This book is the ultimate reference used by professionals throughout the industry. With over 300 illustrations, and detailed instructions, this manual will provide the answers and solutions you will need to successfully print a magazine. Whether you are planning to publish your own comics, or want to provide the best reproducable art possible, this item is a must have for your professional library.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Rough:
I was quite disappointed by this book, I was expecting something with more professional level content. It's all very amateur however, the artwork used in the examples is sub-professional at best.
I was hoping that the book would deal with some of the specific Pre-Press issues relating to comics artwork, but the chapter there was frustratingly slight. You would be much better to buy a a more general pre-press book.
The quality of the packaging and printing were also quite poor for a book that... more info
Digital walk-through:
This is a very informative and well presented, step-by-step guide to self-publishing. It covers all the complicated printing process and colouring stuff in a clear manner. Highly reccomended.
A Specialty Use of Photoshop:
This book is on how to get your comic book ideas from out of your head onto a disk that you can take to a printer and get him to produce the comic book for you. The advent of powerful personal computers has meant that the hand drawn, hand lettered, hand colored prints from the past no longer are what the printer wants. Instead the book now goes to the printer on a disk. Doing the work on a computer means software, and the author uses Photoshop. Most of the books on Photoshop are on manipulating... more info
"Quark Xpress and Photoshop Four Comic Books":
This book is more a specialized "how to" manual for specific software than a "definitive guide" for computer owners who want to make comics. It is assumed by the author that the reader has three programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark Xpress. No other programs are ever mentioned, if you use anything else, this book was not written for you. The author provides excellent information about how printing in color works, his hints on getting your colored artwork to look good on paper (as opposed to... more info
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