The objective of the book is to address how most people learn any skill: through constant practice and repetition. Good teachers know that if they want their students to learn and take ownership of certain skills, they (teachers) must identify those skills and then scaffold lessons and activities in a way that makes the tools and process of using those skills understandable. Read the full review here.
Category: Book Review
Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3
Two Book Reviews
Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop CS3
You can just crack open the book, pick a tip, any tip, and give it a try the next time you are out with a camera or sitting at a computer with some photo files to play with. New MyMac.com writer David Graham reviews.
Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages
Review
Not only does this book go into the basics, but also gives excellent detail on HTML tagging, with most of the important modifiers needed for text formatting, as well as special-case features, and they all still work on today’s browsers (except maybe the old Netscape “blink” tag).
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Book Review
Here’s a clue for you: designer Jason Beaird’s The Principles of Beautiful Web Design showed up in my mailbox shortly after publication this past April, and the first thing I did was drop everything and read it from cover to cover. For the record, I build Web sites myself and have a number of art and design classes to my credit. Jason Beaird paid a lot more attention to his teachers, and it shows.
Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard: Early-Bird Edition
Review
Leopard is here… are you ready? I know, you’ve been through this before, you’re a power user, know all the tricks that go along with upgrading to Apple’s newest OS… Or you could be a brand new user or ex-Window’s user who’s not really sure what to expect. Well, the crew at TidBits has taken a bite of the process of upgrading and it presents itself in Joe Kissel’s latest endeavor, Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard: Early Bird Edition.
40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques
Book Review
While image retouching might seem like a daunting task, it can be learned and applied with practice. The third edition of Zack Lee’s 40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques does just that. It demonstrates in easy to follow steps how to use any version of Photoshop Elements or Photoshop CS to retouch or fix good or not so good images. All the techniques are for both beginning and intermediate Photoshop users.
Photoshop Lightroom Adventure
Book Review
All the current spade of books about Lightroom explain the use of the software in similar ways. There’s not very many unique ways explain how to use the features of a software application. But what makes Mikkel’s book stand out is that it comes out of a project in which he and 11 of his photography colleagues, plus five Adobe Lightroom team members, traveled for a photography expedition in Iceland and used the early beta versions of Lightroom to post-process their work.
The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book
Book Review
Like so many other photographers and Photoshop users, I always look forward with delight when Scott Kelby publishes a new book or updates a previous edition of one of his works. If you have the previous edition of this book, you’ll certainly want this newest one if you’re now working in CS3. It’s completely updated with new photos, mostly new techniques, and with Kelby’s signature style and humor.
ABOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3 ONE ON ONE
Review
To quote Scott Kelby, President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals: “As a Photoshop author, I hate picking up a book and learning things I didn’t already know. But Deke’s done it again! If you want to learn Photoshop CS3 from the ground up, look no further.”
BENEATH THE NEON
Book Review
Catch a glimpse of the Las Vegas you’ve never seen.
Adobe Photoshop CS3: Classroom in a Book
Book Review
If you’ve never had the pleasure of leafing through one of these Adobe Press “Classroom†books, you really should take a look at what they offer. Written with direct access to Adobe, these books are a great reference and training aid and are part of the Adobe official training series.
Read MoreADOBE INDESIGN CS3 HOW-TOs – 100 Essential Techniques
Book Review
Everyone wants to write a book that has something for everyone. This one comes close. If you use InDesign, you should have this book on your shelf.
Read MoreCLOSEUP SHOOTING
Book Review
A lot of the problems I had when I first tried macro photography are confronted in this comprehensive publication, Closeup Shooting. The author, Cyrill Harnischmacher, is a photographer and designer who lives in southern Germany. This book tells us what, and what not, to do.
Read MoreDEVICES OF THE SOUL
Book Review
Nothing beats a Mac. Nothing. Right? I mean, sitting in front of your computer at work, effortlessly creating new things and being totally productive is a way of life for so many of us. We know our work and our creative abilities so well, partly because our computer has provided us with the means of bringing our dreams to reality. Perhaps as never before in the history of Man, has any generation has such power to change the world as our generation, because of machines and technology such as the Apple Macintosh.
40 Digital Photography Techniques, 3rd Edition
Book Review
Most people who like taking pictures probably don’t want to spend time reading manuals and long books about camera techniques. Most avid shooters I imagine just want specific techniques and strategies they can easily understand and try out.
Read MoreInside the Machine
Book Review
Inside the Machine is a book about computers, specifically, how they work as machines. It isn’t a book about software and operating systems, and neither is it a book about the history of computers either. It isn’t a picture-book of classic computers, and it isn’t a repair manual. Readers looking for any of these things will be disappointed.
Read MoreTurbocharge Your Computer – Lifehacker
Book Review
If most of your productive day-to-day activities revolve around your Mac and related software, you probably keep current on as many strategies, tips, and ideas that help you not only be more productive at the keyboard, but also provide you ways to better organize your daily routines, projects, and – heck – your entire life if need be.
Read MoreTaking Control of Running Windows on a Mac – Review
The second edition update of this ebook covers the latest version of Boot Camp, which has slightly more advanced capabilities than the original version, and also what is going on with the free Q emulator. There is also a comprehensive discussion of the latest beta version of Parallels. Read the review here.
Canon EOS 30D: Guide to Digital Photography
Book Review
When it comes to books about digital photography, Thomson Press is a sure bet for both beginner and experienced photographers. Their photography books are typically well illustrated, designed, and written from a practical point of view. This review looks at Canon EOS 30D: Guide to Digital Photography by David D. Busch.
Read MoreMacBook for Dummies
Review
My guess is that there are still a few folks out there, stragglers?, who are just now purchasing their first computers. If that first machine is a MacBook, then this book is for you.
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