Addressing the important features in Adobe Photoshop CS2, this book contains step-by-step instructions and uses professional examples to highlight the tools and techniques photographers, designers, restoration studios, and beauty retouchers use to restore valuable antique images, retouch portraits, and enhance glamour photography.

Combines both abstract and realistic images using traditional Celtic motifs and images in an inspiring and beautiful collection for all those with a love of Celtic heritage, art, design and craft work.

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A new collection of comic cartoons starring the Calvin and Hobbes pair. Bill Watterson won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Approaches design as an essential form of communication. This book helps learn by example how to design single-page and multi-page publications, brochures, and advertisements, applying the principles design professionals live by. It also shows how to choose the right font for your project, why one typeface works better than another, and much more.

With 100,000 copies sold, Graphic Design Cookbook is one of the most useful all-purpose resources for designers and anyone who wants to create a dynamic layout for magazines, newsletters, books, posters, or other media.

Provides an overview of the requirements of designing for the Web. This book can be used as a reference for (X)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

A look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. Using comics to examine the medium itself, the author takes the form of a cartoon character and explains the structure, meaning, and appeal of comics, and provides a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication.

Aims to help digital photographers in using the Photoshop CS. This book covers topics which include the secrets of how the pros retouch portraits; how to color correct any photo without breaking a sweat (you'll be amazed at how they do it!); how to unlock the power of Photoshop CS' new features for digital photo pros; and others.

Showcasing inventive designs for buildings, components, and devices, from such leading figures as Heath Robinson, Rebecca Horn, Jean Prouve, and Jean Nouvel, this book discusses architectural inventors and their intriguing creations. It contains a mix of observations, theories, and designs.

FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net -- presentationzen.com -- shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint

A guide to Blender, the powerful open-source 3D modeling and animation software.

Shows step-by-step how to make a shader-based graphics engine and how to tame the technology. This work covers the essential techniques of scene graph management, and methods for managing memory usage in game consoles and portable game players. It also includes shader programming, physics, and memory management for game consoles and portables.

Award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan brings us a powerful and evocative wordless graphic novel.

Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo's undercover life and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy.

Exploring the techniques used to create the eerie effects in games such as 'Quake', 'Unreal' and 'Half-Life', this book shows not only how to create textures in games, but also how to improve all-round digital image enhancing skills.

This CD-Rom and book set boasts a wealth of languid ladies, flowers, and other designs, all rendered in the sensuous, curvilinear style of Art Nouveau.

New title in the Taschen Icons series.

High dynamic range imaging produces images with a much greater range of light and color than conventional imaging. This book explains and defines this technology for those who work with images, whether it is for computer graphics, film, video, photography, or lighting design.