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This book is really designed to be a desktop reference, but it offers more than just a quick description of the tools and features. We have incorporated examples designed to guide you through various techniques, provide our experience in tips and suggestions, and try to give you a jumpstart on how to leverage the features in Photoshop.The specific purpose of this book is to provide you with the understanding you need to get the very best results. So sit back, load up Photoshop, and enjoy the ride!

Photographers are visual storytellers. Sometimes our stories are true, real-life depictions of what’s before us. And sometimes they represent a version of reality that we want to convey. Not exactly lies,
but … oh, c’mon.
An artist must be free to interpret his/her world, right?Well, there’s a fine line, requiring careful balance, between entertaining storytelling and genuine transparency. Today’s consumers are painfully savvy and their tolerance for trickery is scarce. But don’t let this scare you.In this book, we’ll cover the importance of earning trust in your marketplace and how to handle the process of strategic planning. We’ll also explore how to target and attract the right audience and develop content that engages and motivates them in ways that benefit your business.

Artists & Illustrators is the UK’s best-selling magazine for artists and art lovers, providing advice and inspiration every month. Published for almost 25 years, each issue contains a colourful palette of profiles and features, together with valuable practical ideas, expert technical advice and useful product tests.

ImagineFX is packed to the rafters with an eclectic mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best fantasy and sci-fi artists, plus galleries and interviews, community news and product reviews. Whether you're a professional artist, an art student or just create art for a hobby, each page of ImagineFX is filled with unrivalled advice from our team of world-famous artists who bring you bespoke, in-depth digital and traditional art workshops, tips and techniques. We're the only magazine dedicated to fantasy and sci-fi digital art.

Since 1993, DV (Digital Video) Magazine has served the information needs of professionals involved in the production, postproduction, and delivery of digital video. Written and produced by experts in the field, DV (Digital Video) provides objective, hard-hitting, and in-depth product information.

"В Before & After мы говорим,что хороший дизайн обладает тремя качествами - красотой,простотой и ясностью"

Компьютерным дизайном часто называют технологический процесс, т.е. совершение определенных действий в графических программах. Слова: «Я создал дизайн веб-страницы» — часто означают: « Я разместил картинки, набрал текст,расставил ссылки и написал HTML-код». Но это не дизайн,это разработка. Это имеет такое же отношение к дизайну,как электропроводка к архитектуре. Эта книга называется «Графический дизайн для
бизнеса». Дизайн здесь мы понимаем как средство деловой коммуникации. Вы создаете графический дизайн для бизнеса, чтобы донести сообщение,изложить идею или занять определенную позицию по какому-либо вопросу.

For many of us, this time of year is cold and rainy. Brad Sutton shows us how to take inspiration from the weather with a tutorial on creating reflective, rainy cityscapes on page 30. And if you want to populate those city streets with people, we present our complete guide to figure drawing on page 20 to get you started on the principles of anatomy and action. Many of these techniques were discovered by the Florentine Old Masters, and so on page 46 Joanna Michalak helps us to brush up our classical education and paint like one of the golden ages of art: the Italian Renaissance. On page 36, Anne Pogoda takes the mystery out of creating and applying your own patterns in Painter. Our Output tutorial this issue shows you how to create an Advent calendar, and you’ll find children’s illustrator Sue Woollatt’s delightful winter scene on the disc ready for printing.
Enjoy your painting!

Web Design Before & After Makeoversis written to enable you to make over your Web site. With this book, youget a chance to work with dozens of mini-projects that parallel the sorts of improvements you’ll encounteras you revamp and overhaul the design of your Web site. These challenges include such tasks as making your home page a compelling place that visitors will want to bookmark and return to often, placing great content on your pages without cramming it in, making your site easy and intuitive to navigate, and ensuring your pages load blazingly fast.

Paul Cezanne’s influence on modern art can’t be underestimated. Widely considered to be the link between Impressionism and Cubism, this 19th Century painter was among the first to popularise the idea that a painting is a work of art. This issue, Tim Shelbourne explores how Cezanne’s ideas and practises can help you to create a masterpiece of your own. Also this issue, Brad Sutton helps us to understand the idea of tonal values and the reasons for using them, and shows how this thankless toning task has been made easier and more fun in Painter. Reader Pat Brennan shares her texturing tips in our mixed media tutorial, and Wen-Xi Chen dives into the traditional art of watercolour landscapes. Our feature this month provides the solutions to 25 Painter problems, thanks to the input of three top digital artists (and a few well-placed words from yours truly!), while our Drawing 101 guide to real media helps you get to grips with the tricky, yet eminently stylish quirks of pen and ink.
Enjoy your painting!

Practical Photoshop is the magazine that makes sensational images simple. Whether you're repairing a scan of an old family picture, having fun combining multiple images or applying artistic effects to a favourite photo, Practical Photoshop magazine's easy-to-follow tutorials.

There is something magical about really good macro and close-up im-ages. They provide a glimpse of a world few ever see and fewer still understand. When done well, these images put us in touch with the es-sence of being, like nothing else. They let us know we are not alone and that every living thing—no matter how small—is important. But let’s not kid ourselves. There is a reason these images only come from master pho-tographers, real artists with cameras. This type of work requires a high level of mechanical competency and unrestrained vision.

Creativity is flourishing in digital photography. New ideas are being touted,advanced techniques have emerged, and a youthful, ultramodern approach to message-building is being recognized. Photography as we know it is changing and nowhere is this revolution more pronounced than in the world of flash photography—particularly off-camera flash photography.

American PHOTO is the premier showcase for outstanding photography. A reflection of contemporary culture through the camera's lens, it inspires professionals and sophisticated amateurs alike with its coverage of art, fashion, journalism celebrity, sports, politics and advertising. American PHOTO is a stunning visual commentary on our world, featuring masters of photography among others.

For many of us, the nights are drawing in and the weather’s getting colder. Take some inspiration from the changing seasons with our Art Study on p52, in which Cat Bounds explores the rich palettes and textures of autumn leaves. Elsewhere, Zhu Hai Bo creates an unexpected image in the style of artist Chiang Yee, bringing together an icon of the English landscape and the deft, subtle touches of Chinese ink painting on p58. By contrast on p38, reader Judy Misquitta shows us how to liven up Painter’s pastel brushes with an explosion of kaleidoscopic colour. Meanwhile, Tim Shelbourne has handled our Paint Like tutorial this issue, exploring the painting techniques developed by one of the world’s greatest and most inluential artists: Pablo Picasso. Whatever brushes you use there’s something for everyone in our Drawing 101 guide to acrylics (p66) and in our massive ten page feature on customisation, in which Jeff Johnson shows us some of the best brushes to
use and adapt when creating landscapes (p20).
Enjoy your painting!

How To Draw Cars Fast and Easy is a 134 page car drawing guide in downloadable e-book format, jam-packed from cover to cover with all the tips and techniques previously known by only a small handful of professional designers. This program contains all the information you’ll ever need to draw perfect looking cars quickly and easily that will amaze your friends.

his book defines the core elements of self-promotion and portfolio creation and provides the insights graphic designers need to showcase their work in unique and creative ways. Case studies demonstrate the different techniques designers use to create successful portfolios for different audiences and measure the results of those efforts. The book also details how often portfolios should be updated and distributed and determine workable budgets to produce a great portfolio.

In this book for designers, developers, and product managers, expert developer and user interface designer Lukas Mathis explains how to make usability the cornerstone of every point in your design process, walking you through the necessary steps to plan the design for an application or website, test it, and get usage data after the design is complete. He shows you how to focus your design process on the most important thing: helping people get things done, easily and efficiently.

This is officially my first month at the helm of the magazine, so what better way to introduce myself to
you than with a paint-packed issue brimming with creative inspiration? On page 20, artist and photographer Susi Lawson brings you the ultimate guide to painting a beautiful portrait, and you’ll find her accompanying video tutorial on our disc, too. Tim Shelbourne goes in-depth on one of Corel Painter’s most popular tools, the Sargent brush, on page 30, and on page 38 Brad Sutton shows us how to bring landscapes to life with his tutorial on adding people to a scene.

Short animation projects are ambitious and time-consuming, but with a good plan and toolset, they can be hugely rewarding. Blender expert Roland Hess will get you up to speed on animated short fundamentals, including writing, storyboarding, blocking, and character creation. This follow-up of Blender Foundations will introduce the more advanced functionalities of Blender, such as the Library and Linking system, physics simulators, the integrated compositor, and the Sequence Editor. If that wasn’t enough, this tutorial-based book will also have you create a short animation from scratch, making you a master of the Blender toolkit in no time.