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Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education
and Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
In that role he is involved in all aspects of the training that
is provided to NAPP members. He also creates the very popular weekly
Quicktime-based tutorials that appear on the website.
Prior to joining the NAPP, Dave lived in Canada and spent many
years as a trainer and author. In addition to his many books, Dave
writes for Photoshop User magazine, teaches at Photoshop
World and is the Lead Instructor for the Photoshop Seminar Tour.
He is also featured on a series of instructional DVDs such as Best
of Photoshop User, Photoshop CS2 for Beginners and Photoshop
CS2 Layer Techniques.
In his spare time, Dave is the Graphics Editor for Layers magazine
and dedicates the remainder of his time freaking out his Florida
co-workers by wearing shorts to work every day, simply “because
he can.”
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Dave's favorite books: |
 Before & After by
John McWade -- I’d always enjoyed John’s newsletter Before & After:
How to Design Cool Stuff, so I was not at all surprised that
his book also provided a ton of great ideas.
 The Photoshop
WOW! Book by Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton -- The first copy I owned was the
original Photoshop WOW! Book for Photoshop 2.5, and it was one of the first
books to open my eyes to the many possibilities of Photoshop (beyond scanning,
brightening and sharpening). Many versions later, it’s still a great, inspiring
book.
Professional
Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction (Out of Print) by Dan Margulis -- When
I first started teaching Photoshop I realized I needed to learn more about color
correction and thankfully found this book. It became my “bible” and truly helped
me to better understand the world of color correction.
 Photoshop
Down & Dirty Tricks by Scott Kelby -- The first edition of this book that
I owned was for Photoshop 6, (out of print) and it did a great job (and still
does today) at demonstrating that a technique doesn’t have to be challenging
to be effective. I love the fact that some of the coolest techniques only take
a couple of steps and yet the results are awesome.
 Creating Killer
Web Sites: The Art of Third-Generation Site Design by David Siegel -- In
the “early days” of the web, much of the resources I found were written by html
programmers who knew about the concept of saving graphics for the web, but not
the aesthetics of web design. David Siegel’s book did a great job of combining
the “theory” and the “art” of web design.
Design Essentials (Out of Print) by
Adobe Press -- I think I’ve owned 3 (4?) versions of this book, and each one
helped me get some great ideas for working with Illustrator and Photoshop, and
how to combine the two together to get some pretty good results. Besides, how
could you not like a book that came with 3D glasses!
 Real World
Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS by Bruce Fraser -- If you want to learn
more about the ins and outs of Camera Raw, this is the book for you. Period.
 The Adobe
Illustrator WOW! Book by Sharon Steuer -- I really enjoy books that teach
AND inspire me, and in the world of Adobe Illustrator, the Illustrator WOW! book
certainly has done that. It’s a great combination of step-by-step techniques
and artwork that really does make you say “wow!”
 The Photoshop
CS Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby -- Scott Kelby has a way
of writing about the things people want and need: in this case, the key things
people want to do with their digital images. It covers everything from organizing
images to fixing common problems, all done in Scott’s trademark humorous, easy-to-follow
manner.
 The
Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook (Out of Print) by David Biedny
and Bert Monroy -- Okay, this book is a little more than 10 years
old, but it was probably the first Photoshop book ever written and
grabbed my attention when I was first learning Photoshop. I gained
a whole new appreciation for this book years later when I realized
what Bert Monroy was creating without layers!
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