Offers step-by-step tutorials on various Photoshop 7 effects.

Deals with the digital photography workflow. This book shows the steps of the process, from initial shoot to final prints. It provides details on the equipment, camera settings, and lighting techniques.

How often have you heard anyone can design a game? This work introduces both students and experienced developers to the craft of designing computer and video games for the retail market. Filled with examples and worksheets, it takes an accessible, practical approach to creating fun, innovative, and highly playable games.

Armed with laptops, cell phones, smartphones, and other devices, audiences have taken control through the backchannel of conversation. In this book, communications expert Atkinson shows that if presenters join the new conversations with audiences, the outcome can be a new, more effective form of communication.

Crafting a perfect rendering in 3D software means nailing the details.Your success in creating realistic-looking illumination depends on your professional rendering techniques. This work shows how to: master Hollywood lighting techniques to produce professional results in 3D application; composite 3D models into real-world environments; and more.

Defensive design is like defensive driving brought to the Web. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience. This book shows the right (and wrong) ways to get defensive, offers guidelines to prevent errors and rescue customers if a breakdown occurs.It also shows you how to evaluate and improve your own site's defensive design.

By focusing on the ways the two languages - XHTML and CSS - complement each other, this book helps design Web pages that load quickly, are easy to update, work on various browsers and can be adapted to different media. It is split into 10 easy-to-follow chapters and are coupled with handy quick-reference XHTML tag and CSS property appendixes.

A guide for those who want to take their Web site(s) to next level and make usability a priority. Through the hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques, it helps you learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues.

Most Internet search engines now allow marketers to buy specific keyword positions in addition to, or instead of, programming their way to the top. This book reveals how to effectively buy a top position on the major search engines and directories.

Shows you how to implement highly original designs through visual demonstrations of the creative possibilities using markup and CSS. This work uses a visual approach to help you learn coding techniques. It also includes examples of world-class Web sites, photography, and other inspirations that give designers ideas for visualizing their code.

Designers love the idea of Ajax - of creating Web pages in which information can be updated without refreshing the page. This work reveals the best practices for enhancing Web sites with Ajax. It also stresses on best practices with an approach to building Ajax pages called Hijax, which improves flexibility and avoids worst-case scenarios.