LibGuides: Graphic Communication: Photography and Multimedia

Gateway Libraries

Great web sites with galleries of best work of photographers.

Vandelay Design & Gallery (Web site)
"Best Photographer" portfolio gallery, links to tutorials on Photoshop, Illustrator, photo editing, business card and poster design and more. Some commercial advertising.
Photoshop Star: Free Tutorials (Web site)
Very specific step-by-step tutorials on Adobe Photoshop basics and special effects
Life Photo Archive
Over 10 million photos, archived by Google, most of them never published, provided with historical context. Search by keyword, browse by decade, or by events, people, or places. Names of photographers and the dates that photos were taken,ranging from 1750 to the 2000s

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
With LinkedIn Learning, students and staff have access to more than 1,400 training videos in a broad range of subjects including business skills, photography, design, music, video, animation, and web design and development. New courses are added every week.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
To access this database, choose Wisconsin in the first box and enter your zip code in the second box. This will only work if you are accessing it inside of Wisconsin.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Provided by Wisconsin DPI.
Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals. Provided by Wisconsin DPI.

Photography Books, DVDs & Videos in the Gateway Libraries
Selected materials on taking photographs, editing using Photoshop and other digital photography programs. Formats include books, CDs, and e-books available online through NetLibrary

EBSCO eBooks This link opens in a new window
Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop handbooks, guides to photography, and many aspects of multimedia and digital design are available full-text online. These books can be searched in the Online Catalog (they will say "electronic resource" -- just click on "View this e-book.")

Books & DVDs in the Library Catalog on Graphics Careers
Resources to help you decide if this career is right for you, how to prepare for it, what the possibilities are for employment
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Photographers
Job description, trends, work environment and tasks, qualifications, earnings, projected job outlook