Adobe Illustrator CS for Dummies

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Book Description
Includes companion Web site with bonus chapters and more!

Here’s how to make friends with the top graphics software for both Mac® and Windows®

So you thought Illustrator should really be called "Intimidator"? Not so! Let this book draw you a map through the jungle of pages, paths, pixels, and Pen tools, and before you know it, you’ll have your creations in print, on the Web, or even on a PDA. Then, just smile mysteriously when folks say "Wow!"

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

Book Info
Covers the latest updates to Adobe Illustrator, including Web graphic tools and new effects you can apply to your images. Softcover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; First edition (October 13, 2003)
• Language: English

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Dreamweaver MX Bible with CD-ROM (Paperback)

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Review
“…one of the most established and revered brands in computer publishing… …another authoritative tome…far better value for money than most manuals…” (Practical Web Projects, May 2003)

Book Description
* The latest edition of the bestseller on Macromedia's market-leading Web development tool -- now deeper and more useful than ever!
* Fully revised to cover all the new features of this hot web design tool for active, database-driven Web page development!
* The definitive, 100omplete handbook and reference for Macromedia Dreamweaver X.
* Written by Macromedia insider, Web design expert, best-selling author, and Dreamweaver Advisor Council team member Joe Lowery.
* Includes coverage on Dreamweaver's integration with the upcoming releases of Flash, Fireworks, ColdFusion, JRUN, and more!
* Learn to build dynamic, database-driven Web sites - no programming required.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1152 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Cdr edition (August 1, 2002)
• Language: English

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LightWave 3D 8 Lighting

“This book will take your lighting to a whole new level and give your work that edge you’ve been looking for.”
William “Proton” Vaughan
Newtek LightWave Evangelist

Whether you are lighting your own scene or adding CG elements to a background image, LightWave 3D 8 Lighting can help you achieve your lighting goals. From a discussion of lighting principles and color theory to a number of tutorials demonstrating the application of lighting tools and concepts, the emphasis throughout is on making your lighting believable, accurate, and pleasing to the eye.

• Discover the new features in LightWave 3D 8 that can improve your lighting.
• Learn how angles, colors, shadows, light sources, and atmospheric conditions affect the emotional impact of a scene.
• Enhance effect lighting using projection images.
• Find out how to add effects such as radiosity, volumetrics, and lens flares.
• Understand the process that goes into planning and creating a production lighting rig.

ON THE CD:

• Images, objects, and scene files discussed in the book, including a 60-frame underwater texture image sequence used in the tutorials
• All the figures from the book

Nicholas Boughen has been a visual effects animator using LightWave 3D since 1997. Currently living in North Vancouver, British Columbia, he has a 20-year background as a scenic and lighting designer for the stage and video. Among his visual effects credits are the television movies Voyage of the Unicorn, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, and Snow White, the television series Stargate SG-1 and Dead Like Me, and the feature films Good Boy! and The Lizzie McGuire Movie.

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LightWave 3D 8 Character Animation

LightWave 3D is one of the most popular 3D packages on the market today, offering the most complete set of tools, the best-looking and fastest out-of-the-box renderer, and one of the most powerful IK engines available. Professional director and animator Timothy Albee updates the best-selling LightWave 3D 7 Character Animation with discussions of advanced animation tools, facial animation, and IK Booster. In addition, he details how to use LightWave to build strong, dependable character setups; provides proven, hands-on tools for mastering the complex mechanics of animation; and covers the importance of storytelling and acting through animation.

• Explore the complete crafting of powerful and reliable character setups.
• Master subtle acting techniques that imbue scenes with life, drama, and power, such as anticipation, gesture, overlapping action, and silhouette.
• Discover how IK Booster adds more power, ease, and functionality to LightWave’s existing Inverse Kinematics system.
• Use LightWave’s Dope Sheet, Dope Track, and Motion Mixer tools to improve your output in creating animation.
• Find out how to use morph targets to sculpt your characters’ facial performances.

On the CD

• Models and setups to enable immediate animation
  
• Exercises and practice scenes, including pre-animated 3D scenes to study and learn from
• Albee’s animation timer/ time-base converter
• Additional artwork by the author

Timothy Albee has worked in the entertain-ment industry since 1990 as a writer, director, animator, concept artist, producer, and studio owner/executive. His credits include Walt Disney Feature Animation, Warner Brothers/
Infogrammes, Babylon 5, and numerous video game titles. He has written, produced, and directed three short films in addition to Kaze, Ghost Warrior and is the author of several books including LightWave 3D 7 Character Animation, Essential LightWave 3D 7.5, and CGI Filmmaking: The Creation of Ghost Warrior.

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