Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #809755 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
New Masters of Photoshop concentrates on the creative process rather than Photoshop techniques. If you've always wanted to understand layer masks, or are itching to know the ins and outs of channel mixing this is probably not a good place to start, but if you want to learn the art of visual communication from recognised masters look no further.

The 19 contributors are artists first and foremost. Most started out using conventional materials and some even admit to technophobia and an initial reluctance to embrace digital methods before being won over by the freedom and versatility that Photoshop provides.

Images, rather than the technology used to create them, are the focus. Josh Fallon is heavily influenced by the graphic work of MC Escher, Catherine McIntyre is inspired by Vera Lehndorff's nude images in which she is painted to blend, almost imperceptibly with the natural environment. Mike Cina is well known for his ground-breaking work on testpilotcollective.com, much of which is based on design principles developed by the Bauhaus school. According to Paul Sinclair "In art, the only thing that should matter is the final image, not how it was created". Thankfully he, and the other contributors then go on to ignore this, by providing detailed explanation of the techniques that have enabled them to create unique, striking and often beautiful digital images.

These provide insights into, not just how to achieve a particular effect, which you can discover more or less anywhere, but the process by which ideas become reality--a much rarer resource. --Ken McMahon

Synopsis
"New Masters of Photoshop" is a showcase for Masters who use Photoshop. The photographers, animators, artists, and designers assembled here have a myriad of different skills: some manipulate, some animate, some create from scratch. All of them produce remarkable, beautiful things. In these pages, the authors demonstrate examples of their print work, web work, public work, and private work, explaining the techniques they use to achieve their results. More than that, though, they'll tell you how they think: who their influences are, where their ideas come from, and how they find inspiration when the well has run dry. This book is a gallery of Photoshop practice and theory, backed with essays on the influences and inspirations that lie behind the sharpest digital art in today's media-saturated world. It deconstructs sophisticated, complex, and astonishing Photoshop graphics.

From the Publisher
Creating a Photoshop image is a process that occurs as much in the head as it does on the screen. Uniquely, New Masters of Photoshop documents it all, from the seeds of an idea, to the outcome on screen, paper, or canvas.

The projects include examples of collage and montage that involve manipulation of whole images and tiny fragments - working on a grand scale, and at a pixel-by-pixel level. Layers and masks, with all their subtleties, are used in fascinating ways; and filters are treated with the sensitivity and discretion they require.

The CD contains:

Audio, video, and written interviews with the authors

Source files for the tutorials

Unflattened Photoshop files for closer inspection

Customer Reviews

Excellent hands-on tutorials
The Photoshop tutorials in this book are probably the best I've ever come across, and taught me more per page. They give you the ingredients on the CD, and the recipes in the book, and bingo, with a bit of patience, you get professional-looking art-work. Along the way, you learn a lot too, not only "how to do it", but the artists tell you "why they do it" the way they do. I've already gone out with my camera to get shots I can use in my own recipes, based on the stuff I learned. Very encouraging

An excellent look into the minds of Photoshop artists
This book introduces some very beautiful artwork done in Photoshop... And the artist even tell you how it's done !!!
The techniques are very versatile, ranging between cartoon-styles, abstract art, website design, futuristic effects, and much more... GREAT BOOK!

essential photoshop tips!
All the tricks and techniques you could dream of...all the best graphics you've ever seen on all those cutting-edge websites which turn you green with envy! I never realised how versatile the program was until I bought this book. An essential guide to the other side of Photoshop. A must.