These are a couple of useful plug-ins for photoshop and illustrator you cant add them to teh university computers but if you have your own copy of CS4 or CS5 you can add them and they are free.
the photoshop one is called pixel blender
and the Illustrator one is called SCRIPTOGRAPHER
if you get them you can do stuff like this …
scriptographer
scriptographer
Pixel Blender
Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Anyone interested in myths and stories and how they have grown through the centuries and become part of humanities DNA needs to read this book.
Molly Bang: Picture This: How Pictures Work
The focus here is on good composition and how that effects the reader experience.
Paul Arden: It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book
Everyone that wants to think differently about creativity hould take a look at this book.
Mark Gatter: Production for Print (Portfolio Skills: Graphic Design)
A pretty detailed guide on how to get your work ready for print.
Yolanda Zappaterra: Editorial Design (Portfolio Series)
great simple guide to the basics of editorial design, recommended.
Alan Male: Illustration: A Theoretical & Contextual Perspective (Required Reading Range)
Martin Salisbury: Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2010 (Writers' and Artists' Yearbook)
Pat Francis: Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write
David A. Berona: Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels
Martin Salisbury: Play Pen: New Children's Book Illustration
Frame Publishers: 3deluxe: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design
R. Klanten: Playful Type: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts
