How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6: The art of creating realistic photomontages

by Steve Caplin

Overview

With enough charm and wit to make learning Photoshop anything but taxing, Steve Caplin delivers the next instalment of the How to Cheat series, containing all the techniques you need to create and master the art of photomontage. Delivered in easy to follow step-by-step tutorials, How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 covers all the basics of selections and layers before moving on to top tricks and techniques for creating realistic works of art for business, pleasure, or something in between. Accompanying downloadable resources are packed full of practice images and tutorial movies for you to work along with, plus bonus chapters to push your skills even further. Using a tweaked design that is clearer and fresher than previous editions, this is the most fun way to master Photomontage.

This complete How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 package includes a fully updated book, downloadable resources containing all of the images used in the helpful tutorials, plus over 5 hours of video tutorials, and a website featuring a reader forum where your questions will be answered by other readers as well as the author himself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780240525921
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/25/2012
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Steve Caplin is a freelance artist and author working in London, England. His satirical photomontage work is commissioned by newspapers and magazine around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine, Radio Times, Readers Digest and L'Internazionale.

Steve has worked for advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Lowe, Howard Spink, and his work has won two Campaign Poster Awards and a D&AD Pencil award. He has lectured widely in England, Norway, France and Holland, and has taught digital design at the University of Westminster and the University of the Arts, London.

Table of Contents

How to cheat, and why, Acknowledgments, How to use this book, What’s new in Photoshop CS6, 1. Natural selection, 2. Transformation and distortion, 3. Hiding and showing, 4. Image adjustment, 5. Composing the scene, 6. Getting into perspective, 7 Light and shade, 8. Heads and bodies, 9. Shiny surfaces, 10. Metal, wood and stone, 11. Paper and fabric, 12. The third dimension, 13. Hyper realism, 14. Advanced techniques, 15. Print and the internet