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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The Marche (Heritage Guides)This comprehensive guide surveys the entire region, from the modern urban hub of Ancona to the beautiful Renaissance court city of Urbino to Pesaro and other coastal resort towns. Detailed information is provided for more than 100 historic cities, villages, national parks, and natural sites. The guide showcases the region’s many artistic treasures, including the Sanctuary of Loreto and the stunning Frasassi Caves, as well as its numerous cultural activities, from theater to the opera. Thre... |
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Uffizi Gallery Museum and the Pitti Palace Collections Boxed SetThis boxed set features two books showcasing two of the world's most beautiful, prestigious museums: the Pitti Palace and the Uffizi Gallery. Situated across the Arno River from Florence's busy city center, the 15th-century Palazzo Pitti is one of the city's crown jewels and contains the palace's splendid collections ranging from early masters like Giotto and Duccio to contemporary Italian artists. Aside from the palace's major paintings in the Palatine Gallery, its sculptures, decorative object... |
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Matisse PicassoHenri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art, as polar opposites but also as complementary figures. Between them they are the originators of many of the most significant innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture, but their relationship has rarely been explored in all of its closeness and complexity. In spite of their initial rivalry, the two masters eventually acknowledged one another as equals, becoming, in their old age, increasingly important t... |
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Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch... |
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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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Chihuly: Form from Fire... |
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The Glamour Girls of Bill WardThe best of the 1950s pin-up king.Renowned pin-up artist Bill Ward gets the full coffee-table treatment in this lavish oversized full-color paperback edition of the acclaimed 2003 hardcover featuring Ward's most polished, fully-realized portraits of the 1950s.Imagine, if you will, an innocent but stunning young woman boasting the most unlikely Barbie-like proportions—and then some—poured into a wisp of lingerie or clingy cocktail dress, silky opera-length gloves, and sheer thigh-high s... |
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1000 Stencils Argentinian GraffitiThis follow-up to the popular collection of street art, Hasta la Victoria, Stencil, collects 1000 newly catalogued stencil/graffiti artworks from Argentina into one chunky, 6 x 6-inch, 240-page, gift-worthy volume. Punky and fresh, it catalogues the cheeky, streetwise exhibition that drew 1.5 million viewers in Argentina and which comes to the United States this season for an exhibition at New York City's esteemed non-profit, The Drawing Center. Put together by Guido Indij, born in Buenos Aires ... |
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N.C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings... |
