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A K Peters
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Covers a range of color theory concerns for any involved in computer graphics, vision, image processing and photography) 『Erick Reinhard, et.al.'s COLOR IMAGING: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS covers a range of color theory concerns for any involved in computer graphics, vision, image processing and photography. Thus this book is a pick not just for college-level computer collections, but for advanced photography libraries as well. Chapters cover the basics of color's physics and chemistry, offering plenty of theory perfect for understanding how images are captured, altered, and presented. An accompanying DVD holds most of the color photos in the book in high dynamic range format including source code for several algorithms and provides readers with an essential key for understanding at an advanced level. A fine advanced computer and software engineering title, and a top pick for advanced college-level collections, offering excellent technical discussions and packing in details.』 『This book provides the reader with an understanding of what color is, where color comes from, and how color can be used correctly in many different applications. The authors first treat the physics of light and its interaction with matter at the atomic level, so that the origins of color can be appreciated. The intimate relationship between energy levels, orbital states, and electromagnetic waves helps to explain why diamonds shimmer, rubies are red, and the feathers of the Blue Jay are blue. Then, color theory is explained from its origin to the current state of the art, including image capture and display as well as the practical use of color in disciplines such as computer graphics, computer vision, photography, and film.』
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Barney Publishing
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Okay, but not real clear) 『This book does show all of the different colors but I didn't like the way they were presented as being paint brushes. Seemed a little confusing to explain to a 2 year old. Probably wouldn't order this one again, but loved the other Barney Goes to the Zoo book.』
(Simply colorific!) 『I got this book from the library the other day. I loved it so much that I am ordering it for my children. The book is full of colorful illustrations. Each page introduces a new color. The story is delightful. After only reading it a couple of times, my son who has been slow with his colors, is now pointing out these colors all over the house. I recommend this to anyone wanting to introduce colors to a child.』
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Rizzoli
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (The Way We Live With Color) 『LOVE IT. I can look at this book over and over again. This is a beautiful, visually stimulating, inspiring book for anyone interested in color and style. Major eye-candy. I think they should have gone with a different jacket though. To me there are so many other more beautiful and interesting photographs in the book so if you don't like the picture on the jacket as the saying goes: Don't judge a book by it's cover. I'm a big fan of World of Interiors and imagine if you like that magazine you will love this book.』 『The Way We Live… series of books celebrates environments and styles of living that are parallel around the world yet somehow stylistically distinct from place to place. Proceeding from the general to the specific, the book begins with different styles and forms of housing and how these are affected and influenced by color. For example, the simplicity of white clapboard New England colonials lend themselves to formal approaches to layout and landscaping, while the lighthearted pastels of the Caribbean invite informal juxtapositions of style. The meat of the book focuses on how color influences the way welive room by room and how color is greater than just paint on the wall. Bright and unusual accents on floors, furniture, ceilings, and windows add to the total effect. The book then explores how varying materials and textures—metallic surfaces, colored glass, stone, brick, or wooden ceilings—open up new areas for exploring color and mood. The concluding section of the book is a rich sequence of images depicting how color is used differently around the world. Taken together, this book is sure to be a source of inspiration for anyone interested in interiors or decorating.』
IPhone 3G used's review (Not just for quilters;) 『For anyone who works with "other people's" colors (that is, NOT painters and people who make their own colors). The book can help move people from a quilt made with 5 or 10 "matching" colors purchased at JoAnne's to quilts made from 100 or more; IMO, those quilts are MUCH livelier and sparkly. I found the computer-adjusted pictures of quilts made from "exact match" vs "100+" fabrics helpful.
Color Confidence helped explain to my mind why I find so much polymer clay work slightly flat; in most cases, there are<10 colors in a p.c. cane and none of the gentle variety and shading that one finds in the kind of quilts I really like. Same is true for intarsia and Fair Isle knitting.
If you're already working with>50 fabrics per artwork, you're probably doing this automatically, in which case the book might offer a new way to organize your color thinking. If you're in the "5-10 fabrics is enough" club and want to get out, or if you believe that decorator or SIL who said, "if you mix more than four patterns in a room, it will look too busy", the book offers a safely structured way to stretch your creativity.
Kaffe Fassett must be doing something similar, but I can't recall him ever discussing his process in print. Karen K. Stone writes about her own color-selection process in her book, but it might not be quite as accessible as the method Jinny presents.
Four stars not five because I don't need to own it; read, grasp the concept, and go. OTOH, if you didn't spontaneously knit your own Fassett knock-off from your own stash, it might be a book you turn to often to keep the color muscles loose and flexible.』
(THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COLORS) 『This book shows the important technique of how to harmonize the colors in the quilts we build.』
(For colour addicts) 『A beautiful book that helps you look at fabrics (and everything else) in terms of co-ordinated colours. Especially for people who are into colours, so to speak, and for those who'd like to get there.』
(Amazing revelations) 『This is a different way to look at colour, and has led me to be more adventurous than before. Jinny explains in clear detail how to apply her colour technique. I now look at fabric in an entirely different light.』
(Challenging, but well worth it.) 『Excellent book on color theory, with lots of illustrations, exercises -- really stretches your mind and makes you see "outside the box".』 『Drawn from her own experience in teaching and making quilts, Jinny Beyer's "Master Palette" system is great for quilters who want to develop color confidence quickly and easily without studying formal color theory. Quilters will learn how to create a smooth-flowing palette with no jumps from dark to light or one color to the next, and will also learn the secrets to "coloring" a quilt by shading colors and fabrics or scattering them throughout a quilt. Practice exercises help crafters combine colors again and again until they can confidently choose colors for any project. Includes eight quilt patterns and templates that encourage quilters to stretch their palette, handy eight-step guide to creating a multi-color, multiprint quilt, 128 color swatches, two master palettes, and eight-course outline and suggestions for color teachers. Jinny Beyer is one of the best-known and most highly respected fabric designers in the quiltmaking industry. Her signature line of fabrics, produced by RJR Fashion Fabrics, is sold throughout the world. Home: Great Falls, VA』
IPhone 3G used's review (Raunchy, irreverent, Reinaldo) 『This is one of the most unusual and wonderful books that I have had the pleasure of reading. This book begins with a play then has many small chapters, filled with wit, humor, and all manner of unbeleivable images. Reinaldo makes no apologies for his sexual leanings, or spare the feeling of the dictator Fifo (Fidel Castro) or his brother Raul. Many people are mentiond by name, and many have mulitiple names, sometimes male, sometimes female. This book is enertaining, tittilating, and wonderful. I would reccomend this book to anyone, but not for children. There are some extremely strong sexual images. Read it, it is truely unique. Cheers Reinaldo!!』
(Four stars for the English Version) 『Amazing. Explicit. Can be hard to swallow at times. Arenas is a true reactionary artist, making you cringe at his unapologetic prose yet yern for more. I couldn't put it down. The translation is quite good, especially the tongue twisters--Cuban speech is full of sarcasim and wit I was surprised how well the english version came out. Not for the prudish.』
(Wow!) 『Wow! I just finished reading "The Color Of Summer" by the late Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas--and what a challenge it is for me to describe or assess this extraordinary work of fiction. It seems to be a hybrid of memoir, satire, and wild, hallucinatory magical realism. Maybe I should de-emphasize the term "realism." Historical events are exaggerated or transmogrified by the author--often with hilarious and irreverent results. The relentless pursuit of pleasure is constantly at odds with the pursuit of power. In one chapter entitled "The Garden Of Computers" Arenas brilliantly satirizes the bureaucracy of informants. "...denunciations, backstabbings, and betrayals of friendship were the nourishment the machines lived on." This is as brilliant as anything Dickens ever wrote about corrupt institutions. Other authors that came to mind as I read "The Color Of Summer" were Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, William Burroughs and, especially, Salman Rushdie. The amazing word-play in this book(in which 30 tongue twisters are interspersed)is delightful. Credit for this must surely be shared by the English translator Andrew Hurley. Sex(especially gay sex)is an obsession with most of the characters in this book-including the central tyrant Fifo(Castro). This is not a book for the timid or prudish. However, underneath it all there is a powerful affimation of the human spirit. Arenas expresses profound sadness, frustration, and anger--which cuts right through all the raucous humor. But, more than that, he imparts a sense of real joy through his characters' acts of defiance and creativity. I thoroughly recommend this book. A masterpiece.』
(Fierce) 『The translation of this work is amazing - no way would you know that this delightful queen, Arenas, didn't originally write this in wickedly idiomatic English. He had to write this story, what?, seven times? It was confiscated, stolen, and lost over and over. And he re-wrote it over and over, until he could escape to freedom and finally see it in print. The story is a scream of queer humor atop the most tragic background of brutal state repression. Yet, in a way that only imprisoned Cubans seem to know how to do, his pride and dignity survive.』
(Magical Realism...or is it simply Surrealism?) 『If the famous altarpiece of Hieronymous Bosch , similarly titled the Garden of Earthly Delights, could become words, those words would probably read much like Reinaldo Arenas' last volume. As with any fine writer (and make no bones about it, Arenas is one of the best of the Latin writers), the act of drawing an audience into a book is part enjoyment but also part labor. Plan on working to catch all the subtle metaphors and references as well as the obvious in-your-face slapstick that flows continously from these pages.
Arenas' bifurcated feelings about his native Cuba are well know to the readers of his other novels: Cuba he adores - Castro he loathes. And as the author was dying from AIDS in the US he was able to concentrate all of his ambiguous responses to his native homeland into a grand guignol carnival Farewell Party. The precis for the story is the preparation for the celebration of Fifo's (thinly disguised name for Fidel Castro) "50th" anniversary of dictatorship. Arenas very cleverly separates his personality into three faces - Gabriel, Reinaldo, and Skunk in a Funk - in order to give us the many facets of view of living in Cuba now and before Castro. His characters are hilariously drawn campy creatures in an endless pursuit of earthly delights (aka gay sex) and if the interchange of gender pronouns (him/her) at times gets a bit overused, the premise is sound and keeps the stew bubbling. Even the atrocities attributed to "Fifo" are handled in sure polished slapstick that we are drawn more to laughter than to loathing. Cuba is finally liberated by being separated from its mooring to the sea floor to float out blissfully toward Europe..or....
Arenas was a brilliant writer who died too young, but as this final translation of his output proves, his was a significant voice not only as a gay writer, but as a revolutionary thinker under the duress of loss of freedom that still plagues Cuba. Highly recommended book....just plan to work some and to take your time.......』
『Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. His extraordinary memoir,Before Night Falls, was named one of the fourteen "Best Books of 1993" by the editors ofThe New York Times Book Reviewand has now been made into a major motion picture.
The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, thePentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in his "secret history of Cuba," it was, in fact, the last book Arenas wrote before his death in 1990. A Rabelaisian tale of survival by wits and wit,The Color of Summeris ultimately a powerful and passionate story about the triumph of the human spirit over the forces of political and sexual repression.』
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Dover Publications
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (color your own Matisse) 『This book is great! I've used it with first - third graders in class. It helps them become familiar with the artists work, and they also enjoy using it for tracing.』
(color your own Matisse) 『This book is great! I have used it with children in my classroom (ages 6-9 years). It gives them exposure to the work of Matisse, while the coloring part also allows them to find the details. It is also great to use as a tracing tool, or for patterning.』 『
Thirty carefully drawn black-and-white reproductions of Matisse's works. Selections includeBlue Nude I, La Danse, Icarus, The Circus, The Sword Swallower, The Thousand and One Nights, The Moorish Café,and many others. All paintings are shown in full color on the covers, so you can choose to recreate the originals.
Kakaku：599 saved$5.99
Hyperion Book CH
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Um...Where is the purple?) 『I like this book, my daughter likes this book, but I don't understand why they would include all of the primary and secondary colors except purple? Well, ok, the Zebra on the front is purple. The Baby Van Gogh dvd has a whole section on purple...other than that, its a very nice book...』
(beautiful and creative) 『We checked this out at the library and it is my favorite Baby Einstein book. My almost 2 y/o son seems to really like the cut outs and pictures too. It's nice to see famous art included as well as photographs. Illustrations some times seem a little too infantile, even if they are for infants, to learn to identify real things. This book is fun for kids and can be used to teach all kinds of things.』
(My baby sticks to this book.) 『My boy is 4 months old. He is very energetic. He is very quiet when he reads(?) this book. It has good color and mood. It is not simple so we can use long time.』
(Contains Adult Themes) 『This book is absolutely lovely with its art and display of colors. However, and I'm not one whose mind travels to lascivious thoughts in many situations, much less reading a children's book, the color red is portrayed in en extremely sexual manner. Just something to keep in mind.』
(Wonderful Book For Learning Colors...) 『I bought this book so I can start teaching my 18 month old daughter colors. I think it's fantastic. Each color has a piece of artwork that goes with it; which I love and then it shows different items that go with the color. Not only is it good for teaching colors, but it's good because it teaches words for everyday objects. My daughter can point out various things in the book. I highly recommend this book!』 『Open baby's eyes to the magic and beauty of color in the world around them. This unique visual board book features a Peek-A-Boo window that invites young children to see all the amazing things each color can be! Bold photos of colorful real life objects, accompanied by photographs of art masterpieces create a unique and pleasurable learning visual experience.』
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Mosby
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Quintessential Pediatric Derm Book) 『This book is a solid addition to a Pediatrician, Dermatologist or aspiring medical student's library. The pictures are detailed, and the accompanying text is nicely organized. The CD-ROM is a pleasant addition, as it has "slide-show" capabilities where you pick certain images to show. I use this function to teach residents and medical students. Overall, a great purchase!』 『Treat a full range of pediatric skin disorders! Concise yet thorough, this clinically oriented reference presents exactly what you need to diagnose and treat numerous dermatologic conditions in neonates, infants, children, and adolescents. Each chapter follows a consistent structure, covering everything from clinical features, differential diagnosis, and pathogenesis...to treatment, patient education, and follow-up care. Patient Education sheets, included in the text, can be photocopied and distributed to help patients and caregivers follow treatment plans for optimal outcomes. The text's up-to-date information - combined with an easy-to-use organization and conversational writing style - make this the ideal "all-in-one" dermatology reference for diagnosing and treating pediatric patients.
Find the guidance you need quickly and easily via a consistent chapter organization.
Increase your diagnostic accuracy thanks to nearly 600 illustrations which capture the way that conditions present in practice.
Implement effective therapeutic regimens with a convenient Dermatopharmacology and Topical Formulary.
Help your patients and their caregivers obtain better treatment outcomes with Patient Education sheets that can be photocopied and distributed.
Access the book's illustrations and patient education sheets in the office or on the go, thanks to a CD-ROM included in this 4th Edition.
Enhance your clinical knowledge with the latest guidance on diagnosis, therapy, as well as other rapidly changing areas in pediatric dermatology.
Develop your knowledge beyond the book's scope with the help of updated references.
IPhone 3G used's review (Eyecandy of great inspirational and practical value.) 『This is the second volume, following The Designer's Guide To Color Combination. I own both and regularly browse them, just for pleasure or for practical use.
For artists, designers and the general public interested in color combinations, this marvellous book offers a cross cultural approach to the use of color. Each page depicts an artists piece, which may be paintings, illustration or fabric, with a small description and why the color use is interesting. The main colors in the piece are then broken down into CMYK and RGB values. (For non computer artists: this means the values you have to type in graphic software to get the colors depicted).
And if all this is not enough, there is also a second example on each page with a variation on the palette of the main piece, but with the main colors structured in a different way, which may give another mood.
Add to each page, even more creatieve variations on the main piece, and you get an enormous amount of color combinations.
However, this book will not teach you color theory. The author takes a intuitive subjective approach which does not go any further than 'this is eye catching'. But when you are from the school 'I don't mind about the theory, just show me the pictures', this book is simply the best you can get.
If there is one negative thing I could say about this book: because the RGB and CMYK values are given for each piece it would be even more practical for computer users to add a cd, so they could straight away add all the palettes as files to their graphic software.
Apart from this: this is book which you'll browse and browse again.』
(A Great Time-Waster (I Mean That in the Best Way)) 『A practical book, a beautiful book and a wonderful resource. Even if you have no need for a graphic design book, this would make a great coffee table book to impress your friends. For the graphic designer, fresh color combinations can (and have for me) changed the direction of an entire project. I work with small business clients in a wide range of businesses and have found this book invaluable for starting new projects, establishing an identity or finding a few neat color combos for a flyer. This book is worth the money!』
(Global Color) 『This book looks beautiful and does have many color combinations to inspire. I was disappointed by the lack of information on the background of why the countries covered would favor the colors they do. Also, Canada was not covered and sarcasm written about their tardy submission-so all Canadians should suffer because of this? The book would be useful if you have a number of color references already as this uses a different approach.』
(A must for any visual artist) 『Along with its companion book in the series - The Designer's Guide to Color Combinations, The Designer's Guide to "Global" Color Combinations forms an essential reference for any visual artist or print publisher. I recommend these books to my students for their concept, storyboarding, color design, and animation layout work.
Each page breaks down a period, era, or style, and analyzes its color makeup with color and contrast swatches, CMYK data for each color, and a series of various combinations that are possible using the specified palette.
An artist could spend hours testing and comparing colors. Or they could look through these pages and find a color scheme in minutes.』
(Pretty, but not helpful) 『The first in this series was a marvelous reference book. This one, however, seems more of an excuse for the author to "write" rather than illustrate color usage. The examples in the book are adequate, but not as comprehensive of a treatment of the various geographical locations represented as one would like. The commentary is superfluous and at times irritating.
Not a bad reference for color combo inspiration, but overall disappointing and does not live up to its predecessor.』
『Following up on the popular Designer's Guide to Color Combinations, this book is certain to be an endless source of ideas and instruction for designers, illustrators and creative professionals in all fields. It features original designs from various regions around the world and examines their use of type and color. From Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East, readers will find dozens of fascinating pieces on display. Each design is carefully analyzed to show how and why it "works." The author also makes recommendations about which colors' should be used for type, border, background, etc. These suggestions, along with exact CMYK and RGB percentages for each design, will save designers much valuable time should they choose to incorporate the featured color combinations into their own work - a huge benefit for this audience.』
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Prentice Hall
Not yet published IPhone 3G used's review (Way Too Pricey for the Topic, Even as a Textbook) 『The two-star rating refers primarily to the ridiculous price. The book is obviously marketed at this price as a textbook, although I see it in Borders and B&N (alongside the other books on the shelf, this one is outstanding only because of its price). While the content is accurate and well presented, there are any number of other books available that do as well with the material at half, a third, or even less price. Itten is always a solid choice - and never a bad one. He is still the defining author on this topic and his books are classics.
Nice to look through, one notices that the pages are thin enough to allow leakthrough from the other side of each page. At this price, it should certainly be printed on heavier paper.
My daughter had this text in a recent class, but the instructor was gracious enough to suggest that students seek earlier editions at much lower prices. This instructor is among the enlightened few. Many instructors/professors have little or no idea how costly are the materials they list for students to use in their courses.
College/university faculty need to wake up and pay attention to this issue of textbook pricing, even if they are authors of the books!』
(Mystery of Color Solved For Me!) 『This book was required text for a color theory class I took recently. For years I've been looking for information on color but could not find anything beyond the basics, usually associated with painting/art books. This book is all- encompassing: information about various color theories, perceptions of color, color and light, color in printing and more. It is full of examples, pictures, graphs, charts. I came away with the information that I knew must be out there! I would recommend this book to any color student. Mine is dog-eared!』
(Brilliant book on Color Theory!) 『This book is a must read for anyone studying the visual arts.
This is a brilliant book. He is a brilliant artist. I studied under Paul Zelanski at the University of Connecticut, School of Fine Art. He used to have a lot of fun with us during class critiques. A favorite saying of his was "You know, there is no such thing as an ugly color. But THIS... THIS comes pretty close (pointing to something hanging on the studio wall)!" Then he'd launch into a wondeful dissertation on the theory and practice of color. I learned a great deal from him. You will too from his book.』
(Color, 3rd Ed.) 『Excellent source for artists, archietcts, or designers who want to push the envelope with color. Definite must for students in any Art and Design school!』
(color) 『It is just excellent,it provided me everything what I wanted,it helped me a lot in clearing all my doubts over the subject.』 『
For introductory courses in Color and Color Theory in Art Design and in the studio curriculum.
Addressed to artists and art students of all media, this text provides an informative but non-dogmatic introduction to the many different approaches to understanding color.
