"Refreshing, Insightful, and Inspiring, Creative Thinking in Photoshop breaks away from the multitude of how-to books and delves into the fascinating world of creating digital art."
- Katrin Eismann
Artist, educator and author of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching and Real World Digital Photography
"If you've been looking for a practical way to start creating digital art, this book is an excellent resource. It combines real-life examples to inspire you along with step-by-step instructions to show you how it's done. It's packed with solid Photoshop techniques from an artist's perspective: useful and beautiful. "
- Elizabeth Bushey
Web developer and instructor, freelance illustrator and writer, associate member and reviewer for SCBWI
"…What students and developing artists need above all is a better understanding of the dynamic integration of digital tools and techniques in the creative process. Creative Thinking takes exactly that approach, and does it through the heart and mind of the artist and her work. "
- Rick Barry
Associate professor, Pratt Institute New York
"This book is fantastic. I love that this book is touching on things that Ihaven't seen before in any other computer book. I love that this book takesthe computer another step. Creative Thinking in Photoshop makes thingsclear and simple, so I can stop worrying about making mistakes and instead try experimenting with new things, and new ways of working!"
- Laurie Grace
Informational Graphics Illiustrator and educator
"The best artists don't memorize what's in Photoshop— they play, they experiment, they explore! This book shows you how."
- Sandee Cohen
Author, educator, and graphics coordinator New School Computer Instruction Center
"I can’t wait to bring this book into my classroom. So many people speak about the potential of the computer, Creative Thinking in Photoshop shows how to use Photoshop creatively and motivates the reader to be creative. "
- Faith Baum
AIA, IIDA, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design
"When I’m presenting at a conference, people inevitably ask me how I learned to do this or that, and most often the answer is "
- Bert Monroy
Digital artist, educator, author of Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy
"If you always felt that Photoshop was a bit intimidating... get this book and get to work! "
- Michael Bronfenbrenner
Producer/Director, Venture Films/Stone Soup Entertainment, Irvine, CA
"Anyone who wants to learn Photoshop but who’s daunted by the soulless approach of most computer books will like Creative Thinking in Photoshop. If you want to use Photoshop as a real artist does, you’ll want this book. "
- Pamela Pfiffner
Editor in chief of creativepro.com, and author of the Adobe 20th anniversary Adobe Press book
"Creative Thinking in Photoshop is exactly the book I was searching for and is now the required text for my Digital Painting classes. By focusing on the creative aspects of projects, my students engage themselves in a process of discovery. They learn to experiment and improvise and thus are finding their own imaginative methods for integrating digital and traditional artist's tools."
- Karen Wheeler
Assistant Professor of Art, Wingate University
"Sharon Steuer beautifully bridges the chasm between the creative and the technical, helping users to see the big picture and work outside the box."
- David Blatner
Author and co-author of Real World QuarkXPress 5, Real World Photoshop 7, and Real World Scanning and Halftones
"This book is GENIUS!!!!!!!! It opens up another whole dimension!! Conventional thinking says that an image has a point in its creation when it's done--this book starts at that point and leads to infinity. I have drawers full of images I thought were just ok. This book now gives me a world of options!"
- George Moore
Photographer
"I will be recommending 'Creative Thinking in Photoshop' to all our students, and I'm sure that once our instructors see the book they will too. At the Palm Beach Photographic Centre we’re always looking for ways for our students to integrate traditional and digital tools creatively. There are so many books that deal with just technique and the tools, but this book really integrates the creative process, and provokes thinking. "
- Fatima NeJame
Exective Director, Palm Beach Photographic Centre
"A refreshing look at the diverse ways that Photoshop can be used as an integral part of the creative process."
- Julieanne Kost
Adobe Systems, Digital Artist and AdobeEvangelist
"This book teaches the principles of the program the way I learned it—dabbling on my own projects while looking over the shoulder of an experienced artist. Principles are best learned in practice, and by the end of the book, I felt as though I’d learned from a friend who had subtly become my Zen master."
- Jerald D. Cole
Professor of New Media at New York Institute of Technology