Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1134 pages
- Published by: New Riders Publishing August 1997
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1562058002
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1562058005
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.8 x 2.2 inches
- Weighs: 4.8 pounds
Product Review
A comprehensive guide to using Photoshop 4, the book teaches you how to create any sort of artwork you dream up. This limited edition includes five additional chapters on advanced techniques. The chapter on animation post-production shows you how to batch-edit still image frames from animations and use animation compilers. "Direct Scanning and Image Resolution" covers professional scanning techniques and shows you how to use Photoshop and Illustrator to create magazine layouts and Web pages. The chapter "Illustrating Metal Surfaces" covers textures such as gold and steel, and "Melding Painting with Photography" shows you how to use templates and Texture Creator, a texture-rendering program included on the book's CD-ROM, to create compelling images. The final new chapter, "Honey I Shrunk the Author," shows you how to place overly large or small objects in your photos. Like the paperback version, this book's CD-ROM comes with project files and demo software. However, this edition also comes with an extra CD-ROM, one that has project files for the new chapters and additional software, backgrounds, and images.
From Library Journal
Neither of these encyclopedic how-to guides is recommended for beginners. But if you have the kind of involved projects that keep you up late at night, these books will get you a few more winks. Bouton's book is really a second edition but includes new and useful material such as information on postproduction, scaling, illustrating metal surfaces, and other effects.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader ReviewsI have been using books written by Gary Bouton and his wife Barbara for awhile now. I'm looking back at this particular book as a milestone in my Photoshop education. I took this book, and for a month I slowly read, re-read, underlined and executed the lessons until I truely understood what I was doing. By re-reading and trying the lessons I was able to overcome the stubborn paradigms I created which normally keep me from understanding what is being said. This effort has paid off. I'm currently using Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and it's no problem. Thank you Gary and Barbara for taking on a task this immense. If any of you have ever written technical lessons you can appreciate the monumental effort it would take to create an 1134 page textbook with two associated CDs. Thank you, but no thank you. I have since purchsed their "Inside Adobe Photoshop 5" book and am enjoying it as well. I must admit that I haven't read it with a fine tooth comb as I did this Photoshop 4 book. Shame on me. I have been perusing it of late and notice that it has some good stuff to try. For those of you who don't know it, the Bouton's keep a website that is full of information and any corrections that their books need. That's a very nice feature; www.TheBoutons.com I've been using Photoshop for fine art, severely damaged photo restoration, logo creation, brochure creation and web graphics. It's still the greatest. Try it, you'll like it. :-)
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