2006
Adobe After Effects 7 Classroom in a Book
As with each Classroom in a Book, Adobe has kept the basic concept and flow: each chapter has exercises, so that you feel like you’re in a real classroom.
Adobe Bridge Official Javascript Reference
The Adobe Bridge Official Javascript Reference is Adobe Press’s book bound version of the Bridge help file.
The Adobe InCopy CS2 Book
This book covers everything there is to know about InCopy CS2, Adobe’s editorial system and companion to InDesign CS2.
Aperture
Orlando Luna and Ben Long worked together to write “Aperture”, an Apple Pro Training Series that covers Apple’s Aperture in depth. A DVD-rom with lesson material is included with the book.
Getting Started with Aperture
Estelle McGechie wrote this Apple Pro Training Series introduction to Aperture.
Photoshop Artistry
Barry Haynes, Wendy Crumpler, and Sean Duggan re-wrote this classic and made it into an even more complete Photoshop reference book.
Color Management for Photographers
Where Real World Color Management is the standard for the theory and the technical intricacies of colour management, this book is the standard for step-by-step colour management as it is applied in various applications.
Real World Color Management 2nd Edition
Real World Color Management by Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy and Fred Bunting is a standard work. It should be in the library of every desktop publisher, photographer and graphic designer.
Real World InDesign CS2
Kvern and Blatner did it again. InDesign CS2 is covered from top to bottom in this must-have reference book, another gem at the Real World series. Beginners as well as experienced desktop publishers will find everything they need in this book.
Final Cut Pro for Mac OS X Visual QuickPro Guide
I was very sceptical about this book. A Visual guide on something as complicated as Final Cut Pro? I must admit, Lisa Brenneis has done a fine job. She’s turned something difficult into something relatively simple.
Photoshop CS2 For the Web
Jan Kabili and Colin Smith wrote the How to Wow Photoshop CS2 For the Web book, a PeachPit Press edition. The book contains advice on how to use Photoshop CS2 for Web projects, including buttons, navigation bars, and complete interfaces. With Photoshop CS2, a lot of Web functionality has been…
Print like a Pro
Jon Canfield, the author of several popular photography books, including “RAW 101: Better images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements”, works as a consultant for developing Microsoft’s digital imaging products. He wrote Print like a Pro to teach photographers how to avoid their photographs with vibrant and brilliant colours turn into…
Photoshop Channels Book
How do you unlock the hidden power of channels for colour correction, masking, collages, and more? The answer is in this book on Photoshop Channels.
Mastering Piranesi
Bonnie Roskes wrote a manual for Piranesi, the painting program that is naturally associated with SketchUp. The book is crammed with detailed screenshots and step-by-step explanations of how to achieve specific effects with materials, textures and paint.
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Magic
With After Effects 7 released, the After Effects 6.5 Magic book from James Ranking and Anna Ullrich would seem obsolete, but it isn’t. This book teaches you how to create professional-looking compositing projects in 22 lessons. There are hundreds of techniques used in this book.
Apple Pro Training Series: Shake 4
A tutorial written by Marco Paolini, the Shake 4 Training book is a must-have for every Shake user. It covers all the nodes and interface elements available in Shake. Paolini goes about creating a simple compositing tree and then gradually makes things more complicated. Literally everything is covered: from masking…
Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 5
Diana Weynand traditionally writes Apple’s Training book on Final Cut Pro. She did it again with version 5. The new book covers the new features of Final Cut Pro 5, of course. But it also has better (or nicer) source material on the included DVD-rom.
Apple Pro Training Series: Shake 4 Quick-Reference Guide
What a great idea: a book that lists all of Shake’s many tabs, nodes, views, and functions. And all in a small book the size of a pocket book. Unfortunately, Peachpit Press made the unhappy decision to make the book so small that you can hardly read some of the…
Secrets of Podcasting
Bart Farkas write this book on podcasting before the release of GarageBand 3. It therefore contains many tips and tricks that are only useful to you if you’re working with a Windows PC, or if you stubbornly insist on using inefficient software.
Real World Illustrator CS2
Real World books are my favourites, and Mordy Golding’s Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 is no exception. This book explains everything you could possibly want to know about Illustrator CS2, including why you would use it instead of, for example, Photoshop, what you use it for, and of course, how…
2005
Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One
O’Reilly is busy publishing a complete series on creative applications such as Photoshop CS2, and Deke McClelland’s One-on-One tutorial is one of the stars in the series. The book comes with Total Training Video hosted by Deke McClelland himself. The DVD contains over two hours of lessons and companion material.…
The Art of Photoshop
Is it a coffee table book or a tutorial? Both perhaps? Indeed, both. Daniel Giordan is a renowned Photoshop artist. He has written, or rather created, a book which can be used as a coffee table book --the first chapters contain a beautiful sample of his art. But it is…
Photoshop LAB Color
Dan Margulis wrote a book on Photoshop LAB colour and the Canyon conundrum. Margulis calls LAB the most powerful colour space and explains why you should use it to enhance and correct photographs, and not only those that have a canyon as their subject.
Apple Pro Series: Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7
Martin Sitter wrote this Apple Pro Series book on music creation and audio production with Logic Pro and Logic Express 7. The book contains a DVD-rom. Sitter starts with the most simple and works his way through most of the programs’ basic and medium-difficult features. He starts with setting up…
Apple Pro Series: Advanced Logic Pro 7
David Dvorin takes on where Martin Sitter leaves off in his furthermore excellent tutorial on Logic Pro and Logic Express 7. Dvorin concentrates on the Pro version of Logic and goes way deep into its rich and complex feature set. Whereas Sitter focuses more on Logic’s many features and how…
