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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Yoshitoshi Abe Lain IllustrationsThe representative work of the multi-talented Yoshitoshi Abe continues to demonstrate his talents as a mangaka, illustrator and script writer. The illustrations that were published in 1999's Serial Experiments Lain were compiled into the illustration book An Omnipresence in Wired Yoshitoshi Abe, and has been reprinted numerous times due to its immense popularity.... |
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Celtic Designs and Motifs (Dover Design Library)This exciting and versatile treasury of over 100 designs offers artists many different types of Celtic motifs, both abstract and pictorial, all expertly adapted from authentic Celtic sources. The wide variety of sizes and shapes range from full- and half-page rectangles, triangles, and circles to frames, borders, corners, and medallions. ... |
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Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)More powerful and inspiring than the superheroes it moves on the big screen, the RenderMan 3-D graphics engine pushes animation toward the photorealistic as anyone who has seen A Bug's Life, The Iron Giant, or the Toy Story can attest.Advanced RenderMan, written by two long-time employees of Pixar Animation and early participants who helped define the RenderMan standard, is a clear, concise, and technical exploration of this computer graphics and animation rendering tool. The first section intro... |
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Los LogosOften deceptively simple, the task of a logo is hardly ever an easy one_via extreme reduction it needs to radically and perfectly distill an image or message into a simple, easily recognizable icon.Assembling the works of designers from around the globe this substantial volume contains an incredible wealth of pictorial representations, providing a broad overview of contemporary logo design of cutting edge designers.... |
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The Book of Signs (Dover Pictorial Archive)Famed German type designer renders 493 symbols: religious, alchemical, imperial, runes, property marks, etc. Timeless.... |
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Colorist: A Practical Handbook for Personal and Professional UseThe Colorist seeks nothing less than to demystify color aesthetics. After three years of extensive travel and research, color specialist Shigenobu Kobayashi has devised a stunningly simple method for pinpointing personal color preferences. A series of clear-cut exercises allows you toaccurately define your color sense and then locate it on an "image scale" in order to select compatible color schemes for home or office, or even wardrobe. Next, Kobayashi illuminates the underpinnings of color in e... |
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Design-it-Yourself Graphic Workshop: The Step-by-Step GuideNew in Paperback! The book non-designers can count on for creating winning designsDo you want a concise how-to book on graphic design that avoids all the theory and just gets down to the nuts and bolts of getting a project done? Then this book is for you. It includes hundreds of projects for logos, letterheads, businesses cards, and newsletters that even the most design-challenged individual can accomplish easily with impressive results.The templates are here-all you have to do is follow the ea... |
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1000 Record Covers (Taschen 25)A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for?Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. This s... |
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Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication) (Technical Communication)More often workplace writing and document design takes a backseat in a company's mission/product. This book offers strategies and tools for document design of ALL types. Readers will extend to visual design the approach they assimilate in their writing and editing. It focuses on the kinds of situations and practical documents that employees encounter daily, with a special focus on audience, purpose, and context of the message. Topics include: perception and design; visual analysis; extra-textua... |
