of How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3 and editor of the How to Cheat Series
"If you're a buddy illustrator or cartoonist and want to make Photoshop mre productive in your work flow, this book has some good lessons for you."
"If you're a photographer and want to add some interesting effects to your work, here's a place to start."
-Photoshop User
Description
Find out how to create stunning Photoshop art from the master! If you know how to use Photoshop but now want to use it as something other than an image retouching tool, this is the book for you. This book/CD package provides clear, step-by-step tutorials that make it easy to emulate Lea’s techniques in your own work. With all the images from the book to play with, you’ll be creating stunning artwork in no time!
Contents
Painting in Photoshop
Working with Shape Layers
Graffiti Spraypaint Art
Graffiti Stencil Tags
Urban Art using Real Paint and Innovative Photo Conversion Methods
Advanced Bitmap Methods for B-movie Poster Art
Tracing Photographs
Creating Pop Art
Retro Art Effects
Illustrating from Scanned Sketches
Comic Coloring Techniques
Inkjet and Water
Antique Effects
Photocopier Meets Photoshop
Recycled Materials and Found Objects
Architectural Face
Simulating 3d Effects
Ageing Effects
Realistic Surrealism
Bringing Stale 3d to Life
Bosch, Photoshop and Poser Together
Art Noveau
Illustrator and Photoshop Together
Changing Patterns, Back and Forth between Apps
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For the "creature" image file on page 311, visit http://www.dereklea.com/creature.psd.zip ***
In step 7, on page 327, you are asked to open the 'woman.ai' file but it doesn't display properly. For the fix, visit: http://www.hostingphpbb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=136&mforum=creativephotosh#136
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