This book shows you many ways to embellish books and pages with an infinite variety of materials to enhance your designs.

Describes techniques in cutting, pasting, sewing, beading, stenciling and decoupaging involved with creating altered collage books. Presents 101 illustrated design ideas with tips and instructions.

Previously published as New directions in altered books.

An adventurous romp through some of the latest creations coming out of the book-arts world.

Art Circus! takes the reader on a magical journey into the artistic world where they can discover their creative muse which is waiting to come out and play. It is at heart a technique book for altered artists, but is housed within a wonderful, spectacular fantasy land. The book will bring the reader, the daydreamer, the explorer, the artist, to a place have never been, where they can unleash their artistic dreams and explore hidden worlds through cutting-edge techniques, creative projects, and beautiful images. The book will include easy tutorials on basic digital altering effects for new and vintage images, step by step instruction for projects, a gallery of inspirational projects from other artists, and clip art and vintage images for readers to use in their own projects. The book will cover digital and paper alteration, creating from found and household objects (jars and boxes), will feature playful illustration, vintage imagery, and use a myriad of other mixed-media materials ranging from glitter and wire to crinolin and coloring agents.

Discarded books, paper, glue and assorted embellishments are all you need to start this rewarding craft!

Creating altered scrapbook pages The "altered book look" is all the rage with its texture, powerful montage photo displays, distressed embellishments and rustic heritage appeal. Now you can bring the uniqueness of the altered look to your own scrapbook pages and Montage Memories will show you how. Learn to stamp, crumple and distress paper, embellish with unique supplies, manipulate photos for special effects and create one-of-a-kind lettering. Inside Montage Memories: Exciting techniques for creating stunning background including: brayer painting, masking words and images, inking embossed paper, laminating layers, making handmade paper, creating a decoupage collage, making faux mosaics Unique methods for manipulating photos including: transferring photos to glass, fabric and other surfaces; photo montaging; printing cyanotypes; embellishing photos; photo aging; tearing and reassembling photos Fresh ideas for journaling and titles including: metal stamping letters, glass etching, ransom note journaling, working with paint glaze, dimensional lettering and a must-be-seen altered alphabet Novel methods for creating eye-catching embellishments including: decorating with laminate chips, paper casting, utilizing craft plastic, making handmade stamps, embellishing with clay Illustrated step-by-step instruction for techniques as well as inspirational scrapbook pages making this cutting-edge book from America's #1 scrapbooking publisher a must-have for scrapbookers of all levels.

Over 25 unique effects illustrated with process photos, finished examples, and variations. Mixed Emulsions is a follow up to Karen Michel's book, The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery. Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery takes a slightly different tact, bringing traditional and digital photography front and center, showing the many ways that photographic imagery can be manipulated, not electronically, but using various art materials and techniques. The chapters explore ways to add color (paints, oil sticks, watercolors, inks), ways to add texture (embossing powders, gessos, pastes, wax), and special effects (printing on unusual substrates, imprinting, photo mosaics, using tissue, fabric, cardboard). Altered art continues to grow as an area of interest for many kinds of crafters. A great technique book for artists looking to expand the creative possibilities for altered photography A gallery of artwork by other well-known artists offers further inspiration

Go behind the scenes of Altered Carbon in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards. Awaken into the cyberpunk world of Skydance's Altered Carbon. Stacks - implanted chips that store human consciousness - have made death obsolete. When Envoy Takeshi Kovacs finds himself sleeved in an unfamiliar body and assigned to investigate the murder of a wealthy businessman, he begins to uncover the seedy underbelly of a society where death is no longer permanent. This richly detailed and beautiful coffee table book takes readers from the glittering Aerium to the gritty streets of Bay City. Featuring development art, stills, set photos, storyboards, and VFX builds from the first two seasons, plus interviews with cast and crew. Altered Carbon: The Art and Making of the Series will bring readers into this visually stunning futuristic world where technology has transformed mortality.

A wide range of techniques borrowed from both traditional and digital art has recently begun to blend into one art form, known as altered art. The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery is the only book currently on the market that provides fascinating tips and creative ideas solely focused on this new form of art. An in-depth discussion manipulation techniques is supplied, making this an essential handbook for all artists and crafters looking for creative ways to alter and enhance various types of imagery in new and traditional ways, and then to integrate this altered art into their work.