Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook: 62 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Creating the Classic Styles of Great Artists and Photographers (O’Reilly Digital Studio)

Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook: 62 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Creating the Classic Styles of Great Artists and Photographers (O'Reilly Digital Studio)

How would you like (same) to create (create) your own (possess) impressionist landscape, a van (camper) Gogh still (ease) life, or a surrealist Salvador Dali (painter) dream world? Or perhaps a classic (artist) Ansel Adams (President) photograph of Yosemite (falls) or an authentic-looking 19th century Daguerrotype? You can (crapper) do all (every) of that and more with Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook.

The book (aggregation) tells you all (every) you need (requirement) to know (undergo) to turn (invoke) your original (example) digital photographs into images that mimic (simulate) the styles of great (enthusiastic) photographers and painters. From advice on how to develop (amend) an eye (receptor) for appropriate (pertinent) subject matter (concern) to 62 detailed (careful) recipes that demonstrate (shew) exactly how to create (create) an "original" van (camper) Gogh, Vermeer, Edward (prince) Weston, or Andy Warhol (painter) (among others), this book (aggregation) is an authentic (trusty) guide to understanding (discernment) and simulating the work (impact) of great (enthusiastic) artists-and a whole (full) lot of fun.

Analyzing the styles of great (enthusiastic) artists: format, composition, angles of view, color (colouration) palettes, and image (ikon) textures

Shooting for digital manipulation, working (employed) non-destructively, making your own (possess) brushes and patterns

Creating Daguerrotypes, cyanotypes, stop-motion photographs, cross-processed images, Polaroid (film) transfers, and infrared (frequence) effects

Mimicking photographic styles from the pre-Raphaelites and the Naturalists to Jerry Uelsmann and David (king) Hockney

Exploring painting (craft) and printmaking techniques from Rembrandt to Warhol: Dutch (land) portraits, 18th century landscape (genre) painting, Japanese (Asian) woodblocks, Impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Pop Art

Packed with step-by-step instructions, an inspirational selection (activity) of full-color digital imagery, and authoritative (official) information and advice, Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook is the ultimate (eventual) guide (pass) to creating convincing (disenchanting) digital masterpieces in the styles of many (some) of the world's greatest (large) artists.

Product Details
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596100620
ISBN-13: 978-0596100629
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 9.2 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds