Peachpit Press imprint: 704 books
by Jeff Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
This hands-on guide steers you through how to navigate the home screen; launch, run, and switch between apps; use the magical Smart Cover to put to sleep and wake your iPad; change and lock screen orientation, adjust screen brightness; and conserve battery life. You'll learn how to master Multi-Touch...
by Jeff Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The iPad is a game-changing product that reinvented the way we interact with digital content and the Web. Versitile, portable, powerful, ergonomically and functionally designed, it's the perfect companion for digital media. With Photos, music, movies, email, and hundreds of thousands of apps, the iPad...
iPad and iPhone Video
Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
For anyone who has ever used an iPhone or iPad, you know there is a powerful video camera inside that can shoot phenomenal HD video and is incredibly easy to use . But simply shooting video is only one step to visualizing and digitizing your creative efforts. In iPad and iPhone Video, bestselling author...
iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 for Mac OS X
Visual QuickStart Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to le arn! This full-color, amply illustrated, accessible book teaches readers the essential skills necessary for creating compelling movies with iMovie and iDVD, Apple's consumer-friendly digital movie and DVD-burning software applications. Readers...
by Jeff Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
The Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide is an indispensable quick reference guide that is packed with bite-sized chunks of practical information for people who want to jump in and start working and playing with OS X Lion. The attractive price and accessible content make this the perfect learning companion and...
The Photographer's Pricing System
Get paid what you're worth for portraits and weddings
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
In this practical guide, photography pricing guru Alicia Caine takes the anxiety and drudgery out of the pricing process for portrait and wedding photographers, showing how to keep the process as simple and painless as possible. Alicia starts by breaking down such daunting topics as managing...
Canon EOS Rebel T6s / T6i (760D / 750D)
From Snapshots to Great Shots
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The Canon EOS T6i and T6s (known as the 760D and 750D outside of U.S.) are powerful new cameras intended for amateurs to semi-professionals who want to jump into photography with the control and capabilities of a DSLR.
While the camera manual explains what the camera can do, it doesn’t show...
Adventure Sports Photography
Creating Dramatic Images in Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Adventure Sports Photography, by renowned photographer and workshop leader Tom Bol, combines personal stories from field experience with expert photo technique. Aspiring outdoor photographers, both adventure sports shooters and outdoor photography enthusiasts, will find this book to be a valuable...
100% Kid
A Professional Photographer's Guide to Capturing Kids in a Whole New Light
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Start with the kid! This sounds obvious when photographing children, but many images start with a couch in a field, or a tutu the size of Montana. What do these props have to do with the child you are photographing?In this funny and beautifully illustrated guide, photographer Allison Tyler Jones provides...
Color Correction Handbook
Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The colorist is responsible for the critical final stage of refinement of the film and broadcast image. Using all of the controls modern color correction software provides, colorists refine the mood, create style, add polish to scenes, and breathe life into the visuals. The craft of color correction...
by Ibarionex Perello
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Have you ever seen a stranger who you instantly knew would make a great photograph? Where the feeling was so immediate and so visceral that there was no doubt that if a photo was made, it would result in a wonderful image? Maybe this scenario ended with you admitting that you couldn’t work up the nerve...
Simple Post Processing
A Photographer's Guide to Workflow Options for all of Your Images in Lightroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
A wedding photographer’s workflow is vastly different from a commercial advertising shooter, or an amateur weekend warrior. In Simple Post Processing, photographers Joe Lavine and Brad Bartholomew will help you streamline your pre-production, shooting, and post-production workflow process using Adobe...
by Tim Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Creating a realistic HDR image with multiple exposures depends on your ability to analyze a scene and translate your impressions into a photograph. Today’s digital camera sensors capture quite a bit, but still fall short of what your eyes see. Lightroom, Photoshop, and Photomatix software provide...
by Alan Hess
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The most important aspect of capturing a quality image isn’t the camera you use, the aperture settings, the shutter speed, or the ISO–it’s the light. With this ebook, you will learn how to enhance the light in your images by using the Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS), which allows you to easily...