Computers : Computer Graphics

Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4 is the definitive reference to Adobe's industry-standard vector graphics software and is now in 4-color. With an easy, engaging style, author and past Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding takes readers through all of the features of the program, explaining not only how to use the multitude of features but also why and when to use them. This edition has been thoroughly updated for Illustrator CS4 and includes techniques on using the new multiple artboards for quicker Illustrator work across a variety of designs, demonstrations of the new Blob Brush tool and transparency in gradients, overviews of the new cross-product feature support with InDesign, Flash, and Flex (opening up new opportunities for collaborations between developers and designers), and coverage on a whirlwind of other new useful features. Along with tips, sidebars, and expert commentary, there are also numerous 4-color illustrations and screen shots from contributing artists included to offer readers the most complete coverage on this extraordinary application. Designers from all fields--illustrators, animators, package designers, graphic designers, web designers, and more--will find Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4 their one-stop guide to creating powerful designs in Illustrator. more...

Price: $43.00

Are you anxious to get started with the new release of Photoshop?  If you learn best visually, then you’ll love the updated and expanded coverage found in this tutorial.: Full-color throughout, this book offers newly revised design features that allow for larger screen shots for better navigation and a more detailed look at each tasks’ step-by-step instructions; Packed with additional pages and expanded coverage of cool new tasks for you to accomplish; An approachable teaching style makes Photoshop CS4 accessible for beginners and instructs visual learners of how to put this application to work for them; Covers the most important features of Photoshop, including importing photos from a digital camera, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, adding custom 3D effects, and editing images for posting on the Web; Walks you through creating a Web photo gallery, incorporating graphics into desktop publishing programs, using palettes and layers, compositing, applying gradients, and setting type and filters more...

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This textbook emphasises fundamentals and the mathematics underlying 3D computer graphics while also covering programming techniques using OpenGL, a platform-independent graphics programming environment. Topics include transformations and viewing, lighting and shading, ray tracing, radiosity, texture mapping and colour theory, and aspects of animation, including quaternions, orientation, and inverse kinematics. more...

Price: $60.00

A tutorial for beginning game artists and enthusiasts to learn how to create textures at the professional level. more...

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The book teaches skills and techniques in a way that not only provides an understanding of MAX X and its functionality but also how to apply those tools to a normal work environment by using a single, comprehensive project. Each chapter contains a section that provides an explanation of the tools, features and techniques being used, some sample exercises for reinforcement, and some of the artistic insight behind the process. The chapter concludes with the 'workshop' section, which walks the reader through a series of step-by-step tutorials that culminate into a final, working project by the end of the book. The tear card, color section, tips, notes and sidebars are filled with expert advice and supplemental information and together with the chapter material provide the reader with an invaluable resource that they can return to time and again. more...

Price: $36.00