2008
Book Review: Designing Web Navigation, by James Kalbach
If a former librarian and current Human Factors Engineer with LexisNexis can’t tell us what good web navigation design is, no-one can. James Kalbach is an expert in his field and O’Reilly had him write a book on a subject that we all take for granted but which we feel…
2007
Cinema 4D 10 Workshop
Arndt von Koenigsmarck wrote a book that teaches you how to create objects in Cinema 4D R10. The book comes with a CD-ROM on which you will find demos of Cinema 4D for Windows and Mac OS X (not Vista and not Leopard). There are also training files and an…
Photoshop Workflow Setups
Eddie Tapp is a well-known photographer and teacher. He’s highly appreciated by Scott Kelby, the big boss of NAPP. And his books are worth their money, especially if you want to learn about Photoshop in a highly visual way. He only lacks the tongue-in-cheek style of writing Kelby is renown…
Color Management in Digital Photography
RockyNook is distributed by O’Reilly in Europe. Brad Hinkel wrote a book on colour management for digital photographers for them. Hinkel gives a good overview of the differences between sRGB and AdobeRGB but he doesn’t cover other spaces, except for ProFoto and even then very briefly.
Photoshop Workflow Setups by Eddie Tapp
Eddie Tapp is an award-winning photographer, lecturer and consultant. He writes for O’Reilly, and one of his latest books covers customising Photoshop for digital photography. The book’s title is slightly off the mark. It’s not really about setting up Photoshop, but more about finding those features in the application that…
Fine Art Printing for Photographers
Printing photos is hard enough these days with colour management that has to be taken care of, a choice of printing technologies that dazzles even the most experienced photographer, and the risk of investing into the wrong equipment. Uwe Steinmueller and Juergen Gulbins have jointly written a guide for photographers…
Photoshop CS2 RAW
Mikkel Aaland is a professional photographer who wrote nine books. In this book, he discusses how you should use Photoshop Camera RAW to obtain best results.
Digital Photography Expert Techniques
O’Reilly published the 2nd edition of the book written by Ken Milburn on digital photography techniques. The book is a sort of personal coach for digital photographers who don’t yet know how digital photography differs from analogue.
Scanning Negatives and Slides, A Book by Sascha Steinhoff
O’Reilly distributes books published by Rocky Nook these days, and the Scanning Negatives and Slides book is one of these titles. Originally, the book was written and published in German, as the author is a German computer expert with a passion for photography. The original German publisher, Dpunkt Verlag, found…
O’Reilly Refreshes Web Development Books
With its “The Definitive Guide” books on CSS, HTML and XHTML, and the CSS CookBook, O’Reilly has once again updated its titles on web development to have them include the latest protocols, standards and online gimmicks that are currently used by web designers and developers.
The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X Tiger
So, you’re a designer, and you work with Mac OS X. In that case, Jeff Gamet has a book for you. It’s a book that covers Mac OS X from a designer’s perspective. What you must think of is a focus on handling files in relation to printers, working with…
Photoshop Masking and Compositing - Adobe Photoshop Unmasked
Katrin Eismann is a well-known writer of books that teach you how to use creative technology in products such as Adobe Photoshop. Her latest encyclopaedic work “Photoshop Masking and Compositing” is a fat reference and tutorial type of book that covers literally everything you need to know on masking, either…
Brilliant Photoshop CS2
Brilliant Guides are published by Prentice Hall, and they have been developed to find information you need easily and without fuss. I can safely say that this is no hype. It’s true, the Brilliant Photoshop CS2 book by Andy Anderson and Steve Johnson is a reference work that lets you…
Photoshop Artistry With DVD-rom
This New Riders book was written for photographers using Photoshop CS2 and beyond, it says on the cover. The authors are well-known experts Sean Duggan, Barry Haynes and Wendy Crumpler. The book starts with a voyage through Photoshop’s interface. Very rapidly, though, you’ll get a bath of Photoshop techniques that…
Digital Photography Pocket Guide
The third edition of this wonderful pocket guide published by O’Reilly is filled to the rim with practical tips and tricks that are great to carry with you when shooting pictures. Some of these tips are not just useful for digital photographers either.
Working Smart in Adobe Creative Suite
An excerpt from the book “Working smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2”: “Bridge is great for watching files arrive in a folder. For example, if you’re processing digital camera photos or scanning image after image, open a browser window for the folder where you save your files. As they arrive, you…
Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One
Deke McLelland wrote a tutorial book on InDesign CS2. Actually, it’s a real course with the author addressing the reader as if he were there with you in the room, looking over your shoulder as you go through his chapters.
Design Workshop
Robin Williams wrote a design workshop, and she covers all kinds of topics that designers will find handy to be reminded about. But she also covers some subjects designers just don’t think about, like forms.
2006
The Art of RAW Conversion - The Masters Speak
Digital SLRs let you measure White Balance when you photograph, but it is not always easy to do in the field, especially when you’re shooting nature scenes. Your best bet, therefore, is to set the White Balance to Auto for all cameras and adjust it later in the RAW converter.…
Secrets of RSS
RSS is one way of making sure your content and ultimately your web design will be seen by as many people as possible. Real Simple Syndication is also used for a number of other Web 2.0 applications. Steve Holzner, author of the book Secrets of RSS explains what RSS is,…
Practical Color Management
Eddie Tapp is an award-winning photographer and an author and teacher on digital imaging. He wrote the excellent “Practical Color Management” for O’Reilly. Tapp also wrote “Photoshop Workflow Setups”, “Controlling Color and Tone in Photoshop”, and “Professional Production Techniques”. In Practical Color Management, he explains in a simple to understand…
Secrets of Videoblogging
Do you want to know how to handle a digital video camera, and how to create simple effects? Are you a beginner in the realm of digital video? If so, this book is valuable as it will show you exactly how to use a digital video camera to create videoblog…
Death To Non-Standard Web Browsers
Designers like Andy Clarke say we have got to move beyond the non-standard browsers. He calls his design approach — and that of many others in the fore front of CSS design — “Transcendent CSS” — which also happens to be the title of his book. Transcendent CSS reaches beyond…
Prioritizing Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger wrote their follow-up to Nielsen’s best seller “Designing Web Usability” published in 2000. The new book is still aimed at e-commerce sites, but is useful to bloggers and content providers as well.
After Effects 7 Studio Techniques
Mark Christiansen received Adobe Press’ OK to write a book contributed to After Effects 7 Studio Techniques. THe result is a book that covers techniques for advanced users. No introductions to the interface and such basics here, but an immediate jump in the deep end.
