This 22 page, free, bonus chapter offers step-by-step instructions on creating significant photo editing with Xtreme 5. Oh, and the tutorial files will help, huh?
Bonus Chapter!
Learn the "Tricks of the Trade" in this downloadable PDF file. Over 30 pages addressing HDR imagery, panorama creation, building custom brushes, and a lot more. It's our free gift to anyone who loves great images.
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The First Book on Xara!
Learn how to use the vector drawing program that is also a full featured bitmap editor and web page designer. Order Xara Xtreme The Official Guide by Gary David Bouton today.
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Learn Photoshop Quick!
Carole Matthews and Gary have taken the learning curve to Adobe Photoshop and flattened it! Geared toward the serious photographer, Photoshop CS4 QuickSteps is the full-color guide you need to make great photos into stupendous ones.
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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.
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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