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iPhoto ’08 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Adam C. Engst
Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn! With iPhoto '08 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the applications, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, ....
Release Date 2007/12 -
Apple Pro Training Series Color
Author David Gross , Michael Wohl
In this guide to Apple’s masterful new color grading and finishing application, award-winning colorist David Gross starts with the basics of color balancing and correction and move on to the fine points of secondary grading. Topics include scene matching, using vign....
Release Date 2007/12 -
The RenderMan® Shading Language Guide
Author Don Rudy Cortes
Discover how to achieve the stunning imagery and dazzling effects that wow audiences in animated and live action motion pictures. "The RenderMan® Shading Language Guide" shows you how to master this powerful rendering program, used by filmmakers in conjunction with ....
Release Date 2007/12 -
iMovie ’08 & iDVD ’08 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Jeff Carlson
Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn! This full-color, amply illustrated, accessible book teaches readers the essential skills necessary for creating compelling movies with iMovie and iDVD, Apple's consumer-friendly digital movie and DVD-burning ....
Release Date 2007/11 -
PHOTOS THAT INSPIRE PHOTO WORKSHOP
Author Lynne Eodice
This unique book is packed with more than 200 magnificent photos, each expressing the photographer's unique take on a scene or subject. With each image, the artist shares a description of the setting, what inspired the idea, and what the photo was intended to accom....
Release Date 2007/10 -
PORTRAIT AND CANDID PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTO WORKSHOP
Author Erin Manning
The secret to taking great "people pictures" is to observe your subjects, connect with them, and use your camera to its best advantage. Here's how to work with lighting, location, angle, composition, physical characteristics, environment, and countless other variab....
Release Date 2007/10 -
Author Yannis Haralambous
This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic option....
Release Date 2007/09 -
Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8 Classroom in a Book
Author Adobe Creative Team
Adobe Acrobat 3D, the newest member of the Acrobat family, enables engineering and technical professionals to publish and share 3D design information from major CAD applications with virtually any computer user, significantly enhancing collaboration within extended ....
Release Date 2007/07 -
AutoCAD® 2008 and AutoCAD LT® 2008 Bible
Author Ellen Finkelstein
Whether you're new to AutoCAD or a veteran, you will undoubtedly find this book to be an excellent resource.-- Abhi Singh, AutoCAD Product Manager, Autodesk, Inc.Here's the book that makes AutoCAD approachableEven the people at Autodesk look to Ellen Finkelstein f....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author Chris Robinson
For five years, Chris Robinson wrote a monthly column for Animation World Network (AWN) called The Animation Pimp. Although it began as a way for Robinson to let off steam in his role as director of one of the world's largest animation festivals, the column quickly....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Special Subjects: Get Started Painting
Author Caroline Zimmermann , Tom Swimm , Geri Medway , Marilyn Grame , Marla Baggetta
Learn how to paint in four different media! Taking the first steps to learn how to paint can be a challenge, especially when beginning artists are unsure which medium best suits them. With this book, aspiring artists will discover the qualities and benefits of four ....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right
Author Jason Osipa
Breathe life into your creationsWith detailed examples, high-quality professional images, and a touch of humor, this is the fully revised and updated second edition of Jason Osipa's best-selling book on facial animation. You'll learn the basics of design, modeling....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Sony Alpha DSLR A100: A Better Manual
Author Ken Milburn
This unique manual is better than the manual that comes with your camera in several important ways: It's organized according to efficient workflow, so you can get the most out of your Sony A100 quickly and with the least amount of bother. You can find what you're....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Take Control of Sharing Files in Tiger
Author Glenn Fleishman
No Mac is an island when it comes to sharing files. In this detail-packed ebook, networking expert Glenn Fleishman makes file sharing easy, whether it's between two Macs on a local network, among a mixed-platform office workgroup, or between far-flung computers on ....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Author Michael Dobrzycki
Easy-to-follow instructions for drawing a variety of creatures, from an Eastern dragon to a hairy trollThe ever-increasing popularity of mythological and fantasy creatures in film, graphic novels, and television creates high demand for instruction books on drawing t....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Author John Jackman
Master the art and technique of blue and greenscreen compositing with this comprehensive how-to course in creating effective and realistic composited scenes in video formats. You get clear, understandable explanations of the different types of keying techniques and how th....
Release Date 2007/04 -
Author Tim Samara
The graphic design equivalent to Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style.
Release Date 2007/04 -
Author Nancy Conner
Ready to put Intuit's QuickBase to work? Our new Missing Manual shows you how to capture, modify, share, and manage data and documents with this web-based data-sharing program quickly and easily. No longer do you have to coordinate your team through a blizzard of e....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animation Features and Shorts
Author Nancy Beiman
Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, this book explains the methods and techniques of animation preproduction with a focus on story development and character design.Story is the most important part of an animated film—and....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers
Author Michael Schrenk
The Internet is bigger and better than what a mere browser allows. Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers is for programmers and businesspeople who want to take full advantage of the vast resources available on the Web. There's no reason to let browsers limit your ....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Marisa Handler
Activist and journalist Marisa Handler takes us on a fascinating journey—from her childhood home in apartheid South Africa to Israel, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Peru, and all over the United States—to offer a rare and revealing glimpse inside the global just....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Autocad®: Secrets Every User Should Know
Author Dan Abbott
"I've been using AutoCAD for 22 years and have written a hundred books on the subject. I reviewed many CAD books back in the days when book reviews were common in CAD publications; some were innovative, others were just sad. But for nearly a decade, it's been most....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Author Diane Cardaci
With step-by-step projects that are designed to help sharpen artists’ skills and heighten their confidence, this book demonstrates simple techniques for rendering the textures of everyday objects, such as metal, wood, plastic, hair, fur, feathers, and more. This 64-....
Release Date 2007/01 -
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 -
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 -
iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6 for Mac OS X: Visual Quickstart Guide
Author Jeff Carlson
Need to learn iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 fast? Try a Visual QuickStart! This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with these great iLife applications in no time. Best-selling author and iLife exper....
Release Date 2006/06 -
iPhoto 6 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Adam C. Engst
Need to learn iPhoto 6 fast? Try a Visual QuickStart! This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with this great iLife 06 application in no time. Best-selling author and instructor Adam Engst us....
Release Date 2006/06