Photoshop Tricks for Designers

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Minimum steps, maximum creativity! The world’s best Photoshop effects techniques in one compact, full-color tutorial!

• Quick two-page tutorials guide you through creating today’s best 2D and 3D effects: shadow, lighting, color, texture, graphics, text, and more
• By Corey Barker, executive producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the world-renowned “Photoshop Guys” of Photoshop User TV
• Builds on the same fast-paced format used by Scott Kelby’s The Digital Photography Book best-sellers

Corey Barker is the best-selling author of the Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers series and regular contributor to Photoshop User magazine. He was one of the Photoshop Guys on the popular videocast Photoshop User TV and is a featured instructor at live events like the Photoshop World Conference and Adobe MAX. He is also the founder of PhotoshopMasterFX.com.

• 1. Text Effects
• 2. Commercial Effects
• 3. Graphic Effects
• 4. Photo Effects
• 5. Texture Effects
• 6. Light Effects
• 7. Shadow Effects
• 8. Blur Effects
• 9. Color Effects
• 10. Hollywood Effects
• 11. 3D Effects

• Full-colour tutorial guides students through creating today’s best 2D and 3D effects: shadow, lighting, color, texture, graphics, text, and more
• Each effect has been brilliantly condensed to its own easy, full-color two-page spread
• Author Corey Barker is executive producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and one of the world-renowned “Photoshop Guys” of Photoshop User TV

Perhaps you are working on a new project and need a little inspiration , or even a quick reference to show you how to do that one cool effect that will be the finishing touch on your latest creation. Whatever you need, this book can help you in so many ways. One of the toughest things about being a designer is getting a good idea. The next challenge is realizing that idea. This book will not only be a source of ideas , but will also show you how to create them step by step. You can even combine multiple effects to create other cool results–the book’s cover was designed by combining at least half a dozen techniques found within.

Corey wrote this book for working designers, or anyone who just wants to add some “cool factor” to their projects. Each tutorial is a stand-alone technique or mini-project, so you do not have to follow the book in sequence. Just find what you like and have at it. And, as an added bonus, you can download all of t he images used in the book to follow along with.

It’s everything you loved about the Down & Dirty books, now in a small handbook size you can use as a quick reference to a variety of effects.

The Photoshop for Designers Book is the definitive, quick, easy-to-use source for all of today’s hottest Photoshop design and image effects. “Photoshop Guy” and PlanetPhotoshop.com executive producer Corey Barker walks students through creating dozens of today’s most eye-popping 2D and 3D effects: text, commercial, graphic, photo, texture, light, shadow, blur, color, even Hollywood-style effects. No endless, ridiculously complicated tutorials here: each effect has been brilliantly condensed to its own easy, full-color two-page spread — so they  can instantly find what they want, and get amazing results right now. Minimum steps: maximum creativity!

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