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New Masters of Photoshop (Friends of ed Designer to Designer) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Mike Cina (Author), Derek Lea (Author), Peter Stanick (Author), Mike Young (Author), Eun-Ha Paek (Author), Jens Karlsson (Author), Norma V Toraya (Author)
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Friends of ed Designer to Designer August 2001
As a piece of software, Adobe Photoshop is rare - perhaps alone - in evoking genuine passion from its users. As it evolves, it finds its way into the lives of more and more professional creators, tempting them away from their traditional materials, and expanding their horizons. Yes, it can alter photographs. It can also alter careers.

New Masters of Photoshop is a showcase of Masters who use Photoshop, and Masters of Photoshop use. The photographers, animators, artists, and designers assembled here have a myriad of different skills: some manipulate, some animate, some create from scratch. All of them produce remarkable, beautiful things.

In these pages, the authors will demonstrate examples of their print work, web work, public work, and private work, explaining the techniques they use to achieve their results. More than that, though, they'll tell you how they think: who their influences are, where their ideas come from, and how they find inspiration when the well has run dry.

friends of ED has scoured the world for the leading exponents of Photoshop technique. This book is a gallery of Photoshop practice and theory, backed with essays on the influences and inspirations that lie behind the sharpest digital art in today's media-saturated world. The book deconstructs sophisticated, complex, and astonishing Photoshop graphics, providing motivation, skills and inspiration in equal parts.

Support for this book is available on the friends of ED web site (friendsofed.com).


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If you care for your craft, you'd be foolish indeed to let this opportunity slip away. Book of the year. -- DT & G Magazine - www.Design-Bookshelf.com

If you use Photoshop and want to progress your skills, this book will open your eyes -- Computer Arts Magazine, Dec 2001

Not just a book about graphics, it's a work of art in itself. -- CGI Magazine, February 2002

The variety of artwork and approaches is a definite plus. -- Photoshop User Magazine, January 2002

This book is a tempting, friendly design gigolo, and will do absolutely anything you ask of it. -- www.pixelsurgeon.com

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Creating a Photoshop image is a process that occurs as much in the head as it does on the screen. Uniquely, New Masters of Photoshop documents it all, from the seeds of an idea, to the outcome on screen, paper, or canvas.

The projects include examples of collage and montage that involve manipulation of whole images and tiny fragments - working on a grand scale, and at a pixel-by-pixel level. Layers and masks, with all their subtleties, are used in fascinating ways; and filters are treated with the sensitivity and discretion they require.

The CD contains:

Audio, video, and written interviews with the authors
Source files for the tutorials
Unflattened Photoshop files for closer inspection


Product Details

  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition (August 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1903450624
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903450628
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.2 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,842,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's more than just a showcase for Photoshop artists..., September 21, 2001
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Todd Groves "3dtodd" (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Masters of Photoshop (Friends of ed Designer to Designer) (Paperback)
In-depth interviews with several Photoshop artists, well-planned tutorials and graphical screen grabs, and source-packed CD-ROM are just but a few of the features this great book offers. I have just scratched the surface, and I am very pleased with purchasing this book. The artists share what and who influence their work in detail, and share their views on how they bring their own voice to their work. I buy many books on Photoshop, and this has to be one of the most useful and inspiring books on Photoshop. Worth every cent.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars New Masters of Photoshop, October 15, 2001
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Trevor Morris (Fredericton, NB Canada) - See all my reviews
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As the name implies, New Masters of Photoshop is a prolific resource that combines the unique talents and techniques of 19 modern masters of Photoshop.

The book contains over 500 full-color pages and is beautifully organized, making it as engaging as it is informative. New Masters of Photoshop is not a manual: it will not teach you how to use Photoshop. It will, however, engage you, inspire you and motivate you. The book is also accompanied by a CD that contains interviews, source files and unflattened Photoshop documents.

Even after you've read the entire book, tried all the tutorials and mastered all the techniques, you'll still find it to be a tireless repository of creative ideas and a great source of inspiration.

This is the book that the Photoshop community has been waiting for! If you buy just one book this year, make it the New Masters of Photoshop.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Source of inspiration - taking thoughts into graphics, July 18, 2002
This review is from: New Masters of Photoshop (Friends of ed Designer to Designer) (Paperback)
This book is not a step by step tutorial of Photoshop. It requires basic knowledge of the program and is aimed at people who work with Photoshop regularly and would like to learn how different designers produce and enhance their works in Photoshop. Design inspirations may come from many different sources, including fine arts, photography, drawing, other grafix packages, you name it. This book teaches you about that inspiration and how to take your work to a next level, using Photoshop as the medium. Photoshop is an image manipulation program. It is where and how you find your inspirations and initial material for designs that will determine how efficient you'll be using the program.
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