2007-12-24

Archive for Graphic Design

Logo Font and Lettering Bible

Logo Font and Lettering Bible 150dpiThe Logo Font and Lettering Bible puts the power of logo and type creation in your hands, enabling you to approach each new project with confidence, ingenuity and originality.
Highly Illustrated
, lively and compelling - both a teaching aid and an invaluable sourcebook.
Teaches innovative techniques suitable for the beginner design student through to the graphic professional.
Includes design galleries, logo layouts, project suggestions and interviews with experienced logo designers.
Features tips on building a profitable business with logo design work.


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Logo Design Workshop

 This book will offer the reader ideas and inspiration by featuring hundreds of real life logos from around the world that have succeeded for their clients, as well as hardworking content focused on the basics including: - Choosing colors - Choosing the right typeface - Size matters - How to incorporate logos on products and collateral - Common mistakes in logo design - What makes a logo successful


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Photoshop CS3, All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Photoshop CS3 All-in-One Desk Reference For DummiesGet your picture-perfect guide to using all the cool features of Photoshop CS3. Whether you’re new to Photoshop, want to take your skills up a notch, or want to quickly master the new features and enhancements in Photoshop CS3, you’ve come to the right place. Nine easy-to-follow minibooks cover Photoshop fundamentals plus the newest tools and techniques. “Putting It Together” exercises give you hands-on experience. This is your one-stop guide to Photoshop. You’ll learn to:

* Specify size and resolution.
* Correct contrast, color, and clarity.
* Create top-notch selections.
* Composite images with layers and blending modes.
* Make adjustments with levels and curves.
* Prep graphics for print or the Web

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Photoshop CS3, Essential Skills- Focal Press

Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills - Focal Press Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you
through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build
all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and
professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional,
enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,
digital imaging, art and design, or design graphics, you’ll be amazed at
the stunning results you can achieve!

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a BookThis thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Photoshop CS3–written by the experts at Adobe Systems’ is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Photoshop concepts and techniques, while readers who already have some experience with Photoshop can use this book to learn Photoshop CS3’s more advanced features and newest tools. Using clear, step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a specific project, with each chapter building on the reader’s growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills learned in each lesson. Photoshop CS3, long the industry standard for digital imaging software, offers plenty of new features and enhancements for creative professionals and digital photographers alike. Users can enjoy unrivaled editing with non-destructive Smart Filters, improved curves, and adjustable cloning and healing with Preview Overlay. Increase productivity with Photoshop CS3’s streamlined interface and new Photoshop Lightroom ” integration. Anyone who wants to create a composite will benefit from the revamped Photomerge® tool, which lets you apply automatic layer alignment and blending to your images, while the new Quick Selection tool lets you select pixels not just by color, but by texture and shape as well. And digital photographers will be pleased to know that they can now process multiple Camera Raw images in a fraction of the time it used to take.

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Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a BookThis thorough guide to Adobe Illustrator CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of Adobe’s powerful vector drawing software. Using clear, step-by-step lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader’s growing knowledge of the software, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce key concepts and skills. Adobe Illustrator CS3 is jam-packed with new features and enhancements, including Live Color, a new environment that enables users to explore, apply, and save custom color configurations; improved integration with Adobe Flash CS3, which ensures that your vector illustrations import effortlessly to Flash with their anchor point positions, layers, and paths intact; a new Eraser tool, which lets users quickly modify objects or create entirely new shapes; a new Crop Area tool, which lets users set up a workspace so that it’s automatically primed for the type of media that will display their design, whether it’s print, Web, video, or film; new document profiles, newly improved drawing tools and controls, and much more. Whether you’re brand-new to Adobe Illustrator or are looking for a project-based tutorial to familiarize yourself with Illustrator CS3’s new features, this book provides you with the key techniques and tips you need to get the most out of this software.


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Black and White in Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom - Focal Press

Black and White in Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom - Focal PressBlack and white photography has come a long way in the digital world. Feeling overwhelmed by the endless conversion options in (and around) Photoshop, Lightroom and beyond? If so, youre not alone, and this is definitely the book for you!In this thoroughly up-to-date book that covers all of the new features of Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom, you’ll learn how to use methods within an application or raw converter, scripts, plug-ins, and more. Leslie Alsheimer and Bryan O’Neil Hughes show you everything you need to know to uncover the secrets to successful black and white conversion and printmaking. Let the stunning images (presented in both color and black and white) show you just what is possible when you master these powerful tools.

Learn from step-by-step tutorials and work through each conversion with clear, easy-to-follow instructions illustrated by a multitude of images and screengrabs
Maximize image quality in capture and output with professional tips and tricks for speeding up your workflow
Save time and learn professional techniques to creatively and technically improve your black and white photography and printmaking


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How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3: The Art of Creating Photorealistic Montages

How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3Book Description
With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce awardwinning illustrations, Steve is THE go-to guru for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, retouchers and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CS3, this must-have resource unlocks your creativity and helps you save time in the software so you can spend more time creatively. The book is also relevant to any version of Photoshop. * Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions the simple way * Take years off someone’s appearance * Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes) * Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface * Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CS3’s new Quick Selection tool… and more

From the Back Cover
Big on creative inspiration but short on time? Crunching deadlines again and cant quite figure out how to get your ideas out of your head and on to the screen? How to Cheat in Photoshop comes to your rescue once again. Nobody knows more about working fast under pressure and pushing the envelope to craft creative images that capture imaginations than hands-on graphic artist, working illustrator and master of magic, Steve Caplin.

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Que ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University

Actionscritp 3.0 Game ProgrammingBook Description

Gary Rosenzweig’s ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University shows you how to use ActionScript, the programming language behind Flash CS3 Professional. The lessons teach you all the basics of ActionScript programming through game examples, but the code can be easily adapted to non-game-oriented projects, such as web training and advertising. Written by a real-world Flash developer, this book presents you with the source code of 16 complete games and lays the foundation for you to create your own games. Gary also provides a companion website - flashgameu.com, which contains files, updates, new content, Gary’s blog and much more.

Table of Contents

1. Using Flash and ActionScript 3.0
2. ActionScript Game Elements
3. Basic Game Framework: A Matching Game
4. Brain Games: Memory and Deduction
5. Game Animation: Shooting and Bouncing Games
6. Picture Puzzles: Sliding and Jigsaw
7. Direction and Movement: Space Rocks
8. Casual Games: Match Three
9. Word Games: Hangman and Word Search
10. Questions and Answer: Trivia and Quiz Games
11. Action Games: Platform Game
12. Game Worlds: Driving and Exploration Game

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The Essential Guide to User Interface Design 3rd Edition

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design 3rd Edition
  • Well-designed graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for business systems can greatly increase user productivity, but designing them can be difficult and time consuming. This book walks developers through the basics of good interface design, using real-world examples from systems that are proven successes.
  • Galitz is an internationally recognized consultant, author, and instructor with many years of experience with information systems and user interface design.
  • Written especially for developers who may be designing user interfaces for the first time, but also extremely useful for any developer involved in GUI or Web site design.
  • Revised to reflect the profound enhancements in interface design, specifically how Web page design has revolutionized interface design.
  • New information covers a variety of platforms, both traditional and Web-based.

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The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning

There are a number of manuals available on Flash, but too many of them get bogged down in details about ActionScript or interactivity. Frustrated with wading through such information in other Flash manuals, author/illustrator Mark Stephen Smith set out to make the book he wished he had when he started learning Flash. This book is both a practical primer in the fundamentals of classical, hand-drawn 2D screen animation and a basic introduction to Flash’s expert handling of recyclable symbols that make independent, web, and television animation both more affordable and more efficient. It is conveniently divided into two parts. Part I is for those who are new to the terms and techniques of hand-drawn animation, character design, and storyboards. Part II covers scanning and digitising artwork into Flash, as well as setting up scenes and symbols.

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OReilly: Practical Color Management (Oct 2006)

About Face 2.0 : The Essentials of Interaction Design

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