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Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook

by Nicolas Bengal, Nicolas Bouvier, Judith Darmont
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Overview

World-renowned French artists share their exciting and innovative digital creations in Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook, a first-time English translation of the cutting-edge French work. The images in this book will energize image professionals, graphic artists, photographers, computer graphics designers—all creators of images, whether still or animated—and will forever change the way you see and perform your design work.

Photoshop is best known among photographers as a photographic image manipulation tool; it is used largely for retouching and photomontage. But Photoshop is also a powerful and highly sophisticated tool for creating quality digital drawings and artwork. Artists, like the ones showcased within, use it to realize their unique vision through illustration.

In this lavish, full-color collection, nine French graphic artists—well-known professionals from a vibrant culture with a reputation for taking creative risks and producing incomparable graphics and art—are turned loose with Photoshop. Ranging from advertising to children's book illustration, science fiction to settings for graphic novels and role-playing games, their groundbreaking creations will inspire you to see your industry anew, appreciate graphic design from a changed perspective, and revitalize your work.

Representing the very finest of French creation in the world of graphic design and digital imaging, this notebook leads you into the heart of each author's artistic approach, guiding you through the inception and making of nine unparalleled works of art that spring from widely varying sources of inspiration. But you'll come away with more than ideas and inspiration—you'll find detailed, step-by-step information on making Photoshop do anything and everything you want to accomplish your ideal digital illustration.

Unlike any other available, this visually stunning book will give you the creative license and technical know-how you need to create one-of-a-kind digital illustrations with Photoshop that are limited only by your imagination.

Synopsis

World-renowned French artists share their exciting and innovative digital creations in "Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook," a first-time English translation of the cutting-edge French work. The images in this book will energize image professionals, graphic artists, photographers, computer graphics designers--all creators of images, whether still or animated--and will forever change the way you see and perform your design work.

Photoshop is best known among photographers as a photographic image manipulation tool; it is used largely for retouching and photomontage. But Photoshop is also a powerful and highly sophisticated tool for creating quality digital drawings and artwork. Artists, like the ones showcased within, use it to realize their unique vision through illustration.

In this lavish, full-color collection, nine French graphic artists--well-known professionals from a vibrant culture with a reputation for taking creative risks and producing incomparable graphics and art--are turned loose with Photoshop. Ranging from advertising to children's book illustration, science fiction to settings for graphic novels and role-playing games, their groundbreaking creations will inspire you to see your industry anew, appreciate graphic design from a changed perspective, and revitalize your work.

Representing the very finest of French creation in the world of graphic design and digital imaging, this notebook leads you into the heart of each author's artistic approach, guiding you through the inception and making of nine unparalleled works of art that spring from widely varying sources of inspiration. But you'll come away with more than ideas andinspiration--you'llfind detailed, step-by-step information on making Photoshop do anything and everything you want to accomplish your ideal digital illustration.

Unlike any other available, this visually stunning book will give you the creative license and technical know-how you need to create one-of-a-kind digital illustrations with Photoshop that are limited only by your imagination.

About the Author, Nicolas Bengal

At 28, Florian Zeller is one of the most vibrant voices in modern French literature. His previous novels include "Lovers or Something Like It" and "The Fascination of Evil. "In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Prix du Jeune Theatre by the Academie Francaise for his play, "Si tu mourais," "Julien Parme" marks his American debut.
William Rodarmor is an award-winning French translator, writer, and editor. One of his many translations, "Tamata and the Alliance" by Bernard Moitessier, won the 1996 Lewis Galantiere Award from the American Translators Association.

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Book Details

Published
December 1, 2004
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Pages
96
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780596008598

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