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Anne-Marie Concepción ("HerGeekness")
is an accomplished design studio owner, consultant, trainer, author
and speaker on all things related to digital design and production.
Her first book, Professional Web Site Design (HOW Design
Books, 2001) covered the process of web site development for print
designers
making the transition to web site design. InDesign CS/CS2
Breakthroughs is her latest work, co-authored
with David Blatner.
Anne-Marie's cross-media design studio, Seneca
Design & Training,
creates print, web and interactive PDF projects for business clients.
Anne-Marie is also seasoned Adobe and Quark authorized trainer
with clients across the country, especially those moving to Adobe
InDesign and InCopy.
Her free bimonthly e-zine, DesignGeek,
with "tips and techniques
for the digital designer" is enjoyed by thousands of designers,
publishers and pre-press pros around the world. Visit DesignGeek
Central at her studio's web site.
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Anne-Marie's favorite books: |
 Mac
OS X: The Missing Manual by David Pogue -- My first few months
in OS X, it was so great to have this book at my side. David's
friendly, down-to-earth voice, embodied in his book, really helped
me understand what was going on and get over some rough spots.
When I place this book on end, it automatically falls open to the
section on fonts. LOL!
Adobe GoLive
5 Bible (Out of Print) by Deborah Shadovitz -- I've been developing and hosting web sites
for ten years, and early on, after giving every web authoring tool available
a trial run (including Dreamweaver, for a hellish six months), Adobe GoLive felt "just
right." Deborah's book was the only one I found that clearly explained how
to do the most complex things in GoLive, and gave me a running start on GoLive
6 and 7 (CS), which sadly never got a publisher's blessing for an updated book.
I've got my fingers crossed she's writing one for CS2.
 Real World
Adobe InDesign CS by Olav Kvern and David Blatner -- It was hard for me to
choose which of Blatner and Kvern's "Real World" books to choose for my top ten,
as I have all of them, I think (even Kvern's on PageMaker 4, published in 1990!).
So I decided to go with the one that happens to be sitting on my desk right now.
Comprehensive, friendly and funny, as always. I don't know how they do it, it'd
take me ten years to write something like this.
 Photoshop
Restoration & Retouching by Katrin Eismann -- A beautifully laid-out book
with down-to-earth step-by-step instructions on how to make miracles happen in
Photoshop. Katrin teaches advanced techniques that even a newbie can understand.
I haven't yet bought her latest book, Photoshop Masking and Compositing,
but I'm sure it's at least as great as this one. It's on my shopping list!
(The author's original choice was an older edition that is now out of print. This link is to the current edition)
Professional
Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction (Out of Print) by Dan Margulis -- Dan is
the man. THE MAN for understanding not just how to use Photoshop's levels, curves,
channels and color modes to color-correct photos, but also how to filter your
decisions in those dialog boxes with a thorough knowledge of the vagaries of
pre-press and the physics of process inks on paper. His underlying philosophy
is that you can color-correct on a grayscale monitor if you're doing it right.
Amazing.
 Eric Meyer
on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design by Eric Meyer -- Eric is the
gentle giant of the standards-based web design world, so reading this book is
like reading the Bible written by God. Amazingly clear instructions and explanations
help demystify the whole process of using CSS to format text and lay out web
sites.
 The Mac Is
Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams -- This book should be bundled with every
program ever sold to anyone who writes anything on a computer that they're going
to send to other people. The end. (But if a Mac is not a typewriter, why are
its tab stops every half-inch? Weird.)
 InDesign CS/CS2
Breakthroughs by David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion -- Like David, I
feel compelled to include our new book in this list. I don't think there's any
other one like it available for the program. Now that the book is done (a year
in the making!), when I read the posts on InDesign listservs and forums from
users looking for help, I'm subconsciously going, "We covered that one… got that
one... that one's on page 212... oh yeah, that was a toughie but we got it..." I
have to stop myself from posting excerpts as replies! LOL.
 Photoshop Channel Chops (Out of Print) by David Biedny,
Bert Monroy and Nathan Moody -- The first and only edition of this
book was published in 1998; and it's now going for hundreds of dollars
-- for a softcover! -- If you can find one (no, you can't have mine!).
And it is worth it. Channel Operations (what "chops" is short
for; mixing, modifying and filtering individual image channels) teaches
you that EVERYTHING in Photoshop is simple masking and arithmetic.
Understand this slim book and you'll understand every version of
Photoshop you'll ever use.
QuarkXPress
Unleashed (Out of Print) by Brad Walrod -- Back when I was a heavy QuarkXPress
user, this was one of my most well-thumbed books. Brad wrote this
book for the rest of us… not the newbies, but the people who made
a living laying out documents in XPress. Power techniques for power
production that got you out of the office by 5. Never updated beyond
QuarkXPress v3, though, unfortunately.
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