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PRODUCT INFORMATION AND LINKS

A few products and services are mention in the Site, or should be. My comments are purely subjective, but with so many choices in the market place, maybe they'll be helpful. Here is a list:

Software

This site was created with Dreamweaver MX, from Macromedia, Inc., 600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, 800-470-7211, www.macromedia.comwww.macromedia.com. I have worked with several other programs and although Dreamweaver was the most difficult to get into, it offers the most control.

Photoshop is a image-editing, photo-retouching, Web-graphics software application, one of many excellent products from: Adobe Systems Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, 800-833-6687, www.adobe.com.

My change from Windows 98 to Windows XP was encouraged by the sudden demise of my hard drive (signaled by its playing, albeit quite softly, the drum solo from Wipe Out). But I almost smiled because I had most of my important files on CD. The smile disappeared when I discovered that most of my CD's were unreadable on my new computer. Although I am sure there are other applications available, but I found CD Roller, www.cdroller.com,and for $19.95, and a very short wait to download the software, I was able access most, not all, of the files on my CD's.

For a wide range of tutorials (Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Painter, Photoshop 6, Photoshop 7, and many more) click on www.lynda.com. The tutorials can be purchased on CD, or join the site for $25/mo. and view as many of the tutorials as you want.

Hardware

Doing digital graphics without a graphics tablet is truly like a day with out sunshine. The tablet and pen replace the mouse, and one draws and works more naturally. Thank you Jane. Wacom makes a full line of tablets from small to big. Wacom Technology Corp., 1311 SE Cardinal court, Vancouver, WA 98683, 800-922-9348, www.wacom.com.

Photographic

Ilfochrome (formerly Cibachrome) is a color reversal photographic paper and related chemistry from: lford Imaging USA Inc., West 70 Century Road, Paramus, NJ 07652, 201-265-6000, www.ilford.com. Their products are great, and if you have questions or problems, they really will get you the information you need.

Used for the inkjet prints: Epson Stylus Pro 7600, a wide, inkjet printer, Epson's Ultrachrome inks, and a wide range of print media, from: Epson America, Inc., which is the US affiliate of Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, www.epson.com. Epson products can be offered from Epson Store, 800-873-7766, on line within the Epson web site.

Lumijet is a line of archival inks, ink delivery systems and cartridges, and papers. Luminos Photo Corp., P.O. Box 158, Yonkers, NY 10705, 800-586-4557, www.lumijet.com, email to luminos@att.net. Many of the prints shown on wm-arts.com are printed on Lumijet Museum Parchment, which is simply stunning.

An excellent source of photographic and digital supplies: Calumet Photographic, (800) 225-8638 in the US and 08000 964396 in the UK, www.calumetphoto.com.

Archival Supplies

For a full line of archival mounting and storage products contact Light Impressions, P.O. Box 787, Brea, CA 92822-0787, 800-828-6216, www.lightimpressionsdirect.com.

For a full line of archival supplies and equipment contact University Products, 517 Main Street, P.O. Box 101, Holyoke, MA 01041-0101, 800-628-1912, www.universityproducts.com or info@universityproducts.com.

Books: Image Related

Photoshop Masking & Compositing, by Katrin Eismann, Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-7357-1279-4. Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, by Katrin Eismann, Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-7357-1350-2. Assuming you know your way around Photoshop, at least enough not to be terrified of its many options, these are the two best books that I have seen on Photoshop. Unlike many books that seem to suggest that there are quick and easy ways--shortcuts--to do almost anything, Eismann shows and explains the best ways to do more than what most people will ever need to do in Photoshop. Best may not always be quick and easy, but it is about understanding and quality. And if you are terrified by layers and masks, she will disabuse you of those fears.

The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs, by Henry Wilhelm and contributing author Carol Brower, www.wilhelm-research.com/book.html. This is "the world's first--and is still the only--book on the often controversial subject of preserving our fading color photographic heritage." The site, www.wilhelm-research.com, has lots of information regarding printers, inks, papers, and other, related, subjects.

Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction, by Dan Margulis, from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 0-471-40399-7. Do not get this book to learn Photoshop. But, do get it to understand color and learn how to make the corrections and adjustments: essential reading for printing on inkjet printers, or preparing art for commercial printing.

Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, by Dan Burkholder, from Bladed Iris Press, bladediris@aol.com, ISBN 0-9649638-6-8. If you want to understand what's going on in the digital graphics, even if you have no desire to make your own negatives, this is the book. Titling the book "Making Digital Negatives," was simply a way of reducing unwanted sales, don't let them win, buy the book anyway.

The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book, by Linnea Dayton & Jack Davis, Peachpit Press, ISBN 0-201-77208-9, www.peachpit.com. The book comes with a CD which includes tutorials, layer styles and buttons, and lots of patterns, gradients, brushes, etc. for Photoshop. I was never able to access the layer styles and buttons, and Peachpit never answered my email. But regardless, the book is a series of tutorials/projects which integrate all the I'll-never-need-that stuff with the wow-I'd-love-to-do-that stuff. (That's not an elegant way to say it, but if you've worked a little with Photoshop you'll understand.)

Books: Writing

The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. From a general theory of fiction to the process of writing and exercises, this is book worth reading by writers and readers alike.

On Being a Novelist, by John Gardner. New York, Harper & Row, 1983. Gardner offers advice and observations that are at once consoling and daunting.

On Moral Fiction, by John Gardner. Basic Books, 1978. I have bought and given away more than two dozen copies. It is a book to be read and reread, then read again. Although centered on fiction, Gardner's ideas apply to all the arts.

On Writing Well, William Zinsser

On Writing, by Stephen King

On Writing, by George V. Higgins

Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forester

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White

A Manual of Style,