Photoshop Textures Magic [Paperback]

Sherry London (Author)

Book Description

Series: Magic | Publication Date: July 1997

This manual should help the Photoshop user to create background textures by following the steps provided for each technique. It shows finished textures and patterns on Web pages and applied to rendered objects in 3D programs.

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Amazon.com Review

In this full-color guide to Adobe Photoshop 4.0 for Windows and Macintosh, author Sherry London provides hands-on tips for creating all sorts of textures, including Brick, Ceramic, Fish Scales, Grass, Linen, Metal, Pearls, Rice Paper, Sea Foam, Water, and Wood. The book is organized alphabetically by texture name, and with a gallery of the textures at the back of the book, it's easy to find just what you're looking for. The book is fine for all sorts of user, from new to accomplished; London even covers Photoshop basics in her introduction. A hybrid CD-ROM comes with demo versions of Adobe Photoshop, Fractal Design Detailer, and third-party filter software, as well as stock photos and textures.

From Library Journal

London's interesting book begins with a quick overview of Photoshop basics and then leads the reader off into the world of texture creation from the perspective of a real fabric artist. London shows a texture example and walks the reader through the creative steps and reasoning behind the creation. Foster uses the same approach, but the examples are for background patterns, buttons, and other widgets for use on webbed windows. Both offer excellent illustrated explanations of real-world uses for Photoshop.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Hayden Books (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568303688
• ISBN-13: 978-1568303680
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,137,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book for PS texture tricks, June 23, 2000

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Travis M. Owens (Syracuse, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop Textures Magic (Paperback)

I've read many websites that explain how to make textures but so far (and after 3yrs of dabbleing with Photoshop books and sites) this is still the BEST book how to make surreal textures. Each step is laid out with a picture for each step. It tells you exactly how to do the step too. After it shows you how to make the texture, it then gives 2 or 3 examples on how to make alterations to create differnt types of the same texture. Just some of the textures it shows how to make are water, bricks, wood, stone, pearl, sand, cement, and like 20 others.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to make near PhotoRealistic textures by hand, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Photoshop Textures Magic (Paperback)

This book is very good, to my knowledge this is the only book that teaches usefull textures and many realistic effects such as wood, rock, metal, leather, coblestone, bricks and many more. If you want to be able to make textures by hand without cheesy plugins, this will start you out and almost perfect your skills.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great "how-to", February 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Photoshop Textures Magic (Paperback)

I have used this book quite a bit over the last week. I need to use textures in my line of work and the techniques this book has given me will make my life that much easier. Not only do you get some great "tricks" for creating such textures as wood, wicker, rock and water, you also benefit by learning how versatile Photoshop is! The only negative about this book is that the CD-ROM supplied does not work on a PC based system.