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141. | Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Studio Techniques By: Mark Christiansen Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 20-NOV-2007 Insert Date: 03-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Studio Techniques 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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142. | 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 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 Classroom in a Book®
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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143. | Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started By: Ben Forta; Raymond Camden; Charlie Arehart Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 17-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 31-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started 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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144. | Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP: Training from the Source By: Jeffrey Bardzell; Bob Flynn Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 26-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 31-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP: Training from the Source 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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145. | Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques By: Mark Schaeffer Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 27-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 24-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques 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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146. | Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer By: J. P. Terry Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 27-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 16-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe® LiveCycle® Designer 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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147. | Adobe® Flex™ 3: Training from the Source By: Jeff Tapper; Michael Labriola; Matthew Boles; James Talbot Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 27-MAR-2008 Insert Date: 16-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Flex™ 3: Training from the Source 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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148. | Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques By: David Karlins; Bruce K. Hopkins Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 08-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 02-SEP-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques 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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149. | By: Rick Ralston Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 13-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 09-AUG-2007 Slots: 1.0 | 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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150. | Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 24-JUL-2007 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® After Effects® CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS®
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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151. | Adobe® Soundbooth™ CS3 Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 09-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Soundbooth™ CS3 Classroom in a Book® for Windows® and Mac OS® 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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152. | Adobe® Acrobat® 3D Version 8 Classroom in a Book® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 11-JUL-2007 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Acrobat® 3D Version 8 Classroom in a Book® 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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153. | Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques By: David Karlins Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 24-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 14-JUN-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques 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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154. | Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques By: Robert Reinhardt Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 09-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques 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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155. | Adobe® InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques By: John Cruise; Kelly Kordes Anton Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 17-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques 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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156. | Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 Classroom in a Book® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 04-DEC-2006 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 Classroom in a Book® 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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157. | Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 Classroom in a Book® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 14-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 Classroom in a Book® 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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158. | Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Classroom in a Book® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 16-APR-2007 Insert Date: 27-APR-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Classroom in a Book® 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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159. | Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 23-APR-2007 Insert Date: 27-APR-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® InDesign® CS3 Classroom in a Book® 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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160. | Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 Classroom in a Book® Publisher: Adobe Press Publication Date: 24-APR-2007 Insert Date: 27-APR-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 Classroom in a Book® 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...
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