Table of Contents

One: Alphabet Soup. I Need Coffee...STAT! A Balanced Breakfast. Alphabet Soup. A Spot o' Tea. Two: Home Sweet Home. Bif! Pow! Rockin Out. Look, Mom! The Thermometer Broke! Mess on the Driveway. Three: Planet Media. Create the Headlines. No News Is Bad News. What's on the Tube? Weather Woes. Four: Beyond These Four Walls. Burn Rubber. On the Hood. Signs of the Times. Neon at Night. Old Paint. Merging Worlds. How Convenient. Meet the Flintstones. Fire on the Mountain. Blimp Advertising. Five: Leisure Time. At the Beach. Sweet Tooth. Let's Go Out to the Lobby. Carved in the Tree. Under Your Skin. Six: Movies Gone Wild. We Come in Peace. Space Fights. Where No Designer Has Gone Before. Tales of Blarnia. Larry Blotter. Back in a Minute. Frantic 5. You Cannot Pick Your Neighbors. Gotta Love Camp. Quiet Knob. Seven: Potpourri fx without a Home. Those Things Will Kill Ya. Skywriter. In Orbit. Blades and Blood. Age Got It. Hot Online. Game Over. It's All in the Game. Appendix Online Resources. Index.

About the Author

Al Ward has been kicking around the Photoshop community for a number of years, writing and training on many subjects. His Website, actionfx.com, supplies custom made Photoshop presets and information to users. At this writing, there are over 52,000 custom presets available for downloading. He has written and contributed to numerous Photoshop books, including Photoshop for Right Brainers (1st and 2nd editions), Al Ward's Photoshop Productivity Toolkit, Photoshop Most Wanted, Photoshop Elements 2 Special Effects, and Photoshop 7 Effects Magic. Al is a regular writer for the official Website of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and www.photoshopuser.com. He also writes for Planet Photoshop and is a contributor to several other Websites. He has been featured at the Photoshop Cafe, and has written for a number of print publications, such as Photoshop User Magazine and Web Designer Magazine. Al is the official actions guru for the NAPP, a title given to him by Scott Kelby, and one that Al holds in very high esteem. In his free time, Al enjoys fishing the trout streams in Western Montana, spending time with his family, reading, enjoying a good movie, and searching the Web for graphics related topics.