Product Description: This exciting and complete instructional package starts with the basics and progresses through step-by-step demos that take readers from line art to full, awe-inspiring color. Readers will get instruction on equipment, scanning, setting up pages, color theory, flatting, rendering, special effects, color holds, color separations, and even details on the business of becoming a professional colorist. The CD-ROM includes Photoshop tools and actions that artists can use to streamline their coloring work, plus sample Photoshop files so that readers can work along with the demonstrations.
This was exactly what I was looking for! I hadn't planned on doing any artwork for comics, but was looking for a book on digital painting, building from a pencil drawing on paper to line drawing on the computer with color highlights and shadows added. Most digital painting books seemed to be about touching up photos, trying to get photo-realistic results. But then I came across this book, and he gives fine detail and instructions for how to accomplish the look I was searching for and all the steps from line drawing to finished art work. My only other comment on this book is to point out that he establishes the highlights and shadows through use of forming vector areas and filling them with new shades of color. Other tutorials I've seen on how to do it, do it using dodge and burn using brush strokes to add highlights and shadows. Either technique can give nice results. I just wanted to point out the technique used in this book.
......Um Holy CRAP! Yeah I know strange title, but let me assure you that that was the family fun version of what came out of my mouth when I started the second chapter. It really was amazing, I am a self taught user of Photoshop and sometimes when yourself taught little tricks are not always learned to help you be as productive as you can be. When I started the second chapter it taught me a little trick that right now makes the book worth every penny, and I'm still not done with the chapter. When I work on a project it will normally take me on average (depending on how complex) 8 HOURS to complete a project which is a considerable amount of time. Within the first two chapters alone my 8 hr project will easily drop down to 6 hr or less, and for any aspiring artist ever extra min counts. So as I move through the book chapter by chapter I will try to update my review but I can say this now with absolute certainty If you are like me and are self taught no professional training with Photoshop GET THIS BOOK! It will teach you time savers like you wouldn't believe.
So peace and chicken grease for now.
To be continued...
Excellent El libro es fantastico... todo lo que estoy aprendiendo y detalles que en otras partes no hubiera conocido. lo recomiendo altamente.
A Complete Comic Support System in one package I found this book not so much a manual as a complete comic colouring support system. Not only do you get the book, which in itself is a well-written, easy to follow manual on comic book colouring, but also a CD of exercises described in the book that allow you to practice the techniques described (and, as they say, the best way to learn is to "do"). On top of that, the book is linked to the authors' web site and, best of all, there is an e-mail address you can contact if you run into real problems.
I ran into a brick wall with one exercise, e-mailed the authors and got a response back from Brian Miller within the day. That is what I call customer support and this is what I call excellent value for money. I look forward to more books on comic book creation from Brian and Kristy Miller and recommend this volume wholeheartedly to both new and established artists.
Great Book! The information in Hi-Fi Color for Comics and the way it is presented is exactly what I have been looking for. This book shows you how to achieve the crisp, clear, clean and eye-popping screen and print color I was able to achieve using Windows 3.1 when I used to draw my scenes pixel by pixel way before graphic, 3D, and photo-editing programs were affordable to me, and way before 3 million colors. Most of the similar books I have thumbed through focus on achieving the realistic. I don't do realistic - I want the colors to make the reader's mouth water, colors that pull (forces) the onlooker into whatever I am trying to achieve with the creation. Hi-Fi Color for Comics demonstrates how to effect this type of coloring. Its suggestions are laid out in an easy-to-read, and pleasant-to-the-eye way. The suggestions in this book are concise, yet thorough, and the suggestions work excellently. I particularly like the section on organizing your files - so helpful. Thank you Brian & Kristy Miller for sharing your knowledge.
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