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How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3: The art of creating photorealistic montages (How to Cheat in) | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Caplin
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 26341
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0240520629
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780240520629
ASIN: 0240520629
Publication Date: May 28, 2007
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Product Description
With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce awardwinning illustrations, Steve is THE go-to guru for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, retouchers and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CS3, this must-have resource unlocks your creativity and helps you save time in the software so you can spend more time creatively. The book is also relevant to any version of Photoshop. * Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions the simple way * Take years off someone's appearance * Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes) * Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface * Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CS3's new Quick Selection tool... and more
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 Cheating at Photoshop CS3 May 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book reminds me of having cliff notes during high school. It takes you to the point without confusion. It covers a vast number of things that interest me in my photography business.
Serendipitous April 24, 2008
I knew from the title that this book had a lot of cool special effects, and it does. What I wasn't expecting was the very pragmatic tutorial on artistic communication: how to tell a story by the relative placement of objects/people in a picture, or the slant of the eyes, etc. And, yes, you can actually turn a people's eyes (or their entire heads!) with some neat, easy, amazing tricks. I just didn't know some of this stuff was even possible. Definitely not a book full of stuff you've seen already.
How to cheat in photoshop CS3 April 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We checked MANY photoshop books out of the library and only bought two and this is one. Love it. It comes with a cd with all the pictures that they walk you through so you can practice the steps yourself. Awesome
 Good but not what I was specting March 1, 2008
They explanations are sometimes not easy to follow. Or it's me? You can try it yourself.
Great concepts but very hard to replicate January 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are a lot of good ideas and concepts provided in this book for some very cool effects. However, please know that many of the effects/settings are very specific to the images they use in the examples. For example, the section on "chroming" any image they use an image of a computer monitor and use the levels adjustments to make it look chrome. If/when you apply the same sort of settings to any of your own photos you will not get any results even remotely close to what they got. Your results will vary greatly with your own photos so it will take quite a bit of tweaking and trial/error to replicate.
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