Adobe® Master Class: Photoshop® Inspiring Artwork and Tutorials by Established and Emerging Artists

Introduction

For some, photography is a document, a print, or a collection of pixels that helps to spur a memory or confirm the details of an event or occurrence. For others, photography is about the tools and devices used to create them. It can also be an endless source of visual noise that bombards us every time we launch a web browser, open up a magazine, or simply walk down a street littered with advertisements.

But for the artists in this book, photography is more than that. It’s a unique means of expression that allows each to express an idea, a feeling, and a moment within fractions of a second. Unlike a play or motion picture that may demand several hours of our time or a book that may consume days or weeks, an image has to attract and ...