Is Computer Arts Magazine for You? A Checklist. (Computer Arts - Magazine)

Member Name: luismorais

Product:	Computer Arts - Magazine
Date:	03/03/03 (116 review reads)
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Advantages: Great in all aspects

Disadvantages: None

So you wanna be a design super star? This review is for the wannabe and newbie designer. Definitely, Computer Arts is the best computer design magazine for professionals in 2 worlds. I know from my own experience that many newbies do feel attracted to buy this magazine as a learning resource for maturing artistic and software skills. My advice is: save those precious £6 now and go for real beginner?s books on the software you feel most sexually attracted to (you got to have it with passion). Please don?t feel left out, I am just trying to help you aim right before you shoot (read my review on Computer Arts Special, perhaps that is more your stuff).

Basically, Computer Arts magazine is aimed to the following audience:

- People working with design for at least 3 years
- People who are platform independent and know how to go around any programme if they need to use universal settings such as hue, saturation and levels, for example
- People who are looking for something out of the tutorial model. Yes there are tutorials in the magazine but they are really advanced
- People more interested in the ideas and conception behind the designs than in the techniques. Once again, there are tutorials in the magazine but newbies might be disappointed with the amount of interviews, software and hardware reviews and all that blah, blah, blah professional people are looking for
- People who like typography to the point of finding completely normal to have a whole page, sometimes two for the sole purpose of hosting the title of an article
- Designers and artists who want to feel really depressed with the fact that other designers and artists can do in a couple of hours that nice composition you are still imagining

So if by any chance you are a professional in the creative field and happen to be involved with computers you would like to know that CA is a dynamic magazine which is not afraid of experimenting with the latest creative trends o

n itself, perhaps it can become your ultimate source of inspiration as well. They have recently updated their design and topics include digital video as well. A nice new addition to the magazine structure is a Q&A section which covers packages from Flash to 3D to Video.

The monthly CD brings the tutorial files and excerpts from books, really cool stuff indeed.

Another great section in the magazine is the ?Exposure? one which features work of new designers that submit their works to the magazine and the ?Profile? section, featuring well-know designers, their works and thoughts.

If you want to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest news and trends of the computer creative world and keep yourself sharp with new skills and techniques in various fields, CA is the magazine for you.

Web Resources:

Please visit their website before you buy any issue, they have tutorials there as well!!!
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/

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