Ralph Jacobson : Manual of Photography: Photographic and Digital Imaging
Pages: 464 | PDF | Focal Press (2000-09) | ISBN: 0240515749 | 13 Mb
The Manual of Photography is the standard work for anyone who is serious about photography - professional photographers and lab technicians or managers, as well as students and enthusiastic amateurs who want to become more technically competent. The auth

Building Websites with Joomla! v1.0 by Hagen Graf
Publisher: Packt Publishing | Number Of Pages: 340 | Publication Date: 2006-01-03 | ISBN-10: 1904811949 | PDF | 7 Mb
This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Joomla!. If you’ve never used Joomla!, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk you through each step in a friendly and accessible way. From installation, to initial set up and content entry and then on to customization for your own look and feel, this book will get you to a stable and working Joomla! based web site fast. You don’t have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions using this book and Joomla! This book will guide through every step.

Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by Barrie M. North
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR | Number Of Pages: 480 | Publication Date: 2007-12-21 | ISBN-10: 0136135609 | CHM | 48 Mb
If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla!-the world’s #1 open source content management system. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla! for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla! consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find never-before-published tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

Type Specific: Designing Custom Fonts for Function and Identity by Charlotte Rivers
Publisher: RotoVision | Number Of Pages: 160 | Publication Date: 2005-08-01 | ISBN-10: 2880468205 | PDF | 14 Mb
Type Specific shows designers how typefaces designed for a specific purpose succeed by exploring each of the features that must be considered. These include letterforms, counterspaces, cross sections, ascenders/descenders, and junctions and how they work, in both print and screen, across a range of applications: posters, directories, newspapers and magazines, CD covers, packaging, signage, and film titles-including The Kitchen's organic paintbrush front for the promotion of Levi's Vintage Clothing and Saturday's elegant stencil-style face for the Chen Pascual identity. The whole gamut from free-from to precision is explored.

Building Websites with TYPO3: A practical guide to getting your TYPO3 website up and running fast by Michael Peacock
Publisher: Packt Publishing | Number Of Pages: 208 | Publication Date: 2007-03-15 | ISBN-10: 1847191118 | PDF | 4 Mb
Follow a clear path through the power and complexity of TYPO3 to get started, and build your own TYPO3 website.

Total Training for Adobe After Effects CS4 Essentials introduces you to the wonderful world of motion graphics and the fundamentals of After Effects. After watching this training, you’ll know all about creating basic animations, text animation, tracking and stabilizing, basic keying and compositing, basic 3D animation. Plus, you’ll get an insider’s view of some of the new features of After Effects CS4. Whether you are new to After Effects, or brushing up on a technique, this series is just what you need to get up to speed fast.

Moving on stills, sometimes called the "Ken Burns Effect," is the technique of zooming, rotating, and panning across still photographs. It is an important real-world post-production skill, especially for history and science documentaries. In Final Cut Studio 2: Moving on Stills, Larry Jordan demonstrates how to create movement using Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3. He also explores image preparation in Photoshop, and shows how to create these techniques using other applications, like MovingPicture. Those with previous experience in Final Cut Pro and Motion will benefit most from this instruction.

Ever wonder who's behind those cool identity graphics on broadcast and cable TV networks? Come take a peek behind the scenes at Troika Design Group, the leading firm for branding television networks. The members of the exceptionally creative team at Troika explain how they go about creating unique and dynamic on-air brand identities for some of the biggest networks in the world, including ABC, FOX, Oxygen, and ESPN. They show how the company organizes projects, develops its team members, and nurtures a highly collaborative and creative environment. Troika's employees show their creative solutions and tell the stories behind the work. The company begins with a deep understanding of the client's needs, and develops solutions that may include live action elements and a whole range of graphic animation techniques. This installment of Creative Inspirations takes viewers to the very epicenter of TV network branding.

Autodesk AutoCAD is the world’s most widely used Computer Aided Design (CAD) package. It lets you design, visualize and communicate ideas with ease and efficiency. AutoCAD 2009 has new features that make tasks easier and quicker too. This VTC course provides users with the basic essentials needed to master AutoCAD 2009 with emphasis on how to create, edit and plot AutoCAD drawings. Use AutoCAD to communicate your ideas, concepts or designs to customers, colleagues and peers! Work files are

Texturing a model in ZBrush has a great many advantages for speed and ease of use. But if you want to keep details on the model, a workflow comes in handy, so that you are not painting every rivet and bolt on your model. ZBrush’s mapping ability, along with Photoshop’s layer blending, makes a power combination for a texture artist. This MasterClass! is perfect for anyone interested in making Videogame Quality-“Baked” textures for their models.