Art & Design in Photoshop: How to Simulate just about Anything from Great Works of Art to Urban Graffiti

Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers?

Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte?

Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings?

Then you need Art and Design in Photoshop.

In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch your creative boundaries. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his best selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles, Steve's step-by-step instructions recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous design effects. You'll learn how to design everything from wine labels to sushi cartons, from certificates to iPod advertising, from textbooks to pulp fiction.

Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: how to get slick-looking results with minimum fuss, with a 16-page Photoshop Reference chapter that provides an at-a-glance guide to Photoshop tools and techniques for less experienced users. Steve explains both typography and the design process in a clear, informative and entertaining way.

About the Author

Steve Caplin is a freelance digital artist and author working in London, England. His satirical photomontage work is regularly commissioned by newspapers and magazines both in the United Kingdom and around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine, Radio Times, Readers Digest, Men's Health and l'Internazionale.

Steve has worked for advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Lowe Howard Spink, and his work has won two Campaign Poster Awards and a D&AD Pencil award. He has lectured widely in England, Norway, France and Holland, and has taught digital design at the University of Westminster and the London College of Printing.

Steve is the author of nine books: How to Cheat in Photoshop (four editions), How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 6 (co-authored), Icon Design, Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements, and The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration (co-authored). He has also co-authored three mainstream books: Dad Stuff (published in the United States as Be the Coolest Dad on the Block), More Dad Stuff and Stuff the Turkey.

A regular contributor to Mac User magazine since 1990, Steve is also a beta tester for Adobe software and has a pathological interest in gadgets.