Category: Graphic design

Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Using Web Standards to Create Interactive Websites Simon Widjaja (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Simon Widjaja’s new book is both elegant and practical. It is elegantly structured and illustrated, and it is practical in its approach to showing how to use Adobe Edge Animate. That software package, Widjaja says, “is a multimedia … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate – Rocky Nook’s elegant new software how-to guide – #webdesign #bookreview

Blender Master Class – Excellent hands-on guide to modeling, sculpting, materials & rendering – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Blender Master Class A Hands-On Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering Ben Simonds (No Starch Press, paperback, Kindle) This excellent hands-on guide shows “how to create models and environments in 3D, using two pieces of software: Blender, for 3D design and animation, and GIMP, for 2D image editing.” It covers Blender 2.6x. The author, … Continue reading Blender Master Class – Excellent hands-on guide to modeling, sculpting, materials & rendering – #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Grover’s well-written and updated new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to begin … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Glover’s well-written new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to create … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

The Artist’s Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition – Newly updated for GIMP 2.8 – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

The Artist’s Guide to GIMP: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists and Designers, 2nd Edition Michael J. Hammel (No Starch Press, paperback –  Kindle edition) GIMP is a free and full-featured alternative to Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) now has a long track record and many users, but it remains difficult for newcomers to learn, … Continue reading The Artist’s Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition – Newly updated for GIMP 2.8 – #bookreview