Photoshop - Art and Design

Since the Photoshop Interface is the same in Windows and Mac OS this book can be used to learn on either OS. Differences are pointed out where ever applicable.
This package contains :

Art and Design in Photoshop pdf , 48 MB, 257 Pages [Sorry Folks, the DVD

containing Exercise files wasn't available

Based on Photoshop Version CS 5, it is fully and completely compatible with Photoshop CS 6.

CONTENTS :

1) TYPOGRAPHY

fonts
Sans serif fonts
Picking the wrong font
Picking the right font
Size and arrangement
Designing with type
Customizing film logos
Monogram letters
Font smoothing
DonΓÇÖt try this at home
Finding and using fonts

2) PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

Facing in and out
The focus of attention
The strong diagonal
The rule of thirds
Perspective: the horizon
Reading perspective
Foreground elements

3) CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

Digital grids
Stencil graffiti
Line art: simplified
Line art: crosshatching
Cut paper montages
Outline and fill
iPod advertising art
Pixel art
Simpsons cartoon
Caricature
Steampunk
Line action and texture

4) POSTER DESIGN

Victorian playbill
Russian revolutionary
Bauhaus.
Art Deco
Boxing promotion
Western movies
Science fiction
1950s B movies
Horror movies
Comedy movies
French art house
Film noir
Romantic comedy
Apocalyptic thriller
Psychedelia
Swinging sixties
Motivational
Museum exhibitions

5) WORDS ON PAPER

Ransom notes
Medieval manuscripts
Bank checks
Paper in perspective
Certificates
Picture postcards
Postage stamps
Old newspapers
Album covers

6) BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

1950s horror comics
Glamor magazines
Victorian periodicals
News periodicals
Pulp fiction
Thrillers
Chick lit
Historical non-fiction
ChildrenΓÇÖs reference
Textbooks, old and new
Mystic and inspirational
Adolescent fiction

7) GREAT WORK OF ART

Thomas Gainsborough
J. M. W. Turner
Georges Seurat
Paul Cezanne
Henri Matisse
Piet Mondrian
Pablo Picasso
Henry Moore
Rene Magritte
Salvador Dal?
Francis Bacon
Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol