Customer Reviews

Patterns and Palette Sourcebook: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design

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First of all the content on the CD is not resuable in anyway. It comes with a semi-functional interactive CD that will allow you to print patterns but they are all locked Flash files so you can not use them in illustrator or in any other program.

The book itself is page after page of repeated patterns with slight color adjustment. The patterns are uninspired and dated. I would not recommend this book to anyone if I could give it negative stars i would.

I have to share the same sentiments with a few of the other reviewers. Typically, when a CD-ROM comes with a book of this nature, one would expect the visual content (in this case the patterns displayed in this book) to be available on the disc itself. Not the case here, which I thought was a bit deceiving. It would have been much smarter (and more practical for the end user) for the book author to have provided the patterns as EPS files for use in a vector based software application such as Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. Otherwise what good is it to look at these patterns when you can't easily recreate them?

I bought this book because i thought i can use the pattern in the cd provided, but unfortunately you cant use any of them, they saved it as flash animation format. Unlike the other book I have purchased "the complete pattern library" where you can use any pattern in the book and even change the colors of them.

See my review of Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 2: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color and Pattern in Design by Heidi Arrizabala.....

I do agree that the CD is not that helpful, but the information of color combination of this book (and its newest edition) is priceless!!!

I highly recommend this book if you are looking for beautiful color pallets.... if you are a designers, artist, illustrator, you DO NOT NEED A CD OR A 'WELL DESIGNED" book (although I like its design! If you are creative in any matter and want to create your own designs, there is no need for vectors or to see this book as "page after page of patterns repeated"... learn to read between the lines people..... Maybe this book needs a change of name so it is referred to as a COLOR PALLETE REFERENCE book.... just be patient and follow the color formulations given in the book! Highly recommended!!!

Another gorgeous book ive purchased from amazon...i love it perfect for all lovers of textures, patterns design and art..thanks again lea

This book is filled with beautiful and diverse patters, some really modern and clean, others more ornate and traditional. The best part is the CD lets you change the colors in the patterns and then print them out for you to use. It's great for everything from professional design jobs to scrapbooking and personal projects.