"Visual QuickStart Guide is an easy, visual approach to learning. Concise steps and explanations, using pictures to guide you through Adobe Photoshop get you up and running in no time. In addition, the free Web Edition of the book includes more than 4 hours of video, enhancing and expanding the information in the book while providing an alternative method for learning. Whether you're an experienced designer or an enthusiastic newcomer, Photoshop gives...

A guide to digital photography demonstrates how to take professional-quality pictures of garden subjects, covering terms and techniques ranging from garden design and photo composition to post-production correction and printer calibration.

Today's dSLRs are better than ever, and this book teaches you about both the technology and the techniques that help you get fantastic photos.

Discover how to: adjust camera settings for action shots and portraits, choose image quality settings, shoot to avoid red-eye, share photos on Facebook, send a photo by e-mail, shoot at night without a flash.

In this book, Michael Fagans deconstructs photos taken in 60 scenarios with a diverse array of subjects, in changing lighting conditions, in places that present unique challenges: showing you how to use solid, traditional photographic techniques to create great shots. Yes, Fagans will teach you the basics of creating a great photo. But there's far more: He'll show you that an iPhone, with the aid of apps, can mimic looks achieved by vintage cameras,...

Teaches readers what they really need to know in order to make great sound recordings with computers - both the practical and the technical information.