Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX (Graphics) [Paperback]

Stephen Burns (Author)

Book Description

Series: Graphics | Publication Date: November 9, 2005

Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX takes digital artists to the next level of creativity by teaching you how to blend your artistic talent seamlessly with the powerful tools of Photoshop CS2. The book assumes a fundamental level of skill with Photoshop and builds upon those skills by helping you learn how and why Photoshop does what it does. With this knowledge, you'll be ready to take on new challenges and work though the practical, fun tutorials throughout the book. All of the core tools of Photoshop CS2 used for effects are put to use in the projects, so buckle up and get ready to create!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stephen Burns has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 28 year ago and in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His influences include the great Abstractionists & the Surrealists including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few. Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 10 years ). He has been exhibiting digital fine art internationally at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens Gallery in Yokahama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.

Product Details

• Paperback: 346 pages
• Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (November 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584504471
• ISBN-13: 978-1584504474
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,805,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephen Burns ( www.chromeallusion.com )has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 18 years . His teaching style comes from his ability to share an understanding of Photoshop so that the student has the ability to intuitively apply it to his/hers creations. " I want the student to create in the computer as fluently as a painter utilizes paints on his/hers canvass".
He has been exhibiting digital fine art internationally at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens Gallery in Yokahama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. To see his Resume please go to www.chromeallusion.com/aboutartist.html .
Digital Involvement
He teaches Digital Manipulation Workshops in the San Diego as well as well as nationwide. He is an instructor with Photoshop Café as well as Xtrain . You can access his training at http://www.chromeallusion.com/books.htm#dvdpscafe as well as at www.xtrain.com/stephen . he is the president of the San Diego Photoshop User's Group( www.sdphotoshopusers.com) . Also, see his free training at http://www.chromeallusion.com/tutorials.html#Begining .

Books
He is the author of several books published by Cengage Learning. They include: "Photoshop CS5Trickery & FX" and "The Art Of Poser Pro 2010 & Photoshop CS5 ","Advanced Photoshop CS4Trickery & FX", "Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX", "Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX", "The Art of Poser & Photoshop" . Each chapter is a step-by-step instruction on creating digital artistic concepts. You can view them at http://www.chromeallusion.com/books.htm .
He is the president of the San Diego Photoshop Users Group(www.sdphotoshopusrs.com) of which there are currently 4000 members strong and growing.

Other Involvement
On the fine art level, Stephen has organized exhibitions with galleries and artists from South Africa, Europe, Mexico, and Switzerland. He is currently on a subcommittee for the prestigious Siggraph Convention setting up digital art presentations.

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Going beyond the Standard Uses, January 9, 2006

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX (Graphics) (Paperback)

Note the word 'Advanced' in the title of this book. This is the second book by the same author and it is on things that the experienced Photoshopper can do above and beyond the normal retouching efforts covered in the standard introductory books.

In this book the author is doing things to images to convert them from standard photographs of things that exist to something more artful. And he takes images of things that never existed, such as space ships and adds things to them to make them suitable for use as book covers or other uses. In doing this, the book shows what can be done to convert a photograph into something you or your customer wants.

The things he is doing with photoshop require the use of tools that come with Photoshop, but which may not be used on a regular basis, and may not be covered anywhere near this depth in other, more general purpose Photoshop books.

The CD supplied with the book contains all the files needed to do the projects described in this book along with a demo of Photoshop CS 2, nik Multimedia Color Efex Pro, and nik Sharpener Pro.

This book contains information that isn't commonly seen, and covers it in a very well written manner.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge a book by it's Title, June 18, 2006

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PixelGeek "H" (PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX (Graphics) (Paperback)

I've been using Photoshop for many years and bought this book looking for complex techniques and insight. I hate to disagree with the other reviews, but the book's title is misleading. (Please note that this is just my opinion)! I think the "trickery" examples in this book are somewhat basic and anyone with a general understanding of Photoshop (and a bit of creativity) can produce better results.

Although the topics and ideas in this book may "wow" beginners, advanced users should look elsewhere. At most, "intermediate" would describe this title better!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn How To Create Sci-fi Digital Art, February 2, 2006

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Diane Cipollo (Editor at BellaOnline.com) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX (Graphics) (Paperback)

Have you ever wondered how to create great Sci-fi digital art? Did you ever want to create a human with animal features, flying spaceships with glowing exhaust or tornados with swirling debris? This book by Stephen Burns will show you how to create this type of digital art with Adobe Photoshop CS2.

The first two chapters cover the Photoshop CS2 interface and the techniques you will use in the tutorials that follow. You will learn how to create animated brushes, use layer blend modes to create composition images, advanced selection techniques and layer masks, and the new Photoshop HDR 32-bit High Dynamic Range merge techniques. You will also use third party filters such as nik Multimedia Color Efex Pro (on CD) for adding visual FX effects to your compositions.

Photo compositions and Sci-fi filter effects is the theme throughout this book and the step-by-step project tutorials in each chapter give you hands-on practice using techniques for manipulating your digital photos. The projects I enjoyed the most were the night scene of a futuristic architecture, Sci-fi droid in a nature setting, and non-human textures and features added to human subjects.

Stephen Burns has been a photographer for over 25 years and a digital artist for 10 years. He also works in 3D animation and digital video. He teaches beginner to advanced workshops on his Photoshop digital manipulating techniques and has written the previous version of this book. He has won the Seybold International Digital Arts contest and is the president of the San Diego Photoshop Users Group.