Peachpit Press imprint: 704 books
Sports Photography
From Snapshots to Great Shots
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In Sports Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, author and sports photographer Bill Frakes shows you how to capture the key elements of sports photographs–motion and emotion, style and scene, place and purpose–whether you’re at a baseball tournament, a track meet, or a professional football...
Beginning Android Programming
Develop and Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In this straightforward guide, Android programming experts Chris Haseman and Kevin Grant show you how to use the powerful set of Android tools to begin writing the next generation of Android applications. After a tour of how to install and configure the Android Studio and Eclipse, you jump right in,...
Simplicity in the Details
Designing Faster Web and Mobile Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
It’s the tiny details that delight customers. Creating an exceptional interface, whether it’s for a web page, an app, or even products like bank ATMs, leads to loyal customers and word of mouth recommendations. This guide by UX design leader, Giles Colborne, focuses on how to create extraordinarily...
Community Building on the Web
Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Microsoft Surface
Visual QuickStart Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This Visual QuickStart Guide will help you get up and running with the Surface, Microsoft's very-own entry into the tablet market. This guide walks you through how to get the most from the Surface, using four-color images and step-by-step instruction. You'll learn how to tap and swipe, search, find the...
by Scott Rekdal, Richard Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Go Beyond The Ordinary With Your Next Presentation... …provide a well-designed and rich multimedia experience! Wouldn’t it be great if you could have two of the most sought-after graphic design professionals sitting next to you at your computer as you navigate through the infinite possibilities...
by Michael Janda
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
It didn’t take Mike Janda, owner of the design firm, RiSER, long to realize that the one-page, line-item priced proposals he sent to clients back in his freelance days would need to “grow up” if he was going to expand his business. Over the course of his 11 years running RiSER, Janda and his team...
Street Photography
A Guide to Finding and Capturing Authentic Portraits and Streetscapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Street photography is about people. As a street photographer your job is to be in the moment and acutely aware of your surroundings—what a person is wearing, the way traffic is moving, or if the weather is changing. Good street photographers are watching constantly and leveraging these elements...
Light Right
Learn How to Create Images, Set Up a Studio, and Launch Your Photography Career
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Lighting is one of the most important creative components of any image. Joe Lavine and Brad Bartholomew, commercial photographers and instructors, offer a unique approach to learning about studio lighting. They start with their philosophy of lighting, tackling the characteristics of light and how...
by Jesse Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Everyone is out to get you! There are spammers, crackers, and hackers all over the globe attempting to infiltrate millions of websites. Their goal is to break through your proverbial front door. You should take security concerns seriously when setting up and maintaining your WordPress blog or website....
Run and Gun Lighting Resource
One-Light Solutions for Commercial and Portrait Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Run and Gun: One-Light Solutions for Commercial and Portrait Photographers, photographer Nick Fancher discusses more than 20 one-light photo scenarios and setups for both portraits and product/commercial work, showing finished images as well lighting diagrams as he discusses each photograph. This...
Careers For Creative People
Advertising: and some real world advice from ridiculously talented individuals doing jobs they love
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Right now on Facebook there are over 100 million people interested in topics directly related to the Advertising industry–and that’s just in the United States alone. We know this because they’ve actively listed one or more of these things as interests under their real names right next to their...
by Scott Kelby
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Since Lightroom 1.0 first launched, Scott’s Kelby’s The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers has been the world’s #1 best-selling Lightroom book (it has been translated into a dozen different languages), and in this latest version for Lightroom 5, Scott uses his same award-winning,...
by Scott Kelby
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
With over 800 of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade,” this boxed set—consisting of all four parts of Scott Kelby’s best-selling series, The Digital Photography Book—is the ultimate resource for any one who wants to shoot dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful,...