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Author Rockport Publishers
Consumers are blitzed with millions of images every day.
Release Date 2006/04 -
Quartz 2D Graphics for Mac OS X® Developers
Author R. Scott Thompson
A Hands-On Guide and Introduction to Quartz 2DOn Mac OS X, Macintosh developers depend on the graphics and imaging frameworks of the Core Graphics system to implement multimedia features in their applications. With Core Graphics Apple has answered the increasing dem....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters
Author Gina Fant-Saez
You’ve got the power. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on recording-studio time anymore. Now, using Pro Tools—a digital-audio workstation—you can record demos at home on your own computer, edit tracks, add effects, and even output songs to a CD. But if y....
Release Date 2006/03 -
InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2
Author Nigel French
It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you'r....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Mikkel Aaland
The RAW file format is the uncompressed data file captured by a digital camera's electronic sensor. When your camera saves an image in RAW format, settings like white balance, sharpening, contrast and saturation are not applied to the image but are saved instead i....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Teach Yourself Visually™: Digital Photography, 3rd Edition
Author Lynette Kent , Dave Huss
* Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks* Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step* Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task* Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modulesLearn How To:* Choose a digital camer....
Release Date 2006/03 -
Author Mike Richman , Adam Pratt
If you've ever worked in a fast-paced editorial environment, you know just how frustrating it can be to wait as each member of the team–from writer, to editor, to artist–makes changes to his or her piece of the layout puzzle. With InCopy, you don't have to! The Ad....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Adobe® After Effects® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®
Author Adobe Creative Team
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe After Effects 7! Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no o....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Apple Pro Training Series: Xsan Quick-Reference Guide, Second Edition
Author Matthew Geller , Adam Green
The only guide to Apple's enterprise-level Storage Area Network solution, fully updated for Tiger and Xsan 1.2.Xsan is one of the most powerful, flexible and affordable SAN solutions on the market.Handy booklet provides invaluable setup, configuration and troublesh....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom
Author T. Michael Clark
CorelPaint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom is an easy-to-follow, tutorial approach to using Paint Shop Pro in exactly the way home users want to use it - to manipulate your own images in ways that a local photo lab often does to create both practical and comical project....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Author Ken Dancyger
As a director, you must have a concept, a "director's idea", to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea your film will be deeper and more effective, and you will be able to differentiate--and therefore make the choice--b....
Release Date 2006/02 -
Author Ian David Aronson
Thanks to the digital revolution, film artists now have a spectacular array of powerful, new, inexpensive tools for creative expression through digital film. The once powerful studios can no longer stifle an artist's creativity. With the power of the Internet, fil....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Author Joseph Adler
Baseball Hacks isn't your typical baseball book--it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach ba....
Release Date 2006/01 -
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology: Visualizing Quaternions
Author Andrew J. Hanson
Introduced 160 years ago as an attempt to generalize complex numbers to higher dimensions, quaternions are now recognized as one of the most important concepts in modern computer graphics. They offer a powerful way to represent rotations and compared to rotation mat....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Author Debra Kaufman Yaun
Successfully drawing the human face is one of the most challenging yet rewarding artistic experiences. In this step-by-step book, Debra Kauffman Yaun invites you into her artistic world as she shows you how to draw a variety of portraits in pencil. She shares her pe....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
Author Bob Walsh
Micro-independent software vendors, or micro-ISVs, have become both a major source of applications and a realistic career alternative for IT professionals. As for the latter, are you a programmer and curious about being your own boss? Where do you turn for informati....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Apple Pro Training Series: Soundtrack Pro
Author Mary Plummer
Soundtrack Pro, Apple's exciting sound design software, is the newest member of the Final Cut Pro Studio digital video suite-And whether you're musically impaired or musically gifted, the Soundtrack Pro guide will help you get up to speed quickly. In this Apple-ce....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 4.0: Classroom in a Book®
Author Adobe Creativity
The fastest, easiest way to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 for Windows!Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Adobe® Premiere® Elements 2.0: Classroom in a Book®
Author Adobe Creative Team
The fastest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Premiere Elements for Windows!Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what ....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Author David A. Karp , Andy Rathbone
Your vacuum comes with one. Even your blender comes with one. But your PC--something that costs a whole lot more and is likely to be used daily and for tasks of far greater importance and complexity--doesn't come with a printed manual. Thankfully, that's not a pro....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Campus Network Design Fundamentals
Author Catherine Paquet , Diane Teare
The all-in-one guide to modern routed and switched campus network design Understand the network design process and network design modelsLearn how switches are used in network designDesign an IP addressing plan and select appropriate IP routing protocolsApply network....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Digital Art Photography For Dummies®
Author Matthew Bamberg
So you've made the jump to digital photography and you're having a ball with your new camera, right? Now, you're wondering just what it would take to make your photos a little more than just snapshots. Well, Digital Art Photography For Dummies is a great place to....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Author Rick Parks , Carrie Stuart Parks
Anyone can draw - including you! Learn to draw today, even if you've never drawn before! Carrie Stuart Parks and Rick Parks, FBI-trained composite artists and drawing instructors, have taught thousands of people of all ages and skill levels how to turn out impr....
Release Date 2005/12 -
From Day One: Success Secrets for Starting Your Career
Author William J. White
In FROM DAY ONE, long-time CEO Bill White reveals the key skills that lead to breakthrough success, and helps integrate them into your repertoire as you manage your career for outstanding results. Discover how to identify the best possible first job, first company, ....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Adobe® GoLive® CS2: Classroom in a Book®
Author Adobe Creative Team
When you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and start taking advantage of GoLive CS2's powerful site management and collaboration capabilities, mobile authoring features, and enhanced CSS authoring tools, it’s time to get the guide from the people behind the software....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 Breakthroughs
Author Conrad Chavez , David Blatner
Adobe Photoshop is industry standard digital image software and users are hungry for solutions to their myriad concerns--from how best to manage the program's sometimes unwieldy interface to how to use the new Vanishing Point tool. Photoshop guru David Blatner has ....
Release Date 2005/11 -
Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography, The: Perfect Photos Every Time
Author David Schloss
When it comes to learning how to take great travel photographs, who better to learn from than the pros whose work graces the pages of all those travel magazines and brochures you’ve examined longingly? These are exactly who you get as instructors when you purchase t....
Release Date 2005/11