Mediapedia: Creative Tools and Techniques for Camera, Computer, and Beyond Paperback – Bargain Price, November 18, 2008

At the moment the two people in our house are fighting for face time with this book. I got the first look-see, and loved it because in combines clear explanations of what were mysterious concepts to me, like layers and filters, with clear explanation of design principles with projects that stress the importance in any art of practice. Now techie hubbie is glued to it, going page by page. So I'll go play with mediapedia.com!

I may have misread the description of this book, but I assumed it was an inspirational book for professional designers/photographers. I found it far too simplified with very little new information for me personally. It is probably great for beginning Photoshop and digital camera users.

MEDIAPEDIA is a wonderful resource-- a tour of the creative frontiers of digital media... a collection of approaches and techniques each of which is a powerful tool... and a suite of demonstrations of creativity-in-practice. Like THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG, MEDIAPEDIA has the serendipituous joy-- and the extraordinary utility-- of a Swiss Army knife. It's a delight that no student nor creative professional should be without.

For full disclosure, I was a student of Kit's in grad school and have gotten in the habit of gifting his quite wonderful animation book to co-workers who are beginning to work in the field of digital media.Kit has a flair for making even the most complex visual theories feel basic and has a deep rooted desire to share digital image making tools with everyone in his radius - thanks to the internet, it's a pretty big radius.Mediapedia is an easy to read, workbook style book designed to help everyone use their available computer & digital tools in the creation & enhancement of media. Success is in the details and Mediapedia will help you master the techniques to perfect the details in both your personal and professional media creation.

Mediapedia, Creative Tools and Techniques for Camera, Computer and Beyond will expand your creative vision. The topics flow seamlessly, and the photographs do much of the talking. Reading this book is like walking into a familiar room and suddenly discovering other doors, that lead you to other rooms that you did not know existed.....While not being simplistic, Mediapedia is simply elegant.Carolyn Marks Blackwood

An excellent book! Fun, while being very informative. Lots of pics and graphics as examples of what is being discussed help the learning. Highly recommended