Linnea Dayton Bücher

In a combined Windows/Macintosh edition, Wow! staffers provide step-by-step tips on the fundamentals and specific techniques for utilizing Adobe Photoshop 6 visual communication software. With color artwork by contributing artists and photographers, they cover such topics as retouching/enhancing photos, combining images, special effects for type and graphics, and optimizing Web art. Appendices include Wow styles samplers. The companion CD-ROM offers tutorials, before and after image files, custom presets, demos and tryouts, Photoshop 6.0.1 Updater, and a teaching and study guide. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A worldwide bestseller! Full color throughout, this book shows exactly how professional artists employ Photoshop 3 to manipulate scanned images and create an astonishing array of special effects. Each chapter deconstructs an actual piece of art, showing step by step how it was created. Most examples were created for real-world commercial uses. There's also a section showing the effect of scores of filters from Adobe, Aldus, HSC, and other vendors.