About the author:
Steve Caplin is a graphic artist specialising in photomontage illustration. His work appears regularly in newspapers (including The Guardian, L'Internazionale, The Sunday Telegraph and The Independent) and magazines (including Radio Times, Men's Health, Reader's Digest and 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 is also a Contributing Editor for MacUser magazine.
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 7. His most recent Photoshop title is Art & Design in Photoshop. Steve's non-computing titles are Dad Stuff and its US edition, Be the Coolest Dad on the Block (2005) as well as Stuff the Turkey (2006) and More Dad Stuff (2008).
Steve has recently launched a new website, thefullmontage, as a resource for Photoshop artists.
You can see Steve's online portfolio at www.stevecaplin.com.