About the author
Steve Caplin is a graphic artist specialising in photomontage illustration. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines both in the UK and around the world, including The Guardian, L'Internazionale, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Radio Times, Men's Health, Reader's Digest and Businessweek among many others.
Advertising work has included commissions from Saatchi & Saatchi, Lowe Howard Spink, M&C Saatchi and Bartle Bogle Hegarty, for which he has won two Campaign Poster Awards and a D&AD award. Steve's tutorials can be seen on creativepro.com and lynda.com. He has taught at the University of Westminster and the University of the Arts London, and has lectured on Photoshop techniques and the ethics of image manipulation around the UK, as well as in Norway and the Netherlands.
Steve's work has been covered in feature articles in Creative Technology, What Digital Camera, Computer Arts and the Journal of Digital Photography, as well as in chapters in The New Mac Designer's Handbook by Alastair Campbell, and Digital Photography by Tom Ang. His first book, Icon Design, was published in 2001; he also co-wrote The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration (2003), as well as Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 (2005). He has co-authored How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 10 with David Asch.
Steve's other Photoshop books are Art & Design in Photoshop, 100% Photoshop and 3D Photoshop. His non-computing titles include the Amazon #1 best seller Dad Stuff and its US edition, Be the Coolest Dad on the Block (2005), as well as Stuff the Turkey (2006), More Dad Stuff (2008), Complete and Utter Zebu (2009) and Fun and Games for the 21st Century Family (2010), all co-authored with Simon Rose.
Steve plays the piano fairly well, the accordion reasonably and the guitar badly. When he's not doing any of those things he likes to build improbable furniture, which you can see here.
You can see Steve's online portfolio at stevecaplin.com.
2 Minute Photoshop
Steve's current project is 2 Minute Photoshop, a large and ever-growing series of free YouTube videos that explain Photoshop techniques in - you've guessed it - just two minutes. You can see the series here.
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