99 ratings | 19 reviews | avg rating:3.71

Ted's Bookshelves

read (99)
currently-reading (3)
to-read (5)
wishlist (0)

Ted's Friends (32)

Mark

1,592 books | 108 friends

Tom

76 books | 24 friends

Walt O'Hara

976 books | 149 friends

Larry

157 books | 55 friends

Tim

31 books | 26 friends

Tami

1,052 books | 154 friends

Morgan

337 books | 147 friends

The Irrepressible Crank

237 books | 67 friends

More friends…

Ted Alspach

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/toulousifer

born

The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.beziergames.com

genre

Computers & Internet, Crafts & Hobbies, Humor

member since

March 2009

About this author

edit data

Ted Alspach is the author of more than 30 books on a variety of topics, such as "Illustrator for Dummies" "The Complete Idiot's Guide to QuarkXPress" "Internet Email Quick Tour" "Photoshop Complete" and even "Microsoft Bob" (really). He has written dozens of articles for Macworld, MacAddict, Adobe Magazine, Publish, and other magazines. Ted has been a featured speaker at several conferences and shows, and shared the stage with Steve Jobs at the 2001 Macworld keynote to introduce Adobe's new OSX versions of their creative products. Ted has a patent for vector-based flares, has created two fonts, Ransom Note and Lefty Casual, the latter which has been used by Comedy Central in their promo's.

As the creator of the comic strip "Board 2 Pieces" (...more

combine editions
Books by Ted Alspach

Average rating: 4.78 · 46 ratings · 2 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Illustrator CS4 for Dummies 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Illustrator CS4 Bible 4.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Illustrator "X" Studio Secrets: With CDROM [With CDROM] 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Illustrator CS5 Bible 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Acrobat 3 for Macintosh & Windows 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997	My rating:
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to QuarkXPress 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	My rating:
	Kais Power Tools Studio Secrets: The Official Book with CD-ROM by Ted Alspach (Goodreads Author), Steven Frank 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	My rating:
	Microsoft Bob by Ted Alspach (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Alspach 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	My rating:
	Internet E-mail Quick Tour: Sending, Receiving and Managing Your Messages Online 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	PDF with Acrobat 4 by Ted Alspach (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Alspach 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:

More books by Ted Alspach…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Ted is Currently Reading

Ted Alspach is currently reading:

The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film

by J.W. Rinzler

bookshelves: currently-reading

My rating:

Jan 17, 2010 01:01pm

Ted Alspach is currently reading:

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

My rating:

Jan 07, 2010 12:33pm

Ted Alspach is currently reading:

Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

by Roy W. Spencer

bookshelves: currently-reading

My rating:

Dec 27, 2009 05:23pm

rss
Ted's Recent Updates

Ted Alspach gave to: Illustrator CS5 Bible by Ted Alspach (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Nov 22, 2010 11:43am
Ted Alspach gave to: Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2010	My rating:
Great take on superheroes from a "classic" superhero/villian point of view.
May 13, 2010 11:26am · see review
Ted Alspach marked as to-read: The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminski	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 01:01pm
Ted Alspach is currently reading: The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film by J.W. Rinzler	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 01:01pm
Ted Alspach marked as to-read: Fragment by Warren Fahy (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 01:00pm
Ted Alspach marked as to-read: The Undead Situation by Eloise J. Knapp	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 12:59pm
Ted Alspach marked as to-read: Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 12:58pm
Ted Alspach gave to: Blaze by Stephen King	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 12:56pm
Ted Alspach gave to: The Running Man by Stephen King	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 12:56pm
Ted Alspach gave to: From a Buick 8 by Stephen King	My rating:
Jan 17, 2010 12:56pm