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The Art of Photoshop, CS2 Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Giordan
Publisher: Sams
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 215831
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 9.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0672328100
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780672328107
ASIN: 0672328100
Publication Date: September 22, 2005
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Product Description
Go where no other Photoshop book takes you. The Art of Photoshop, CS2 Edition allows you to look over the designer's shoulder while learning advanced Photoshop CS2 techniques. 19 vivid, full-color images, available on the included CD-ROM, will inspire you to push your understanding of Photoshop CS2 and its capabilities. Learn the techniques that the designer used to create the images and then how to apply them to your own images using the same techniques and the new tools available with the Photoshop CS2 software. Work with author Dan Giordan on developing these 19 images by: - Making complex selections
- Transforming layers
- Mastering curves and color correction
- Working with layer masks
- Mastering the distort filters
- And more
The techniques you learn in the Art of Photoshop, CS2 Edition and the included images will inspire your design skills and show you how to develop your own image editing talent with Photoshop CS2.
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 Just horrible. March 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had to get this book for my college course and normally I keep the photoshop books that I buy, but this one I want to sell ASAP! I really thought this book was a joke. Yes, it does tell you how to do things in photoshop, but the work you create is horrible.
I love art don't get me wrong, but when you take a picture of trees with snow, put a black square in the middle, then draw out a sketchy circle over it and call it art... That's where I have a problem.
 Fun book November 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this book just for kicks to help me explore some artistic aspects/techniques of using photoshop. It proved an informative and interesting read. Though nothing in here is incredibly groundbreaking for those who are familiar with photoshop, I still enjoyed the book and found it useful.
Not the Best Photoshop Book September 20, 2006
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is boring and serves as a way for the author to showcase his artsy-fartsy photoshopped images. I don't find them beautiful at all as other reviewers have mentioned. They are quite ugly to be frank. The how-to part is treacherously, butchered and sandwiched between his horrendous "ah-mmm", "spiritual" reflections/bs on his image and the how-to on creating this image. Huh? Why would I want to create something that he already done myself? This book is awful.
 Excellent Resource February 21, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Art of Photoshop is an awesome idea and reference book. Highly recommend!!
Great, "off the beaten path" Photoshop book December 24, 2005
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have a library of Photoshop books and there are two main types- those that deal with how to use Photoshop with no identified purpose in mind (nothing wrong with that) and Photoshop books for the digital photographer which can teach you how to get rid of blemishes or a blown out sky, etc (nothing wrong here either). In many of the latter type of Photoshop books there are sections on manipulating your photos to create art, however, the end result very much maintains the basic identity of the original photo. With The Art of Photoshop we have a very rare book, a book whose goal is to inspire photoshophers to create art, as you would see in an art gallery, with the software. Even if you are not inspired with Mr. Giordan's art, he suceeds in teaching you the tools to go create your own art. Differing from other books that touch upon Photoshop art (via manipulation of your digital photo), this book's end products do not necessairily have a direct relationship with the starting photograph(s) and sources, thus the term "art". As in any art gallery, there is some "art" that Mr. Giordan has created that I don't really care for and could be made fun of such as the burning baby example given in another review. By the way, Mr. Giordan makes it clear it is not actually meant to be a burning baby. Getting back to the book. even if I did not care for some of the art created, I still found it very valuable to learn how the art was created. Although Photoshop version CS2 was not covered much at all, still, this was an aspect of Photoshop use I had not seen much about at all- the creation of art, not just manipulating my photographs with filters to give it a Van Gogh look or whatever. If you would really like to create original art with Photoshop and not just merely manipulate your photographs with filters and such, this book is really worth a look. It has taught me techniques that I can use to create artwork that is appealing to me and I think that was the goal of the book in the first place- not as a showcase for Mr. Giordan's art, but to show the capabilities Photoshop has for creating art and this book magnificently teaches how to tap into those capabilities. I agree that if you are not interested in creating art with Photoshop this is not the book for you, however, if you are, GET THIS BOOK! It is a rare type of Photoshop book.
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