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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Digital Character Design and Painting (Graphics Series)Digital Character Design and Painting is really two books in one: it teaches the fundamentals of character design, and the skills, tools, and techniques needed to master digital painting. Character design is all about ideas and how to put those ideas together to create a look and feel for a character. It's about creating a character that elicits a specific emotion from viewers—fear, joy, anger, sadness, etc. Character design does not have a standard creation process, but there are basic pri... |
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Art, Skateboarding and Life (Book & 2 DVDs)Art, Skateboarding & Life is an action packed story that is related in a series of awesome visuals. In his first monograph, Andy Howell's work on the deck and as an artist is presented within the context of an expansive network of artists, skaters and agitators all bent on having an impact. Chronologically arranged chapters are driven by an intense mixture of interviews, narrative text and non-stop full bleed visuals that trace Howell's journey through pro skateboarding, the action sports indust... |
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Vinyl Graphics How-To: Master PrinciplesMore than 80 photos, many in step-by-step sequence, illustrate the techniques of properly registering, applying, repairing, reclaiming and removing vinyl graphics. Make higher profits by applying vinyl graphics the right way, improving the quality of your work, eliminating mistakes in installation, choosing the right vinyl for the job, and using creative striping techniques. Vinyl Graphics How-to has taught thousands of sign professionals and graphics installers how to work quickly and easily wi... |
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Calligraphic Flourishing: A New Approach to an Ancient ArtFlourishing covers the subject from A to Z. After a detailed discussion of the dynamics of moving the tool, (including the broad edged pen, pointed pen and brush) it proceeds to develop an alphabet of strokes used to build and analyze flourishes. A complete chapter on the design principles used to evaluate flourishes is followed by the application of the technique to different situations and to the basic calligraphic scripts. Special attention is paid to Italic and Gothic scripts, with the mater... |
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Gothic Patterns (Agile Rabbit Editions)... |
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Web Design: Music Sites (Icons)Good vibrations: the best online music resources The internet has become a major player in today's music market, especially thanks to online sales from sources such as iTunes; while most web music sales sites boast around 40,000 songs, iTunes offers over 1.3 million—with 25,000 new songs being added each month. From online purchasing to great artist sites like Gorillaz, Lenny Kravitz, and Iggy Pop to recording companies, labels, ringtone sites, online radios, and more, this is the essentia... |
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Exploring Storyboarding (Design Exploration Series)An effective combination of creative exercises, real-life examples, and simple illustrations are integrated in this "how-to" book, teaching readers to develop their storyboarding skills for a variety of media types, including film, television, animation, and interactive media. Each aspect of the storyboarding process is carefully examined including creating visually specific shot lists and overhead diagrams, and drawing simple sketches that express a clear understanding of staging, editing, an... |
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All-American Ads of the 50sSecond in a series of books featuring advertising by era, All-American Ads of the 50s offers page after page of products that made up the happy-days decade. The start of the cold war spurred a buying frenzy and a craze for new technology that required ad campaigns to match. The nuclear age left its mark all over the advertisements, with a spotlight on planes, rockets, and even mushroom clouds. Shiny, big, beautiful cars abound, styled to keep up with the space age. Editor Jim Heimann, in his ess... |
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Art of Midway: Before Pixels and Polygons... |
