Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.
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Broken Spears: A Maasai JourneyWhen renowned photojournalist Elizabeth Gilbert first came into contact with the Maasai over ten years ago, their images were everywhere in Africa. Pictures of warriors were printed on postcards, T-shirts, safari advertisements, and hotel logos, but in reality their traditional life was disappearing. So Gilbert — whose photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Men's Journal, Life, and the New York Times — set out on a four-year journey to photograph what was left of traditional Maas... |
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Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum CollectionThe book presents the jewelry colection through its founding collector Millicent Rogers, bringing to life the Taos she discovered in the late 1940s and showcasing the authentic, classic-era jewerly that she collected when Fred Harvey and others were popularizing Indian-made tourist pieces. This lavishly illustrated book serves as a solid overview of southwest Indian jewelry from prehistory to present.... |
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Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)When photography appeared shortly before 1840, the metal-plate daguerreotype, invented in France, was first to achieve popularity. But the process simultaneously developed in England for capturing an image on a paper negative—from which many positives could be printed—provided the foundation on which photography would build for the next 150 years. This beautiful book presents more than 120 photographs printed from paper negatives, or calotypes, most never before published. The entir... |
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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: A GuidebookThis guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state, the book directs curious travelers to the historic sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. More than 170 writers from the past and present are featured in this volume, including Sequoyah... |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981, The Studio of the StreetIn 1981 Jean-Michel Basquiat made the momentous transition from the street to the studio. He had attracted considerable attention with his Times Square Show the summer before, and reinforced that nascent notoriety with a wall of phenomenal works in Diego Cortez's New York/New Wave at P.S. 1, which opened the following winter. A few months later, the dealer Annina Nosei offered Basquiat an independent space in which to prepare work for her September group show, Public Address. He was only 20. Bet... |
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Managing Interactive Media ProjectsFrom the birth of a media project idea to the implementation and maintenance of that project, this book provides the skills and know-how to master the process of managing interactive media projects. Managing Interactive Media Projects offers important insights and techniques for various approaches to the process of creating interactive media. It covers the ever-important steps of planning, documenting, writing, designing, implementing, testing, debugging and maintaining interactive media project... |
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Tintin: The Complete CompanionAn overview of the life of Herge, Tintin's creator.... |
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The Chinese Painter as Poet... |
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Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest: Your Guide to Ghost Towns, Mining Camps, and Historic Forts of Oregon, Washington, and British ColumbiaGet ready for adventure as ghost town expert Philip Varney takes you on a tour of the Pacific Northwest’s most fascinating historic ghost towns, mining camps, fishing villages, lumber towns, and historic forts of Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia. With intriguing anecdotes, current travel information, maps, and outstanding color and historical photographs, this thoroughly practical book serves as both a fascinating history of the Northwest and British Columbia and a trustwo... |
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