Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition

By Ken Milburn

Expert advice and pro strategies help photographers at every level become more competent in their work routines. Through step-by-step procedures based on hard-nosed experience, professional photographer Ken Milburn describes a complete workflow sequence that begins with essential photographic equipment and digital darkroom setup, and ends once finished images are in albums, exhibits, web sites, or publications.

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The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects

Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers
By Michael J. Hammel

In The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects, artists and graphics professionals will learn how to use the GIMP and its tools to produce specific effects. Short, extensively illustrated tutorials cover a broad range of real-world projects that will be useful to those working in areas such as print advertisements, web design, photography, and user interface design.
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New Graphic and Animation Forum

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Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3

By Jennifer Smith, Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI)
First Edition July 2007

Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 is like having access to a top-notch team of your very own instructors. Written by product experts and trainers who have produced many of Adobe’s training titles, the book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, and review questions. Includes video tutorials on DVD.
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Reviewing Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Book (Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy)

The video training book is another amazing tutorial idea from Lynda publisher, it gather s the both benefits of getting the info from books and quickly learn things via video training.

The Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Video Training Book for Rich Shupe gives teaches you all the essential information needed to start working with Flash CS3 professional with both paper and video materials.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers, The

By Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby, best-selling author on Adobe Photoshop, delves into CS3 to uncover the most important and useful techniques for digital photographers. Our judges liked Kelby’s direct approach with step-by-step instructions. In this new edition, Kelby shares even more secrets from the top pros.”

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Adobe Creative Suite 2 Workflow

Integrating the Tools, Increasing Your Productivity
By Jennifer Alspach, Shari Nakano, Steve Samson

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Workflow can help you quickly learn how to take advantage of all that CS2 has to offer. By following its concise explanations and step-by-step exercises, you’ll soon learn core skills and techniques that will enable you to create an integrated workflow that will not only save you lots of time, but will also give you more flexibility to move between applications to make necessary tweaks, try out new ideas, and create portable files for review.

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