Experience the highly visual format of the Art of Photoshop: Digital Photography Workshop and learn how to take good source photos and transform them into display-quality digital works of art with visual effects used in Adobe Photoshop. Using the beauty of the Tuscan region of Italy as a backdrop, author and artist/photographer Daniel Giordan, will take you through the steps of how to capture good source materials, how to explore the artistic effect of those images, and how to turn those explorations into richly layered and visually complex artwork using the tools available in Photoshop. This is your chance to look over the author's shoulder as he guides you through a process of creative exploration through which he creates 10 artistic montages.
About author
Daniel Giordan is an artist, author, and designer who currently resides in Columbus, Ohio. As a fine artist, Dan's work has been shown throughout the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and several New York and Boston galleries.
Dan is also the Director of Design at AOL Web Properties where he oversees the Web design and brand development for online brands such as Netscape, Compuserve, AOL Instant Messenger, and other AOL properties.
This is Dan's 13th book on Photoshop and digital design. Recently published titles include The Art of Photoshop and How to Use Photoshop CS2. He has also written for numerous magazines, including Photoshop User, Dynamic Graphics, Photoshop Fix, Digital Camera, and Adobe Magazine.