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Some of the greatest Photoshop actions and styles ever created are contained in this first in a series of special cds. A fantastic combination of text effects, textures, templates and photo effects. By the time you are finished with this cd, your friends will think you are a master of design using Photoshop.
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The Photoshop Stuff Volume 2 cdrom is a great collection of actions, styles, shapes, brushes and more. The sequel to the successful Photoshop Stuff Volume 1. If you thought the first volume was cool, you won't believe your eyes once you get your hands on volume 2!
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The Photoshop Stuff Volume 3 cdrom is a great collection of styles, actions, shapes, brushes and templates. The sequel to the successful Photoshop Stuff Volume 1 & 2. If you thought the first two volumes were cool, you won't believe your eyes once you get your hands on volume 3!
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Now you can get all 3 AWESOME Volumes of Photoshop Stuff for one low price on one BIG cd! The Photoshop Stuff Volume 1-3 cdrom is the full collection of styles, actions, shapes, brushes and templates. All three volumes on one HUGE cd!
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One Clickers Set 3 is the third in a series of 50 more styles for use with Photoshop 7. A fantastic combination of text & shape effects for as many uses as you can dream up. For use in your web or print projects. Photoshop styles are flexible enough to use for any graphics related project you can dream up.
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One Clickers is the first in a series 50 styles for use with Photoshop 6 & 7. A fantastic combination of text & shape effects for as many uses as you can dream up. For use in your web or print projects. Photoshop styles are flexible enough to use for any graphics related project you can dream up.
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One Clickers Set 2 is the second in a series of 50 more styles for use with Photoshop 6 & 7. A fantastic combination of text & shape effects for as many uses as you can dream up. For use in your web or print projects. Photoshop styles are flexible enough to use for any graphics related project you can dream up.
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BOOKS

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Photoshop 7 Down and Dirty Tricks

All new for the latest version of Photoshop, Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks is packed cover to cover with step-by-step tutorials on the coolest Photoshop 7 effects. The book is not another rehash of masking, pixels, and file formats or resolution--it's nothing but the cool stuff that will make your client's (or boss's) jaw drop.

 

Photoshop Most Wanted: Effects and Design Tips

The best, most requested effects that you've seen on the Web and elsewhere, explained by two Photoshop Experts: Al Ward and Colin Smith. In response to feedback from their popular web sites and magazine articles, Al and Colin have teamed up with friends of ED to answer your questions. They've packed in lots of useful information, not just how to create a certain effect, but other tips too, like how to improve your workflow, variations on effects, and creative suggestions to help you express yourself further.

This book is for both the enthusiastic amateur and experienced pro alike - it's full of techniques and advice that will help Photoshop users from intermediate to advanced. This book will help you to stock up your armoury; you'll have a range weapons for all occasions and be able to deploy them faster and more effectively.

Photoshop 6 Photo-Retouching Secrets

Photo Retouching Secrets is not another color correction book, or scanning manual. It covers only one topic: retouching images to make them look better. What type of retouching are we talking about? Thing like:tricks for removing red eye and then recoloring the eye to its natural colortricks for removing the signs of aginghow to fix underexposed or overexposed imageshow to remove spots, rips, and tears.

 

Photoshop 6 Killer Tips

It’s been gratifying to see Scott Kelby’s star rising in the Photoshop and CG communities; his Photoshop World conferences are like rock concerts-cum-tech-seminars; he’s on TechTV; his videos sell to beat the band; his first two Photoshop books—Down & Dirty Tricks, and Photo-Retouching Secrets—are bestsellers. And part of this popularity is due to Scott’s talent for connecting to the entire Photoshop-using audience… especially entry-level and intermediate.

 

The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book

Effective whether you're a Photoshop pro or a demanding amateur, The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book contains the widest selection of useful projects, tips, tutorials, techniques, and examples of professionally produced work you're likely to find in one place. What's remarkable about this book is that every page contains something worth knowing. While other Photoshop books have their strengths, be it Web production, photographic retouching and repro techniques, or illustration, The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book.

 

Type (Graphic Idea Resource)

Graphic Idea Resource - Type demonstrates the myriad ways type can be used as an essential design element. A discriminating collection, this array of masterful type-design treatments includes type fonts custom-made for the job, elegant and classic fonts stretching traditional boundaries, mod and retro type that avoids looking cliched, and much more. Learn how to stretch, alter, and successfully use type in place for any graphic design assignment.

 

Business and Legal Forms for Illustrators

This handy guide for illustrators contains the forms you need to succeed as an illustrator in today's market, along with step-by-step instructions and negotiation checklists. This "success kit" includes: an estimate form; confirmation of assignment; invoice covering reproduction rights; an illustrator-agent agreement; a book publishing agreement; collaboration agreement; contract for sale of art work; illustrator-gallery agreement; licensing agreement for spinoffs; confirmation form of delivery.

 

Color Harmony Workbook : A Workbook and Guide to Creative Color Combinations

This workbook is a practical, visual guide that takes the guesswork out of choosing and using color combinations. Colors and color schemes are matched to specific moods, to help you select the best color combination for any design project, whether graphic design, interior design, crafts, or fine art. Large, tear-out swatches of each color combination let you mix, match, and test different hues in your designs. An essential tool for all who design with colors.

 

Effective Web Animation

This guide to animation is fantastic.  In this great book the ideas on animation just keep coming.  Lots of animation related demo programs and tutorials are included on cd. You will be a pro on animation after reading this cover to cover.

 

Web Design & Development Blackbook

Using the "Black Book" series' solid reference and troubleshooting approach, readers gain unique access to the best techniques to meld today's technologies. The book covers the hottest tools, including Active Server and Server-Side Scripting, and demonstrates solid and advanced design techniques. The CD-ROM includes all examples and templates discussed in the text, selected shareware and demonstration versions of various Web development.

 

Increase Your Web Traffic In A Weekend

Designed to help readers build an audience for their Web site in a weekend, this book offers constructive solutions for improving a Web site and describes easy ways to gain readers and advertisers without spending a fortune.  A book full of great ideas on marketing your site once its up.  You can't do without this one.

 

Sizzling Website Design

This book is more than just a guide to the hottest Web sites, it's a behind-the-scenes look at how those sites were created. Web surfers and publishers alike will find this book an insightful guide to the World Wide Web. The latest Web technologies are discussed in detail, showing readers how they have been applied, and how they themselves can implement those features on their own Web page. - CD-ROM includes source code from the book, images, scripts, and more.

 

The Web Design Wow! Book

Here's an indispensable source of practical advice and creative inspiration for anyone designing screen-based communications-from Web to cdrom and beyond. From Jack Davis, co-author of the award winning Photoshop Wow! Book, this book covers the conceptual process, design fundamentals, and essential interface components. It includes over 50 case studies and more than 600 full-color examples of highly successful and creative interfaces for marketing, sales, education, and portfolio presentations.

 

Secrets of Successful Web Sites

Visual case studies (National Geographic, Porsche, Intel, etc.) reveal the insider secrets of managing a Web project, forming an effective designer/client relationship, setting up budgets and schedules, and more. This is the definitive business resource for Web site developer and their clients.

 

Web Site Graphics Color

Web Site Graphics Color is not a how-to. It is a gallery of today's best efforts in Web design. The authors have carefully chosen the sites and explain how each one excels in the use of color. If you need to find some new inspiration in a hurry, thumbing through Color will be a lot faster than clicking away through search engines. There's a lot to look at here.

 

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SOFTWARE

Adobe Photoshop 7.0

Mixed-media professionals such as photographers, Web designers, and graphic designers will not be disappointed in Adobe's latest incarnation of Photoshop. In this release, Adobe aims hard at addressing the issues of file management, easy photo retouching, and smarter output for the Web. While Adobe manages to successfully address these issues, it also remains true to its photo editing roots. New and improved features and tools such as a painting option and an enhanced brush palette allow Photoshop to build on its reputation as the leading tool for image manipulators.

 

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