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Title: Coloring Web Graphics .2 by Lynda Weinman, Bruce Heavin, Ali Karp ISBN: 1-56205-818-5 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Takes the work out of figuring out color schemes
Comment: This is one web design book I don't think I could ever part with! The CD alone is well worth the money. I haven't read any of the text, so I can't comment on that part. But the rest of the book (75%) is nothing but color information and swatches. This book even makes a bright red background look doable on the web!
Rating: 5
Summary: Awsome!
Comment: I was overjoyed to find that this is more than a book, but a complete software product for color picking in reguards to the web. Inteligently layed out palettes, arranged in value, hue, saturation, analagous, and hundereds of other configurations for the creation of web graphics. Written for implementation in Photoshop swatches, and for other graphic products as well for my mac and pc. I haven't used Pantone Web color since(thanks God)! This is a something I think most web designers can't be without! The palettes alone are worth it to me. I haven't gone wrong with one of Lynda's books yet! Thanks again Lynda!
Rating: 4
Summary: Designers only please
Comment: This is an elderly book, bordering on ancient (1997!), but still useful.
Pro designers will find the book useful for the tools it provides, most especially if they are new to the net. The palettes make a lot of sense to me, whereas they seemingly don't to non-design people (who look at me oddly when I try to explain why).
People who design web pages but who are not graphic designers will not find it very useful, since Weinman and Heavin start at the very beginning of how to present color on the web (meaning the mechanics, not color theory). Most geeks already know this information; they're looking for plug-and-play solutions (ie: instant color palettes for web pages), and this book doesn't appear to be written for that, although it does offer many groupings of colors. (I personally would move the assignment of color around on almost all of them.)
Designers approach web work from a different place than tech types.
Beefs about the printed colors on the page being different from the RGB colors just point up the difference between someone who knows the field and its tools, and someone who is not an experienced designer for print as well as web. As someone else mentions, Weinman and Heavin point this out from the beginning.
It's outdated in terms of some of the stuff on the CD -- Weinman has a website somewhere correcting some of the mistakes on it. There are also some god-awful backgrounds that I will probably never use unless it's for something very specific (and certainly not for a client), but what the hey. The palettes are worth the price of the book to me, but are not to my geek fiance.
I'm also very pleased with the information on making hybrid web-safe colors. There are many times I've longed for a color that I can't use, and this'll get me a lot closer!
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Title: Deconstructing Web Graphics by Lynda Weinman, Jon Warren Lentz ISBN: 1562058592 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: designing web graphics.4, Fourth Edition by Lynda Weinman ISBN: 0735710791 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Preparing Web Graphics by Lynda Weinman, Ali Karp ISBN: 1562056867 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Coloring Web Graphics by Lynda Weinman, Bruce Heavin, Ali Karp ISBN: 1562056697 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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