If you’re struggling to free your creativity or simply short on time, How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5 is the book you’ve been waiting for. Bringing a lifetime’s experience of photomontage wizardry to the table, Photoshop guru Steve Caplin shares the best tools, techniques, and shortcuts you need to not only work faster and smarter, but also to create the amazing images you never thought possible.

This fully updated new edition comes complete with an accompanying DVD with video tutorials, tutorial images and royalty-free photos on which to try out your new skills. With this comprehensive package by your side you will learn how to:

• Use Puppet Warp to get a grip
• Make selections of furry creatures (and people) with the enhanced Refine Edge tool
• Get everything in perspective
• Create instant 3D models directly in Photoshop
• Make it snow in a desert or change night to day

...and much, much more.

What's on the DVD?

The accompanying DVD includes:

• 74 tutorial movies, totalling over four hours of real-time training
• all the project files used in the tutorials from the book
• A selection of free sample images from thefullmontage.com
• over 100 high resolution images supplied by members of the Reader Forum
• Test Yourself files in which you can pit your wits against a range of problems designed to test your understanding of the techniques
• Bonus content: 13 high resolution renders of skeletons for you to use in your own projects.