Valerie Kirschenbaum's "Goodbye Gutenberg"Written by Nash Ville
Truly, color is what makes our lives exciting. This might be reason why Valerie Kirschenbaum has written and designed a masterpiece known as “Goodbye Guttenberg” containing pages that are undeniably delightful to behold. It presents 860 gorgeous, full color images from great art and manuscript traditions of world. The book was printed on an outstandingly fine Japanese matt art using a paper high quality offset lithographic press and uses.In Goodbye Guttenberg, Kirschenbaum makes a logical and passionate case for rethinking and redesigning books. Though book readership has been steadily declining, she remains optimistic about future of printed word. With this, book can truly captivate readers with full color text books. Flipping through its pages provides an experience similar to browsing web. Reading offers each person an unlimited, equal opportunity passport to explore far corners of mind and of world. Also, she points out that we read not only to stimulate our imaginations, but our basic emotions such as joy, love, fear, hatred, agony, etc. This edition of Goodbye Gutenberg is more than just a book. It’s more than just another present for a special occasion. With combination of ancient literatures with today’s cutting edge page designs and latest technologies, it really creates an entertaining, multi-sensory experience. I firmly agree that it is a cultural heirloom for your family, and a gem to own and cherish for a lifetime. In fact, it is a feast for eyes and it is a book that is meant to be read.
| | A Book Review: “The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements"Written by Nashville
You can never find a graphic art professional who doesn’t know about Adobe Photoshop. This well-known professional digital imaging tool has been widely used in world of web and graphic design. Adobe Photoshop Elements, on other hand, is student-friendly version of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Elements allow even novice users who work with digital or traditional photographs to eliminate red-eye, change tone and color, crop and smooth pictures, repair over-exposed areas, and finally, prepare edited images for print, e-mail or web posting.According to article “The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2 by Richard Lynch” by Sue Chastain which was posted at http://graphicssoft.about.com, this book and bonus Power Tools provided on attached CD can help those who are looking for full power of Photoshop without high price to achieve that with Photoshop Elements. The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2 is a unique book that does what other books on same topic don’t do. Photoshop Elements is treated by author not just as a tool for aspiring Photoshop users, but as an advanced and powerful application for those who are serious about image editing. The book doesn’t only contain great advanced techniques for correcting and creating images but also provides tools that add functionality. If you are looking for a real alternative to Photoshop at an affordable cost, never hesitate to use Elements and obtain all knowledge you need in web and graphic designing. Here are other things that you can learn from this book: you can totally improve quality of your color results using channels, custom separations, and image luminosity; change reality by creating new photo-realistic objects and adding them to existing images; create dynamic images for web using animation and rollovers; correct and improve image tone and color with curves, color balance, and custom layer-blending tools; make complicated masks and advanced selections to easily target your corrections; and create creative, scalable line art for logos by harnessing power of personalized vectors.
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