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Title: Creative Thinking in Photoshop: A New Approach to Digital Art by Sharon Steuer ISBN: 0-7357-1122-4 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: At last a Photoshop book for artists and photogrpahers
Comment: Unlike loads of other Photoshop books, Steuer's book teaches you how to use Photoshop like a creative tool. It's not full of recipes for effects that you have to memorize. Instead it teaches you how to explore and create your own style, technique and imagery.
You don't have to know much about Photoshop to get going and she teaches you how to experiment and improvise quickly and easily. Her wonderful examples show how Photoshop can be a personal, painterly and deeply artistic tool in the hands of an artist.
The "Techniques at a Glance" chapter was great to help me indentify projects that concentrate on specific tools and techniques I want to explore more, such as how to improvise with color. At the end of every chapter she offers more project suggestions as well.
This is a great book for artists and photographers who want to get to know Photoshop by learning it as an artistic tool, not a piece of software.
This book is also ideal for teachers who want project ideas that will inspire their students to delve in deeper and see Photoshop from a unique artist's perspective.
It is a fountain of inspiration!
Rating: 3
Summary: Sharon is definitely a noteworthy artist.
Comment: I bought Creative Thinking in Photoshop after seeing Sharon Steuer on The Screen Savers. I must say that I am certainly impressed by Sharon's artistic ability, but after reading a few chapters I began to seriously doubt her ability to put into words exactly what process she took to reach the final result. There are of course plenty of screen captures showing and noting important steps in the process, but after careful inspection and recreation attempts, I was unable to reproduce her results using her directions. I instead had to carefully study the images and use my knowledge of photoshop to see what settings she really did use on the filters she mentions.
I certainly am not the type of person that would willingly insult any person, no matter how big the opportunity or reward may be. Instead I hope to inform readers and artists interested in this book that if they need step by step instructions for filters and tools in photoshop, you may be looking for something a little less intuitive. In order to fully understand how Sharon was able to produce the images that she gives as examples in her book you must already have a very good understanding of Photoshop. Luckily I do have many years of experience using Photoshop in commercial environments. Another warning that I must add, is that the flow of sentences in Creative Thinking in Photoshop sometimes strays from what most would consider to be proper or understandable grammar. The multiple use of words in the same sentence and the contradictory statements that surface in many areas of this book can be distracting to say the least.
I would not recommend that anyone decide not to buy this book based solely on this review or any other. I hope rather that anyone interested in this book should evaluate their own personal level of understanding of Photoshop, and also their willingness to ignore confusing grammar.
I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars based mainly on two factors; First, the quality of the art used as examples in the book and second, my ability to understand exactly from the text and graphics each step to take to reach the same results. If I were to use only the first factor, this book would have 5 stars for sure, but on the second I would give only 1 star.
After reading this book I had to wonder if the New Riders publishing company needs editors. I would of course be happy to help them out if this is the case.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Impressed
Comment: I'm not sure how this book got 5 Star reviews from everyone who's reviewed it thus far, but to each his own, I suppose. This book wasn't what I was expecting. I thought I'd see some great photoshop art, learn some neat photoshop tricks, but I'm really not impressed by anything I've seen so far.
The artist takes photographs and uses various filters and photoshop tools to give them a painterly feel and to look more "artsy". Or she takes her own drawings and uses photoshop brushes to give them a more digital feel. Maybe this book would be fun for fine artists who want to play around with their images on the screen for the first time, but as a digital artist I haven't seen anything new or noteworthy in this book. I'm actually surprised that this was printed so recently (2002) because the artwork actually has that dated feel of digital art from the early 90s.
For a really beautiful Photoshop book that explores the artistic capabilites of Photoshop, read: "The Art of Photoshop" (slightly advanced).
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Title: Photoshop 7 Magic (with CD-ROM) by Sherry London, Rhoda Grossman ISBN: 0735712646 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 09 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Art of Photoshop by Daniel Giordan ISBN: 0672322706 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 11 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy by Bert Monroy ISBN: 0735712468 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 12 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists: Creative Techniques and Insights for Photoshop, Painter and More by Jeremy Sutton, Daryl Wise, Peter Max ISBN: 0764536915 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Mastering Digital Printing: The Photographer's and Artist's Guide to High-Quality Digital Output by Harald Johnson ISBN: 1929685653 Publisher: Muska & Lipman Pub Pub. Date: 02 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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