Painter books

[Robin Gilmor]

I just got delivery of 2 books no one should be without.

They look fantastic,especially the parts explaining what steps each artist took in each program to do a particular project.



1-Photoshop,Painter, and Illustrator Side-by-Side

2-The Painter Wow Book ( recommended by a few people on this forum)


What are we going to do without these forums??

I'm a Xara user,I stumbled into Painter here only because of how the forums are set up.

[Robin Gilmor]

I just got delivery of 2 books no one should be without.

They look fantastic,especially the parts explaining what steps each artist took in each program to do a particular project.



1-Photoshop,Painter, and Illustrator Side-by-Side

2-The Painter Wow Book ( recommended by a few people on this forum)


What are we going to do without these forums??

I'm a Xara user,I stumbled into Painter here only because of how the forums are set up.

[athena]

Robin,

In the last few weeks, have you been coming back to the Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator side by side book for ideas and advice? It sounds like a great concept for a book.

I know that books in the WoW series are always worth the price. But as I think Rosebytes said in her now vaporized posting, we can't always afford every book out there. So, now that you've had the book a while, what do you think?

I had agreed with Rosebytes but for some reason she's vaporized most of her postings in this forum. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

Anyway, thanks for mentioning the books.

Athena


[This message was edited by T. Athena Hatton on October 13, 2000 at 09:02 AM.

[This message was edited by T. Athena Hatton on October 13, 2000 at 09:08 AM.]

[Robin Gilmor]

Athena - this book is incredible.
I'm lazy, I admit it. I go from program to program trying to find the easiest & fastest ways to do my work. I have spent more time researching what the best program is to do a certain task, than I have actually spent creating the artwork. (How embarrassing for me to admit that.)


Well, thanks to this book, I know longer have the excuse to do that, as far as Painter, Photoshop & Illustrator are concerned.



"Side by side" helps you decide in which program you can do each task most easily. It explains with color-coded tables, how to use each feature/command & the differences between the procedure for each program-(this alone is worth the price of the book).



Even the (color) examples are color-coded,so you can immediately see which program produced it.
And it has LOTS of color examples of the artwork produced by each program,and also how the different toolbars/palettes appear for the different commands.


I honestly haven't finished it yet, there is so much infomation. This will be an onging read/reference work for me. It also has a Web site to go with it,that will always have updated information as a new version of each program comes out.



I love her no-holds-barred style of telling you exactly which program she prefers for what function & why. She also has a gallery of artists at the end that explain how they produced their work using multiple programs.


My advice - Spend the money & get it!