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Apple Pro Training Series: Xsan Quick Reference Guide
Author Matthew Geller , Adam Green
Apple’s exciting new enterprise-class file system offers high-speed access to centralized shared data. This handy booklet provides invaluable setup, configuration, and troubleshooting tips. Designed as a reference, you'll find clear explanations of everything from ....
Release Date 2005/04 -
Apple Training Series: GarageBand 2
Author Mary Plummer
Now that you can record eight simultaneous tracks with it, GarageBand 2 really does turn your Mac into a full-featured recording studio. To start taking advantage of it immediately, you (and your band-mates) need this Apple-certified guide from composer and master t....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual
Author Barbara Brundage
The recent boom in digital camera sales has created a tremendous demand for simple yet powerful photo-editing software. This is because experienced users, as well as amateurs, are quickly outgrowing the program that was originally bundled with their cameras.Fortuna....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Langford's Starting Photography, 4th Edition
Author Michael Langford , Philip Andrews
If you are serious about learning photography this is the book needed to get started. This authoritative classic, written by a leading international photography writer and lecturer has been updated by successful photographer, lecturer and best-selling Photoshop Elem....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Focal Easy Guide to After Effects
Author Curtis Sponsler
If you want to become a resourceful creative artist then look no further! This quick reference to After Effects will show you how to open, install and get up-and-running to a professional level with Adobe's motion graphics and visual effects software package.....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Paint Shop Pro 9 for Photographers
Author Robin Nichols , Ken McMahon
Ken McMahon and Robin Nichols have created a complete and easy-to-follow introduction to Jasc's Paint Shop Pro 9, allowing you to take full advantage of this popular photo-editor and graphics program in ways you would never have imagined. If you are an amateur digi....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Adobe Reader 7 Revealed: Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files
Author Ted Padova
Chances are good that if you use the Web or work with documents on your computer, you've come across a PDF file at least once or twice in your life. Over 500 million people have already downloaded Adobe's free Adobe Reader software and we‚re betting you‚re one of ....
Release Date 2005/02 -
DV 101: A Hands-On Guide for Business, Government & Educators
Author Jan Ozer
Corporations, government offices, and academic institutions have long used video to educate and inform. The only thing that's changed is the people who are producing them: With low-priced equipment and easy-to-use software flooding the market, now you're the perso....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Author Donato Marrazzo , Daniel Koch , Sook Chua , Ralf Bracht , Corville Allen , William Mo
This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on issues associated with the integration of an existing enterprise information system (EIS) into a new Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and other service-oriented applications. The book specifically discusses quality....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Author Erik Hollnagel , David D. Woods
Nothing has been more prolific over the past century than human/machine interaction. Automobiles, telephones, computers, manufacturing machines, robots, office equipment, machines large and small; all affect the very essence of our daily lives. However, this interaction h....
Release Date 2005/02 -
AppleScript: The Missing Manual
Author Adam Goldstein
From newspapers to NASA, Mac users around the world use AppleScript to automate their daily computing routines. Famed for its similarity to English and its ease of integration with other programs, AppleScript is the perfect programming language for time-squeezed Mac....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author Catherine Courage , Kathy Baxter
Today many companies are employing a user-centered design (UCD) process, but for most companies, usability begins and ends with the usability test. Although usability testing is a critical part of an effective user-centered life cycle, it is only one componen....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author Russell Farrell
Horses and ponies are a favorite subject of beginning artists. With this award-winning title, drawing these graceful creatures has never been simpler.It's amazing how quickly kids can begin drawing lifelike horses as they follow along with the easy, step-by-step in....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author David McIntosh , Stan Davis
All of us—business executives and artists, audiences and consumers—can benefit from seeing the world with both an aesthetic sensibility and a strategic bent. When you see yourself as an artist, everything you do can be a work of art—planning strategies, develop....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Author Bill Treasurer
Visionaries and idealists are often dismissed as being, well, mad—stark-raving loonies. POSITIVELY M.A.D. turns such labels around—telling the stories of people who courageously pursued “crazy” ideas that challenged conventional thinking, re-imagined the way th....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Stirling and Pulse-tube Cryo-coolers
Author Allan J. Organ
Modern technology calls increasingly for provision of cooling at cryogenic temperatures: super-conductivity research; imaging equipment for search-and-rescue; contemporary diagnostic medicine (MRI – magnetic resonance imaging); space exploration; advanced computer h....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Maya 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Adrian Dimond , Danny Riddell
Imagine being able to add a luscious mane of long, flowing hair to your Maya-created action heroine--and then being able to braid it, curl it, and style it to your heat's desire. With Maya 6 and this task-based guide, you can do that and a lot more on the way to cr....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Game Character Development with Maya
Author Antony Ward
If you thought Angelina Jolie was responsible for Lara Croft's curves, think again! Long before the Hollywood actress brought the Tomb Raider heroine to life, Alias' 3D modeling software Maya was used to create the lovely Lara; Ms. Jolie simply filled in her curve....
Release Date 2004/11 -
How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding
Author D. B. Holt
Coca-Cola. Harley-Davidson. Nike. Budweiser. Valued by customers more for what they symbolize than for what they do, products like these are more than brands--they are cultural icons. How do managers create brands that resonate so powerfully with consumers? Based on....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Inventor's Guide to Trademarks and Patents, The
Author Rachel Ralston , Jaclyn Vassallo , Craig Fellenstein
This is the complete guide to intellectual property: thinking concepts for discovering it, creating it, protecting it, and profiting from it.Whether you're an individual inventor or an innovator inside a small-medium business or large enterprise, you need a deep, b....
Release Date 2004/10 -
The Photoshop® Elements 3 Book For Digital Photographers
Author Scott Kel
If you're ready for an Elements 3 book that breaks all the rules, this is it, because it does something for digital photographers that's never been done before--it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly "how to do it." It tells you, flat-out, which settings t....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Author Charles Koppelman
The first volume to reveal the post-production process of a major motion picture (Cold Mountain) edited entirely in Final Cut Pro!Offers a rare inside glimpse at the creative process of one of cinema's giants: threetime Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch.Inc....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Author Charles S. Swartz
UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL CINEMA: A PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOK is a comprehensive resource on all aspects of finishing, distributing and displaying film digitally. For technical professionals as well as non-technical decision-makers, the book is a detailed exploration ....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Real World Color Management, Second Edition
Author Fred Bunting , Chris Murphy , Bruce Fraser
Every graphics professional worth his or her salt knows the importance of color management. No matter how much thought artist and client put into the color scheme for a given project, all of that work is for naught if you can't get your results to match your expect....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step
Author Resources Online , Judy Lemke
Teach yourself how to diagram business and technical information using Visio 2003—one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on CD.
Release Date 2004/09 -
Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases: Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle
Author Neil Maiden , Ian F. Alexander
Extending the scenario method beyond interface design, this important book shows developers how to design more effective systems by soliciting, analyzing, and elaborating stories from end-usersContributions from leading industry consultants and opinion-makers presen....
Release Date 2004/09