Visual Media Course Manual – 4th Edition by Caryn Esplin
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Learn to create effective visual media projects to promote your business and personal needs. This real-world approach to graphic design and desktop publishing will teach you to communicate more effectively through visual design, as you unlock the secrets of professional designers. This has been the entry-level college textbook for Visual Communication students who are not experienced artists, yet need to learn the basics for visual design.
This text is complete with basic design principles, rules of typography, project examples and Adobe Creative Suite tutorials to get your started on several design projects. You can use this manual as if you were taking the Visual Media college course because it has project guides and rubric checklists to help you evaluate your own work.
Projects and content include: flier, event ad, logos, business cards, stationery, photography, image editing, montage, brochure, and portfolio.
Author: Caryn Esplin, Visual Communication Professor at Brigham Young University – Idaho.
CONGRATULATIONS! I am so excited to finally see the new revision of this book! The countless hours spent on helping and ensuring your students understand will make this a great asset to any eLibrary!
Thanks, Dustin… However this is the Visual Media Course Manual. The new book is due out in January! It will be called Visual Focus and will be completey different than this more basic book, you know well. We are using the 4th edition of the Visual Media Course Manual this semester in Comm 130 so I am posting the ebook links here. This will be her last semester 🙂
Caryn, I just have Elements 10–will this book help me with this, or is this for the complete Photoshop program. I am mainly interested in doing cards and posters for my grandchildren. Thanks for any help.
Hi Helen,
This book will help with overall knowledge of the design principles and rules of typography and give some sample projects. It also has a lot of tutorials in InDesign and Photoshop and Illustrator, but nothing for Photoshop Elements. It is more of a design book, and applies to several Adobe applications. We use this text for our entry level Visual Comm students at BYU-Idaho who need an overall introduction to design and the Adobe programs. If you want to learn how to use Elements, you can find something more specific for that program by searching through a Google search. Thanks for asking, though!
What is the above comment about this will be your last semester? Hopefully it is not true, I love your blog have been inspired many times and have learned much. I have also duplicated some of your photo trips, the last to the San Francisco area. Thank you for all you have done to help me become a better photographer and for sharing your insights. If you are moving on may the Lord bless you in your new assignment.
Hi Chuck! Thanks for the nice comment. I am glad to hear you enjoy my blog posts and website. I would love to see some of your photos. San Fransisco area is so awesome. I am not moving on, but I am just writing a new book for a course that is going online. This is definitely not my last semester. Thanks for asking, and I hope you will keep visiting my site. I am going to Russia before the end of the year, so I will some new foreign photos that should be interesting. Stay in touch!