Acrobat 7 is Adobe’s latest release of this PDF management program. Peachpit’s Classroom in a Book series are there to turn amateurs into professionals. The approach should be working judging by the book’s contents. The book comes with a CD-rom. The book covers complex topics such as the document review…
It’s everywhere: podcasting. As many others, I receive Scott Sheppard’s podcast “Inside Mac Radio” at least once a week. According to Gartner, podcasting is on the rise and will mature in 2 to 5 years from now.
Damian Allen takes the reader on a trip to Motion’s more difficult to achieve compositing effects. Allen assumes you’ve read the Getting Started tutorial from Apple Pro Series.
The book takes a project-based approach, which works well in covering complex Motion topics.
Mary Plummer wrote an entry-level tutorial book on Apple’s compositing application Motion. It says “Introduction to Motion Graphics” on the cover, but it’s a bit more than just that. She covers about everything Motion has to offer, including the Primatte RT filter.
O’Reilly published a series called Designer’s Notebook. This is the third in the series. It’s written by French artists and contains illustration projects done in Photoshop. Most of these projects are well explained, but there’s always the question whether you like the art in the first place. However, the mix…
Second in the A Designer’s Notbeook series by O’Reilly, is this retouching book. Again, it has been edited by a group of French artists. I was very enthusiastic about the Creating Photomontages with Photoshop book that I reviewed earlier.
O’Reilly isn’t exactly known for its graphics design books, but it has done a great job of this “A Designer’s Notebook” series. Eight leading French artists each explain a project in this book. Creating Photomontages with Photoshop is a trip to an unexplored world.
Katrin Eismann wrote a complete reference on retouching and restoring photographs with Photoshop for New Riders. The copy that I reviewed is the 2nd edition, and this book is the absolute reference for the job, in my opinion.
Jan Kabili and Colin Smith wrote a book that teaches you how to use Photoshop for Web graphics purposes. With Photoshop CS 2 just having been released, this book is of great use.
Jason Cranford Teague wrote a Visual QuickPro Guide on programming web sites with DHTML and CSS. The book is not project-based but task-based, guiding you through a number of lessons that will help you develop efficient and well-designed DHTML sites.
We conducted a mini interview by e-mail with CSS expert Eric Meyer. His newest book, More Eric Meyer on CSS containes ten projects ranging from converting an existing web page over styling a financial report, to laying out a web log with CSS menus and all. The book is of…
Adobe Press’ Photoshop CS Creative Studio contains tips for artists. Luanne Cohen covers the techniques that most digital artists will want to learn.
A book the size of this Official Guide to Using Dreamweaver MX 2004 must be complete. In 1238 pages, Gutman covers everything that you can possibly do with Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Core CSS, 2nd edition is a comprehensive guide to CSS1 through CSS3. It not only offers a complete overview of all the tags and code and the results, but also a look into the future with CSS3 and what’s more important, an overview of code validity for each common browser…
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