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One-Color Graphics: The Power of Contrast

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I really think this book deserves a better rating than two stars. This book shows how one color graphics can be beautiful and impactful too. This book is not a book for learning photoshop technique but for learning how to have a good layout with just one color. Person that buy this book to learn about photoshop has found a wrong book. As a graphic designer, dealing with clients want one color graphic most of the time, I find this book very useful.

I suppose I didn't read the reviews closely enough but I was surprised that this was a showcase book. I was expecting some instruction but there is absolutely none -- at least not textually. That is not the fault of the author but I'm including this in my comment to clarify for other potential buyers. I am teaching myself design and am not at the level where I can learn just by looking at other examples. I am sure for those with formal design educations or with professional experience this book will hold much more inspiration.

Agree that book is a good resource for folks who are expanding their tech skill base. Unfair to trash designers who didn't "get it all" in college. 1) Have been designing myself for 20 yrs +" and I KNOW my skill base requires constant fine tuning. Luckily I enjoy learning. 2) College graphics classes have little time to teach a lot of material, now to include web, much of it conceptual. 3) Print is inherently complex because of its permanence. Have yet to meet a young designer who got the tech stuff in the classroom. That's what internships are for. "Rock on", young designers, you'll be learning forever.

This book is a find and a great visual aide. I haven't seen a book like this since the two-color print book I bought a few years back. To the person who bought this book to learn how to set up documents in photoshop for one color printing: You should have learned how to do that in your graphic design classes in college. If you haven't taken any graphic design classes then you have no business trying to be a designer.

If you are considering this book to learn the Photoshop techniques that would allow you to produce documents that appear multi-color but are printed with only one ink, I don't think this will be the book you want. It has a lot of lovely photos of such printed pieces, but other than tell you what software, paper and printing methods were used, there is no instruction in achieving similar results. I expected more of a training approach to teach you HOW to do it, not just show the results.