O'Reilly has released the "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook," a $29.99 course in how to make your pictures look like the work of Rembrandt, Van Gough, Warhol, or other classic artists. The book contains 62 step-by-step "recipes," with each one focusing on a different effect by a famous photographer, printmaker, or painter. Readers will use Adobe Photoshop to make their digital pictures look like fine portraits, landscapes, silkscreen paintings, Japanese woodcut prints, Pop Art comic strips, and more.
Visit the book's page at O'Reilly to see the table of contents, index, author bio, and a sample chapter. Click on the headline of this article to see the O'Reilly press release.
O'Reilly Releases "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook"
Sebastopol, CA -- For anyone who wants to shoot like Adams, print like Warhol, or paint like Van Gogh, "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook" (Beardsworth, O'Reilly, US $29.99) explains how to use Photoshop CS2 to transform everyday images into masterpieces that echo the genius of the world's greatest photographers, printmakers, and painters.
Readers don't have to be trained artists or Photoshop experts to take advantage of Photoshop tools, techniques, and tricks of the trade for recreating the classic styles of favorite photographers and artists. Sixty-two step-by-step recipes, along with full-color images, show readers how to:
Analyze and recreate the trademark formats, compositions, and color palettes of famous artists
Shoot for digital manipulation
Make Daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, stop-motion photos, cross-processed images, Polaroid transfers, and infrared effects
Simulate the painting and printmaking styles of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Hokusai, Monet, Picasso, Dali, and Warhol, among others.
Recreate photographic styles from 19th-century Pre-Raphaelites and Naturalists to modern masters such as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Jerry Uelsmann, and David Hockney
As much an inspirational tour of art history as a hands-on Photoshop tutorial, "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook" gives aspiring digital artists everything they need to start with almost any image source and end up with stunning works of art reminiscent of the finest portraits, landscapes, silkscreen paintings, Japanese woodcut prints, Pop Art comic strips, and much more.
For more information about the book, including table of contents, index, author bio, and sample chapter, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/fineartfx/
