Check out these great articles and tutorials on Photoshop, how to create a font with CorelDRAW X4 (an excerpt from Gary's book, CorelDRAW X4 : The Official Guide), color theory, cartooning and 3D.
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Retouching Motion Pictures Free Bonus Chapter
It’s in PDF format; this chapter is on applications that are terrific content generators for a Photoshop Extended video composition. Learn about particle systems, apps that can cut a chromakey flawlessly down to individual human hairs, and affordable drawing programs that are ideal for titling and adding logos to a video.
Buy The Book Now! In addition to the example files you can download, there are also Bonus Animations, more than 20MB, to help make your videos polished and professional, just like they do on The Daily Show :).
It’s fun, amazing stuff that’s within your reach if you have a copy of Photoshop CS3 Extended—the power to create motion pictures, perfectly retouched, with special effects, audio, the sky’s the limit. And if the Bonus Chapter whets your appetite, there’s always the physical book!
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CorelDRAW X4: The Official Guide
Creating Your Own Font
At some point in your work as a designer, you’ll have the need for a special font—something you can’t locate online, something that perfectly complements a drawing—perhaps a typeface that contains a logo that you want to distribute to employees for letterhead stationery.
You can design the characters of your dream font right in CorelDRAW and export your work as a typeface that you and others can use. In this chapter you’ll learn how to set up a page layout specificallyBuy The Book Now! for creating fonts, design a simple but interesting typeface, discover some of the secrets to professional font-making, and construct a typeface template you can reuse later. Because a digital typeface’s characters actually are simple drawings, this chapter also makes it easy to make a logo font for business.
Gary's latest book shows in image-retouching terms, how to edit and sweeten video footage with CS3 Extended. Don't let your retouching work sit still. And don't you sit still!
