The Perfect Digital Portfolio [Paperback]

Stephen Romaniello (Author)

Book Description

Series: Ava Guides | Publication Date: May 28, 2003

Combining the aesthetic and the technical, this sourcebook provides the fastest methods of reaching thousands of people with your portfolio of digital images. Photographers and designers who have published their works on CDs and websites offer invaluable creative tips, while art directors and art buyers suggest ways to show, organize, and promote your images for maximum effect.

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About the Author

Stephen Romaniello is an artist, educator, and writer. He began his career in graphics in 1980 as a production artist and typesetter; soon he was promoted to designer and then art director. In 1982, he became a partner at Armory Park Design Group. Three years later he founded Congress Street Design, a full-service design firm. In 1987, at the beginning of the digital revolution in graphics technology, he purchased his first computer. Romaniello accepted a faculty position in 1990 at the Advertising Art program at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona, with the intention of developing a state-of-the-art digital graphics program. He served as department chair of the renamed Digital Arts Department for eight years.
Romaniello has developed curriculum and training materials for many of the mainstream graphics programs, and has offered seminars at the Maine Photographic Workshops, the League for Innovation, and National Business Media. A certified instructor in Adobe Photoshop he currently teaches digital art courses at Pima Community College. He is the coauthor of "Mastering Adobe GoLive 4" with Molly Holtschlag and the author of "Mastering Photoshop 6," "Photoshop 7 Savvy," "Photoshop CS Savvy," and "Photoshop CS2 Savvy," all published by Sybex. He is also the author of "The Perfect Digital Portfolio," published by Sterling and "The Photoshop Visual Encyclopedia" published by Wiley. His column, "The Digital Eye," appears in "Digital Graphics" magazine. Romaniello is the founder of Gorilla Geeks, a company that offers onsite training and consulting throughout the country. His home and studio are in Tucson, Arizona.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: AVA Publishing (May 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2884790160
• ISBN-13: 978-2884790161
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,487,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Style Over Substance, March 7, 2004

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This review is from: The Perfect Digital Portfolio (Paperback)

The book has no cohesive message. It doesn't provide any guiding principles or other ideas that help photographers or web designers to build digital porfolios. Too much of the text is spent defining basic terms like JPEG and Photoshop and too little teaching relevant principles of design or any other topic that can further various artists understanding of the subject. Furthermore, nearly 1/3 of the book is spent asking the same five interview questions (how many hits do you get a week, how effective is your website at generating clients,) to a series of photographers, web designers, etc. This would be fine except the questions do not help advance any overarching messages in the book either. They seem to just hang there as an interesting side note. It appears that the author was far more interested in designing a interesting looking book than a interesting learning book. Additionally, the page layout varies so significantly from page to page that readers will find it difficult to maintain focus and follow the point.

It is as if the author wrote the book freehand and never sat down to create a outline of the message that he wanted to convey. This shines through from the first page and doesn't stop until the last page. Unfortunately, this means that readers will learn very little on how to build "the perfect digital portfolio."