If we were to say Marilyn to you, what would you be thinking? Monroe?
Manson?
Well, you would be thinking about the most inspired use of facial
imagery. Anybody in advertising will tell you that the most effective
sales tool around is the face. A face can sell you anything. Any
product, any idea. And the most striking faces become icons in their own
right.
With Adobe Photoshop, we can see the possibilities for facial
stylization explode. This book looks at how to develop an image to get
it right, and how to make these mugshots genuinely memorable.
Some of the most exciting designers around have gathered to work their
magic on this tightly focused canvas, working from a number of different
starting points. Whether it's a perfect gloss you're after, or an
abstract form of iconography, Photoshop has a collection of subtle and
powerful tricks up its sleeve, and this book coaxes them into the open.
This is a full color inspirations title, aimed at showing professionals
and home users alike how to access the multiplicity of techniques
available in Adobe Photoshop. By using such a familiar model as the
human face, the effectiveness and originality of these techniques is
thrown into sharp relief.
The book employs versions of Photoshop up to the release of version 7,
although the techniques shown will be compatible with previous releases
of the software.
Each chapter contains multiple examples of how to treat a face in
Photoshop, and an in-depth explanation of technique from the designer.
