Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook, Second Edition

Author: Tim Shelbourne
Publisher: O'Reilly
Title: Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook
Subtitle: 53 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers, Designers, and Artists
Second Edition: December 2007
ISBN 10: 0-596-51504-9
ISBN 13: 9780596515041
Pages: 176

With 53 easy-to-follow recipes, Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook shows you how to use Photoshop CS3 to simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques and special effects-without making you first learn Photoshop inside and out. Packed with hundreds of full-color images, step-by-step instructions, and many practical tips, this book-and Adobe Photoshop CS3-are all you need to create professional graphic art effects from almost any image source.
Full Description

Whether you're just getting getting into Photoshop or have been using it for a while, you know that it's a many-faceted application that can be somewhat overwhelming to master. With 53 easy-to-follow recipes, Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook shows you how to use Photoshop CS3 to simulate classic camera and darkroom techniques and special effects--without making you first learn Photoshop inside and out.

The book covers:

• Using the improved Vanishing Point, Lens Blur, and Black & White filters
  
• Creating graphic art effects: posterization, watercolor, pen and ink
  
• Working with lighting effects: neon glows, lens flares, fire and flame effects
  
• Simulating natural phenomena: rain, snow, and lightning
  
• Adapting traditional techniques: film grain, contrast masks, hand-tinting, cross-processing
  
• Adding motion blurs and other special effects

Assembling multi-layered images and photomontages
Packed with hundreds of full-color images, step-by-step instructions, and many practical tips, this book-and Adobe Photoshop CS3- are all you need to create professional graphic art effects from almost any image source.


Table Of Contents
READY TO COOK 6
Introduction 8
CS3 Improvements 9
Making selections 11
Working with layers 12
Sharpening 14
Paths 16
Lighting Effects 17

TONAL AND COLOR EFFECTS 18
High-key and low-key effects 20
Psychedelic poster effect 22
Creative black and white 24
Selective coloring 26
Tone separations 28

GRAPHIC ART EFFECTS 29
Art Nouveau 32
Warhol screen-print 36
Watercolor 38
Oil painting 42
Pencil sketch 46
Pen-and-ink drawing 50
Woodcut and linocut 52

LIGHTING EFFECTS 56
Adding rays of light 58
Simulating studio lighting 60
Creating a neon sign 64
Creating a star-filled sky 66
Adding fire and flames 70
Simulating candlelight 74
Stage lighting 78
Chiaroscuro 80

NATURAL WORLD EFFECTS 84
Summer to Autumn 86
Simulating rain 88
Adding water droplets 90
Adding rainbows 92
Simulating lightning 94
Creating snow 96
Adding reflections 98
Simulating sunsets 100
Day into night 102

TRADITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EFFECTS 106
Vintage Hollywood portrait 108
Sabattier and solarization 110
Adding film grain 112
Infrared photography effect 114
Cross-processing effect 116
Hand tinting 118
Duotones 120

DISTORTION EFFECTS 122
Caricatures 124
Soft focus and selective depth of field 128
Movement and motion blur effects 132
Cloning with perspective 134
Creating panoramas 136
Adding tattoos 138

TEXTURE EFFECTS 140
Using texture overlays 142
Turning a figure to stone 146
Wood textures 152
Stone textures 154
Metal effect 156
Glass effect 158
Plastic effect 162

PRESENTATION EFFECTS 164
Frame effect 166
Vignette effects 168
Painterly borders 170
Out of the frame 172

GLOSSARY 174
Index 175
Acknowledgments 176


Sample chapter: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515041/chapter/index.pdf
Amazon Link: Photoshop CS3 Photo Effects Cookbook: 53 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Digital Photographers, Designers, and Artists