Classic Photoshop Effect: The Essential Effect Every User Needs To Know (Full Color)

DESCRIPTION

Learn the tricks of the trade that every Photoshop user should know, taken from the pages of Photoshop User Magazine's Photoshop Classic Effects section. The "Classic effects" aren't "old effects", they're the fundamental building blocks of Photoshop skills, on which everything else is based.

Photoshop Classic Effects is an encyclopedia of classic effects that every Photoshop user should know. If you need to cast a shadow, cast a color glow, or a realistic torn edge effect--this is the book for you. This is not a book of "old effects"--this is a guide to the basic effects all users of Photoshop should know how to use in order to be able to use Photoshop for your projects of various different levels. Photoshop has progressed in recent years and the basic tricks everyone had in their bag can be done in many different ways now and Scott shows you how to revisit or learn the classics. You will also see how those classic effects are used today by the hottest ad agencies, leading Web design firms, magazines, on TV and the Web in ways they haven't seen them before. It's a totally fresh look at the techniques that will put money in your pocket, and it's all step-by-step so anyone can pick it up, follow along, and get the exact same effect you see in the book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ch. 1 Hooked on classics : the absolutely essential classic effects 1
Ch. 2 Shadows of the night : soft shadow effects 31
Ch. 3 True confessions : tried-and-true special effects 57
Ch. 4 Classic rock : Rockin' special effects 85
Ch. 5 Time passages : timeless effects 115
Ch. 6 Serious side effects : effects that didn't fit anywhere else 145
Ch. 7 Dangerous type : classic type effects 181
Ch. 8 Freeze frame : classic photographic effects 233
Ch. 9 Almost famous : classic effects you've seen a million times 267
Ch. 10 Cut to the chase : this isn't really a chapter 299