Pantone process color guide is a useful tool for maintaining your desired color image. This guide contains CMYK values for more than 3,000 colors which allow you to see printing color that most accurately matches your desired color. Also, guide shows how color is affected by different types of paper your image might be printed on.

Here are some helpful tips you must always remember when preparing files for full color printing to maximize printing quality of your designs. First, ensure that resolution is at least 300 dpi. Then, set up your file in CMYK instead of later converting it to CMYK. Next, check CMYK % values against a Pantone book. Also, convert files by yourself instead of letting printer to do it for you. Finally, try using a calibrated monitor and colors within CMYK color space.

Using color in printing is said to increase readership and information retention. And, to understand difference between various color formats and learn to use appropriate tools other than your eyes to define colors will allow you to avoid common mistakes which can be a graphic designer’s worst nightmare.

Photorealism teaches you how to make images like metallic logotypes, fireworks, 3D illusions, icy letters, underwater scene, antique photos, a speeding bullet, shadows, rusty text and a lot more. It will also enhance your ability in using pen tool, layers, alpha channels and masking.

Photorealism is a very reliable computer graphics tutorial created by one of true masters of digital graphics and an accomplished illustrator who serves clients like Apple Computer, Adobe Systems and American Express. A renowned artist, Bert Monroy also worked in motion picture industry and authored books which have received critical acclaim around world.

According to Monroy, his motivation is challenge in recreating reality. The instinct for realism is powerful drive to reproduce oneself, a replication of life. With Photorealism your image will look like a real photograph.

One of advantages of photorealism is that it allows you to create photographs of products or situations that cannot be captured with a camera. In other words, you can draw everything and anything even if you haven’t actually seen it or you are aware that it does not exist and make it look real.