Advanced Photoshop issue 63 is on sale now!

Included in this issue…

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- Inside artists’ sketchbooks
- How to start your own studio
- Interview with Graphic Havoc Agency

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Electric effects – create the cover image
- Large-format printing
- Creative illustration in Photoshop

Also featured…
- Dedicated Industry section
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Advanced Photoshop: The Premium Collection Volume 4 is now available to buy from the Imagine eShop.

This collection offers 256 pages of the very best of Advanced Photoshop from the last year in one great collection.

There are plenty of in-depth tutorials on a range of subjects, including:

Typography

Digital painting

Lighting effects

Photo retouching

Digital illustration

Photomanipulation

There’s also a free CD with all the project files that you need, inspirational artist portfolios, in-depth features and interviews, making this your ultimate guide to Photoshop.

Priced at just £12.99, the bookazine will also be available shortly from selected stockists, including WHSmiths, Barnes & Noble and Borders.

New directory champions Apple’s iDevice as market leader

Apple’s groundbreaking smartphone, the hugely popular iPhone, is set to become the world’s best device for handheld videogaming according to The iPhone Games Directory.

“With giant publishers such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and Konami now supporting the device with bigger and better games, which include the likes of  Assassin’s Creed, Brothers In Arms, Spore and Metal Gear Solid, the iPhone is fast becoming the handheld gamer’s platform of choice” said iPhone Games Directory Editor Aaron Asadi. “With an installed userbase of millions and thousands of games already available for download from the revolutionary App Store, the future of mobile videogames clearly rests with Apple’s device.”

The iPhone Games Directory, on sale 12 November for £9.99, rates the best games currently available for the iPhone across all the major iTunes categories, including Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Sports and Trivia.

New Celebrity Twitter Directory bookazine rates the best and worst
of the world’s most famous blogs

Cycling legend Lance Armstrong has been rated as one of the best
celebrity users of social media sensation Twitter in a new guide to
the website, The Celebrity Twitter Directory. Former Knight Rider star
and current judge on America’s Got Talent, David Hasselhoff, however,
was voted as one of the worst, along with rap star Eminem, pop icon
Janet Jackson, X-Man Hugh Jackman, and illusionist David Copperfield.

Rated on star power, entertainment value and ‘Tweet frequency’, over a
thousand celebrity Twitter feeds from the world of TV, film, sports,
politics and fashion were assessed, with Lance Armstrong scoring top
marks in each category thanks to his entertaining and copious Twitter
posts.

The Celebrity Twitter Directory, on sale now at £9.99, is described as
“the essential guide to the best real celebrity blogs on the world’s
hottest website” helping the millions of Twitter users worldwide to
decide which feeds to follow, and which to drop. The bookazine is
available from WHS, Borders and many good supermarkets, as well as
online at www.imagineshop.co.uk.

Advanced Photoshop issue 62 on sale now

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- How to design for the music industry
- Self-publish your own art book
- Interview with James White

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Cutting-edge lighting effects
- Build fantasy landscapes
- Creative book-cover art

Plus:
- Dedicated Industry section
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Advanced Photoshop has joined up with pro-framer (www.pro-framer.co.uk) to offer you an easy way to frame your prints.

You might have noticed that, underneath your images in your gallery, there is a new banner that offers to help you design a custom frame for a print of the selected image. Click that and you’ll be taken to the Imagine Frame Design Studio.

There are just seven steps to purchasing a frame that suits the image you have chosen. First, is to select your wall colour.

Next you can upload an image (if you haven’t already selected one), then you can pick the size of the frame that you want.

You can then get creative and pick the mount and frame that suits your chosen image.

There are then additional options if you wish, but when you’re happy with the preview, then you can go straight to payment. You’ll then be sent a beautiful frame that complements your chosen print in the exact size that you need!

A great way to show off your artwork! And a lot of fun to play around with too… Check it out now!

Advanced Photoshop, in association with iStockphoto.com, is offering four digital artists the chance to see their work on the cover of the magazine, as well as win some great prizes.

iStockphoto.com has supplied ten fantastic images, which can be downloaded from www.istockphoto.com/createacover. You’ll need to log in to an iStockphoto.com account to get the images, but don’t worry if you don’t have one as registration is free and easy.

Artists must use at least one of these images and Photoshop to design a piece of artwork worthy of being on the cover of issue 65 of Advanced Photoshop (December/January). There will be four winners, with four collectable covers available, who will each receive £500 cash and £500 of iStockphoto.com credits.
Full details can be found at www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/competitions_istockphoto.php and the closing date for entries is 23 November 2009.

Advanced Photoshop 61 has hit the shelves!

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- In-depth look at global design
- How to hold your own exhibition
- Interview with MI Studio

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Create a typographic portrait
- Master dramatic lighting effects
- Expert advice for colouring line art

Also featured:
- Five-page Readers’ Gallery
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more

Imagine Publishing’s camera comparison website receives improved functionality and a whole new look

Digicambuyer.co.uk, the website of Digital Camera Essentials magazine,has received a dramatic redesign to allow for quicker and easier access as well as a powerful, simple-to-use search and comparison engine.

With hundreds of reviews to call on from the pages of Digital Camera Essentials, which is approaching its 90th issue, Digicambuyer.co.uk aims to present the consumer with the best possible advice on their next digital camera purchase, as well as giving direct links to trusted retail websites via Pricegrabber. Up to four cameras can be compared on specifications, intended usage and review ratings, giving the user an immediate, on-screen method of weighing up the best model.

Digicambuyer.co.uk also offers a plethora of features, tutorials and accessories reviews as well as the latest photography news. The redesign of the website has been a collaborative process between both the editorial team and interactive department within Imagine Publishing, completely rebuilding the previous site to better cater to
the increasing needs of the prosumer looking for impartial buying advice.

“Dedicated to helping our readers find the right kit, the Digicambuyer team have been hard at work making sure all the latest camera, lens and peripheral reviews are available free online,” said Editor in Chief, Debbi Allen. “Digicambuyer.co.uk is designed to be intuitive to use and allow visitors to compare up to four expert reviews, side by side. Coupled with new technology like the Apple iPhone, this means users can check camera reviews and be sure of expert, up-to-the-minute advice on the go.”

Head of Digital Projects (Online), Ben Spencer, added: “We are extremely happy with the decision to relaunch and have completely redeveloped the site in-house. The Interactive team has produced an extremely user-friendly and feature-packed site, making it one of the top camera review websites on the web.”

“The relaunched Digicambuyer.co.uk site reflects the brand values of our print offering, Digital Camera Essentials, and is a fantastic digital platform for our advertisers to engage with their target audience,” commented James Hanslip, Head of Sales.

Imagine Publishing
01202 586200
www.digicambuyer.co.uk

The latest issue of Advanced Photoshop is on sale from today. See www.imagineshop.co.uk

The best features, interviews and artist profiles:
- 25 sci-fi tips from the professionals
- Getting your first job
- Interview with Michael Zimmerman

Challenging and inspiring tutorials including:
- Master photo illustration techniques
- Time-lapse animation in Photoshop CS4
- Mould water stock in photomanipulations

- Five-page Readers’ Gallery
- Four-page Helpdesk for Photoshop advice
- Free CD with brushes, project files and more