Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook

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World-renowned French artists share their exciting and innovative digital creations in Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook, a first-time English translation of the cutting-edge French work. The images in this book will energize image professionals, graphic artists, photographers, computer graphics designers—all creators of images, whether still or animated—and will forever change the way you see and perform your design work.

Photoshop is best known among photographers as a photographic image manipulation tool; it is used largely for retouching and photomontage. But Photoshop is also a powerful and highly sophisticated tool for creating ...

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Overview

World-renowned French artists share their exciting and innovative digital creations in Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook, a first-time English translation of the cutting-edge French work. The images in this book will energize image professionals, graphic artists, photographers, computer graphics designers—all creators of images, whether still or animated—and will forever change the way you see and perform your design work.

Photoshop is best known among photographers as a photographic image manipulation tool; it is used largely for retouching and photomontage. But Photoshop is also a powerful and highly sophisticated tool for creating quality digital drawings and artwork. Artists, like the ones showcased within, use it to realize their unique vision through illustration.

In this lavish, full-color collection, nine French graphic artists—well-known professionals from a vibrant culture with a reputation for taking creative risks and producing incomparable graphics and art—are turned loose with Photoshop. Ranging from advertising to children's book illustration, science fiction to settings for graphic novels and role-playing games, their groundbreaking creations will inspire you to see your industry anew, appreciate graphic design from a changed perspective, and revitalize your work.

Representing the very finest of French creation in the world of graphic design and digital imaging, this notebook leads you into the heart of each author's artistic approach, guiding you through the inception and making of nine unparalleled works of art that spring from widely varying sources of inspiration. But you'll come away with more than ideas and inspiration—you'll find detailed, step-by-step information on making Photoshop do anything and everything you want to accomplish your ideal digital illustration.

Unlike any other available, this visually stunning book will give you the creative license and technical know-how you need to create one-of-a-kind digital illustrations with Photoshop that are limited only by your imagination.

William Rodarmor is an award-winning French literary translator and a former editor at PC World magazine. For the O'Reilly Designer Notebook series he translated Assembling Panoramic Photos, Creating Photomontages with Photoshop, and Illustrations with Photoshop. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780596008598
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 12/28/2004
  • Pages: 96
  • Product dimensions: 8.44 (w) x 9.42 (h) x 0.31 (d)

Meet the Author

William Rodarmor is an award-winning French literary translator and a former editor at PC World magazine. For the O'Reilly Designer Notebook series he translated Assembling Panoramic Photos, Creating Photomontages with Photoshop, and Illustrations with Photoshop. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Table of Contents

Studio 1 Robot lady 6
Studio 2 Confrontation 16
Studio 3 Blanche 24
Studio 4 Let's laugh 32
Studio 5 The high terrace 38
Studio 6 London pub 46
Studio 7 Back to school 54
Studio 8 Voyage to Porto 62
Studio 9 By the swimming pool 72

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 5, 2008

    Check it out!

    There is an old proverb that says, 'If you want to be successful, surround yourself with successful people'. It would be just as true to say, 'If you want to be creative, surround yourself with creative people. Along those lines, 'Illustrations in Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook', takes a trek through the techniques and ideas of nine successful, creative people who make a livelihood creating art using Photoshop. Regardless of whether it's simple a way to combine filter-affected photography with pencil sketches and painting, as in the case of Joël Legars' children's book illustration 'Back to School', or a medium in and of itself which carries the art from concept to finish, as in the case of Nicolas Bouvier's videogame preproduction-style 'Confrontation', Photoshop has become an essential tool for today's designers and illustrators. Though this slim little book is not exactly an entire reference manual, or an exhaustive, encyclopedic tome of Photoshop how-to's, is uniquely targeted towards its audience, appealing to the way Photoshop users diverge in their thoughts and methods, from the mainline software users, being general more 'right-hemisphere' thinkers, who often deal with physical/concrete, associative and creative ways of approaching life, rather than linear, analytical and organizational ways. Thus, the format of the book is perfectly nuanced, like a fine wine, for those who will consume it. Perhaps we should not be surprised - after all, the book is originally French. The translation, however is flawless with good diction and strong, distinctive style. This is a neat little book to have - just to feed your creativity. It is a nine-course meal, featuring that many case studies giving us a taste of the work done by professional artists working in fields as diverse as advertising, roleplaying games, graphic novels, children's books and more. This pieces, sumptuously displayed on the page with flawless, interesting layout, are enough to inspire almost any artists. Thus, perhaps the best way to view this book is as a boost of creative energy. Each of these studies is short enough to imbibe in one sitting and are unique enough in their approaches to things to give anyone an idea or two. Each study comes with a neat little sidebar which outlines the hardware 'computers, monitors, scanners, tablets, etc.' used with each piece of work, and the version of Photoshop and/or other software used. Looking over some of the low-end specs used for some of this computers, and some of the antiquated versions of Photoshop employed, is enough to give me hope that maybe talent really does count for something. A good mix of the theoretical and the practical, the various contributing artists discuss not only the source of their inspiration, the reasons they are doing these art pieces 'whether for illustration, advertising, personal enjoyment, etc.' but their own philosophy on art that guides the down-and-dirty techniques they use on a day-to-day basis. ¿Notebook¿ includes a number of pointers and tips from both an abstract and an applicable point-of-view. Some of the topics and techniques include: scanning and resolution, digital cleanup for artwork, use of layers and blend modes, lighting effects, how to start your compositions and images, choosing colors, -creative ways to use mixed media in Photoshop, and more. Bear in mind that'A Designer's Notebook' basically assumes that you already know how to draw, and can do so well. It does not linger on the process of actually drawing or creating the art, but affecting, filtering, coloring and manipulating it in Photoshop. Whether you like or dislike Adobe's popular program, the incontrovertible fact is that Photoshop is not just the 'professional option' now, it is now the 'only option' for high end image manipulation. 'A Designer's Notebook' covers a range of uses, including a variety of genres, feels and styles. Through this personally guided display of tech

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 27, 2005

    something that expresses the artist's creativity

    Another book in O'Reilly's series on Photoshop, by a group of French artists. Directed at a user already proficient with Photoshop basics. The emphasis is on serious artwork. In this sense, it differs from standard Photoshop texts which tend to describe Photoshop usage in very mechanistic terms. Quite understandable, as it's the obvious way to explain a computer program's use. But what this book aspires to is to suggest that you can rise above merely using Photoshop as a craftsman. Instead, it elevates Photostop to the tool of an artist. As an example, there is a chapter, Voyage to Porto. The author describes making traditional pencil sketches of Porto. Complemented by digital photos of the town. Then the bulk of the chapter goes into how these two media are integrated with Photoshop into something that is far more than just a digital photo. Something that expresses the artist's creativity.

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