The first Designer's Guide to Color book provided 500 historic color combinations from the Victorian, Art Deco, Atomic 50s, Psychedelic 60s and Current periods. The second book provided 750 combinations of colors derived from the art and design of Asia, Africa, Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle and Far East, as well as from the USA. The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations CD-ROM contains none of the interesting and amusing text captions, the sample layouts that show how to arrange the colors, or the many wonderful illustrations from the two books. What it does contain are 1250 sets of scintillating color combinations covering every conceivable mood and manner from warm and passionate to super cool. The CD-ROM is a terrific companion piece to the books enabling you to quickly locate the swatch sets from any page, open only the files you wish and copy the colors right into your own designs. If you do not own either of the books, the CD-ROM is still a fantastic way to browse for great color combinations by opening any files at random and selecting your favorites.
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This CD-ROM includes all 1250 color combinations from Leslie Cabarga's two best-selling color books: The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations and The Designer's Guide to Global Color Combinations. These books were the first to not only show color swatches in context, but to supply the CMYK and RGB color formulas so readers could re-create the colors to use in their own web and print designs. Now, all 1250 color combinations are provided on disk in both Illustrator and Photoshop files for Mac and PC so you can sample the swatches with the eyedropper tool, rather than having to type the RGB and CMYK percentages.
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For most of his life, Leslie Cabarga considered himself not so much a writer but as an illustrator and graphic designer. Yet his very first book, The Fleischer Story (a history of the Max Fleischer animation studio) was published when he was 19 years old, several years before he would become one of the most popular illustrators in New York. Leslie went on to write and/or edit over 40 books, ranging from clip art collections for Dover publications to the ever popular Logo, Font & Lettering Bible, the only manual showing how to create lettering from scratch in the digital age. But he also produced the channeled book, "Talks with Trees," which has been gaining popularity over the past 10 years. Leslie likes to take subjects (such as the Max Fleischer cartoons, and lettering and font creation) and produce the "last word" on each subject. As he says, "It's mostly just to get these topics out of my system so I can move on." And move on he has! As amazon reader reviews of his Lettering "Bible" attest, the humor throughout the instructional text is part of what makes this book so enjoyable. "So I decided to move away from design topics and go for the humor--along with a bit of forward-looking social commentary," Leslie says. The result is the recently-published "We Hold These Truths," the story of what happens when a Truth Bomb drops on the world and people everywhere are compelled to live their truths. The book is as profoundly compelling as it is amusing. Like the book "Trees," We Hold These Truths is a channeled book that Leslie first began "receiving" more than 15 years ago. The contrast between design and spirit channeling is not so far apart, for as Leslie says, "Artists are seekers of truth. We are always questioning ourselves--why should it be this way rather than that? Where is the truth in this statement? The best artists are often those who willingly subject themselves to the most unmerciful critiques of their own creations." And," he says, "my body of work in the graphics field shows that there's nothing airy-fairy about us channelers. Actually, I'm a very down-to-earth guy." Indeed, Leslie tells us he's got another dozen or so books in planning stages on subjects ranging from health and nutrition to human sexuality. Which brings up Leslie's latest book, "Topless Summer Love Girls; A Gentleman's Guide to Women, Relationships & Breasts." It is a book that looks seriously tat men's issues while at the same time satirizing men's obsessions.
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Amazon color guide for graphic designers,
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I use this all the time to get CMYK data and transfer it to PhotoShop and InDesign. The color palette seems to be similar throughout. So when I want a wider, more vibrant look, I go to Kuler. But only AFTER I've looked at this.
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I bought both of the books, and this is a great companion piece to them for quick color sampling. I would recomend getting them all though.
-JR
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