Photoshop 4 Studio Secrets Book

No one knows Photoshop better than Macworld magazine graphics guru Deke McClelland - but if you need proof, take a look at Photoshop 4 Studio Secrets. Full color throughout, this may prove McClelland's best Photoshop book yet. Not only does he explain how digital graphics artists like Ron Chan, Greg Vander Houwen, and Katrin Eismann work wonders with the world's most popular image-editing program, but he also shows you step-by-step and in lustrous detail the results you can expect to achieve.

Photoshop 4 Studio Secrets covers all the essential topics, whether your work is destined for the printed page, the Web, or a CD-ROM. McClelland shows you how to:

• Use the tried-and-true commercial art process to go from sketch to final art efficiently
• Work stock photography into your own creations
• Create three-dimensional characters without a lot of high-end rendering
• Integrate natural media into digital art
• Transform vector artwork created in Illustrator or Freehand into something extraordinary
• Apply distortion effects creatively - and not gratuitously
• Take type to new heights of distinction (Version 4 of Photoshop makes it easier than ever)
• Achieve the high resolutions demanded by advertising and fine art printing
• Take photographs with Photoshop in mind
• Use digital cameras
• Create images and interface elements for the World Wide Web

Plus - as if all that weren't enough - Photoshop 4 Studio Secrets comes complete with a bonus, cross-platform CD-ROM containing over 300 megabytes of software and resources, most of which you won'tfind anywhere else. The highlights include:

• QuickTime movies demonstrating Photoshop techniques in action
• Artwork created by the artists profiled in the book
• Audio files of McClelland's interviews with the artists