Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook or Use Cases

Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook: 62 Easy-To-Follow Recipes for Creating the Classic Styles of Great Artists and Photographers

Author: John Beardsworth

How would you like to create your own impressionist landscape, a van Gogh still life, or a surrealist Salvador Dali dream world? Or perhaps a classic Ansel Adams photograph of Yosemite or an authentic-looking 19th century Daguerrotype? You can do all of that and more with Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook.

The book tells you all you need to know to turn your original digital photographs into images that mimic the styles of great photographers and painters. From advice on how to develop an eye for appropriate subject matter to 62 detailed recipes that demonstrate exactly how to create an "original" van Gogh, Vermeer, Edward Weston, or Andy Warhol (among others), this book is an authentic guide to understanding and simulating the work of great artists-and a whole lot of fun.

Analyzing the styles of great artists: format, composition, angles of view, color palettes, and image textures

Shooting for digital manipulation, working non-destructively, making your own brushes and patterns

Creating Daguerrotypes, cyanotypes, stop-motion photographs, cross-processed images, Polaroid transfers, and infrared effects

Mimicking photographic styles from the pre-Raphaelites and the Naturalists to Jerry Uelsmann and David Hockney

Exploring painting and printmaking techniques from Rembrandt to Warhol: Dutch portraits, 18th century landscape painting, Japanese woodblocks, Impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Pop Art

Packed with step-by-step instructions, an inspirational selection of full-color digital imagery, and authoritative information and advice, Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook is the ultimate guide to creatingconvincing digital masterpieces in the styles of many of the world's greatest artists.

Table of Contents:

	The artist's eye	8
	Subject matter	10
	Composition and the angle of view	12
	Color palettes and tonal balance	14
	The tricks of the trade	16
	Shooting for digital manipulation	18
	Digital workflow	20
	Layers and working non-destructively	22
	Using the selection tools	24
	Fine-tuning colors	26
	Filters	28
	Making your own brushes and patterns	30
	Making frames and borders	32
	Photographers	34
	Daguerreotypes	36
	Calotypes and salted paper prints	38
	Cartes de visite	40
	Ambrotypes and tintypes	42
	Wet-plate collodion	44
	Cyanotypes	46
	Stop-motion photography	48
	High art and the pre-Raphaelites	50
	The naturalists	52
	Platinum paper	54
	Gum bichromate	56
	Autochrome color images	58
	American avant-garde	60
	The surrealists	62
	Abstract cityscapes	64
	Modernism and the natural form	66
	Depression era	68
	Art deco flowers	70
	The black-and-white landscape	72
	Powerful portraits	74
	Maximizing the mundane	76
	The age of jazz	78
	Photojournalism of the 1960s and 1970s	80
	Surreal photomontage	82
	Tranquil landscapes	84
	Fine art flowers	86
	The kitsch and the quirky	90
	The color landscape	92
	Lith printing	94
	Split-toning	96
	Infrared black and white	98
	The scraped polaroid	100
	Polaroid image transfers	102
	Polaroid emulsion lift	104
	The joiner	106
	Cross-processing	108
	Painters & printmakers	110
	Intaglio	112
	The Dutch portrait	114
	The Italian landscape	116
	The 18th-century vignette	118
	The luminous landscape	120
	The romantic landscape	122
	Japanese printmaking	124
	The impressionist landscape	126
	Seurat and the pointillists	128
	Van Gogh's sunflowers	130
	Nocturnes	132
	Fauve scenes	134
	Klimt and art nouveau	136
	Catalan art nouveau	138
	Cubism	140
	Expressionism	142
	Classical echoes	144
	The futurists	146
	Surrealism	148
	Escher-style portraits	150
	The abstract watercolor	152
	Studies of flowers	154
	The naive landscape	156
	Silkscreen style	160
	The pop art comic strip	162
	Swimming pools	164

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Use Cases: Requirements in Context

Author: Daryl Kulak

This book describes how to gather and define software requirements using a process based on use cases. It shows systems analysts and designers how use cases can provide solutions to the most challenging requirements issues, resulting in effective, quality systems that meet the needs of users.

Use Cases, Second Edition: Requirements in Context describes a three-step method for establishing requirements--an iterative process that produces increasingly refined requirements. Drawing on their extensive, real- world experience, the authors offer a wealth of advice on use-case driven lifecycles, planning for change, and keeping on track. In addition, they include numerous detailed examples to illustrate practical applications.

This second edition incorporates the many advancements in use case methodology that have occurred over the past few years. Specifically, this new edition features major changes to the methodology's iterations, and the section on management reflects the faster-paced, more "chaordic" software lifecycles prominent today. In addition, the authors have included a new chapter on use case traceability issues and have revised the appendixes to show more clearly how use cases evolve.

The book opens with a brief introduction to use cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It explains how use cases reduce the incidence of duplicate and inconsistent requirements, and how they facilitate the documentation process and communication among stakeholders.

The book shows you how to:

• Describe the context of relationships and interactions between actors and applications using use case diagrams and scenarios


• Specifyfunctional and nonfunctional requirements


• Create the candidate use case list


• Break out detailed use cases and add detail to use case diagrams


• Add triggers, preconditions, basic course of events, and exceptions to use cases


• Manage the iterative/incremental use case driven project lifecycle


• Trace back to use cases, nonfunctionals, and business rules


• Avoid classic mistakes and pitfalls

The book also highlights numerous currently available tools, including use case name filters, the context matrix, user interface requirements, and the authors' own "hierarchy killer."
0321154983B07012003

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Describes how to gather and define software requirements using a process based on use cases. First examines difficulties of requirements gathering and introduces both use cases and UML. Presents detailed ongoing examples and a four-step method for establishing requirements, with practical advice provided on planning, scheduling, estimating, and common mistakes. Other tools examined include the stakeholder interview, team organization, and quality assurance. Kulak is president and CEO of an Internet business and technology consulting firm; Guiney works with a company that provides management consulting and system integration services. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)