Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia

by Roger Pring

The Hands-on Desktop Reference for Digital Photographers... Adobe Photoshop is a complex application with many features-and scant information on how to use them to best advantage. You can quickly become bogged down and confused with more than 100 built-in filters. You find yourself spending hours and hours experimenting with the filters just to try and figure out what effect you're looking for.

Photoshop911.com says:
"Easily a third of all Photoshop user inquiries deal in some way with a technique this book will answer! We're talking thousands of inquiries a week!"

In Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia, author and educator Roger Pring explains and decodes the settings of every filter that Photoshop CS2 has to offer, from Artistic filters such as Colored Pencil, Cutout, and Watercolor to Stylize filters like Bevel, Emboss, and Extrude. And, unlike many reference books that give you a lot of information you'll never need, it is filled with easy-to-follow, step-by-step, practical recipes for creating truly amazing effects, such as:

Creating selective focus
Simulating motion blur
Adding special lens and filter effects
Working with tone and color
Creating dramatic solarized and posterized images
Working with artificial lighting
Simulating textures
Creating multi-layered images and photomontages
Reproducing graphic arts effects
and much more.

The best part is that you don't have to be a Photoshop expert to create sophisticated, professional-looking results-the recipes take the guesswork out of the process, so you can work quickly and efficiently. Packed with hundreds of full-color photographs, clearly written instructions, and practical tips, this book is the ultimate, no-nonsense Photoshop CS2 Filters reference for creative photographers, designers, and artists.

Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia
by Roger Pring - List Price: $29.95, Price: $19.77 You Save: $10.18 (34%) Paperback: 176 pages; Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (November 10, 2005); Language: English

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