ABSTRACT

With enough charm and wit to make learning Photoshop anything but taxing, Steve Caplin delivers the next instalment of the How to Cheat series, containing all the techniques you need to create and master the art of photomontage. Delivered in easy to follow step-by-step tutorials, How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 covers all the basics of selections and layers before moving on to top tricks and techniques for creating realistic works of art for business, pleasure, or something in between. Accompanying downloadable resources are packed full of practice images and tutorial movies for you to work along with, plus bonus chapters to push your skills even further. Using a tweaked design that is clearer and fresher than previous editions, this is the most fun way to master Photomontage.

This complete How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 package includes a fully updated book, downloadable resources containing all of the images used in the helpful tutorials, plus over 5 hours of video tutorials, and a website featuring a reader forum where your questions will be answered by other readers as well as the author himself.

chapter |1 pages

How to use this book

chapter |5 pages

What’s new in Photoshop CS6

chapter 1|36 pages

Natural selection

chapter 2|38 pages

Transformation and distortion

chapter 3|20 pages

Hiding and showing

chapter 4|20 pages

Image adjustment

chapter 5|13 pages

Composing the scene

chapter 6|28 pages

Getting into perspective

chapter 7|32 pages

Light and shade

chapter 8|44 pages

Heads and bodies

chapter 9|38 pages

Shiny surfaces

chapter 10|34 pages

Metal, wood and stone

chapter 11|22 pages

Paper and fabric

chapter 12|38 pages

The third dimension

chapter 13|22 pages

Hyper realism

chapter 14|44 pages

Advanced techniques

chapter 15|11 pages

Print and the internet

chapter |2 pages

Test Yourself