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Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams (Adobe Master Class) | 
 enlarge | Author: Amy Standen
Publisher: Adobe Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 91026
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0321306147
Dewey Decimal Number: 776.4092
EAN: 9780321306142
ASIN: 0321306147
Publication Date: May 28, 2005
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Product Description
Maggie Taylor's digital photo collages have been described as a contemporary exploration of the Surrealist world view. In Taylor's strange, parallel universe, birds ride bicycles, ideas materialize in the shape of clouds, and wings sprout from the backs of prim Victorian women. Starting with objects that she finds on eBay, in flea markets, and in her own surroundings, Taylor then uses her flatbed scanner, Adobe Photoshop, and an Iris printer, to produce images of surprising beauty and emotional impact.
Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams offers a close and richly illustrated examination of Taylor's practice, tracing her images from inspiration through execution. Taylor explains her influences, both in art and in her own life, and takes the reader inside the making of some of her intriguing, painterly work. Along the way, we hear from respected artists and critics familiar with Taylor's work, and from the artist herself, in conversation with the author.
Illustrated with more than 65 color plates, Landscape of Dreams is essential reading (and viewing) for all those interested in applying technology to a creative personal vision.
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 I love this book June 27, 2008
The images are very inspiring. The artist is truly amazing. This is not a "cookbook" like book that will step you through the process of how to create images like Maggie Taylor. If you are looking for that type of book....don't buy. I honestly don't think a book like that is possible anyway. At least not possible in trying to give you a recipe for creating images of this quality.
Imagery like this uses not only technical skill and PhotoShop knowledge, but artistic sensibilities and aesthetics. It would be like buying a Monet in a paint-by-numbers kit and thinking it will help you paint like the Master.
The book is about inspiration, and inspiring you to create amazing ethereal and surreal images like Maggie Taylor. There are some images and text that briefly explain how some of her pieces were created. But all in all, this book is more about inspiration than education. So get another PhotoShop book to learn how to use the program...then buy this book to be inspired as to WHY you want to use it.
 Save your money August 30, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I used to appreciate Taylor's work because of those almost inert portraits, until I read that the only thing she does is buying old portraits on ebay or flea markets to scan them and add color and other stuff to create their "surreal" images, so I think today's critics really don't care much and celebrate almost everything even when is not an original work.
Besides that, the first half of the book is dedicated to interviewing a dozen of taylor's fans -including her husband- who leaves clear statement of how a great artist she is, and the second part features her work with maybe 3 examples of how she did them, in a very superficial way.
If you get this book based on the title, you will be very very disappointed, even more if you really think in what some people call 'art".
Maggie Taylor's Landcape of Dreams February 11, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read this book from cover to cover and enjoyed every line. The book includes a short biography of Maggie Taylors life and how she came to be the great artist that she is today. This book also goes through her creative process and the steps she takes with Photoshop to achieve her photos. This book is inspirational and gives any photoshop artist a kick in the pants to creat their own works of art! AAA+++
Inspriational artist and technique January 18, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's wonderful when an artist such as Maggie Taylor is, shares her mastery of techniques with us... thankyou for this book!
 Sunshine over Maggie November 27, 2006
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I give this book three stars for an average rating mostly because the title is a misrepresentation. It is a very nice coffee table type art book with beautiful and thought provoking imagery created (mostly) in photoshop but it is not in any way, shape or form a "photoshop master class"!
While there is some exquisite imagery and artwork within, this book is written with much of the hyperbole of art criticism today i.e. "Isn't this artist wonderful and completely groundbreaking and influential, oh my!". This is not to say Maggie Taylor isn't a talented and provacative artist but I don't feel she is re-creating and re-directing the surrealist movement as we know it as this book might begin to lead one to believe.
The author, Amy Standen, writes much more about Maggie Taylor's life and inspirations than her actual work and even less about her creative process involving photoshop. There is one step-by-step tutorial (which is available as pdf dowload with a little searching on the internet, I had it before I bought the book, actually it's why I bought the book) and even then it assumes much about the knowledge of the reader. There are several in-process works which show images of each in various stages of completion but talks little about the down and dirty photoshop techniques used to create them.
I would have liked to seen much more in the way of tutorials and creative process in the literal sense. It's more than acceptable as an "art" book rather than a "photoshop master class" book but let's call it what it is...
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