This book helps you spruce up your Photoshop images using filters--both the program's built-in filters and those available from third-party sources. Using a good combination of screen shots, discussion, and step-by-step instruction, the author helps you create a wide variety of effects. You work through many projects and apply filters as you create paintings, morphed images, 3-D effects, textures, Web backgrounds and buttons, interfaces, frames, text and color effects, and retouched and composite images. For those projects involving third-party filters, the author usually offers alternative methods that involve only Photoshop filters, so you don't have to install new plug-ins if you don't want to. Most of the projects, fortunately, focus on Photoshop's built-in filters and other tools. The companion CD-ROM includes images, as well as demo plug-ins, for working along with the book's projects. --Kathleen Caster
Product Description
Includes everything needed, from the right plug-in tools to tips on how to apply special effects to transform ordinary images into prize-winners. Emphasizes special projects utilizing a variety of programs. Outlines advanced techniques for creating 3D effects, unusual type, morphing, compositing, and rich textures.
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