Creative Photoshop[R].

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Creative Photoshop[R] By Steve Caplin Published by Focal Press, www.focalpress.com Soft cover, 7f/4 x 9J/2, 360 pages, illus, in color, $39.95 Free DVD ISBN 978-0-240-52046-9 * and **

Creative Photoshop[R] is for the digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist or designer who is familiar with Photoshop, but would like to push the program to the limit.

Creative Photoshop shows how to get professional results from the paint features in Photoshop. Shown is how to create sharp illustrations by combining vectors and pixels. Less than obvious composition methods are explained along with the hidden potential in unlikely artistic resources and materials. The author explains how to play around with texture using spray paint effects and scanned elements and to age faces and objects. Shown also is how to use stencil tags and comic book coloring techniques and how to bring 3-D art to life. Creative Photoshop shows how to maximize creativity and efficiency with invaluable information on working between Photoshop and Illustrator.

Creative Photoshop provides clear, step-by-step tutorials that make it easy to emulate the author's techniques and includes a CD that has all the images used in the tutorials.

Each book listed below is rated for Beginners (*), Intermediate (**) or Advanced (***) in digital imaging.

Stan Ashbrook, FPSA 

Review Editor