Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX is a completely updated edition of this specialized book for Photoshop users wishing to go beyond the basics. It takes digital artists to the next level of creativity by teaching them how to blend their artistic talent seamlessly with the powerful tools of Photoshop CS3. The book is packed with full color photos showing before-and-after touch-up examples and demos of the amazing new features of Photoshop CS3. Using a mixture of fun and practical projects, you will learn how to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. This edition also includes more real-world projects to illustrate practical uses of Photoshop's tools.

The book assumes a fundamental level of skill with Photoshop and builds upon those skills by helping you learn how and why Photoshop does what it does. Throughout the book, you will learn to work with the tools that come with Photoshop, but aren't used on a regular basis, and are therefore not covered in depth in general purpose Photoshop books. Armed with this knowledge, you can to take on new challenges and work though the practical, fun tutorials throughout this book.

All of the core tools of Photoshop CS3 used for effects are put to use in hands-on projects as you learn new techniques for creating realistic and fantasy effects!
Features

Provides completely updated coverage of the new CS3 tools and techniques for special effects
Uses a variety of new, challenging projects and fun new art images to teach readers how to create their own masterpieces
Provides both Mac and PC user shortcuts
Includes a companion CD-ROM (Win/Mac) with all of the files needed to do the tutorials, all of the book images, demo of Photoshop CS3 (PC), and other helpful demos

For more information contact Charles River Media ,Barnes & Nobles or Amazon to get your copy of book.

ISBN: 1-58450-531-1

Photoshop Top Secret Adobe Training Set 5 DVD

How to Become a Photoshop Black Belt Fast

Just released by Mark Monciardini, Photoshop Top Secret is an Extreme Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe Photoshop. This student friendly home study course includes four DVD ROMs with over 16 gigabytes of video tutorials and project files. It also comes with a full-color gallery ebook that shows the end result of each project in the course. You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors.

Create Posters, Movie Covers, Surreal Graphics and More!

The course will teach you how to become the ultimate Photoshop black belt for fun and/or profit. You'll learn how to create top-level special effects for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, book jackets, brochures, mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a tremendously wide range of print ads and Web site graphics.

Movie Poster Design I Create a popular people montage seen on many movie posters.

Movie Poster Design II Take an ordinary house and turn it into a Sci-fi Movie Poster.

Movie Poster Credits Tips and tricks on creating a real “Credit Block” for movie posters.

Dark Faces How I created my creepy Image that has been in Magazines and Ads.

Breaking Apart Create the illusion that a face is falling apart.

Dream Scene Montage Create an elephant with wings and place it into a futuristic world.

Stone Portrait Create a “Stone Bust” out of a portrait for a killer special effect.

Surreal Images Create a creamy foggy mist over water and rocks.

Dream Skin Create a fantasy woman with henna art and dream skin.

Special Effects Learn how to create orbs, fireballs and jellyfish like creatures.

Feel free to click on the image to view an enlarged picture

Painting a Portrait Digitally paint a portrait from a photographic reference.

Swapping Faces How to take the face from one photo and place it into a completely different one.

Pop Art Turn a Photograph into artwork that was popular in the mid 1950’s.

Applying Tattoos How to apply henna and tattoos to skin.

Masking Fur Seamlessly remove the background from furry animals.

Vanishing Point What Vanishing Point is and how to edit images with perspective.

Web Graphics Learn how to create commonly used web graphics and screen shots.

Shattered Type Create the illusion that text is being shattered like glass.

Flower Greeting Card Use the vector tools in Photoshop to create an elegant looking Greeting Card.

Creating DVD Covers Mark shows you exactly how he created the Photoshop Top Secret DVD covers.

Feel free to click on the image to view an enlarged picture

Flying out of Bounds Create the classic out of bounds effect with a very cool masking trick.

Reaching out of Bounds Creating the illusion of arms and hands reaching out of a picture frame.

Chocolate Milk Frog How to make a frog covered in chocolate.

Covered with Wax Choose an object and cover it with melting wax.

Grunge Look Create a unique grunge background that can be used for almost anything.

Square Fruit Play with mother nature by changing the shape of fruit.

Invisible Man How to make a person vanish from their clothing.

Metal Collage How to create a Robot with pieces of a Photo and then place it into another world.

Morphing Creatures Morph animals and reptiles together to create interesting creatures.

Using Layer Comps How to create multiple layouts in one Photoshop file using Layer Comps.

Feel free to click on the image to view an enlarged picture

Vector Art Portrait Turn a Photograph into beautiful vector art.

Dreamy Background Create Sci-fi looking spiral backgrounds.

Liquid Metal The ultimate Liquid metal technique that can be applied to text and objects.

Smoke Create Psychedelic and Natural Smoke to incorporate into your artwork.

Soap Bubbles Use soap bubbles to add flair to your projects.

Water Bubbles Use these water bubbles to infuse imagination into your projects.

Underwater Scene Create an underwater illusion with just the tools in Photoshop.

Swap Animal Skin Take skin from one animal and place it over another.

Stylized Character Turn a sketch into colorful art.

Masking Mastery Special video that explains many masking techniques used by the pros.

Tech Info Video tutorials stream off the DVD-Roms using Adobe Flash technology. Videos have stereo sound and run at 12 to 15 frames per section. Stop, Play pause and video scrub controls are available at all times.