Photoshop Fine Art Cookbook for Digital Photographers

How would you like to create your own Impressionist landscape, Picasso portrait, or surrealist Salvador Dali dream world? Or perhaps an Ansel Adams shot of Yosemite, an authentic 19th-century Daguerreotype, or an experimental scraped Polaroid? It's easy. Such is the power of Photoshop that the possibilities for manipulating digital images have become almost infinite. As a result, anyone with a reasonable amount of skill and patience is able to transform themselves into an accomplished digital forger. "Photoshop Fine Art Cookbook" lifts the lid on the secrets of professional imagemakers and reveals all you need to know to turn your original digital photographs into pictures that mimic the style of great photographers and painters. The book begins with advice on how to develop an "artist's eye" by analysing subject matter, composition, and colour to identify what makes a particular artist's style unique. It then moves on to an overview of all the basic skills and techniques you'll need to become an expert image manipulator, and offers scores of detailed workthroughs showing exactly how to create a wide variety of convincing images - covering artists ranging from Vermeer to van Gogh and photographers from Brassai to Bill Brandt. "Photoshop Fine Art Cookbook" is both an essential guide to understanding and simulating the work of great artists and a whole lot of fun. It's book that will appeal to anyone with a digital camera, a computer, and a copy of Photoshop.