Fabulous fakery with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

Forget art, the focus here is on trickery. Learn how to antagonize (and impress) your friends and family by using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements to digitally doctor your images.

In these pages, authors Janee Aronoff and Dave Diotalevi draw on their deep reserve of Photoshop skills to show you how to bring your own silly and sublime flights of fancy to life with the program.

Each chapter in this volume represents a self-contained project in some aspect of Photoshop tomfoolery--from changing the background of a humdrum room to transforming an ordinary photo into a '60s Polaroid or digitally transplanting a friend's head to your dog. And although the authors refuse to be held responsible for any practical applications, the techniques they describe have important "serious" uses as well!

Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions peppered with screen shots at every turn ensure that even the most inexperienced Photoshop user will be able to re-create (and re-imagine) the shenanigans described here!