INDIANAPOLIS, IN – August 22, 2005 –Author Dan Giordan, recipient of the Ben Franklin Award for his book masterpiece Art of Photoshop releases two new books this month with Sams Publishing The Art of Photoshop for Digital Photographers and How To Use Adobe Photoshop CS2.

With the release of the Ben Franklin Award-winning Art of Photoshop came questions about how author Dan Giordan captured the images that served as the basis for the art created. The Art of Photoshop for Digital Photographers provides the answer to those questions in a thematic approach. Using the beauty of the Tuscan region of Italy as a backdrop, Giordan takes readers through the steps of how to capture good source material, how to explore the artistic effect of those images, and how to turn those explorations into richly layered and visually complex artwork using the tools available in Photoshop. The Art of Photoshop for Digital Photographers is a highly visual guide to take great digital photographs and turn them into evocative digital art of display quality.

Adobe Photoshop is the world's leading image manipulation software. Used by both professional and amateur graphic designers, it is the de facto standard for print and Web publishing. How to Use Adobe Photoshop CS2, second edition, another book released this month by Dan Giordan, visually steps the entry-level reader through everything they need to know in order to create and manipulate images for print and the Web. Photoshop can be a somewhat intimidating program for the beginning user, but How to Use Adobe Photoshop CS2, with its visual, step-by-step approach, makes it simple to learn the basic techniques involved in using Photoshop.

The Art of Photoshop for Digital Photographers (ISBN: 0-672-32713-9; MSRP $39.99) and How To Use Adobe Photoshop CS2 (ISBN: 0-672-32751-1; MSRP $29.99) are both available online and at major retail stores, for more information visit www.samspublishing.com.

About Sams Publishing

Sams Publishing (www.samspublishing.com) is an imprint of Pearson Technology Group (PTG), the world's largest provider of consumer and professional computer, information technology, engineering and reference content. As one of the industry's leading innovators in both print and digital formats, PTG imprints include Que Publishing, Addison Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall PTR, New Riders Publishing, Cisco Press, PeachPit Press, Adobe Press, Macromedia Press, and BradyGAMES Strategy Guides. Pearson Technology Group is a part of Pearson Education, (NYSE: PSO), the world's leading education and professional publisher.

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