Books : Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results

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- Finally, a Photoshop book for Art
There are a lot of books dedicated to Photoshop, for improving photos. Which is understandable since that's what Photoshop is mainly for. There are few books that go deep into the art possibilities. (and I have quite a few Photoshop books).

This book is heavy into comic related art, mainly, how to color comics and really make them pop. But don't let that stop you if you are not into comics. This book helps with taking simple line art and making into a good pieces of art or graphic quality. It covers scanning, stitching, layout, and it full of coloring tips from end to end.

Forget 2-dimensional line art. This book takes a basic line art and shows you how to make it fantastic visually. There are so many ideas here, it will keep you busy for quite sometime. Highly recommended.

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- Great book. Learn for "real" how to be a colorist.
I use this book as a teaching tool. Fantastic. If you are need to know digital color and the all the means (printing, and so on) you need this book. The best book of it's kind. Very well done.

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- The DEFINITIVE guide to coloring comics
This is the only guide you will ever need to learn to color comics!!!! It's amazing. i can't believe that Brian & Kristy would reveal their secrets like this!!! They explain everything step by step. They even have homework assignments to go along with the lessons. It's like having my own private tutor. It even comes with software to help you learn the techniques better. I really can not express how much I love this book, and how simple it is for even a novice like me to understand. They even have a web forum where you can post any questions you have and receive extra help.
This book is THE best Amazon purchase I have ever made.

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- An Amazing Book
There are few books in my life that I can truthfully say came at the right time. Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results is that book for me.

I have been a Photoshop user for about 14 years. From the begining my purpose in using Photoshop was to color comic books. I have used it for many other thing over the years, but I keep coming back to the inevitalbe truth that all I want to do is color comic books.

In the last 14 years I have for the most part been self taught. I've gotten very good in the use of Photoshop, but as far as comic book coloring goes I felt incomplete in my skill-set.

Hi-Fi Color For Comics changed that for me. With it's straight forward approch to instruction, great examples, and "secrit" tips. I feal like my leaning of Photoshop as it pertains to coloring is complete.

In addition the great extras like the Photoshop scripts have been a huge timesaver in my workflow. As a nice topper there is a companian web forum tied with the book for future help and exchanging of ideas.

All in all, without question, if you a aspiring comic book colorist, or even if you've just started getting work. Hi-Fi Color For Comics will round out your skills, and give you the tools needed to help you grow your business.

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- Great Book
This is a great book. When I wanted to learn about computer coloring back in '95, I had the pleasure of corresponding with or talking directly to two influential individuals in the industry. The first was Brandon Petterson and the second was Brian Miller. After finding out that he was from my neck of the woods (the midwest-St. Louis to be exact), we had a very pleasant conversation at Wizard World Chicago.

The Millers touch on so many points, from hardware and software to the coloring process to the business of coloring and working as a freelancer. This is a valuable resource to any colorist who is serious about getting into the industry.

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