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Quartz 2D Graphics for Mac OS X(R) Developers

R. Scott Thompson

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Core Graphics is the new graphics framework for Mac OS X. Quartz, the 2D drawing system, and Core Image, which processes both video and still images, are the key new technologies in this framework and provide the tools Mac OS X developers need to create and draw graphics for their applications that target the design-savvy Mac consumer audience. With the evolution of Mac OS X, Apple is phasing out use of its previous graphics framework, QuickDraw, and encouraging all developers to begin using Core Graphics. The model for Quartz is completely unique and entirely different from QuickDraw creating a steep learning curve for all developers moving over. This book is in an introduction and guide to working with Core Graphics, specifically Quartz and Core Image. It carries the developer through the fundamental Quartz models and basic concepts such as drawing, coordinating system basics, virtual paint, and CGContext. Once the fundamentals are covered, author Scott Thompson delves into more advanced topics such as shading, patterns, and manipulating image effects. Practical code examples enhance the discussion and offer Mac developers the information they need to incorporate these powerful graphics into their own Mac OS X Applications.

Photoshop Restoration and Retouching (Macintosh Library)

Katrin Eismann

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Total reviews: 62 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent job writing this book. 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I'm a novice who wanted to restore a whole bunch of all photos from family that my grandmother had in her atic, so I decided to buy Photohop by recomendation of a friend of mind. I have no previous experience in this field, but this book was everything I needed it.
The author is so detailed and the practices so well prepare that it took me no time to hands of it, and look like a profesional in front of my entire family and friends. I would recommend this book to anyone, experts or novices like me.

Editorial Review:

Photoshop Restoration and Retouching is a hands-on book for designers, photographers, commercial illustrators, and artists who seek to make the best out of the not perfect. The world is full of imperfections, but professionally-prepared images never show those blemishes, cellulite, poorly reproduced colors, stray hairs or wrinkles. This book will walk readers through all kinds of repair and correction, including:

• Improving contrast and tone
• Correcting color, either from a bad original or a bad scan
• Removing unwanted elements from photographs
• Repairing heirloom originals with problems such as mold spots, cracks, or torn corners
• Improving portraits by removing blemishes, removing distracting elements, or replacing closed eyes
• Tips and tricks for glamour and fashion photographers

AppleScripting InDesign

Shirley W. Hopkins

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Super Usefull 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This is the most usefull book on apple scripting indesign I have found. Using the techniques in the book I am able to automate almost all of the redundent tasks and other stuff that was wastign my time. I keep this book next to my desk at all times. I wouldnt be without it!

Editorial Review:

Over 300 pages, completely rewritten and revised for InDesign CS. Includes CD with scripts from the book, a handler library, and a tidy collection of ready-to-use scripts to automate some of those pesky chores that eat up valuable production time. Whether your goal is to use scripts, modify scripts, or write scripts of your own, "AppleScripting InDesign" is the one resource you don't want to be without.

Of all the features of InDesign, its support for scripting is without parallel; and for the Macintosh user, AppleScript offers ease of use with the power to satisfy even the more demanding tasks. Add "AppleScripting InDesign" and you have all you need to become a power InDesign user. Packed with sample code, tips, and tricks, the book is designed for the average user with plenty of substance for those who are more advanced. For the beginning user, additional information and step-by-step instruction is provided in PDF form on the CD.

The Animator's Motion Capture Guide: Organizing, Managing, Editing (Charles River Media Game Development)

Matt Liverman

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Character motion is one of the most critical elements in creating a believable look for a video game, animated project, or movie special effect. Good character motion can quickly take the viewer into the imaginary world and help sell the scene, while bad character motion can just as quickly ruin the believability of a game or scene. Without a doubt, motion capture gives you the most realistic synthetic motion possible, and for this reason many companies use motion capture as the source for many of their animations. The Animator's Motion Capture Guide is written for all levels of animators, artists, project managers, and companies who wish to handle their motion capture effectively and efficiently. It is written from a motion coordinator's (lead animator's) point of view and gives a plan for handling motion capture, whether on a single project or multiple projects. It provides you with a complete, start-to-finish plan for dealing with motion capture, hints on selecting a motion capture service bureau, how to cut costs, and how to streamline your process. It also gives you a motion capture glossary and lists of motion capture service bureaus and performers. This book is a "must-have" for animators, managers, and video game companies who want to approach motion capture in a uniform, thorough, professional, and efficient manner.

Key Features

Helps game and animation companies decide whether MOCAP is right for their project

Provides animators and game developers with a complete, start-to-finish professional guide to MOCAP

Teaches new animators key terminology and provides a blueprint for the entire animation process

iMovie 3 Solutions: Tips, Tricks, and Special Effects

Erica Sadun

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"This is an outstanding book for those who want to move beyond iMovie's easy, built-in effects, and learn techniques to give your videos a more professional look."
--MyMac.com Book Reviewer David Weeks

Create Thousand-Dollar Video Effects with iMovie and QuickTime Pro

You can do more with iMovie than you might think. You don't have to trade up to Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere to build stylish and exciting videos. iMovie 3 Solutions brings high-end visual effects to the iMovie community with easy-to-follow projects, step-by-step instructions, and companion sample videos. Whether you're a hobbyist, a budding producer, or a dedicated video prosumer, iMovie 3 Solutions will help you create unique and breathtaking videos on a budget.

Inside, noted author Erica Sadun shows you the ins and outs of iMovie video tricks, including:
* Adding logos and watermarks to your movies
* Producing exciting picture-in-picture effects
* Creating larger and more dynamic title sequences
* Combining animated elements with your iMovie footage
* Designing interactive QuickTime skins that surround your iMovie videos
* Converting your PowerPoint presentations into iMovie form
* Authoring captions and subtitles for your movies
* Building your own iMovie plug-ins
* And more!

QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh (With CD-ROM)

Steven Gulie, Apple Computer

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QuickTime is the industry standard for creating and distributing multimedia content on the Web. This book includes QuickTime Pro 5 and a full set of development tools for both Windows and Macintosh. Like the best-selling and award-winning QuickTime for the Web, this second edition is a hands-on guide showing how to integrate video, recorded sound, Flash animation, virtual reality, MIDI, text, still images, live streams, games, and user interactivity into a website.

Written for webmasters, site designers, HTML and multimedia authors and instructors, and anyone else--beginner or expert--who wants to incorporate sound or video into their website, this book offers clear and detailed instruction in an engaging style. This is the most complete and authoritative source for creating QuickTime content and putting it on the Web. The first edition has been selected as a textbook for several college-level multimedia courses.

The first edition of this book won the Touchstone 2000 Merit Award for Books awarded annually by STC (Society for Technical Communications).

About the CD-ROM:
The accompanying CD-ROM contains the full version of QuickTime Pro 5 (a $29.99 value) for Windows and Macintosh. Its powerful, extensible software architecture lets you deliver state-of-the-art digital content over the Web or on CD-ROM. It works equally well on Windows (95/98/NT/2000) and Mac OS. The CD-ROM also includes a variety of tools for creating and editing movies, along with cut-and-paste HTML and JavaScript examples.

* written for both Windows and Macintosh developers
* illustrates all the latest features in QuickTime Pro 5, including media skins and cubic VR
* includes a CD-ROM with QuickTime Pro 5 and a demo copy of LiveStage Pro
* offers $100 off full version of LiveStage Pro from Totally Hip Software
* includes free tools for creating and editing QuickTime movies and VR panoramas
* covers the ActiveX control for QuickTime

Student Edition of VizAbility for Macintosh

Kristin Woolsey, Scott Kim, Gayle Curtis, Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Gayle Curti

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Harness the power of visual thinking from this toolkit! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Wow! This is a superbly researched/designed visual thinking toolkit in a beautifully packed boxed collection. It consists of:
- A 200-page Handbook (to provide you with a broad conceptual overview of visual thinking & to guide you through the interactive experiences of the CD-ROM);
- A Sketchbook (to offer a forum for recording your ideas and experiences, including all the exercises in the book & CD-ROM);
- An Interactive CD ROM (offer you an interactive environment in which to challenge & improve your visual skills; it has some video-clipped interviews with visual thinkers; a gallery of interesting examples);
and comes with these goals in mind:
- to familarise you with visual thinking;
- to make you aware of your own innate visual abilities;
- to exercise & your improve your skills in visualisation;
- to incorporate these skills into your daily routines;
You need to work conscientiously with these three components (each actually can stand on its own) in order to experience the vast array of visualisation activities. It has already taken me some ten weeks to digest and complete almost all the suggested exercises, alternating between reading, hands-on computer activities, and off-screen sketching on paper, plus various cycles of deep reflection and intellectual pursuit on the net. As of today, I am still working on some of the suggested activities. In fact, many of the completed activities led me to a lot of other new explorations, beyond the originally intended curriculum. My only complaint is that the interactive CD-ROM was not as exciting as I would have expected. This was probably due to the fact that the product was released in the mid-90s. Among the many visual thinking toolkits in my personal library, this one demanded the most of my brain and physical power. As the saying goes, once your mind is expanded by new ideas, it is never the same again! In a nutshell, if you are looking for a toolkit to help you expand your seeing, drawing, diagramming and imagining capabilities, this is it!

Editorial Review:

Provides a broad conceptual overview of visual thinking by guiding you through the interactive experiences of the Vizability CD ROM. Macintosh Version. Paper. CD ROM included.

Apple Pro Training Series: Color Management in Mac OS X (Apple Pro Training)

Joshua Weisberg

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Not too impressed 3 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

At first when I started reading this book, I was amazed at how fast I was flipping through the pages! I loved it and kepts going. The first part of the book explains color and its management within Mac OS X pretty well, I was impressed when I learnt so much about the color sync. untility and other stuff like that. However, the more I read the more I felt like I was going through the chapters a little too fast for my liking. Why? Because I found that a lot of the times the author would repeat what he said before, making it a bit repetitive....
As much as I do not own a Gretag Macbeth Eye-One or any of those devices that calibrate monitors and other things, I learnt about them in the book. One thing I found odd was that I got pretty much the same information from apple.com's PRO section's online seminars..which was a bummer when I found out.

Anyways, I'm still a bit confused about color management and might have to indulge in another book for a clearer understanding of it. This book just seemed like it didnt explain everything enough for me to really understand. It's easy to follow and click step by step, its hard to understand what you're really doing so u dont need to refer to a book everytime...

Editorial Review:

In the not-so-distant past, color reproduction was considered a craft--one handled by skilled craftspeople using proprietary systems. Today--thanks to the proliferation of desktop systems and devices--everyone and their uncle can get their hands in. But the bottom line is this: It¿s still a craft--and to apply color consistently and correctly across various hardware, software, and output devices, you need this hands-on project based guide. As the only Apple-certified tutorial on the topic, this book cuts through the theory to go straight to the heart of the matter: How to set up a Mac OS X-based workflow for those situations in which you employ color: photography and image capture, page layout and content creation, and output (to desktop printer or press). Author and color expert Joshua Weisberg distills a complicated process to its step-by-step essentials through a series of lessons and exercises that you can follow while using the files on the companion DVD.

Photoshop 5 for Macs for Dummies

Deke McClelland

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Photoshop Demystified (well, as much as it can be!) 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is really an encouraging book for those of us who took one look at Photoshop 5 or 5.5 and threw up our hands in despair. It begins at the very, rankist beginning (where I was!) and progresses simply, logically and humorously. There are ample and helpful illustrations. The book is very simple for newbees, who don't know anything about Photoshop. Its explanations are worded in plain English and any tech-talk is interpreted into English. In my copy, there is an addendum for the 5.5 upgrade. This book, and only this book, got me started and has kept me going in Photoshop, finally, and I love it and use it almost daily. It is really worth a lot more than its measly price.

Editorial Review:

Macintosh remains the computer of choice for high-end graphic designers, and Photoshop is still the preferred software program to produce all those professional-quality images. Now, you can create your own quality artwork for fun or profit with the latest version of Photoshop and a copy of Photoshop 5 For Macs For Dummies, written by graphics arts guru Deke McClelland.

Photoshop 5 adds more power and more features to its impressive arsenal of image-editing tools than ever before. Explore the new History palette, magnetic tools, editable text, and layer effects; clean up bad scans and poor-quality pictures; create collages or use the Photoshop program's special painting tricks; and control the resolution and dimensions of an image with ease and sophisticated know-how, thanks to the tips and techniques written in plain English that you'll find on page after page of Photoshop 5 For Macs For Dummies.

Digital Video Editing with Final Cut Express: The Real-World Guide to Set Up and Workflow

Charles Roberts

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Suitable for those new to nonlinear editing as well as experienced editors new to Final Cut Express, this book is an introduction to Apple's editing software package and the digital video format in general. You will come away with not only an in-depth knowledge of how to use Final Cut Express, but also a deeper understanding of the craft of editing and the underlying technical processes that will serve you well in future projects.

Workflow, editing techniques, compositing, special effects, audio tools, and output are explained in clear, jargon-free terms. The book's emphasis is always on using Final Cut Express in the real world, and as such it is the only book to go beyond the interface to address crucial issues like proper setup, system configuration, hardware, the Mac operating system, what equipment to purchase, and troubleshooting common problems. Armed with this information, you will sidestep problems and complete projects of exceptional quality.

*Learn how to use Final Cut Express in the real world
*Offers a clear overview of the digital video format
*Suitable for new editors or experienced editors new to Final Cut Express