How to Cheat in Photoshop: The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages [Paperback]

Steve Caplin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2002 | ISBN-10: 0240517024 | ISBN-13: 978-0240517025 | Edition: Bk&CD-Rom

Learn from a professional illustrator how best to make Photoshop work for you. Each section is divided into double page spreads on illustrative techniques, giving you bite size chunks with all you need to know in a highly visual, approachable format. Most of the original Photoshop files are provided on the free CD so you can then go on to try out the techniques for yourself.


What makes this book different is the fact that Steve Caplin shows you step-by-step how to work from the problem to the solution in creating photorealistic images, from the viewpoint of the illustrator who has been commissioned to create a job. This is both a technical guide and an artistic inspiration, packed full with new ideas that you will be dying to try! Benefit from Steve's invaluable time saving tips too, which he's included to make sure you meet your deadlines and get more work.

Push your artistic skills to the outer limits with this innovative and comprehensive guide to creating real world Photoshop montages.


· Learn how to take your creative Photoshop abilities into another dimension

· Real world examples demonstrate how to put each technique into practice

· Full color, high quality illustrations show you what you can achieve

Editorial Reviews

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"Photographers as well as art directors will find the book fascinating, as Caplin invents the impossible illustrations and then proceeds to define haw to create it seamlessly."
Rangefinder

"His (Caplin's) book is packed with amazing hints that take the mystery out of this technique once and for all. The instructions are so easy to use that you'll be producing top quality results quickly."
Shutterbug

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New edition of a best selling title: a goldmine of practical tips, tricks and step-by-step workthroughs! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Focal Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0240517024
• ISBN-13: 978-0240517025
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 4.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,486,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Caplin is a freelance artist and author working in London, England. His satirical photomontage work is commissioned by newspapers and magazines 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.

Steve is the author of ten books: How to Cheat in Photoshop (five editions), How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements (co-authored, three editions), Icon Design, Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements, The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration (co-authored) and Art & Design in Photoshop. He has also co-authored three mainstream books: Dad Stuff, More Dad Stuff, Stuff the Turkey and Complete and Utter Zebu.

When he's not at his computer Steve plays the piano well, the accordion moderately and the guitar badly. He spends his spare time making improbable constructions out of wood and other materials. His first commissioned sculpture was for the Bethlem hospital - the original 'bedlam' - in 2010.

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80 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finding the correct edition on Amazon, June 25, 2004

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Stanley Knife (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Cheat in Photoshop, Second Edition: The art of creating photorealistic montages (Paperback)

Searching for "Cheat", "Photoshop" or any combination here on Amazon often leads to earlier editions of the book. If you're looking for the latest (third) edition and can't find it, try searching for the ISBN number:

0-240-51985-X

Hope this helps!

Steve

45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!!!!! But make sure you get the latest edition!!, June 24, 2004

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Alan E. Cook "Kingsley Press" (Shoals, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Cheat in Photoshop: The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages (Paperback)

Why does Amazon insist on selling an outdated version of this book? My wife bought me this book from Amazon for Father's day, but had to return it and buy the LATEST EDITION from another online retailer.

I'm a graphic designer, working with both print and web, and I am finding this book an absolute treasure! If you're an intermediate Photoshop user, there's no question about it, YOU NEED THIS BOOK! The tricks and tips revealed in this book are simply amazing. I've only owned the book for a few days, and am already using techniques I've learned from these pages. I'm eagerly waiting to devour more of the material.

This is not a book for novices--it assumes that you already know your way around Photoshop. Without that basic knowledge, you'll be out of your depth in many of these lessons.

I love it that each two-page spread is a self-contained unit/lesson which teaches a technique or procedure that will give you the desired results.

I have to say that I don't think I've ever been this excited about a book on Photoshop!!

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why you should buy this book, April 18, 2003

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This review is from: How to Cheat in Photoshop: The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages (Paperback)

This is my 24th PS book. I've been through all the page by page manuals from the CIAB books through the Real World types, the Magic Series, WOW Series, etc. I'm at that stage where Photrealism is a challenge I would like to conquer. I have both books by the photorealistic guru Bert Monroy, and they are both excellent. Steve Caplin's book "How to Cheat in Photoshop" is a joy and can proudly sit right next to Berts books. While Mr. Monroy's books go into step by step detail, Steve Caplins book shows the shortcuts that become invaluable time savers when working in this type of medium. And there are serious plusses here. Beside the standard CD with images to use to work through the lessons, some of the more complicated lessons have video instruction that make what he is trying to convey much easier to follow. But my favorite thing about this book is that it is set up as a reference book. If you need to "match the head to the body", there is a heading and a two page "how to". Sections include: Selecting, Hiding and Showing, Composing the Scene, Light and Shade, Heads and Bodies, Shiny Surfaces, Metal, Wood and Stone, Paper and Fabric, The Third Dimension and Hyper Realism. But again, this book is set up like a reference book. It's not really intended to be started on page one and worked through. It's like Scott Kelby's great "Down and Dirty" books. So who should buy this book? If you are not into Photorealism, stay away. And although the lessions are well written and some even have video instruction, I am not sure if I would recommend this book to PS novices. The book is definitely written with the assumption that you have a certain level of knowledge of PS. But I really am enjoying this book. I can't remember thinking a book was this cool since I read Photoshop Channel Chops! This book is going to get used a lot.