Charles River Media Book: Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX, 2E (Graphics Series) by Stephen Burns

Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX is a completely updated edition of this specialized book for Photoshop users wishing to go beyond the basics. It takes digital artists to the next level of creativity by teaching them how to blend their artistic talent seamlessly with the powerful tools of Photoshop CS3.

The book is packed with full-color photos showing before-and-after touch-up examples and demos of the amazing new features of Photoshop CS3. Using a mixture of fun and practical projects, you will learn how to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. This edition also includes more real-world projects to illustrate practical uses of Photoshop's tools.

The book assumes a fundamental level of skill with Photoshop and builds upon those skills by helping you learn how and why Photoshop does what it does. Throughout the book, you will learn to work with the tools that come with Photoshop, but aren't used on a regular basis, and are therefore not covered in depth in general purpose Photoshop books.

Armed with this knowledge, you can to take on new challenges and work though the practical, fun tutorials throughout this book. All of the core tools of Photoshop CS3 used for effects are put to use in hands-on projects as you learn new techniques for creating realistic and fantasy effects.

About the Author: Stephen Burns (Encinitas, CA) is the author of Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX. He began as a photographer 25 years ago, and then moved toward the digital medium. His influences include the great Abstractionists and Surrealists.

He has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in digital art and design for almost ten years, and for the past few years, has taught courses at SIGGRAPH. In addition, he works in 3D animation and digital video special effects editing, and is the current president of the San Diego Photoshop Users Group.