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Digital Wizardry: Creative Photoshop Techniques

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Reading Bryan Allen's step-by-step instructions on how he combines photography and computer graphics is like watching a magician explain how a complex trick is performed. The book is facinating reading, and Allen is indeed a genius at how he formulates his ideas and executes his plans to create amazing images. This book is a must for anyone in the photography/imaging field.

Digital Wizardry is not a tutorial nor a "How to" book but a "How I did It" book describing the author's step-by-step creation of a selection of complex Photoshop images from the inception of an idea to finished commercial product. This book is geared for the accomplished professional, preferably in the advertising field. However, one must be fully competent in the use of advanced Photoshop skills to utilize the described techniques. For that target audience this book could warrant 4 stars (I don't qualify to judge). For a beginner, its usefulness is limited.

Good production quality and nice photos but it should be clearly marketed to an advanced audience.

This is not a "how to" book in any sense, but it can provide inspiration when the "visual arts muse" has abandoned you. I keep this book around for those moments when I am looking for ideas, or when I just can't figure out how to create a certain effect that I can see perfectly in my mind. The broad overviews of what it took to create the different images will drive beginners nuts, but will provide more experienced Photoshop users with enough information to charge "gaily forward" into their own creative endeavors!

This is not a "how to" book in any sense, but it can provide inspiration when the "visual arts muse" has abandoned you. I keep this book around for those moments when I am looking for ideas, or when I just can't figure out how to create a certain effect that I can see perfectly in my mind. The broad overviews of what it took to create the different images will drive beginners nuts, but will provide more experienced Photoshop users with enough information to charge "gaily forward" into their own creative endeavors!