Since I am being asked to choose a list of favorites, I am going to choose books I enjoy reading. However, stories and adventures won't be on the list because I reserve those for listening on my iPod. So, my iPod sets me free to read about technology and computer applications.
Here is a list of books I love to read during lunch hour or in the afternoon coffee hour. Some I read from cover to cover; others I open randomly and begin reading serendipitously. I seem to pick up some little piece of information that is new and exciting just about every day! See if there are any in this list you might find exciting.
Katrin Eismann's books have each a website which provides links to sample files the reader can use to complete the work outlined in the book. There are also galleries of work submitted by eager students of the books. If you visit the sites you will see for yourself the scope and sequence of the books.
Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching
Adobe Photoshop Masking & Compositing
I was about to choose other books than the two Eismann books because of the trouble I had validating the use of the ampersand which is part of their titles. At the W3C validator, it would be tagged as an error and named as an unescaped ampersand. I thought of just typing "and" or choosing other titles but that would make it so that I would never know how to use the ampersand in data. After many searches and no success, I finally found that the W3C had a page, Character Entity References in HTML 4, where I located the code that gave me the ampersand and no validation errors. Here is a chart which also defines the ampersand, among other characters. ASCII Character Codes
I have chosen the site of Bert Monroy, photorealist digital painter, as one that I admire. Aside from the fact that his paintings are amazing, the site is impressive in its simplicity and tight organization. White is the background and it does provide a non-distracting way to exhibit the wonder work displayed against it.
Bert Monroy
Another site that is very static in its background (which is black throughout) is the Corel Painter X site. Again, as in Monroy's site, I like the way that everything is organized. This is a goal I have! Decide on a strong topic that can then be representative and linked with subtopics. That has always eluded me and with Spry Menus, I think I might be able to achieve that simplicity of design.
Corel Painter
All right, black and white...that is difficult for me! I love choosing colors, I love to key the bacground to what is being displayed! That is why, along with great organization, I love the Metropolitan Museum of Art web site! Different sections use different background colors.
The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts
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