Art and Design in Photoshop: How to Simulate just about Anything
from Great Works of Art to Urban Graffiti

Art and Design in Photoshop: How to Simulate just about Anything ...

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Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers?

Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte?

Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings?

Then you need Art and Design in Photoshop.

In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch your creative boundaries. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his best selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles, Steve's step-by-step instructions recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous design effects. You'll learn how to design everything from wine labels to sushi cartons, from certificates to iPod advertising, from textbooks to pulp fiction.

Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: how to get slick-looking results with minimum fuss, with a 16-page Photoshop Reference chapter that provides an at-a-glance guide to Photoshop tools and techniques for less experienced users. Steve explains both typography and the design process in a clear, informative and entertaining way.

All the images, textures and fonts used in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, both amateur and professional.

* Learn to quickly and ingeniously create fantastic graphic effects in Photoshop, from graffiti to classic art, newsprint and stained-glass windows
* Easy and fun to use with clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots.
* Backwards compatible: fully up-to-date with the latest Photoshop release but also relevant for use with previous versions of Photoshop

Customer Reviews

I dont understand all these great reviews

Reviewed by design student, 2010-01-13

I studied the entire book entitled " photoshop CS4 digital classroom" by Jennifer Smith .I am already
quite familiar with the commands in photoshop CS4, but I couldn't remember everything. This book assumes
that EVERYONE who does the exercises in the book is at the same level. That isn't fair.
When I sat down to do this book. It said "do this do this- make a shape layer etc.make a mask, paint out one part" " AND, it took me HOURS
to figure out how to do it,and after doing it over and over it didnt work, the reference in the back of the book was no help. In the first book (the digital classroom) it showed a picture of every window, every command, explained every step, where to find it, which buttons to push. I just gave up. I lost my patience. I am going to get another book.

10 stars

Reviewed by Juanita M. Martinez, 2009-08-25

im reading this book cover to cover and learning alot! I'm a graphic art hobbyist. This book details everything about fonts and appropriate usage and provides many useful weblinks to get some. The book is very well written in plain english, but packs valuable information about common graphic arts styles and even includes tons of tutorials to create popular looks. worth every penny!

Visuals pack every page and come from tested techniques providing polished, professional results!

Reviewed by Midwest Book Review, 2009-08-17

Art & Design in Photoshop tells how to simulate just about anything in Photoshop, from art to graffiti, picture postcards to medieval manuscripts. Chapters pack in typography and design principles and show how to design covers, posters, packaging and more in an outstanding survey for any Photoshop library. Visuals pack every page and come from tested techniques providing polished, professional results!

Another REALLY EXCELLENT publication from Steve Caplin!

Reviewed by Christine Holzmann, 2009-03-30

I am a longtime fan of Steve Caplin's books and this is another top notch book that I am going to be adding to my collection. I did not know this book was even out up until today when I came across it at the bookstore. Before I knew it I was completely engrossed in this book... what had started off as a plan to do a quickie "sneak preview" turned into a looooooong episode as I slowly went from page to page trying to devour as much juicy information as I could before I had to leave (much) later on. I would have bought the book then and there but am going to have to wait just a little bit longer as my budget is on a tight freeze due to my 4 tyres (or "tires" as you say here in the US) having to suddenly be replaced 2 days ago...ugh!!
FANTASTIC book Steve!! Keep them coming! It's books like yours that inspire the creative juices to keep flowing!!

A great resource!

Reviewed by Byron Dillard, 2009-03-13

I really enjoyed this book. Logically organized. Quick, 2 page overviews of a lot of interesting techniques. Doesn't get too bogged down in detailed instructions.