Peachpit Press imprint: 704 books
Tips from a Pro
Travel Photography
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
In Tips from a Pro: Travel Photography, author and photographer Nicole Young teaches you how to create beautiful travel photographs and experiences to bring home. She starts by covering the necessary gear and accessories to include when packing light and why you might want to rent gear and purchase travel...
Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature
The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
In 2008, Adobe Photoshop pro and best-selling author Matt Kloskowski broke new ground teaching Photoshop by focusing on the one thing that makes Photoshop the amazing (and sometimes difficult to understand) program it is: layers. Now, Matt returns with a major update that covers layers in Photoshop CS5...
The HDR Book
Unlocking the Pros' Hottest Post-Processing Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
When it comes to HDR, only three key ingredients are needed: hardware, software, and post-processing technique. Hardware is simple–there are only a few things you need to set up and shoot an HDR series. Software is vastly improved, making it easier for anyone to create an HDR image. The hard part is...
by Christopher Breen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Here is your essential companion to the iPod nano, touch, classic, and shuffle and to iTunes. The iPod & iTunes Pocket Guide, Fourth Edition, steers you through how to: Import songs into iTunes, assemble playlists on your own or using the iTunes Genius, and burn CDs. Find music, movies, HD TV shows,...
The Film Editing Room Handbook
How to Tame the Chaos of the Editing Room
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The assistant film editor has many more responsibilities than simply helping to edit the picture. He or she must work with all the numerous members of the filmmaking team, juggle the demands of copious amounts of footage from various sources, keep notes during the shoot’s dailies screenings, process...
HDR Photography
From Snapshots to Great Shots
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Are you an aspiring landscape, architecture, interior, or real estate photographer? Do you struggle with a lack of detail in the highlight or shadow areas of your scene? Then the world of high-dynamic range (HDR) photography is for you. This guide by pro photographer Tim Cooper will help you understand...
The Photographer's MBA, Senior High School Portraiture
Everything You Need to Know to Run a Successful Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
For those photographers looking to start a business—or expand their current business—to include the lucrative high school senior portrait market, The Photographer’s MBA: Senior High School Portraiture is a complete resource that dives deep into every aspect of the genre. Unlike other books...
Travel and Street Photography
From Snapshots to Great Shots
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Whether you’re heading to Paris or San Francisco, Patagonia or Yosemite, you need a book that goes beyond the camera manual to teach you how to take great shots. This guide by pro photographer John Batdorff will help you conquer the fundamentals of travel and street photography and capture stunning...
Nikon D750
From Snapshots to Great Shots
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Now that you’ve bought the amazing Nikon D750, you need a book that goes beyond a tour of the camera’s features to show you exactly how to use the camera to take great pictures. With Nikon D750: From Snapshots to Great Shots, you get the perfect blend of photography instruction and camera reference...
Composition
From Snapshots to Great Shots
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Now that you’ve bought an amazing new DSLR, you need a book that goes beyond the camera manual to teach you how to take great shots. That’s where Composition: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Second Edition, comes in, teaching you the fundamentals of composition—the creative arrangement of elements...
by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, Bob Bringhurst
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Sharpen your InDesign skills with this definitive resource created specifically for design professionals who need to layout out, proof, export, and publish pages with Adobe InDesign CS6.
Complete coverage of InDesign CS6's new features and enhancements includes: Liquid Layouts and creating...
QuarkXPress 8
Essential Skills for Page Layout and Web Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Get up to speed quickly with this accessible new guide on QuarkXPress 8 for both print and Web workflows. QuarkXPress experts Kelly Kordes Anton and John Cruise provide the essential techniques that you need in an easy-to-use format. From the basics of creating new layouts to using QuarkXPress’s superior...
CSS3
Visual QuickStart Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
With CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the stylesheet language, or skip ahead to any chapter of the book to look up specific tasks covering just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions, and plenty of screenshots to...
CSS, DHTML, and Ajax, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
Visual QuickStart Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
The Web doesn't stand still, and neither does this guide: Completely updated to cover the new browsers, standards, and CSS, DHTML, and Ajax features that define the Web today, the one thing that hasn't changed in this edition is its task-based visual approach to the topic. In these pages, readers...