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Author Douglas Self , Doug Self
Whether you are a dedicated audiophile who wants to gain a more complete understanding of the design issues behind a truly great amp, or a professional electronic designer seeking to learn more about the art of amplifier design, there can be no better place to....
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Author Sara Eisenman
Presenting one’s portfolio is where every designer begins his or her career.
Release Date 2006/06 -
Using BusyBox: Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series
Author Christopher Hallinan
This digital Short Cut delivered in Adobe PDF format for quick and easy access, is an introduction to BusyBox, widely regarded as “The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux.” After a brief introduction, we walk you through the BusyBox configuration utility. This is use....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Author Education and Curriculum National Association of Photoshop Professionals Senior
If you're primarily interested in finishing touches--the million creative ways you can use your favorite software to improve, polish, and add pizzazz to your images--this is the book for you! The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Finishing Touches for Ph....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Author Greg Hoglund , Gary McGraw
This digital Short Cut, delivered in Adobe PDF format for quick and easy access, is an introduction to issues with cheating and anti-cheating countermeasures in the online gaming industry.At present, the online game World of Warcraft has approximately six million su....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Digital Portrait Photography and Lighting: Take Memorable Shots Every Time
Author Sean McCormick , Catherine Jamieson
Portraits preserve peopleSince the earliest portraits were scratched onto cave walls, we've developed increasingly sophisticated tools for capturing human likenesses. Yet the motivation has changed little -- to freeze a human image as an art form, a means of commun....
Release Date 2006/07 -
The Art of Stop-Motion Animation
Author Ken A. Priebe
Through the magic of stop-motion animation, inanimate objects seem to spring to life. With true artistic passion and finesse, a stop-motion film evokes the nostalgia of childhood when imagination could bring toys to life. Stop-motion retains the art and performance ....
Release Date 2006/07 -
The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web
Author Ziv Yaar , Steve Mulder
How do we ensure that our Web sites actually give users what they need? What are the best ways to understand our users' goals, behaviors, and attitudes, and then turn that understanding into business results? Personas bring user research to life and make it actiona....
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Author Scott Kel
Scott Kelby, the man who changed the "digital darkroom" forever with his groundbreaking, #1 bestselling, award-winning book The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, now tackles the most important side of digital photography--how to take pro-quality shots using ....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Author Richard Harrington
Real-World commercial projects presented in full color feature the work of renowned artists, Chris and Trish Meyer, Jayse Hansen, Mark Coleran, Ken Locsmandi and others. The tutorials are commercial projects that the artists created for a client budget of $10,....
Release Date 2006/08 -
ZAG: The Number-One Strategy of High-Performance Brands
Author Marty Neumeier
"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy. ZAG follows the ultra-clear "whiteboard overview" style of the author’s first book, THE BRAND GAP, but drills deeper into the question of how brands can harness the power of differ....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design
Author Brendan Dawes
Creativity is an innate human impulse, many people believe, something we’re born with but too often “grow out of” as adult lives make more and more demands. Fortunately for us, the creative drive continues to run strong in legendary designer Brendan Dawes. Habituall....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Author Richard Cadena
"Automated Lighting-Technology, Applications, and Design" is a comprehensive text covering everything you will need to know as a working or aspiring lighting professional about automated lighting fixtures, systems, how they are used and design issues you will face. ....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Developing and Maintaining a Design-Tech Portfolio: A Guide for Theatre, Film & TV
Author Rafael Jaen
This book is a practical guide to aid in the process of creating, developing and presenting successful Theatre/TV/Film design/technology portfolios in the fields of scenery, costumes, lighting and sound. The book will consist of four sections or chapters. The first ....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Digital Photography Visual™ Quick Tips
Author Gregory Georges
Would you like a quick, visual way to learn how to take better digital photos, edit and enhance them, make eye-popping prints, and create photo albums, slideshows, and online galleries? Then Visual Quick Tips are for you. Visual Quick Tips will increase your product....
Release Date 2006/09 -
100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs
Author Daniel Lezano
100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs is a practical and informative guide to every aspect of portrait photography from informal pictures of family and friends to professional studio techniques. It contains: Straightforward, practical tips and advice Over....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Adobe Photoshop Unmasked: The Art and Science of Selections, Layers, and Paths
Author Nigel French
As the feature list of Adobe Photoshop continues to grow, even users with years of experience can feel overwhelmed by the many tools and methods for selecting or isolating parts of an image. Layers, channels, paths, clipping masks, layer masks, vector masks, the Pen....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Directing and Producing for Television, 3rd Edition
Author Ivan Cury
Directing and Producing for Television provides you with the tools you'll need to direct and produce effectively in a variety of settings. Based on his years of experience in the industry and teaching the subject, Cury illustrates fundamental principles with ....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Author Autodesk
Bring 3D film effects to the big screen. Generate realistic characters for a top-selling game. Create rich and complex design visualization. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9 lets you maximize your productivity and tackle challenging animation projects. And this book, deve....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Author Ryan Hembree
Resource on the what, when, where, and how of the graphic design industry.
Release Date 2006/10 -
The Photoshop Elements 5 Book for Digital Photographers
Author Scott Kel
Best-selling author Scott Kelby is well known for his plain-English style, his humorous tone, and his unparalleled ability to cut through all the technical jargon that other authors use when writing about image-editing programs. Here, Scott delivers great techniques....
Release Date 2006/11 -
The Digital SLR Guide: Beyond Point-and-Shoot Digital Photography
Author Jon Canfield
Have you stepped up to a digital single-lens-reflex (dSLR) camera only to find the range of capabilities daunting? Combining features traditionally found on 35mm film cameras — precise shutter speed and exposure settings, interchangeable lenses and accessories, supe....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition
Author Louis Rosenfeld , Peter Morville
The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer sho....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Author Philip Andrews
If you are just starting to work with digital images and want great results fast, this complete, easy-to-follow guide is the one for you. As you take your first steps into the magical world of digital imaging, you'll rapidly gain mastery. Everything you need to mak....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Exposure and Lighting For Digital Photographers Only
Author Charlotte K. Lowrie , Michael Meadhra
Even with digital cameras and automatic exposure, lighting and exposure remain the most difficult element to master in the quest for quality photography. This book, written by a professional photographer for photographers, provides real-world advice to help you achi....
Release Date 2006/11 -
System-Level Design with Rosetta
Author Perry Alexander
The steady and unabated increase in the capacity of silicon has brought the semiconductor industry to a watershed challenge. Now a single chip can integrate a radio transceiver, a network interface, multimedia functions, all the "glue" needed to hold it together as ....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Figure Drawing with Virtual Models: Getting the Most Out of Poser® Figure Artist™
Author Les Pardew
Artists have aspired for centuries to master the technique of drawing the human figure. Live models have been studied in intricate detail in order to create lifelike renderings. Today, advances in technology make it possible for artists to use virtual models, elimin....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Canon® EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography
Author David D. Busch
If you own a digital SLR camera, then you're serious about photography. As an avid photographer, you owe it to yourself to make the most out of your cutting-edge equipment. Somewhere between the tedious user manual full of technical garble and the generic how to di....
Release Date 2006/11 -
The Short Screenplay: Your Short Film from Concept to Production
Author Dan Gurskis
With the growth of film festivals, cable networks, specialty home video, and the Internet, there are more outlets and opportunities for screening short films now than at any time in the last 100 years. But before you can screen your short film, you need to shoot it.....
Release Date 2006/11