Nigel French Boeken

Whether you're a seasoned pro looking to brush up your portfolio, or a novice with a laptop full of design software you haven't yet mastered, this book has you covered. In dozens of projects, the authors guide you through the nitty-gritty details of book design, magazine layout, poster production, and all manner of print projects, from start to finish. The Type Project Book is loaded with tips and insider knowledge that will help you hone your design skills, deepen your type knowledge, and nerd out on the history of graphic design. Each section is a deep dive into real-world design projects from working a cookbook; a letterpress gig poster; an animated web banner; an infographic; even the humble business card is explored. Along the way, wisdom is offered, tips and time-saving tricks are shared, the secrets of working graphic designers are revealed―all with the requisite doses of wit one expects from seasoned professionals with decades of experience. THE TYPE PROJECT BOOK

As the feature list of Adobe Photoshop continues to grow, even users with years of experience can feel overwhelmed by the many tools and methods for selecting or isolating parts of an image. Layers, channels, paths, clipping masks, layer masks, vector masks, the Pen tool, Magic Wand, and so on — all let users work on specific regions of an image, but in fundamentally different ways. Making clean, efficient selections are essential skills for any Photoshop user, whether a graphic designer, professional photographer,or hobbyist.Graphic designer, teacher, and Photoshop expert Nigel French saves you hours of frustration by illuminating the best selection tools and techniques for specific tasks, and the most flexible approaches to correcting and editing images in Photoshop. Using step-by-step examples, this book clarifies often-misunderstood selection methods, shows which masks best select a range of tone or color, and demonstrates how the right tools and techniques can help transform even the most mediocre picture into a polished image, saving you hours of time.• Learn the fundamentals of making selections, and when to choose which method• Blend images and replace backgrounds using layer, vector, and channel masks• Correct color and exposure using adjustment layers• Make next-to-impossible hair selections with channel masks• Create a non-destructive workflow, giving you total creative freedom

For decades, graphic design and photography professionals have turned to Adobe Photoshop: Visual QuickStart Guide as the fastest, most practical way to start creating professional-quality images with Photoshop. Now, this full-color guide has been thoroughly revamped by a new author who's taught thousands of beginning Photoshop users. Nigel French combines expert, full-color introductions to the latest Photoshop features with new examples and projects, adding five full hours of new online video content that goes far beyond the contents of the printed book. Combining definitive reference information with concise, hands-on tutorials, French helps aspiring and current professionals gain deep mastery of Photoshop, whether they're working on their own or in a classroom environment. From the basics to advanced techniques, he guides you through everything from editing photos' tone and color to retouching blemishes, restoring old and damaged images to creating stunning composites, to preparing images for both digital and print delivery.

Typografia jest kluczowym elementem każdego projektu graficznego, a umiejętne stosowanie czcionek może znacząco wpłynąć na rozwój projektanta. Przedstawiamy czwarte, zaktualizowane wydanie przewodnika po funkcjach typograficznych Adobe InDesign. Zawiera ono omówienie mikro- i makrotypografii, począwszy od podstawowego spacjowania po efektywne tworzenie długich dokumentów. Książka nie tylko uczy korzystania z zaawansowanych funkcji InDesigna, ale także wyjaśnia, dlaczego konkretne podejścia są preferowane oraz jak unikać typowych błędów. Niezależnie od tego, czy tworzysz ulotkę, katalog czy projekt do druku, jest to niezbędne źródło wiedzy, które pozwala w pełni wykorzystać możliwości InDesigna. Autor, Nigel French, jest doświadczonym projektantem i wykładowcą, a jego przyjazny styl ułatwia przyswajanie zasad typografii. Książka jest rekomendowana przez ekspertów z branży, którzy podkreślają jej precyzyjność i przystępność. Nowe wydanie z pewnością zainteresuje zarówno typograficznych entuzjastów, jak i tych, którzy cenią sobie dobre projekty. InDesign i tekst to pozycja, która powinna znaleźć się w bibliotece każdego projektanta.