Create expressive artistic effects and polish your individual style with Fine Art Photoshop. Learn digital art techniques to make your work more original and intuitive - without third-party programs or filters. These simple exercise, practical examples, and step-by-step lessons help you master Photoshop and unleash your imagination and creativity. Explore the latest features of Photoshop 4, including advanced color correction, the Free Transform function, guides and grids, and more. Based on traditional art instruction techniques, Fine Art Photoshop is like having your own painting class - in one book.
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While most Photoshop books focus on commercial artwork, this outstanding full-color guide focuses on fine art, making it a great choice for aspiring artists. The authors explore the established principles of drawing and painting--covering, for example, perspective, line, lighting, volume, and value--as they explain the relevant paint and effects tools in Photoshop.
Nolan and LeWinter take four examples of art: a boat, a self-portrait, a still life, and an architectural drawing (of a door), and reproduce them in various ways using different painting techniques. You first go through the four examples by using basic drawing and sketching techniques in gray-scale tones; you use tools that emulate the look of pencil, charcoal, and airbrushes. Next you create colorful versions of these works, in the process learning how to manage color, create palettes of your own, and match the look of watercolor and pastels. The next section takes you further, reproducing the images in versions that utilize washes, emulate oil paintings, and have realistic textures. Then you apply more special effects, changing lighting, working with a scratch-board technique, and replicating the look of impressionistic and surreal paintings.
Finally, the authors explain the Photoshop paint tools such as Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush, Erase, and Rubber Stamp and show images in which these tools are put to work. They also describe printing issues, provide a glossary of art terms, and offer a guide to digital printing equipment and services. --Kathleen Caster
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Fine Art Photoshop is a full-color tutorial and guide that teaches readers how to harness Photoshop's power to create stunning artistic effects. The information in Fine Art Photoshop is organized into four parts that build upon each other with increasingly complex techniques and combinations. Readers begin by understanding the uses of eight Photoshop tools: Eraser, Pencil, Airbrush, Paintbrush, Rubber Stamp, Smudge, Sharpen/Blur, and Dodge/Burn/Sponge. From there, they progress to tutorials that help them master these tools, and then finally on to the most advanced tutorials, which combine these tools with Photoshop's filters. Master Photoshop's painting tools and artistic filters, arriving at expert-level use of Photoshop
Gain a competitive advantage by adding new skills to their repertoire
Learn Photoshop techniques that you thought were available only from paint programs and third-party filters
Create truly unique artwork by getting past the Photoshop presets that everyone else uses
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Discover the creatuve painter within you!,
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This review is from: Fine Art Photoshop (Paperback)
If you aspire to create more than logos and web graphics on your computer, you'll want a copy of Fine Art Photoshop. Fine Art Photoshop will take you to the next level of creativity, where you begin using Adobe Photoshop not so much as a software program but for a creative self-expression. Although ostensibly a "software" book, Fine Art Photoshop taught me a great deal about art in general and contributed to a greater understanding of many basic concepts which have helped me enjoy paintings more as well as helped me take more satisfying photographs--in particular, creating meaningful perspective effects. Fine Art Photoshop teaches you by doing, guiding you through the process of modifying simple, scanned photographs by applying various Photoshop effects such as different media (pencils, airbrush, pen and ink, oil, watercolor, etc.) You'll soon gain the confidence to move beyond the examples in Fine Art Photoshop and experiment with on your own.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Lacks Technique and Fine Art Ability,
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This review is from: Fine Art Photoshop (Paperback)
This book attempts to tackle the subject of creating fine art in Photoshop. The end result is a book with insufficient tips and techniques for using Photoshop and a simple guide to creating lowsy artwork--the fine art in the book demonstrates very little skill.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing else like it for creating art using PShop.,
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This review is from: Fine Art Photoshop (Paperback)
I have been looking for a something that breaks the traditional approach to creating in PShop. This book gave me a new look into the process and possibilties. What a breath of ocean air. Thanks Renee and Michael.
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