Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook

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Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook 62 Easy-to-Follow Recipes for Creating the Classic Styles of Great Artists and Photographers

By John Beardsworth
February 2006
Pages: 176
ISBN 10: 0-596-10062-0 | ISBN 13: 9780596100629
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Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook tells you all you need to know to turn your digital photographs into images that mimic the styles of great visual artists. From advice on how to choose appropriate subject matter to 62 step-by-step recipes that show you how to create an "original" van Gogh, Vermeer, Edward Weston, or Andy Warhol (among others), this book is an authentic guide to simulating the work of great artists-and a whole lot of fun.
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How would you like to create your own impressionist landscape, a van Gogh still life, or a surrealist Salvador Dali dream world? Or perhaps a classic Ansel Adams photograph of Yosemite or an authentic-looking 19th century Daguerrotype? You can do all of that and more with Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook.

The book tells you all you need to know to turn your original digital photographs into images that mimic the styles of great photographers and painters. From advice on how to develop an eye for appropriate subject matter to 62 detailed recipes that demonstrate exactly how to create an "original" van Gogh, Vermeer, Edward Weston, or Andy Warhol (among others), this book is an authentic guide to understanding and simulating the work of great artists-and a whole lot of fun.

Analyzing the styles of great artists: format, composition, angles of view, color palettes, and image textures
Shooting for digital manipulation, working non-destructively, making your own brushes and patterns
Creating Daguerrotypes, cyanotypes, stop-motion photographs, cross-processed images, Polaroid transfers, and infrared effects
Mimicking photographic styles from the pre-Raphaelites and the Naturalists to Jerry Uelsmann and David Hockney
Exploring painting and printmaking techniques from Rembrandt to Warhol: Dutch portraits, 18th century landscape painting, Japanese woodblocks, Impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Pop Art

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

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Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook, January 15 2008

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Submitted by Larry Green, The PhotoKenosha Group [Respond | View]

I think the book offers some great hints from turning a plain photo into a great master piece. After reading the book I was able to transform a photo into an old appearing photo done in a sepia tone, with just a few steps. He was very thorough on demonstrating different ways to use color separation. The book was easy to read and very thorough. This is defiantly one to add to your personal library.

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"Photographers will love the recipes that emulate classic photographic processes such as ambrotypes, cyanotypes, and cartes de visite....graphic designers and artists will enjoy learning how to use Photoshop to give their photos the feel of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers or to turn their personal muse into a cubist masterpiece in homage to Pablo Picasso."
-- Jack Howard, Popular Photography & Imaging

"...Beardsworth does an excellent job of providing us the recipes to recreate these works. I only tried a few recipes, but my Ansel Adams knockoff looked more like Adams then anything I had ever done. My impressionist photograph looked like it belonged in the Salon des Refuses. My Japanese woodblock photograph was less successful but this was more from the use of an inappropriate photograph then from anything the author explained. Besides providing the recipes, the book also includes an intense refresher course in Photoshop tools."
-- Conrad J. Obregon, Nikonians

"Each technique begins with a bit about the origins of the photographic style, an explanation of the process and the type of image best suited to the exercise. The step-by-step instructions for achieving the techniques that follow are amply illustrated...I think anyone would find some valuable tips and techniques by working through this cookbook."
-- Iris Yoffa, eJournal of the Tucson Computer Society

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"Photographers will love the recipes that emulate classic photographic processes such as ambrotypes, cyanotypes, and cartes de visite....graphic designers and artists will enjoy learning how to use Photoshop to give their photos the feel of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers or to turn their personal muse into a cubist masterpiece in homage to Pablo Picasso."
--Jack Howard, Popular Photography & Imaging

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