Photoshop 5 Type Magic [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Greg Simsic (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
This is a useful guide to creating cool, strange, and pretty type effects in Photoshop 5 for Macintosh and Windows. This updated edition, written for the new version of the image-manipulation package, includes 47 effects, most of them new or refined. The effects, all shown alphabetically, in full color, and with step-by-step instructions, include Cereal, Clay, Flaming, Glass, Halftone, Marble, Painted, Paper Bag, Peel-Away, Plaid, Potato Chips, Reflected, Scales, Shattered, Splattered, Stamped, Stones, Torn, Vibration, Water Droplets, Wax Seal, and Wet Cement. The type effects are easy to reproduce, even for beginners. The book even includes an overview of Photoshop at the beginning of the book in case you're a novice or just rusty. Appendices provide resources on the third-party vendors who supply material on the included CD-ROM and a quick-reference gallery of all the effects. The CD-ROM has stock photos; filters; fonts; Actions for automatically reproducing some of the techniques in the book; and demo versions of Adobe After Effects, Dimensions, and Streamline--and Macromedia Fontographer, FreeHand, Shockwave, and xRes. --Kathleen Caster

Product Description
With Photoshop 5 Type Magic, you'll be amazed again and again with your ability to create the hottest, most spectacular, and popular effects--in no time! Emboss your type to create effects like license plates and credit cards. Turn you type into a wax seal, or give it the rough surface of an elephant's skin. Add halftone dots or create an antiqued distressed effect. Using lighthearted, conversational style, full-color examples, and step-by-step instructions, Photoshop 5 Type Magic is loaded with type treatments like marble, potato chips, cutout, transparent type boxes, water rings, vibration, flaming, and painted--more than 50 techniques in all. Add pizzazz to your designs and Web sites with these easy techniques!

Product Details

• Paperback: 249 pages
• Publisher: Hayden Books (May 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156830465X
• ISBN-13: 978-1568304656
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,920,947 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good ideas, but all the CD's with the book are defective., December 12, 1998

By A Customer

Most of the ideas in this book are well thought out, but when attempting them, the directions in the book are not in the correct order. The Photoshop "Actions" on the CD, enclosed with the book do not work, the publisher is refunding the purchase price and trying to get the writer to correct the problems. Publisher is very nice in resolving the issues, but why put yourself though it.. Buy another book instead.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Starting Place, March 30, 2000

By	Josh - See all my reviews

If you are a well versed but not very advanced photoshop user this book is GREAT. It is a great way to move from a basic understanding of the functions in photoshop to a more advanced level. The effects do not have to be used on text and because of this I use this book as a quick reference almost all the time.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Type Magic with Photoshop 5, yes yes, January 27, 1999

By A Customer

Hello my name is Johnathan Mark Smith from 1HOSTPLUS.COM and asa web designer I am always looking for cool ways to make new typemagic for the logos and web sites I have to make for clients. After reading this book I now know how to make alot more type magic with photoshop then before. If you are looking to learn how to make magic with photoshop for the web then this is the book for you