Editorial Review:
With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce awardwinning illustrations, Steve is THE go-to guru for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, retouchers and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CS3, this must-have resource unlocks your creativity and helps you save time in the software so you can spend more time creatively. The book is also relevant to any version of Photoshop. * Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions the simple way * Take years off someone's appearance * Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes) * Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface * Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CS3's new Quick Selection tool... and more
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Customer Reviews
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ONLY BOOK YOU"LL NEED--book designer  2008-12-22
This is a great book for me. I can read along & the pixs are really clear--so is the writing. I've been using photoshop professionally for 10+ years but i've never had a book that is so helpful with all the stuff i never did get about photoshop, like, clipping masks, layers, transform tools, how to integrate a COLLAGE. So great! I don't have to go searching for the book cover pix i need anymore, I just MAKE IT myself. Amazing. Hundreds of hours are saved! The index WORKS. Couldn't recommend this book more for professionals OR lay people. It's REALLY easy to follow along.
Fun, colorful and super-useful 2008-12-11
This book has 15 chapters, all of them with fun-to-read / easy-to-follow info. Like the rest of the books from this series, all chapters and 'key strokes' are color-coded (a huge plus), every example is detailed with graphics and step by step instructions. Getting lost on this is literally impossible. It also has tons of cool tips you'll love to read. Pages are glossy and print quality is just excellent.
The last chapter "Working for print and the Web" was particularly useful because I sometimes need to retouch all sorts of images from clients, and this book has become indispensable for that. I also learned stuff like advanced masking, lighting effects, photo painting, among much much more stuff. It was not on my schedule to become a Photoshop guru, but if I ever have some doubt about how effects are crafted, I think I have just the right book at hand.
If you want to work seriously with Photoshop CS3, or sharpen your already existing skills, I'm very positive you'll love this book. Very very recommended. :)
Fun tutorials.... 2008-11-28
I had fun with some of the tutorials.....not the best photoshop book, but still ....the .psd files provided on the accompanying CD's helped my nephew a lot.
Great book, but..... 2008-10-27
I thought I had enough understanding of Photoshop, after completing Adobe's 'Classroom in a Book for Photoshop' to be able to work through Steve Caplin's book, 'How to Cheat in Photoshop', but I got stuck on too many pages. Steve assumes that you know how to achieve the steps to accomplish his projects. It took me hours hunting through help and photoshop bible to sometimes perform the simplest task. I think this book is going to be awesome, but I have temporarily set it aside and I am working through Derek Lea's book, 'Creative Photoshop' which is more helpful at the moment. I think I will be able to start again on 'How to Cheat...' and then be able to truly appreciate how cool this book is.
This is not a book about "photorealism"  2008-10-20
The good:
This book has a lot of useful information, tricks and little gems in regards to compositing and to some extent building photografic elements from scratch. Its well layouted and the author clearly is building on a lot of first hand, commercial experience.
The Bad:
This is NOT a book about "creating photorealistic montages" - at least not according to my definition of "photorealistic". This is a book about "quickly whipping up photoillustrations for newspapers and magazines". And as such is delivers.
As professional compositor and retouch expert who, among other things, makes my living creating compositions that you really can't tell apart from an original exposure, I was sorely disappointed with the contents of this book. Granted, I'm a advanced professional and this book certainly has something to offer for beginners starting out making compositing, but the title is grossly misleading IMHO, and only deals with the most basic techinques for making illustrations - NOT "photorealistic" images.
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