Photoshop Trickery and Fx (Graphics Series)

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Summary: Computer Imagery as Art
Review: Computer Bks - Desktop Publishing, Computer Books: General, Photoshop has usually been viewed as a way to do fairly mundane tasks: cleaning up a picture to change the background perhaps, or adding a highlight, and of course there's the long established practice of putting someone else's head on a different body.

This book goes far beyond that with the view that the computer screen is your bare canvas and suitable for building any kind of image that you can visualize. In many cases the author starts with a standard picture but then modifies it into something entirely different, perhaps just using Photoshop effects, perhaps combining other images into the first. An example is converting the image of a model into that of a cat like being. In other cases he starts with a blank screen and creates the entire image, in one case a spiral galaxy.

In the past photography had to fight a battle to be viewed as an art form. Now that battle is being fought with computer generated imagery. This book is a cannon shot into understanding computer generated art.