By Ben Willmore ISBN: 0-321-21352-1 $50.00
Available: February 13
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321213521 Ready to start using Photoshop CS to blend pictures, produce advanced type
effects, and create beautiful panoramic images? Get this volume, and youšll
find out just how far you can take the leading image-editing program. Noted
instructor Ben Willmore explains the concepts, features, and techniques that
promise to make a difference in the way you use Photoshop.
2. REAL WORLD ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS
By David Blatner and Bruce Fraser ISBN: 0-321-24578-4 $49.99
Available: February 23
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321245784 Getting Photoshop CS was easy. Getting up to speed on it, without missing a
beat in a pressure-packed, deadline-oriented production environment--now
thatšs a challenge. Lavishly illustrated and filled with hands-on
techniques, this industrial-strength guide provides everything you need to
use Photoshop CS alone and with the rest of Adobešs Creative Suite to meet
all of your production and creative challenges.
3. MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004 CERTIFIED DEVELOPER STUDY GUIDE
By Robert Crooks, Susanne Hove and Khristine Annwn Page; ISBN:
0-321-25603-4 $29.99
Available: February 25
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321256034 Written by recognized, certified Macromedia instructors<most of whom
contributed to the exam itself<this must-have study guide will help you
review everything you need to know to pass the Certified Dreamweaver MX 2004
Developer exam. It includes concise and focused chapters; extensive tips,
notes, and cautions; and sample questions and answers.
4. MACROMEDIA STUDIO MX 2004: TRAINING FROM THE SOURCE
By Shaowen Bardzell and Jeffrey Bardzell ISBN: 0-321-24158-4 $44.99
Available: February 15
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321241584 Macromedia Studio MX 2004 contains all you need to create outstanding Web
sites: Now you just need to learn how to use it. Whether youšre building
sites with Dreamweaver; designing banners, pages, and sites with Fireworks;
storyboarding with FreeHand; or using Macromedia Flash and ColdFusion to
create active, dynamic, intriguing sites that allow for user interaction and
feedback, this book gives you enough hands-on, active training to get you
started and productive quickly, without bogging you down in lots of details.
5. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ALBUM 2 FOR WINDOWS: VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE
By Nolan Hester ISBN: 0-321-24666-7 $19.99
Available: February 5
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321246667 Popular author and Web guru Nolan Hester returns to show you all of the
cool, out-of-the-box things you can do with Photoshop Album 2. Fully
illustrated, step-by-step instructions get you up and running on all of
Photoshop Album 2šs most important features and enable you to explore cool
projects like sharing photos with cell-phone buddies and Palm OS handhelds;
organizing photos into cross-referenced Collections; creating photo greeting
cards with the professionally designed templates; and more.
6. MOTION GRAPHICS AND EFFECTS IN FINAL CUT PRO
By Kevin Monahan ISBN: 0-321-17915-3 $44.99
Available: February 18
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321179153 Video effects pro and veteran instructor Kevin Monahan tackles Final Cut Pro
purely from the perspective of its motion graphics and effects capabilities
in this in-depth, tutorial-based guide. Youšll learn not just the how but
also the why as Monahan reveals the critical concepts underlying the
techniques. DVD with project materials and QuickTime tutorials included.
By Scott Kelby and Kleber Stephenson ISBN: 0-321-26744-3 $19.99
Available: February 15
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321267443 Scott Kelby and Kleber Stephenson deliver theneed-to-know essentials to get
you up to speed fast on the software Time magazine hailed as the "Invention
of the Year." Learn how to share music between Macs and PCs; synch
iTunes-created playlists as well as iPod-created voice notes; burn large
playlists to CDs; set up allowance accounts so that children can legally buy
music and much more.
By Garrick Chow ISBN: 0-321-24171-1 $35.00
Available: February 5
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321241711 Upgrading doesn't have to be a headache. Garrick Chow's newly updated
hands-on guide takes you step by step through Mac OS X Panther, providing
detailed coverage of all its bundled apps. Easy-to-follow instructions,
plenty of screen shots, and a companion CD offer everything you need to get
creative with your Mac<no aspirin required. CD with lesson files and
QuickTime tutorials included.
9. SEARCH ENGINE ADVERTISING: BUYING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP TO INCREASE SALES
By Catherine Seda ISBN: 0-7357-1399-5 $29.99
Available: February 27
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0735713995 If you want to draw customers to your Web site, therešs one sure way to get
OEem: prominent search engine placement. In this streamlined volume, a top
Internet marketer outlines the strategy involved in buying the specific
keyword positions that will draw users to your target pages<and then how you
can keep them there and convert them to buyers.
By Christopher Smith and Mohamad Tawil ISBN: 0-321-19440-3 $44.99
Available: February 19
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321194403 Go beyond simple how-tos and delve deep into Acrobat 6.0 for a sound
understanding of when, how, and why to use PDF files. Industrial-strength
techniques help you explore all of Acrobats 6.0šs new features: a redesigned
interface, one-click PDF creation from within Internet Explorer, powerful
comment and review capabilities, layer use with AutoCAD-created PDFs, and
more.
11. DEFENSIVE DESIGN FOR THE WEB: IMPROVING WEB ERROR MESSAGES, HELP, FORMS, AND
OTHER CRISIS POINTS
By 37 Signals ISBN: 0-7357-1410-X $29.99
Available: February 27
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=073571410X Web surfers are a fickle lot: If they encounter many navigational problems
or unexpected errors, theyšre gone<period! To prevent such errors from
occurring (or remedy them mighty quickly), you need this book! In these
pages, a group of Web usability experts demonstrates how to construct sites
to minimize errors and get customers back on track fast if a problem does
occur.
12. DHTML AND CSS FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB, THIRD EDITION: VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE
By Jason Cranford Teague ISBN: 0-321-19958-8 $21.99
Available: February 18
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0321199588 Whatever your scripting experience, youšll find everything you need here to
start using DHTML and CSS to add visually sophisticated, interactive
elements to your Web sites. Veteran author Jason Cranford Teague has updated
every aspect of this best-selling task-based guide to cover the new
browsers, standards, and DHTML and CSS features that define the Web today.
By Jon A. Bell ISBN: 0-7357-1386-3 $39.99
Available: February 20
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0735713863 As a 3ds max veteran, you want just the tips, techniques, and tricks that
will give you the edge on your competition?and thatšs just what you get in
this ŗkiller˛ guide. Devoted exclusively to the shortcuts and productivity
tips that fill most booksš sidebars, this full-color volume will help you
get twice the work done in half the time.
14. CREATING THE ART OF THE GAME
By Matthew Omernick ISBN: 0-7357-1409-6 $49.99
Available: February 19
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0735714096 Hešs created spectacular 3D artwork for games from DreamWorks, Electronic
Arts, LucasArts, and more. Now hešs decided to share his tricks with you. In
this lavish, four-color volume artist and teacher Matthew Omernick uses
carefully chosen, software-agnostic tutorials and real-life examples to
teach you the workflow, tools, and techniques required to create the
complete 3D art package for the games of your dreams.
15. MAYA 5 FUNDAMENTALS
By Jim Lammers ISBN: 0-7357-1372-3 $45.00
Available: February 4
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0735713723 Chances are, if youšre creating 3D models and animations, youšre probably a
visual person<which may well mean that you learn best by example. If so,
therešs no better way to learn how to use Maya 5 than with this handy
book/CD combo<which includes video tutorials that walk you through all of
the bookšs tutorials. CD with lesson files and video tutorials included.
16. OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING WITH ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0
By Jeff Tapper, James Talbot, and Robin Haffner ISBN: 0-7357-1380-4 $45.00
Available: February 13
http://www.peachpit.com/books/product.asp?isbn=0735713804 The Flash development world's brightest and best authors take you beyond the
level of ŗnea˛ code tricks and teach you how to architect and implement true
Macromedia Flash MX applications. Learn the programming theory needed to
take full advantage of the object-oriented nature of ActionScript.