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Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Studio Techniques

Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Studio Techniques

By: Mark Christiansen

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 20-NOV-2007

Insert Date: 03-DEC-2007

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This is the only book in the After Effects market to focus exclusively on the creation of visual effects, and is a one-stop resource for anyone who wants in-depth explanations that demystify the realm of visual effects and how they were created, thanks to veteran author Mark Christiansen's friendly and accessible style. A thoroughly packed, informative read, this masterful guide focuses on explaining the essential concepts, features, and techniques that are key to creating seamless movie-quality visual effects. Readers will learn how to put After Effects to work to create the shots they need....

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Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 Classroom in a Book®

By: Adobe Creative Team

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 24-OCT-2007

Insert Date: 26-NOV-2007

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Watch out, Final Cut Pro. For the first time in five years, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe's flagship digital video editing application, is once again available for both Macintosh and Windows users. This project-based book covers not just the basics of working with audio, creating transitions, and producing titles, but also all that's new in Premiere Pro: the ability to build Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and Flash projects with Adobe Encore CS3 (now included with Premiere Pro CS3); Adobe OnLocation CS3, which lets on-the-road users record footage directly to their computer disk--removing the need to...

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The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time—the books that most ColdFusion developers used to learn the product. This Getting Started volume starts with Web and Internet fundamentals and database concepts and design, and then progresses to topics including creating data-driven pages, building complete applications, implementing security mechanisms, integrating with e-mail, building reusable functions and components, generating data-driven reports and graphs, building Ajax-powered user interfaces, and much more. Complete coverage of...

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP: Training from the Source

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP: Training from the Source

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 26-SEP-2007

Insert Date: 31-OCT-2007

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Designed for intermediate Web designers and developers with no previous experience with programming or server-side technology.  Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion and PHP: Training from the Source has been fully-updated, not just for the latest version of Dreamweaver but for today's Web. It's now standards--compliant, with a site created using one of Dreamweaver's brand-new CSS templates, that includes Ajax elements in the dynamic site design. Users ready to take the next step and make their Web sites interactive will find the same easy-to-read, logical, well-constructed projects, but...

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Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 27-SEP-2007

Insert Date: 24-OCT-2007

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Flash is the most ubiquitous technology today for creating and deploying dynamic content on the Web. From button rollovers to video animations, Flash not only brings pizzazz to the Web but also makes difficult concepts easier to understand through illustrations, diagrams, and so on. Now that Flash CS3 Professional is part of the Adobe family, users new to the software as well as veteran users unfamiliar with added Adobe feature need quick access to key features and fundamental techniques. Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: 100 Essential Techniques provides users with what they need to know to...

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Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer

Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 27-AUG-2007

Insert Date: 16-OCT-2007

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Adobe LiveCycle Designer is the form creation tool that comes bundled with Adobe Acrobat Professional. This is the first and only book that explains how to use Designer to create interactive and dynamic forms. The book was written in tandem with the Adobe LiveCycle development team and it has been thoroughly reviewed by over a dozen Adobe engineers. This book is accessible enough for a beginner but rich enough for an experienced user. It covers all of the major topics and includes valuable links to other LiveCycle Designer documentation and resources....

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Adobe® Flex™ 3: Training from the Source

Adobe® Flex™ 3: Training from the Source

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 27-MAR-2008

Insert Date: 16-OCT-2007

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Part of the Adobe Training from the Source series, the official curriculum from Adobe, developed by experienced trainers. Using project-based tutorials, this book/CD volume is designed to teach the techniques needed to create sophisticated, professional-level projects. Each book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. In the course of the book, the reader will build several Web applications using Flex Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. This title covers the component framework for Rich Internet Applications, Adobe...

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Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 08-AUG-2007

Insert Date: 02-SEP-2007

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Adobe Illustrator CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 3, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion,...

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 has fantastic tools for minimizing the drudgery of graphics production work: The key is to make your computer and Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign do rote tasks for you. And although the concept of automation may sound intimidating, it doesn’t have to be. Learn what automation is, why it’s as natural as breathing, and how it can take over routine work, freeing you up to be creative. ·     Combine customer data with graphics for personalized communications ·     Customize hundreds or even thousands of illustrations or layouts in one pass ·     Record...

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Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS®

Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 24-JUL-2007

Insert Date: 03-AUG-2007

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Visual effects and motion graphics pros of all stripes--from broadcast professionals to VFX supervisors to Web designers who need to produce occasional video segments--will welcome the dramatically accelerated features provided in the brand-new After Effects CS3 This best-selling book has been revised to cover all that's new in this upgrade: Shape layers, which enables users to easily create and animate shapes; Puppet tool, which you can use to animate a 2D image like a marionette; powerful integration with Photoshop CS3; new support for Flash designers; the new Brainstorm panel, which...

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Adobe® Soundbooth™ CS3 Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS®

Adobe® Soundbooth™ CS3 Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 09-AUG-2007

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This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create and edit audio with Soundbooth CS3, Adobe's new audio-editing application targeted at creative professionals in all disciplines (no sound engineering background required!) Soundbooth CS3 will appeal to users who want to use audio in their everyday tasks: recording and editing, removing unwanted noise, customizing sound effects, adding aural emphasis to a scene, or creating royalty-free music to match the mood of a production. Soundbooth's tight integration with Flash and Premiere Pro lets users create...

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Adobe® Acrobat® 3D Version 8 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Acrobat® 3D Version 8 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 11-JUL-2007

Insert Date: 07-JUL-2007

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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 design and manufacturing teams. The result can be improved accuracy and a reduction in design and manufacturing costs, effort, and time to market. Realizing that the users Acrobat 3D is designed for--creative and engineering design pros who work with complex electronic documents--aren't going to interrupt their production cycles to...

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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 24-MAY-2007

Insert Date: 14-JUN-2007

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful Web design tool: As part of Creative Suite 3 (which includes Photoshop CS3 and Flash CS3), it's a key component of an overall Web design workflow that encourages users to rely on all of their applications to seamlessly create graphically rich content for the Web and motion graphics. This information- and image-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Dreamweaver CS3 features they're most likely to use, including Spry framework for Ajax and Spry widgets and effects, and Absolute Placement...

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Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques

Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 09-AUG-2007

Insert Date: 20-MAY-2007

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From pre-production to post, author Rob Reinhardt shares the techniques that make Adobe Flash a powerful tool for sharing video over the Web. With sections on capturing and encoding video, creating and using cue points, working with transparency, and deploying and delivering optimal quality, he covers the information that users need to get started, and then goes in-depth to bring his readers to expert status quickly....

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Adobe® InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe® InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2007

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Build your InDesign expertise,one technique at a time. In Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos, authors John Cruise and Kelly Kordes Anton bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right to work in InDesign, the world’s most powerful page layout program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you’re most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique—complete with a relevant hint or two. These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace,...

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Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 04-DEC-2006

Insert Date: 13-MAY-2007

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe's consumer-targeted image editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on the reader's growing knowledge of the program as well as end-of-chapter review questions to wrap up each lesson. Readers can follow the book from start to finish or choose only the chapters that interest them. Readers will learn the basics of editing their images with Photoshop Elements and will learn the program's...

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Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 14-MAY-2007

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Dreamweaver CS3, now included as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 3, is the leading professional Web design and development application in the market, and is a must-have tool for any Web designer or developer. Dreamweaver CS3 offers new CSS layouts, a unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization tools that let users create interactive Web sites without having to delve into code. Dreamweaver users can now create dynamic interfaces using the Spry framwork for Ajax. (Spry is 99% HTML, so it's accessible to both designers and developers). Spry widgets (pre-built user interface components) let users...

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Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 16-APR-2007

Insert Date: 27-APR-2007

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This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Photoshop CS3--written by the experts at Adobe Systems' is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Photoshop concepts and techniques, while readers who already have some experience with Photoshop can use this book to learn Photoshop CS3's more advanced features and newest tools. Using clear, step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a specific project, with each chapter building on the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills...

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Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 23-APR-2007

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This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program, while readers who already have some experience with InDesign can use this book to familiarize themselves with InDesign CS3's newest features. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson. The companion CD contains all the assets readers will need to work...

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Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 24-APR-2007

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This thorough guide to Adobe Illustrator CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of Adobe's powerful vector drawing software. Using clear, step-by-step lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the software, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce key concepts and skills. Adobe Illustrator CS3 is jam-packed with new features and enhancements, including Live Color, a new environment that enables users to explore, apply, and save custom color configurations; improved integration with Adobe Flash...