Hans D. Baumann

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Hans D. Baumann , called Doc Baumann (* 1950 in Kassel ) is a specialist author and journalist for digital image processing and Photoshop , graphic artist , writer and art scientist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1968, he did an internship as a stage painter. From 1969 he studied art and art history in Marburg , Düsseldorf and Kassel. He did his doctorate on the concept of image and then worked as a university art scientist. He has been working as a freelance writer since 1981 and has since published around 40 books. He also works as a journalist, photo graphic artist and art historian. From 1984 to 1996 he was editor-in-chief of the motorcycle rocker magazine Bikers News (until 2005 publisher). Since 1984 he has been involved in digital image processing and since 1988 he has been writing articles and books on digital image processing and typography . He is the author of various computer and photo magazines.

In 1986 he wrote a book The Film: The Name of the Rose about the shooting of the film The Name of the Rose and the historical, ecclesiastical and philosophical background to Umberto Eco's book The Name of the Rose , which is also the first book in Germany with electronic desktop publishing . Baumann is one of the pioneers of this technology in Germany and is editor-in-chief and co-founder of the image processing magazine DOCMA , which has existed since 1990.

Published books / CDs

  • 1977 - Art and Media - Materials for documenta 6 (co-editor)
  • 1983 - Motorcycles on the edge of hell (short stories, Kübler)
  • 1985 - Rocker - The Wild Motorcycle Groups (Beltz)
  • 1985 - Kassel in old views (Zaltbommel)
  • 1986 - The Film: The Name of the Rose (with Arman Sahihi); The most beautiful motorcycle tank paintings in the world (Serag); Rocker in Germany 3 (Editor; Huber)
  • 1987 - Chopper - pictures from biker life (Serag); Buy me! Advertising effectiveness through language and writing (with Arman Sahihi; Beltz); Custom Cars (with Dieter Günther, Serag)
  • 1987 - Rocker in Germany 4 (Editor; Huber)
  • 1988 - Rocker in Germany 5 (editor; Huber); Caddy & Co - US cars of the 50s and 60s (with Dieter Günther, Serag); Rocker - Die wild Motorradgruppen (extended new edition, Huber)
  • 1989 - Horror - Die Lust am Grauen (Beltz; paperback edition Heyne 1990); Graphics - painting and drawing with the Macintosh (MACup-Lexikon)
  • 1990 - 1200 years of Trais-Münzenberg (editor, Huber); Our distant neighbors - How the earth dwellers imagine the extraterrestrials (Rasch and Röhring); Desktop Publishing: Typography and Layout (with Manfred Klein; Falken)
  • 1992 - Lexicon Macintosh Graphics (Rowohlt)
  • 1993 - Handbook of digital image and filter effects (Springer, Heidelberg); DuMont's Handbook: Digital Painting and Graphic Techniques (DuMont)
  • 1997 - Digital Imagery (dpunkt)
  • 2000 - Doc Baumann's digital studio (four volumes, Arctic); Doc Baumann's digital archive (image CDs, seven volumes, Arctic)
  • 1993–2002 - Daytona Bikeweek (annual photo book, Huber)
  • 2004 - Digitales Atelier - The art of image processing with Photoshop (with Christoph Künne ; Rowohlt)
  • 2005 - The best Photoshop workshops from DOCMA (with Christoph Künne; Addison-Wesley ); Select - Photoshop Basics (Addison-Wesley); Sharpen and Blur (Addison-Wesley)
  • 2006 - Perspective (Addison-Wesley); Montages (Addison-Wesley); Masks and Channels (Addison-Wesley); Painting and drawing (Addison-Wesley); The best Photoshop workshops from DOCMA, Volume 2 (with Christoph Künne; Addison-Wesley)
  • 2006 - Eight picture CDs (material for digital picture montages) (Addison-Wesley)
  • 2007 - exemptions ; Layer effects ; News in Photoshop CS3 (with Christoph Künne, Addison-Wesley)
  • 2008 - text and type effects ; Photoshop setup and automation (with Christoph Künne, Addison-Wesley)
  • 2008 - Distort (Addison-Wesley)
  • 2008 - Edition DOCMA - Photoshop basics: Volume 1-20 , Doc Baumann with Christoph Künne, ISBN 978-3-8273-2606-5 , Addison-Wesley
  • 2008 - The best Photoshop Tips & Tricks , Doc Baumann with Christoph Künne, ISBN 978-3-8273-2657-7 , Addison-Wesley

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personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Hans D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumann, Doc (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist author and journalist, graphic artist, writer and art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel