Beginning with the fundamentals: create his own artistic brush and textured paper almost, he goes on to show how to create various styles of classical art in Photoshop, with a chapter on watercolor, pastels, charcoal and oil. Further chapters cover illustration techniques in photoshop, and using third party software to create painterly effects. While the result is very polished and realistic, this is not a book written specifically for artists. * Guide to using Photoshop to create art from photos, which encompasses many different artistic styles * Highly visual content, inspired by the instructions step-by-step clear and hundreds of screenshots * Backwards compatible approach: The author has taken care to ensure that this is really up-to-date title also applies to previous editions of Photoshop