Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
Apress | 2009 | pdf | 1430210702 | 23.1mb
www.amazon.com/Beginning-GIMP-Novice-Professional-Second/dp/1430210702

From first installation to advanced image manipulation techniques, Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition explains how anyone can utilize The GIMP: a free, open source image manipulation program. You will learn how to install The GIMP on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X platforms. Once you’ve installed the application, you’ll learn about the interface and configuration options, and then jump into a quick and simple project to familiarize yourself.

With four-color graphics and screenshots throughout, you’ll learn how to prepare camera images for display on web pages-including processes like rescaling, cropping, and balancing color. Utilizing layers, paths, and masks are also covered in extensive detail. Of course, you will also learn how to draw lines and shapes; utilize patterns and gradients; and even create your own brushes, patterns, and gradients. Read the rest of this entry »

Drawing Cartoons and Comics For Dummies
For Dummies | 2009 | pdf | 0470426838 | 6mb

Your real-world guide to creating and marketing original cartoons

Do you love comics? Want to become a cartoonist? This practical, hands-on guide is packed with step-by-step instructions and plenty of tips for creating your own cartoons. From inanimate objects to animals to aliens, you can see how to breathe life into your characters and make your cartoons stand out. Plus, you discover how to

* Master the basic building blocks – set up your workspace; start creating with pencil, ink, and pens; and fix mistakes
* Get the creative juices flowing – find inspiration and formulate your cartoon idea, gag, or concept, and make it work
* Create your characters – from their heads to their toes, give your characters personality and presence
* Assemble your comic strip – create an effective background, plan your layout, letter your cartoons, create drama, and more
* Fine-tune your work – discover the tools and techniques for digitally formatting your comics
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DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics
Watson-Guptill | 2004 | pdf | 0823010301 | 51.8mb
www.amazon.com/DC-Comics-Guide-Coloring-Lettering/dp/0823010309

America’s leading comic book publisher brings its superstar creators and classic characters to the fourth in an authoritative series of books on how to create comics. Acclaimed comic book illustrator Mark Chiarello and award-winning letterer Todd Klein demonstrate dozens of surefire strategies, practical techniques, and professional secrets for dynamic comic book coloring and lettering. They use DC’s world-famous characters to demonstrate an array of techniques, covering such topics as the pros and cons of lettering by hand or by computer, creating balloons and fonts, logo designs, working with color, and creating special effects. The animated step-by-step instructions are informative, stimulating, and clear enough for even beginners to follow. In addition, every technique shown in this guide conforms to up-to-date industry standards. The perfect how-to on everything coloring and lettering, this one-stop sourcebook is packed with a wealth of tested techniques, practical advice, and professional secrets for the aspiring comic artist.
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The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques:
A Complete Guide for the Artist
Arcturus | 2004 | pdf | 208p | 0572029166 | 20.4mb
www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-Drawing-Techniques-Artist/dp/0572029160

One hugely important aspect of an artist’s skill is their facility with various techniques, which they use to express their individual style. Being fluent in a wide range of techniques gives the artist a richer creative vocabulary. Choice of technique is largely governed by choice of media, so the artist must know which medium will give the best result and how to use it. This book will help artists to expand their understanding of the wide range of available media. It will teach them the characteristics of each medium and how to use a variety of materials and methods to achieve the required effect.
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Lynda.com – Margo Chase’s Hand-Lettered Poster: Start to Finish
HF | 84MB
www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=686

Acclaimed graphic designer Margo Chase shows how she created a beautifully hand-lettered poster for a special appearance at the Santa Barbara chapter of the AIGA. In this installment of Start to Finish, watch as Margo carefully creates a design with ink and paper and then refines the composition with the aid of a computer. The end product is a stunning, organic statement of style and grace that is refreshing in our world of too-pristine computer graphics.

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Adobe Photoshop – Every Tool Explained
PDF | 132 p | 5.2 MB

Unleash the full power behind every icon in the Photoshop toolbar ,

132 Pages ! Master every tool in the Adobe Photoshop toolbar .
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Photography for the Web 2010
SitePoint | May 2010 | PDF | 200 p | 15 MB
www.amazon.com/Photography-Web-Paul-Duncanson/dp/0980576873

A hands-on on guide to digital photography, with a practical focus on the Web. Readers will learn how to make the most of their digital camera, while learning the basics of composition, exposures, filters and more.

Step-by-step guides will walk readers through advance techniques like using long exposures, photographing items in motion, and the importance of the RAW data format.

“Photography for the Web” will also offer helpful advice on editing images (levels, colors, histograms), correcting for barrel distortions and vanishing points, removing blemishes, going black & white and stitching panoramas.
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Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition
Course Technology | 1592004317 | PDF | 416 p | 17.5MB
www.amazon.com/Mastering-Digital-Printing-Second-Process/dp/1592004318/

“Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition” serves as a unique, comprehensive reference guide to digital printing for photography and fine art. It combines a thorough introduction to this expressive medium, instruction in the latest techniques, and a gallery of the best examples of digital art into a one-of-a-kind resource guide. Whether you are a photographer, traditional or digital artist, or printmaker, this book will help you master the techniques unique to the new world of digital printing. Read the rest of this entry »

Logo Design Workbook: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Logos
Rockport Publishers | 240 Pages | 1592532349 | PDF |  51.7MB
www.amazon.com/Logo-Design-Workbook-Hands–Creating/dp/1592532349/

Logo Design Workbook focuses on creating powerful logo designs and answers the question, “What makes a logo work?”

In the first half of this book, authors Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka walk readers step-by-step through the entire logo-development process. Topics include developing a concept that communicates the right message and is appropriate for both the client and the market; defining how the client’s long-term goals might affect the look and needs of the mark; choosing colors and typefaces; avoiding common mistakes; and deciphering why some logos are successful whereas others are not. Read the rest of this entry »

Lynda.com – Creative Inspirations Rick Morris
Motion Graphics Designer
HF | 447 MB
www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=618

This installment of the Creative Inspirations series takes viewers into the life and home studio of one of the entertainment industry’s most sought-after motion graphics designer. Rick Morris is a classically trained illustrator who successfully transitioned into the world of motion graphics. His highly expressive works have appeared as opening titles for films such as Mi Vida Loca, television programs like “Survivor,” and commercials for Toyota, Kyocera, and Michelin. He’s also designed the menu titles for the DVD of “The Sopranos.” This installment of Creative Inspirations shows how Rick evolves his skills and applies them to moving images, how he continually develops his creative perspectives, and how he became a popular teacher at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Otis College of Design in Los Angeles. To learn more about Rick Morris, visit his website at  nobleassassins.com.
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