Steve Caplin

Simon Rose

A hilarious guide to fatherhood presents a series of slapstick routines, entertaining trivia, brainteasers, jokes, quizzes, stories, and practical advice that ranges from instruction in how to teach a child how to skip stones or ride a bike to tips on how to entertain large groups of kids or answer such baffling questions as "Why is the sky blue?" Original. 25,000 first printing.

All of the Tricks, Games, Puzzles, and Jokes You Need to Impress Your Kids (and Keep Them Entertained for Years to Come!)

Be the Coolest Dad on the Block

With enough charm and wit to make learning Photoshop anything but taxing, Steve Caplin delivers the next instalment of the How to Cheat series, containing all the techniques you need to create and master the art of photomontage. Delivered in easy to follow step-by-step tutorials, How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 covers all the basics of selections and layers before moving on to top tricks and techniques for creating realistic works of art for business, pleasure, or something in between. Accompanying downloadable resources are packed full of practice images and tutorial movies for you to work along with, plus bonus chapters to push your skills even further. Using a tweaked design that is clearer and fresher than previous editions, this is the most fun way to master Photomontage. This complete How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 package includes a fully updated book, downloadable resources containing all of the images used in the helpful tutorials, plus over 5 hours of video tutorials, and a website featuring a reader forum where your questions will be answered by other readers as well as the author himself.

The art of creating realistic photomontages

How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6

Cuts through the grind with on-the-job, do-it-now skills, techniques and shortcuts guaranteed to show you how to work faster, smarter and better to produce the best work of your life.

The Art of Creating Realistic Photomontages

How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4

Updated to make the most of Photoshop CS2, this practical handbook offers a variety of professional tips, tricks, and step-by-step workthroughs for creating a photorealistic montage; features complete tutorials in the fundamentals of Photoshop CS2; and includes a CD-ROM that encompasses all the images from the book, as well as free high-resolution stock footage images. Original. (Intermediate)

The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages

How to Cheat in Photoshop

Presents step-by-step instructions on using Photoshop CS5 to create effective photomontages, covering such topics as layers, image adjustment, perspective, shading, 3D layers, and hyper realism.

How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5

Starring Max Pixel, a 3D-generated figure, this comic-book guides readers through the intricacies of this low-cast, image-editing program. The book is broken up into individual missions, each of which contains several two-page projects. Includes sidebars that answer readers' questions before they have a a chance to ask them.

Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3

Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers? Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte? Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings? Then you need Art and Design in Photoshop. In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch your creative boundaries. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his best selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles, Steve's step-by-step instructions recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous design effects. You'll learn how to design everything from wine labels to sushi cartons, from certificates to iPod advertising, from textbooks to pulp fiction. Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: how to get slick-looking results with minimum fuss, with a 16-page Photoshop Reference chapter that provides an at-a-glance guide to Photoshop tools and techniques for less experienced users. Steve explains both typography and the design process in a clear, informative and entertaining way. All the images, textures and fonts used in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, both amateur and professional.

Art and Design in Photoshop

David Asch

How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 8 is the Elements equivalent to Steve Caplin's How to Cheat in Photoshop-a fun, quirky and inspiring guide, packed with tips, tricks and effects that reveal the power of Elements for design-oriented image manipulation and photomontage. With more than 80 step-by-step projects on page spreads showing the before and after and all stages in between, this is a practical guide to stir the imagination.

Creative Photomontage on a budget

How to Cheat in Elements 8

Photoshop Elements is the cut-down, lower-price version of Adobe's powerful Photoshop software, and, like Photoshop, it's not just intended for tweaking and retouching those less than perfect photographs-it has huge creative potential, too. How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 8 is the Elements equivalent to Steve Caplin's How to Cheat in Photoshop-a fun, quirky and inspiring guide, packed with tips, tricks and effects that reveal the power of Elements for design-oriented image manipulation and photomontage. With more than 80 step-by-step projects on page spreads showing the before and after, and all stages in between, this is a practical guide to stir the imagination. QuickTime movie tutorials and images for all projects in the book are included on the accompanying CD-ROM, with additional support and an active reader forum on the website for the book: www.howtocheatinphotoshopelements.com. * Fun and creative, with more than 80 full colour, step-by-step projects, supported by QuickTime movie tutorials and image files * In-depth coverage of photomontage and image manipulation not seen elsewhere—most Elements books focus on the essentials for photography post-capture editing * Part of the successful Focal Press How to Cheat in… series, featuring Steve Caplin's best-selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles

Discover the Magic of Adobe's Best Kept Secret

How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 8

Just when you think you've learned all that you could ever know about working in Photoshop, digital artist and photomontage king Steve Caplin comes along with yet another masterful method for creating incredible works of art in Photoshop. This time, he'll show you how to create complete images, from start to finish, entirely within the software program. No source material, photographs, or existing files from other software packages are needed, saving you valuable time and resources. The techniques you'll learn in this ground-breaking new book will help you combine your artistic vision and skills with an understanding of how to manipulate the built-in Photoshop filters to produce impressive, eye-catching artwork. Each chapter opens with a complete double page illustration, created entirely in Photoshop. Then, carefully laid out step-by-step instructions show you how each element in the illustration is created, and how they are all combined in the end to make a convincing final image. Using Steve's proven methods for success, you'll be able to produce images that reflect a more finely crafted, hand drawn approach, whether you're an artist for your own enjoyment or a working professional looking for a leg up on the competition.

100% Photoshop

Photo montage for Elements - this fantastic handbook is full of step-by-step projects for you to put your creative skills to use in Photoshop Elements.

Discover the magic of Adobe's best kept secret

How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 9

Full of quirky tips and tricks for fun and creative image manipulation in Elements!

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