eBook Details:

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st Pap/Cdr Edition (June 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321704479
• ISBN-13: 978-0321704474

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ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Professional CS5. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge acquired in each lesson, readers will learn the fundamentals of adding interactivity to Flash files using ActionScript, starting with using prewritten Code Snippets, but progressing to customizing and writing their own ActionScript code.

The tutorials start with simple navigation and timeline control and progress through controlling animation with ActionScript; using Event Listeners and writing event-handling functions; and controlling loading of and interaction with data, text, video, sound, and images. Readers will also learn to use third-party libraries and create Adobe Air applications. This Classroom in a Book also covers the improved text-handling tools that are new to Flash Professional CS5. The companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete all the projects.

Adobe Creative Team

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe’s Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing step-by-step projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st Pap/Dvdr Edition (October 16, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032171962X
• ISBN-13: 978-0321719621

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Adobe After Effects CS5 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques

This is the only book on the market to focus exclusively on the creation of visual effects for After Effects users, 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. Users who are comfortable with After Effects will find a helpful review of the fundamentals – managing footage, viewing and editing layers, animating type, and more – so they can learn how to work smarter and more efficiently. Readers of all levels will learn core techniques for effects compositing including color matching, keying, rotoscoping, motion tracking, emulating the camera, and concluding with using expressions in After Effects, written by contributor and expert Dan Ebberts. An incredibly useful appendix on scripting in After Effects is included as well, written by Adobe engineer Jeff Almasol. The final section of the book delves into creative explorations, demonstrating professional effects that are commonly seen in films and games which readers can re-create.

Readers will also find comprehensive coverage of all that’s new and makes this version of Adobe’s effects programa must-have update, including the revolutionary new Roto Brush, all new effects such as the New Refine Matte effect, new support for Color Look-Up Tables, workflows that take advantage of the all-new 64-bit support, inclusion of third-party tools for additional creativity, and much more.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st Edition (September 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321719875
• ISBN-13: 978-0321719874

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Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6

Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6 is a concise, current, and affordable full-color guide to the key techniques for working with digital images. Choose the How-Tos guide when you want to learn the features and functions that provide immediate results. This book covers core features without getting bogged down in obscure details; it provides a single reference for effective Lightroom-to-Photoshop and ACR-to-Photoshop workflows.

You’ll learn to use the most exciting new features in all three apps: streamlined import; dramatic noise-reduction improvements; robust lens correction for raw images; HDR Pro workflows; selection and mask refinement; Content-Aware Fill; Puppet Warp; Bristle Tips and the powerful Mixer Brush. You’ll also learn tips to work more efficiently, with Scrubby Zoom, the new HUD color pickers, and more.

Dan Moughamian has nearly two decades of experience working with Adobe applications, including more than 16 years with Photoshop. As a fine art photographer, professional instructor, and a veteran of the Adobe alpha and beta testing programs, Dan brings a unique and fresh perspective to digital imaging workflows. His recent training titles include several video tutorials for CS5 and Lightroom 3: Retouching & Image Adjustment with Photoshop CS5, Core Lightroom 3, and Mastering Camera Raw 6. He has also authored feature articles for PhotoTechnique Magazine. You can follow Dan on Twitter @Colortrails.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st Pap/Dvdr Edition (December 11, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321749723
• ISBN-13: 978-0321749727

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Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Classroom in a Book

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Classroom in a Book is the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn  Adobe’s consumer-targeted video editing software. Each of the 13 chapters in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson.

This new cross-platform (Mac and Windows) version of the book teaches the basics of video editing, along with complete coverage of all-new features in Premiere Elements 9 now with an enhanced workspace for increased efficiency and better user experience. In this new version you’ll learn how to import media from a variety of devices including mobile phones, embed your movie clips within web pages, use the new Cartoon effect to create cartoon-like movies from your live-motion movie clips, add a variety of new audio effects, fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems with SmartFix, automatically remove unwanted footage with Smart Trim, add graphics that follow the action of your footage, and much more.

About the Authors

The Adobe Creative Team of designers, writers, and editors has extensive, real world knowledge of Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe’s Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; Pap/Dvdr Edition (October 3, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321719697
• ISBN-13: 978-0321719690

eBook Description:

Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques

Almost all motion graphics artists today use After Effects, Photoshop, or Illustrator to some degree in their projects. But how do they decide which tool is best for the job and how can they utilize the various components in the Creative Suite together for the most efficient and effective workflow? This book cuts to the chase and shows readers an in-depth view of the various components in the Creative Suite as best utilized in professional motion graphics projects. With 4-color artwork from real-life productions sprinkled throughout, this inspiring and practical guide will show intermediate to advanced readers what they need to know to incorporate CS5 in their own work. In the first half of the book, readers learn about design essentials as related to motion graphics, including typography, logo animation, repairing and retiming footage, stylizing footage, background design, 3D objects and cameras, audio design, and vector design. The second half of the book focuses on real-world design explorations including chapters on broadcast package design, title sequences, DVD menu design, motion control 3D, character animation techniques, and panoramic images.The accompanying DVD brings it all together by providing source footage and project files, allowing readers to experiment on their own.

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st Pap/Cdr Edition (May 16, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321660501
• ISBN-13: 978-0321660503

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Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source, Volume 1

Adobe Flex: Training from the Source is the best-selling and most trusted resource for learning about Adobe Flex. Written by a team of authors with practical experience as consultants, mentors and developers of courseware, this book/CD uses project-based tutorials, and is designed to teach beginning Flex developers the details of building and architecting real-world rich internet applications using Flash Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. The book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. This latest edition includes complete coverage of New Flex 4 features such as the Spark Component model, Advanced Skinning, Component Creation, and much more. Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source, Volume 2, will follow later in the year and be geared towards more intermediate and advanced users.

Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, 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 second volume of the series begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex and Data Services, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases, ORM), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create, and progress with ColdFusion 9. Complete coverage of ColdFusion 9 is included in “Volume 1, Getting Started” (0-321-66034-X) and “Volume 3, Advanced Application Development” (0-321-67920-2).

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 696 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st Edition (August 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321679199
• ISBN-13: 978-0321679192

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Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, The Adobe 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 second volume of the series begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex and Data Services, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases, ORM), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create, and progress with ColdFusion 9. Complete coverage of ColdFusion 9 is included in “Volume 1, Getting Started” (0-321-66034-X) and “Volume 3, Advanced Application Development” (0-321-67920-2).

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eBook Details:

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st Edition (May 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032166034X
• ISBN-13: 978-0321660343

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Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, The Adobe 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 ColdFusion 9 continues in “Volume 2, Application Development” (ISBN:0321679199) and “Volume 3, Advanced Application Development” (ISBN:0321679202).

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