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Premiere Pro 1.5 for Windows: Visual Quickpro Guide

Premiere Pro 1.5 for Windows: Visual Quickpro Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 14-SEP-2004

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2005

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You saw it at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention; now you need it on your desktop! Here to make sure you start taking advantage of Premiere Pro 1.5's advanced features immediately is a task-based guide that guarantees success-without forcing you to miss a step in your own busy production schedule! Employing the same task-based, step-by-step instructions and strong visual approach that the wildly popular Visual QuickStart series adopts, this handy guide promises to have you editing full-length videos, complete with titles, transitions, and special effects, in record...

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Get the Picture You Want: Essential Digital Photography Techniques

Get the Picture You Want: Essential Digital Photography Techniques

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 06-OCT-2004

Insert Date: 30-APR-2005

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In this full-color, solutions-based book, you'll find plenty of easy, accessible fixes to your most common digital camera questions. You'll learn how to shoot a sunset with your digital camera, how to keep your camera steady with a tripod, how to avoid reflection glare, how to print your photos so you don't waste expensive photo paper, and how to capture the best shots, even after it gets dark. Along the way, you'll learn what accessories you need to get started, techniques for keeping your camera healthy, the best shooting techniques for different types of situations, how to organize and...

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Palm Organizers, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

Palm Organizers, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 19-OCT-2004

Insert Date: 30-APR-2005

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Whether you're using a Tungsten T3 with its glorious high-res screen or the No. 1-selling, under-$100 Zire, the heart of your handheld remains the same: the mighty Palm operating system! Here to ensure that you start taking advantage of all of its built-in software and functionality immediately is a thoroughly updated Visual QuickStart Guide from Palm pro Jeff Carlson. Using clear, step-by-step instructions peppered with plenty of visual aids, Jeff quickly brings you up to date and up to speed on all that's new in the rapidly changing world of Palm Cobalt and Palm Garnet devices: the ability...

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Shade 7 designer LE MODEL, ANIMATE, RENDER Step-by-step tutorials from Curious Labs

Shade 7 designer LE MODEL, ANIMATE, RENDER Step-by-step tutorials from Curious Labs

By: Takeshi Ishikawa; Hidenao Osawa; Taiyo Fujii; Shibata Takayuki; Cube; Detta

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 13-SEP-2004

Insert Date: 27-APR-2005

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The Shade family of 3D programs, developed by e-frontier, inc., has long been popular in Japan. Now, California-based Curious Labs brings Shade to the English-speaking market for the first time. Shade 7 Designer LE, the entry-level version of the product, provides an easy and inexpensive introduction to the world of 3D graphics. Shade 7 designer LE: Model, Animate, Render, written by a team of experts assembled by e-frontier, teaches you the basics- not only of Shade, but of 3D graphics as well. The step-by-step tutorials in the book cover beginning modeling, the basics of textures,...

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Creating a Photo Album in Photoshop Elements for Windows: Visual QuickProject Guide

Creating a Photo Album in Photoshop Elements for Windows: Visual QuickProject Guide

By: Katherine Ulrich

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 27-JAN-2005

Insert Date: 20-APR-2005

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 If you're like many users, you may have a digital camera, plenty of  snapshots, and a copy of Photoshop Elements, Adobe's consumer-level image  editing software. But as anyone who's just come back from vacation with  hundreds of digital photos knows, getting all those photos printed and  organized is another matter altogether. Many users find that printing photos  on a home printer and assembling them into a traditional photo album can be  a tedious and painstaking chore.    With Adobe Photoshop Elements for Windows, all this has changed. Using this  software, you can easily organize your...

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Macromedia Contribute 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Macromedia Contribute 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 22-SEP-2004

Insert Date: 19-APR-2005

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Visitors to your Web site want to see up-to-date content--period. They don't care how complicated it is to edit that content or about the manpower issues involved: If they don't find what they need, they'll get it elsewhere. To ensure that they don't, you need Macromedia's hot content management tool Contribute and this task-based guide to get you up to speed on it. In this thoroughly updated guide, popular author Tom Negrino uses simple step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to show you how to build Web pages, edit content, create tables, employ Dreamweaver templates, and more...

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Moving to InDesign

Moving to InDesign

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 17-SEP-2004

Insert Date: 16-APR-2005

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Costs less. Does more. Is easier to use: If this is the conclusion you've reached when comparing InDesign CS with its two long-time rivals (QuarkXPress and PageMaker), you're ready to make the switch. This guide shows you how! Throughout this compact guide, the focus is on leveraging your skill in the other leading desktop publishing packages to get up to speed fast in the new leading publishing package! As the perfect companion to the more comprehensive Real World InDesign CS, this tightly focused guide details the most common tasks and techniques you need to know to get your job done in...

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Visual Quick Project: Publishing a Blog with Blogger

Visual Quick Project: Publishing a Blog with Blogger

By: Elizabeth Castro

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 27-JAN-2005

Insert Date: 16-APR-2005

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If you want to start blogging fast, but don’t want to get sidetracked by the details, then you need a Visual QuickProject Guide! Writing in a journal is all well and good, but when you're ready to share your musings with the world (and you think the world is ready to receive them!), a blog is the way to go. For just $12.99, this compact guide shows you how! Using big, bold full-color pictures and streamlined instructions, it covers just the need-to-know essentials that will get you blogging with leading free blog software--Google’s Blogger--in a matter of minutes.  Best-selling author...

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Now You Know Treo™

Now You Know Treo™

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 20-DEC-2004

Insert Date: 13-APR-2005

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Even a smartphone needs a smart user to take advantage of all of its brilliance--especially when that phone is as jam-packed with features as the Treo. To master all of the Treo's phone, email, Internet, photographic, and organizational capabilities, you need this pocket-sized guide! As the only Treo guide authorized by its maker (palmOne), this one goes way beyond the manual to demonstrate the tricks and techniques that aren't divulged anywhere else. With Treo in your hand and this guide at your side, you can work as you read, mastering one topic quickly and then moving on to the next. Each...

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Now You Know Tungsten™ E

Now You Know Tungsten™ E

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 06-DEC-2004

Insert Date: 13-APR-2005

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You've just discovered what 2 million other users already know: That the best-selling Tungsten E is the coolest, most affordable ($200) color electronic organizer on the market! Here to reveal all of its secrets is a pint-sized guide that's as smart and sleek as the device itself. As the only source authorized by the device's creators (palmOne), this handy guide from a pair of PC Magazine editors comes jam-packed with all kinds of new things you can do on your Tungsten E that aren't disclosed in the PDF manuals. Each tip or technique takes just minutes to complete, which means you master one...

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Unix Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide

Unix Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 14-FEB-2005

Insert Date: 05-APR-2005

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If you've mastered the flavors, commands, and technical jargon surrounding Unix, are comfortable working from within the command line, and are now itching to take your Unix skills to the next level, this is the place to start! Using a task-based teaching style and easy visual approach, author Chris Herborth does more than just enumerate commands here. In these pages, he shows you how to combine and synthesize those commands to take full advantage of all of Unix's functionality. The focus here is on Unix security, networking, and system administration. By the time you reach the end of...

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Secrets of the iPod and iTunes Fifth Edition

Secrets of the iPod and iTunes Fifth Edition

By: Christopher Breen

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 20-DEC-2004

Insert Date: 05-APR-2005

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You tried to resist it, but the palm-size, cotton candy-­colored iPod Mini proved too alluring to live without! Knowing that you'll want to learn all of its secrets--plus those of its big-sibling iPod and the newly updated iTunes 4.7 as well--trusted Mac teacher Christopher Breen has thoroughly updated his best- selling guide to the world's most popular digital music player. You'll learn the all-important basics of downloading, storing, and indexing your music plus all that's new in iTunes 4.7: the iMix feature, which lets you upload playlists to the iTunes Music Store (where other users can...

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Global Mobile: Connecting without Walls, Wires, or Borders

Global Mobile: Connecting without Walls, Wires, or Borders

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 12-JAN-2005

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With the proliferation of Wi-Fi hotspots and advances in mobile-phone technology, there aren't many excuses today for not being in contact with your friends, family and business associates when you travel. Using just your laptop computer and cell phone, you can stay connected from all around the globe. But not so fast -- do you "really" know how to use your gadgets when traveling? And furthermore, do you have the RIGHT gadgets? Enter Global Mobile. This slim, compact guide outlines how to choose and use the gear you’ll need to stay connected no matter where you’re going. Author Fred...

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Apple Pro Training Series: Motion

Apple Pro Training Series: Motion

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 29-OCT-2004

Insert Date: 01-APR-2005

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This Apple-authorized guide to Motion lifts the curtain on Apple's revolutionary new software for motion graphics design. A comprehensive book-DVD combo, it starts with motion graphics fundamentals and takes you step by step all the way through Motion's powerful advanced features, delivering comprehensive training-the equivalent of a three-day course-in one project-based book. Professional, hands-on projects help you learn as you go. All the files you need are on the DVD. Readers will harness the magic of Motion's Real-Time Design engine, behavior-based animation, and remarkable...

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Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works, Second Edition

Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works, Second Edition

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 10-DEC-2004

Insert Date: 01-APR-2005

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If anything, this volume's premise--that the business of Web design is one of constant change-has only proven truer over time. So much so, in fact, that the 12-month design cycles cited in the last edition have shrunk to 6 or even 3 months today. Which is why, more than ever, you need a smart, practical guide that demonstrates how to plan, budget, organize, and manage your Web redesign - or even you initial design - projects from conceptualization to launch. This volume delivers! In these pages Web designer extraordinaire Kelly Goto and coauthor Emily Cotler have distilled their...

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Apple Pro Training Series Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7

Apple Pro Training Series Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7

By: Martin Sitter

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 18-JAN-2005

Insert Date: 19-MAR-2005

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With a new plug-in that re-creates the sounds of 11 of the world's best-known guitar amps, distributed audio processing (which lets you tap into a virtually unlimited number of Macs), new software instruments (including a killer drum machine), and a slew of workflow enhancements, it's no wonder you're chomping at the bit to start using Logic Pro 7 and its streamlined sibling Logic Express 7. This Apple-certified guide ensures that you do-effectively, efficiently, and in as little time as possible! Veteran audio producer Martin Sitter uses step-by-step, project-based instruction and...

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Pinnacle Liquid Edition 6 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide

Pinnacle Liquid Edition 6 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 29-NOV-2004

Insert Date: 18-MAR-2005

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Recipients of nine Emmy Awards for technical innovation, Pinnacle products have long been a favorite among professional broadcasters. Now, with Liquid Edition shipping on Alienware Systems new line of notebook computers (and capturing the top engineering award at the National Association of Broadcasters convention), the rest of the world is discovering them, too. Here to help users get up to speed on it fast is the first guide devoted solely to Pinnacle s advanced editing system. In this book, former Liquid Edition team member Paul Ekert uses simple step-by-step instructions peppered with...

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Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 21-JUL-2004

Insert Date: 18-MAR-2005

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Offering enough templates, shapes, and enhancements that you can create menus without turning to Photoshop, the improved Library and Styles palettes in Encore DVD 1.5 represent just one of many reasons DVD creators like yourself are flocking to Adobe's recently updated authoring software. This no-nonsense guide offers the most practical way of getting proficient in it! Whether you're a first-time user or an Encore DVD veteran, you'll find all the simple step-by-step instructions you need to start taking advantage of all of Encore DVD 1.5's features immediately. In chapters on getting started,...

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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web

By: Dave Shea; Molly E. Holzschlag

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 17-FEB-2005

Insert Date: 17-MAR-2005

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Proving once and for all that standards-compliant design does not equal dull design, this inspiring tome uses examples from the landmark CSS Zen Garden site as the foundation for discussions on how to create beautiful, progressive CSS-based Web sites. By using the Zen Garden sites as examples of how CSS design techniques and approaches can be applied to specific Web challenges, authors Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag provide an eye-opening look at the range of design methods made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). By the time you've finished perusing the volume, you'll have a...

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Macromedia Captivate for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Macromedia Captivate for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 05-JAN-2005

Insert Date: 12-MAR-2005

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If you've ever used traditional screen recording software to create product demonstrations or created custom simulations on your own, you know what an enormous task it can become. Not so with Macromedia's recently renamed and enhanced software, Macromedia Captivate (formerly RoboDemo). By capturing your actions as you use a program, Captivate eliminates the need to create custom graphics for each step--which in turns means no massive video files at the end of the project. Macromedia Captivate automatically records all onscreen actions and instantly creates an interactive Flash simulation....