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work in illustration, photography, de- sign, web design. Mission is “Inspiring Visual Communication.”
Digital Photography: www.short- courses.com/using/index.htm
Peachpit Press, 1998. At just under 800 pages, this is a most complete and most skillful designee book. There are color prints on every page.
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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
iStockPhoto: www.istockphoto.com
Daly, Tim, The Digital Photography Handbook, Amphoto Books, 2003. Nicely layed out and proves a thorough overview to the digital technology of modern still cameras.
Getty Image: www.gettyimages.com
Giordan, Daniel, The Art of Photo- shop, Sams Publishing, 2006. Striking gallery of images constructed within the digital darkroom. Includes some step-by-step breakdowns.
Photoshop Tutorials Plus: www .photoshop-tutorials-plus.com
Grover, Chris & Barbara Brundage, Digital Photography, Pogue Press/ O’Reilly, 2006. This is a volume in the excellent line of how-to books called The Missing Manual Series, which is edited by New York Times media critic David Pogue. This volume covers both shooting and image processing.
Library of Congress Digital Collec- tions: www.loc.gov/library/ libarch-digital.html
Software
Digital Cameras Hardware/Evalu- ations
American Photography TV series: www.pbs.org/ktca/american photography
Digital Photography Review: http://dpreview.com
Smithsonian Photography Initia- tive: http://photography.si.edu
Paint.net: www.getpaint.net
Digital Camera Resource Page: www.dcresource.com
Plug-Ins
Leborg, Christian, Visual Grammar, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. An elegantly conceived and simply illustrated book that offers a fresh look at the most basic elements of visual design. “Visual language has
no formal syntax or semantics, but the visual objects themselves can be clas- sified,” writes the author. Mr. Leborg, a Norwegian designer, does just that.
Camera Tutorials
Adobe Creative Team, Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book, Adobe Press, 2007. The Adobe CS3 Bookstore features books on all the apps, plus demo videos and free downloadable tutorials. There are over 10,000 titles about Photoshop.
Jodie Coston’s Free Online Pho- tography Course: www.morguefile. com/archive/classroom.php
Lynda.com online training library: www.lynda.com
Galleries
Short Courses.com—library of
Dayton, Linnea & Cristen Gillespie, The Photoshop CS/CS2 Wow! Book.
Photoshop Contests & Galleries: www.worth1000.com/default.
Lupton, Ellen, Thinking with Type,
Stock Libraries
Lynda.com—17 training movies for PS: www.Lynda.com
Corbis Images: www.corbis.com
Free Photo Bank: www.freephoto bank.org
Photoshop 262 tutorials: www .photoshoptalent.com/photoshop- tutorials
History of Photography
Picasa (Google): http://picasa .google.com
Heller, Steven & Seymour Chwast, Graphic Style: From Victorian to Digital, Abrams, 2001. The authors are heavy hitters in the design world. The volume traces the evolution of visual style. It provides a great perspective for spot- ting today’s emerging trends. Besides scads of great examples, this book has a dense but discerning text.
Masters of Photography Site: www. masters-of-photography.com/
Photosmart Essentials 2.5 (Hewl- ett Packard): www.hp.com/ united-states/consumer/digital_ photography
IMAGE EDITING
Third-party plug-ins for Photoshop: www.adobe.com/products/ plugins/photoshop
Free Photoshop-compatible plug-in: http://thepluginsite.com/ resources/freeps.htm
Photoshop CS3 Editions (Adobe): www.adobe.com/products/ photoshop
TYPE & LAYOUT
On-Line Tutorials