Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers?<br><br>Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte?<br><br>Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings?<br><br>Then you need <i>Art and Design in Photoshop</i>. <br><br>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 <i>How to Cheat in Photoshop</i> 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>All the images, textures and fonts used in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, both amateur and professional.<br><br>* Learn to quickly and ingeniously create fantastic graphic effects in Photoshop, from graffiti to classic art, newsprint and stained-glass windows<br>* Easy and fun to use with clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots.<br>* Backwards compatible: fully up-to-date with the latest Photoshop release but also relevant for use with previous versions of Photoshop