Mini-review & Competition: How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5

Read the sample and join the competition

If you’re struggling to free your creativity or simply short on time, How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5 is the book you’ve been waiting for. Bringing a lifetime’s experience of photomontage wizardry to the table, Photoshop guru Steve Caplin shares the best tools, techniques, and shortcuts you need to not only work faster and smarter, but also to create the amazing images you never thought possible.

Overview

Fully updated to cover all of the new features in Photoshop CS5, this book is also backwards-compatible and can be used with any version of Photoshop. The accompanying DVD for Mac and PC contains over two and a half hours of video tutorials for additional training.

A complete How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5 learning package! Includes a fully updated book, a DVD containing all of the imagery used in the examples, over 2h hours of video tutorials, and website featuring a reader forum where your questions will be answered by other readers as well as the author himself * Includes hundreds of tips and project ideas to help you get started, whether you're working to a professional deadline or just for fun Packed with professional advice from a photomontage artist who makes his living creating surreal works of art - you're learning from the best!

What's on the DVD:

  • 74 tutorial movies, totalling over four hours of real-time training
  • All the project files used in the tutorials from the book
  • A selection of free sample images from thefullmontage.com
  • Over 100 high resolution images supplied by members of the Reader Forum
  • Test Yourself files in which you can pit your wits against a range of problems designed to test your understanding of the techniques
  • Bonus content: 13 high resolution renders of skeletons for you to use in your own projects. 

Competition:

Our friends from Focal Press are giving away 5 free books. All you need to do, to enter the competition download the sample and continue the following line: "The Content -Aware Fill system is good, but not ..."

Send your answer to this e-mail address, before Wednesday the 1st of December 2010. Don't forget to include your post address and phone number (required for international shipping) in the e-mail.

Table Of Contents

  • Chapter 1: Natural Selection
  • Chapter 2: Transformation & Distortion
  • Chapter 3: Hiding and Showing
  • Chapter 4: Image Adjustments
  • Chapter 5: Composing the scene
  • Chapter 6: Getting into perspective
  • Chapter 7: Light and Shade
  • Chapter 8: Heads and Bodies
  • Chapter 9: Shiny surfaces
  • Chapter 10: Metal, wood and stone
  • Chapter 11: Paper and Fabric
  • Chapter 12: The third dimension
  • Chapter 13: Hyper Realism
  • Chapter 14: Advanced techniques
  • Chapter 15: Print and the Web

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