New Riders Press: 3ds max 7 Fundamentals ...
Offering character animation functionality previously only available in programs costing two to three times as much, 3ds max 7 is everything you've dreamed of in a 3D modeling program-and more! Here to get you hands-on fast is a project-based guide from one of Discreet's own carefully chosen authorized training specialists, Ted Boardman. Completely updated with brand new tutorials, real-world projects, easy to understand explanations and a CD that includes all the files you need to complete the books many projects, Ted shows you how to maximize the program's potential in virtually any application or industry. You'll quickly learn the basics of modeling, applying materials and maps, applying lighting, and integrating animation before moving on to more advanced topics. You'll also find plenty of coverage of the bells and whistles new to 3ds max 7: Normal Mapping, the Parameter Editor, Paint Selections, as well as the award-winning character animation system, character studio(r).
  | Paperback: 544 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition (March 16, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN: 0321321383 | Format: PDF | Size: 89 MB |
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New Riders Press: Bulletproof Web Design - Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS ...
No matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web site is, it isn’t succeeding if it’s not reaching the widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10 strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of every successful Web site.
  | Paperback: 280 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press (July 28, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN: 0321346939 | Format: PDF | Size: 11.45 MB |
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New Riders Press: Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips ...
Over 300 productivity-enhancing secrets you need to know about Illustrator CS. Fully illustrated, stand-alone tips reveal the hidden features and productivity-enhancing tricks that allow you to accomplish more in less time with Illustrator CS2. Easy-to-browse format lets you find and apply information instantly and includes many tips and techniques that focus on Illustrator CS2s new features: Converting bitmaps into vectors with Live Trace, Painting with the new Live Paint tool, creating Custom Workspaces, and more.
  | Paperback: 320 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press (September 23, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN: 032133065X | Format: CHM | Size: 20 MB |
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New Riders Press: Jeremy Birn - Digital Lighting and Rendering ...
Digital Lighting contains strategies for lighting design that are relevant to any digital artist. It presents an awareness of computer lighting models, how they differ from real-world lighting effects, and how to approach 3D lighting projects differently from practical light. Topics covered include: What good lighting can do for you; Light sources; Shading; Shadows; Exposure and content; Color: temperature, correction, mood; Qualities of light; 3-point lighting; Indirect illumination; Multipass rendering and compositing; Lighting in production; and Case studies: natural lighting, interior lighting, character lighting, and effects lighting.
  | Paperback: 287 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; 1st edition (January 15, 2000) | Language: English | ISBN: 1562059548 | Format: PDF | Size: 42 MB |
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New Riders Press: Model Rig Animate with 3ds max 7 ...
3ds max 7 provides unparalleled character animation functionality, and in this book you will learn how to take advantage of all of these tools. Simple step-by-step tutorials, glorious full-color examples, and an easy-to-understand approach to tricky concepts will have you creating and animating your own characters within hours! Author and award-winning animator Michele Bousquet answers all your questions about character modeling, rigging, and animating in 3ds max -- in the process illuminating the techniques used by game developers, broadcast and film companies, industrial designers, and more. As you complete the book’s projects and exercises -- using the files contained on the companion CD -- you’ll learn the fundamentals of character modeling, character rigging, creating rigs with custom controls, skinning, character animation, and more.
  | Paperback: 256 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition (February 2, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN: 0321321782 | Format: CHM | Size: 6.8 MB |
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New Riders Press: More Eric Meyer on CSS ...
Ready to commit to using more CSS on your sites? If you are a hands-on learner who has been toying with CSS and want to experiment with real-world projects that will enable you to see how CSS can help resolve design issues, this book is written just for you! CSS master Eric A. Meyer has picked up where Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design left off. He has compiled 10 new, highly useful projects designed to encourage you to incorporate CSS into your sites and take advantage of the design flexibility, increased accessibility, decreased page weight, and cool visual effects CSS offers.
  | Paperback: 304 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press (April 8, 2004) | Language: English | ISBN: 0735714258 | Format: CHM | Size: 6.1 MB |
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New Riders Press: Owen Demers - Digital Texturing and Painting ...
This book takes you outside the studio and walks you through the museum of life. This full color book combines traditional texture creation principles with digital texturing techniques to enhance your scenes and animations. In the first half of the book, you will learn about the history of textures in fine art and in the second half, how to apply these principles to your 2D and 3D digital scenes.
  | Paperback: 352 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; Bk&CD-Rom edition (August 9, 2001) | Language: English | ISBN: 0735709181 | Format: PDF | Size: 35 MB |
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New Riders Press: Photoshop Restoration & Retouching ...
It's disappointing when a photo of a loved one is marred by "red eye" or the wrong exposure, or when a cherished picture from long ago cracks and fades. Luckily, Katrin Eismann seems to know every trick available in Photoshop for making photographs--film or digital--look just how you want them to, whether that means restoring what has been lost, fixing incorrect exposures, erasing dust and scratches, or even recreating reality. (Who wouldn't want to lose a few wrinkles?) Eismann has the artistic eye to appreciate good photography, the technical savvy to be able to offer numerous solutions to any given problem, and the writing and teaching skills to walk readers clearly through these solutions.
  | Paperback: 288 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; 1st edition (April 3, 2001) | Language: English | ISBN: 0789723182 | Format: PDF | Size: 83 MB |
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New Riders Press: Prioritizing Web Usability ...
In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world's leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web - Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his classic guide, joined forces with Web usability consultant Hoa Loranger, and created an updated companion book that covers the essential changes to the Web and usability today. Prioritizing Web Usability is the guide for anyone who wants to take their Web site(s) to next level and make usability a priority! Through the authors' wisdom, experience, and hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques, you'l learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues, page design and layout, content design, and more!
  | Paperback: 432 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; 1ST edition (April 20, 2006) | Language: English | ISBN: 0321350316 | Format: CHM | Size: 40 MB |
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New Riders Press: The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers ...
Are you ready for an Elements book that breaks all the rules-again?
Like the best-selling former edition, The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that's rarely done-it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly "how to do it." It's not a bunch of theory; it doesn't challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever done-it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why.
  | Paperback: 472 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; 1st edition (November 9, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN: 0321384830 | Format: PDF | Size: 44 MB |
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New Riders Press: Stylin with CSS A Designers Guide ...
Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds of web pages, accelerating development times and centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. Stylin’ with CSS teaches you everything you need to know start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of markup of your content and styling text, through to creating multi-column page layouts without the use of tables. Learn how to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS – no JavaScript required. Discover how to design code that will work on the latest standard-compliant browsers, while working around the quirks of the older browsers. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get your started and build your skills is right here in this book. You’ll be stylin’ in no time!
  | Paperback: 288 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press (April 26, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN: 0321305256 | Format: CHM | Size: 7.6 MB |
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New Riders Press: The Adobe Lightroom eBook for Digital Photographers ...
You've just downloaded the brand-new, free Beta version of Lightroom, the revolutionary new workflow application from Adobe. Now what? Pick up this ebook, written by best-selling author Scott Kelby, to give you all the dirt you need on Lightroom to allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively. You'll learn the eleven essential shortcuts you need to know to save hours every week, the best ways to import and organize your images, which tools and features to really hone in on to get the most out of this application, how to manage your photos like a pro, plus all the inside secrets on processing raw images. Perhaps most importantly, you'll learn how to use Lightroom together with Photoshop to get the best, most efficient workflow, along with the best images. Finally, the book is loaded with tips, tricks, and insights that will absolutely transform the way you work with digital images!
  | Publisher: New Riders (March 2006) | Language: English | ISBN: 0321437365 | Format: CHM | Size: 30 MB |
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New Riders Press: The Art and Science of Web Design ...
When it comes to Web design, style guides are often too boring and predictable to capture the attention of caffeine-riddled Web developers. But not The Art & Science of Web Design; this book strategically equips readers to design sites effectively.
  | Paperback: 300 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (December 28, 2000) | Language: English | ISBN: 0789723700 | by Jeffrey Veen |
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New Riders Press: Web Design On A Shoestring ...
At the height of those flush dot-com days, Carrie Bickner, in her role as Web developer for the New York Public Library, was about to embark on an ambitious site redesign project, one that would entail bringing aboard information architects, graphic designers, editors, and writers. Then the stock market suddenly tanked and the bottom fell out of her budget. Reduced to a two-person staff, she quickly learned how to do a lot with a little. And with, Web Design on a Shoestring, a lean but power-packed book, Bickner, along with some fellow "shoestring warriors," shares this knowledge and shows how each phase in site development can trimmed back without losing control, quality, or beauty.
  | Paperback: 250 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2003) | Language: English | ISBN: 0735713286 | Format: CHM | Size: 3.7 MB |
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New Riders The Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 eBook for Digital Photographers 2nd Edition ...
By Scott Kelby
You've just downloaded the free Beta 3 version of Lightroom, the revolutionary new workflow application from Adobe. Now what? Pick up this ebook (updated for Beta 3 for Mac and Windows users), written by best-selling author Scott Kelby, to give you all the dirt you need on Lightroom to allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively. You'll learn the essential shortcuts you need to know to save hours every week, the best ways to import and organize your images, which tools and features to really hone in on to get the most out of this application, how to manage your photos like a pro, plus all the inside secrets on processing raw images. You'll also learn how to use Lightroom together with Photoshop to get the best, most efficient workflow, along with the best images. Finally, the book is loaded with tips, tricks, and insights that will absolutely transform the way you work with digital images!
  | Paperback: 200 pages | Publisher: New Riders Press; 2nd Edition (Sep 2006) | Language: English | ISBN: 0-321-49102-5 | Format: CHM | Size: 34 MB |
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