Learn creative, practical, timesaving techniques for Web graphics, illustration, photo manipulation, and special effects with The Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book. This updated edition of the award-winning bestseller features real-world examples from artists and designers of the kind of stunning, professional, full-color artwork you want to produce, and provides clear, step-by-step instructions for applying these techniques to your own projects. 
 The Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book covers the new Extract command for difficult-to-select subjects and shows you how to use ImageReady 2 to create rollovers, animated GIFs, and sliced images for speedy, high-quality Web graphics. You'll also learn how to apply Layer Effects and get the most from "live" type. The book thoroughly explains the History palette and how to use it to perform multiple undos, new painting techniques with the Impressionist History and Art History brushes, and fast and flexible image-editing. The CD-ROM contains "before and after" tutorial files for the techniques in the book, with all layers and channels intact, as well as copy-and-paste Wow! Layer Effects, custom Actions, filters, and demos.

The Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book (5th Edition)

Arts & Photography

Davis, Jack

Dayton, Linnea

Photography & Video

Peachpit Pr

Allows Illustrator users of all levels to get the most out of the program, covering such topics as modeling shapes with color blends, drawing in perspective, fitting type to a curve, simulating transparency, and building and using masks, among others. Original. (Advanced).

Adobe(R) Illustrator(R): A Visual Guide for the Mac: A Step-by-Step Approach to Learning Illustration Software

Computers & Technology

Ashford, Janet

Software

Addison-Wesley

A practical guide for using the popular page layout application Aldus PageMaker for the Macintosh. Colorful illustrations and concise sidebars and captions describe step-by-step how to accomplish various page design and layout goals such as setting graphs, laying out book covers, and kerning and tracking type. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Aldus Pagemaker: A Visual Guide for the Mac : A Step-By-Step Approach to Learning Page Layout Software

Graphic Design

Explains the features of Photoshop 4 and provides instructions for specific projects

The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book: Tips, Tricks, & Techniques for Adobe Photoshop 4 : Macintosh Edition

Operating Systems

This hands-on guide provides "click and drag" presentations of painterly, photorealistic, and special effects techniques. Hundreds of time-and work-saving tips are covered as well. An all-new chapter on Web graphics and techniques explores the special considerations that this new medium entails. The book is heavily illustrated throughout showing real-life projects created by top Photoshop artists. The book's CD-ROM is cross-platform, and contains new filters, photos, work sessions, and other goodies. Pevious editions of the book have won top honors in two prestigious competitionss tnd has become the top-selling Photoshop book (238,000 currently in print) .

The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book: Tips, Tricks, & Techniques for Adobe Photoshop 4 : Windows Edition

Programming

Lavishly illustrated with drawings from actual design projects by Corel artists, this book shows how to use CorelDRAW versions 3 through 9 for both Mac and Windows. It is organized to be useful to beginning through advanced users; each section includes basic information, tips for efficiency, step-by-step techniques, and a visual resource reference offering easy access to some of the non-intuitive twists and turns of the program. Illustrations include many kinds of work, among them: logos, business cards, posters, architectural renderings, book covers, cartoons, technical illustration web page designs, and fine art illustration. The enclosed CD-ROM contains tutorials, clip art, stock illustrations, fonts, demos, CorelDRAW scripts, and extensions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The CorelDraw Wow! Book

Steuer, Sharon

Hunt, Shane

From the creative team behind the best-selling Photoshop Wow! Book comes the indispensable companion to Adobe Photoshop Elements, the low-cost, easy-to-use alternative to Photoshop. In Adobe Photoshop Elements One-Click Wow!, authors Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton greatly extend the power of this digital imaging software by including over 300 stunning Layer Styles on the accompanying CD-ROM--Layer Styles that you couldn't create using Photoshop Elements alone. Whether you're a photographer, business user, or hobbyist, you can use these One-Click Wow! effects to transform your photos, type, or graphics from ho-hum to Wow! with a single click. Adobe Photoshop Elements One-Click Wow! contains a quick start guide for loading and applying the One-Click Wow! Layer Styles; tutorials on how to scale, customize, and copy them; and easy instructions for saving, sizing, and printing your files. It also includes a printed catalog of all the mouth-watering effects on the CD-ROM, along with samples to help you pick the Layer Styles you want to apply. Take all your projects to the next level--from subtle tints to exquisitely crafted dimensional makeovers--instantly with Adobe Photoshop Elements One-Click Wow!

Adobe Photoshop Elements One-Click Wow!

Peachpit Press

Jack is back with the update to his best-selling, award-winning Photoshop Wow! Book! Readers have hailed previous versions of Jack Davis¿s landmark book as the "most useful Photoshop book ever" because of its practical, real-life solutions and its value-packed CD-ROM. The The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book simply ups the ante with even more time-saving techniques—completely updated for Adobe Photoshop 7. 
 In the The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book, the focus is on the visuals: Using beautiful, full-color pictures of professionally designed Photoshop projects, this volume clearly lays out the steps required to re-create these spectacular results in your own projects. To work visually, you need to think visually, and this book allows you to do just that. As with all of the titles in this popular series, the emphasis here is on results—how to produce the best work in the fewest steps possible. And sometimes that means using techniques even Adobe hasn¿t thought of, such as the Wow! Media Painting and Layer Style techniques introduced here.

Photoshop 7 Wow! Book

Networking & Cloud Computing

Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! is a unique CD-ROM/book package from Adobe Press that features hundreds of instant, one-click makeovers you can apply to your creations, making it an indispensable extension to Photoshop 7. You can think of this inspiring collection of Layer Styles and other "one-click" solutions on the CD-ROM as the equivalent of getting hundreds of beautiful and practical filter effects. However, these makeovers are much more powerful than filter effects because you can apply them instantly to graphics, type, and photos, yet still change the graphics or the type after they've been applied. And these Layer Styles don't permanently alter the images to which they're applied like filter effects do. 
Veteran authors Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton have added many new Layer Styles to the Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! CD-ROM, in addition to those featured in their best-selling Photoshop 6 Wow! Book. Also included on the CD-ROM are dynamic brushes and tool presets for Photoshop 7, as well as gradients and patterns you can use for Fill layers and textures. The book part of the package explains everything you need to know to work with Photoshop's powerful Layer Styles function in just 96 short pages, including a 5-page step-by-step tutorial, as well as a catalog of outstanding full-cover examples of how the Wow! Layer Styles and other effects look when they're applied. Whether you're a photographer, graphic designer, or illustrator, Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! will help you transform your photos, type, or graphics instantly!.

Adobe Photoshop 7: One Click Wow!

Looking to trade in your paintbrush for a mouse? Or a pressure-sensitive tablet and stylus? The Painter 8 Wow Book is the definitive guide for making the transition from traditional to digital art using Corel Painter 8. Author Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, an expert and instructor in both Painter and Photoshop, translates traditional artistic techniques so you can apply them using Painter¿s natural-media brushes and effects. Beyond that, she demonstrates exciting new media mixes and special effects that would be nearly impossible to accomplish without the computer. Clear, step-by-step instructions, hundreds of full-color illustrations, and inspirational galleries of painterly works by top artists, designers, and, photographers make mastering Painter both fun and easy. The book is bound to boost your creativity with Painter 8¿s powerful tools, as you learn from the artist who created more than 400 new brushes included with Corel Painter 8. The Painter 8 Wow! Book includes expanded chapters focusing on: 
<ul>
<li> The new, streamlined, easier-to-use interface</li> <li> New high-performance brushes for more creative painting</li> <li> Cool special effects for type and graphics</li> <li> Web graphics and printmaking</li> <li> Improved portability to and from Adobe Photoshop, with tons of real-world tips to help you build on your Photoshop experience to get the most out of Painter</li> </ul> Some people buy the book just for the accompanying CD-ROM, which comes loaded with over a hundred custom brushes and papers built by the author, recorded scripts for applying effects, stock photographs, and video clips, and a trial version of Corel Painter 8. On the CD-ROM you¿ll also find the Painter 8 Wow! Study Guide, an instructor¿s guide designed to help you use the book for self-study or as a textbook for classes in computer imaging, digital art, and design using Corel Painter. The book also provides a companion Web site at http://peachpit.com/wow/painter, which offers valuable supplemental information, including cool tips and techniques and a Painter art gallery featuring work by some of the medium¿s most talented artists.

The Painter 8 Wow! Book

Threinen-Pendarvis, Cher

Benioff, Carol

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