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Product Description: Start With a Scan, Second Edition is the long-awaited, updated edition of the best-selling guide on how to transform raw, scanned images into attractive, finished illustrations. Filled with hundreds of brand-new illustrations and two new chapters, this book is a visual stimulus, filled with plenty of design ideas and images to get readers started...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Take your computer design skills one step further into the fascinating realm of desktop 3D. With clear explanations, colorful graphics, and creative concepts, Getting Started with 3D shows you how to navigate in 3D space, create complex models from simple parts, apply textures, set up lights, and position cameras to transform your ideas into dynamic worlds filled with depth, warmth, presence, and even humor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Follows a step-by-step approach to transforming raw scanned images into great illustrations, discussing the technical basics of scanning, how to scan almost anything, and how to implement scans into popular commercial programs. Original. (All Users).

Allows Illustrator users of all levels to get the most out of the program, covering such topics as modeling shapes with color blends, drawing in perspective, fitting type to a curve, simulating transparency, and building and using masks, among others. Original. (Advanced).

Product Description: Beginning, intermediate, and advanced Aldus PageMaker users alike will learn how to take full advantage of the program with this guide. Topics covered include designing a flexible page grid, setting tables, laying out book covers, silhouetting graphics, wrapping type around graphics, working with libraries, designing a template, and more...read more