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.
Books on Photography & Video
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.
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 moved from ImageReady to Photoshop. The book covers this as well.
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 muddy prints.
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.
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 over key framing to simulating film grain within masks.
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 text next to the many screenshots.
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.
