The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC

by Sharon Steuer

Author	: Sharon Steuer
Publisher	: Peachpit Press
Total Pages	: 361
Release	: 2014-09-12
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0133928772

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For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this expanded edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from top Illustrator artists. You’ll learn to use new features, discover exciting ways to create complex effects, and find fresh ways to use venerable old tools and¿speed up your workflow. This edition includes coverage of the 2014 release and is loaded with and lessons with stunning new artwork that feature: Painting and generating objects with raster brushes Harnessing Live Corners, Live Rectangles, and new ways to reshape paths Manipulating live type characters with the Touch Type tool Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes Building complex styles with multiple lines, fills, and effects Composing complex repeating patterns Auto-generating corners for pattern brushes Incorporating transparency into mesh and gradients Building and modifying scenes in perspective and 3D Transforming raster art to Illustrator vectors Preparing artwork for animation and the web Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop and other apps Creating photorealism in Illustrator WOW! ONLINE Register the book at peachpit.com/register to access artwork to pick apart and special PDFs from artists to you. Keep up with tips on the latest Illustrator features at WOWartist.com.

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow! Book

by Sharon Steuer

Author	: Sharon Steuer
Publisher	: Peachpit Press
Total Pages	: 463
Release	: 2004
Genre	: Adobe Illustrator (Computer file)
ISBN	: 0321168925

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Designed to dazzle and inspire but not leave you in the dust, this beautifully designed volume lets you follow along as it dissects real-world projects from some of today's top Illustrator artists. In the process it teaches you how to use Illustrator in ever more creative ways for your own projects. Best-selling author and award-winning artist Sharon Steuer uses four-color pictures of real Illustrator projects to show what's possible and then employs simple, step-by-step instructions to explain the techniques that will produce those effects. You'll find comprehensive ground-up coverage of all of Illustrator CS' most important capabilities. Veteran users will be grateful to explore Illustrator CS' new features: powerful new tools for creating 3D graphics on the fly, a new Scribble Effect that lets you add a loose, hand-drawn look to your artwork, a redesigned text engine, enhanced PDF support, and more. On the CD, you'll find artwork from the book, technical documents, third-party software, clip art, and more.

The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book

by Linnea Dayton

Author	: Linnea Dayton
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 500
Release	: 2002
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	:

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Demonstrates the computer graphics program's newest features and offers advice integrating Photoshop with other applications, special effects, layering, lighting, and photograph repair.

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book

by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis

Author	: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Publisher	: Pearson Education
Total Pages	: 289
Release	: 2013
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0321903358

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Provides instructions for blending traditional drawing and painting skills with technological advances to create digital art.

Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks

by Scott Kelby

Author	: Scott Kelby
Publisher	: Peachpit Press
Total Pages	: 337
Release	: 2003
Genre	: Adobe Photoshop
ISBN	: 0735713537

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Bestselling author Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) is back with an amazing new collection ofPhotoshop Down and Dirty Tricks, including how to create the same exact effects you see every day in magazines, on TV, at the movies, and on the Web. It's more of those eye-popping, jaw-dropping special effects that made Scott's previous version an award-winning worldwide smash hit! But this isn't just an update to his previous book--these are 100% ALL NEW EFFECTS from cover-to-cover to reflect the latest trends in Photoshop special effects and design. These are nothing but today's real world techniques--the same ones you see used by leading Photoshop photographers, designers, and special effect masters, and its all here in the only book of its kind. You'll learn the most closely guarded inside secrets for creating the latest cutting-edge effects, including techniques that have never been revealed before anywhere! And the book is written so clearly, and is so easy to follow, that you'll be able to create every one of these amazing effects yourself. You'll learn: Tricks professional photographers use to show off their work The most popular effects used by the big Hollywood studios The latest cutting-edge photographic special effects How to fake all kinds of studio shots (you'll be amazed how its done!) The type effects that are most in demand by clients How to get stunning 3D effects without using a 3D program How to turn simple snapshots into museum quality gallery prints The most asked for new Web effects Plus loads of advanced effects that look hard, but are easy, once you know the secrets But Down and Dirty tricks is more than just a just an effects book--it's a tips book too, because on every page Scott includes a cool tip, a quick trick, or a timesaving shortcut, making this an invaluable productivity tool too! Plus the whole book is packed with design techniques, creative ideas and stunning layouts that will help you unleash your own creativity. It's all here-- "Just the funk and not the junk" and if you're into Photoshop, you're absolutely gonna love it!

The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book for CS6 and CC

by Sharon Steuer

Author	: Sharon Steuer
Publisher	: Pearson Education
Total Pages	: 361
Release	: 2014
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0133928500

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Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book is updated to help intermediate through advanced students get up to speed on the more creative features of Illustrator and efficiently integrate workflow updates and improvements. With its practical, yet beautiful examples, this book focuses on real-world tips, tricks, and techniques extracted from the artwork of many of the world's best Illustrator artists. This 14th edition of the book will help students harness the most powerful creative features of Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CC (including the latest 2014 release), from painting and generating objects with raster brushes, to creating complex repeating patterns, and inserting Illustrator objects into an editable 3D perspective grid. They'll learn how to incorporate the vast array of feature enhancements designed to improve object and text creation and editing, including Live Corners, Live Rectangles, the new Path Reshaping functions, and the Touch Type tool. In addition, they'll discover how to add automatic corners to pattern brushes, apply gradients to strokes, prepare artwork for animation and the web, and use Image Trace to transform raster art to vectors. Through real-world step-by-step lessons and stunning artwork, students will be inspired to master even the most challenging aspects of Adobe Illustrator.

The Photoshop Channels Book

by Scott Kelby

Author	: Scott Kelby
Publisher	: Peachpit Press
Total Pages	: 200
Release	: 2006
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0321269063

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"Author Scott Kelby (Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine) shows you how to unlock the power of Photoshop's channels and really start using Photoshop like a pro. But this isn't just a book of theory and technical jargon, this is a step-by-step, project-based book that will teach you exactly how to start using channels in your everyday work."--BOOK JACKET.

The Painter 11 Wow! Book

by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis

Author	: Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 416
Release	: 2010
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 9780321685797

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Learn and be inspired by this beautiful, full-color revision of the best-selling book on Corel Painter. * *Insider knowledge of Painter's tools, brushes, and functions from the creator of hundreds of Corel's brushes. *Coverage on Painter's new dry media in the RealBristle Painting System, customizable controls for hard media, better selection tools, much-improved support for Photoshop users, and more. *Companion CD-ROM loaded with custom brushes, video clips, filters, photos, and more! Cher's long-term love affair with Painter has resulted in a wealth of invaluable instruction for both expressive-media neophytes and seasoned veterans alike.' - from the foreword by John Derry, one of the original developers of Painter. The Painter 11 Wow! Book continues to delight Painter fans with its many exciting inspirations and techniques for creating fine art, photography, graphic design, multimedia, and film. In this new edition of The Painter Wow! Book, bestselling author and renowned artist Cher Threinen-Pendarvis takes her readers, step-by-step, through this revolutionary program, guiding them across the bridge from traditional media to electronic art. With her clear, instructive approach, Cher quickly gets beginners up to speed, providing more advanced users with additional insight on a variety of cool, creative, and productive techniques. New to this edition is coverage of Painter's latest tools, including the new dry media (marker, pen, pencil, and chalk) found in the RealBristle Painting System, a hard-media palette for fine-tuned adjustments, a virtual palette for mixing colors, support for Photoshop layers and color profiles, and much more. A CD-ROM containing numerous stock photos, video clips, a study guide for instructors, and over 100 unique custom brushes, plus new papers, patterns, and lighting effects built by Cher herself, makes this an invaluable resource for professionals and artists at all levels.

Adobe Photoshop 7

by Jack Davis

Author	: Jack Davis
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 100
Release	: 2002
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 9780321125316

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While other books on Photoshop will take a reference or a step-by-step approach, this book emphasizes the instant results that can be achieved by applying the Wow! Layer Styles provided on the CD-ROM for easy loading into Photoshop 7 (or 6). This book tells readers, in 30 pages (including a 5-page step-by-step tutorial), everything they need to know to work with the powerful Layer Styles function.