Book 6

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something – and skip the long–winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you′ll find clear, step–by–step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 175 tasks involving HTML and CSS. Each task–based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running with HTML and CSS in no time.

You′ll learn to:

  • View HTML code in a browser
  • Add and format text
  • Prepare images for the Web
  • Insert links to other pages
  • Control layout with style sheets
  • Add JavaScript to a Web page
  • Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
  • Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
  • Full–color screen shots demonstrate each task
  • Two–page lessons break big topics into bite–sized modules

Book 7

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 HTML tasks. Each task-based spread includes these great features to get you up and running with HTML in no time: Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modules Learn How To: Use HTML syntax and rules Format text with style sheets Control text wrapping between images Set up newspaper-style columns Build a response form Create rollover effects with JavaScript

Book 10

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 220 Office 2007 tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including: Using Galleries and Live Preview Finding hidden files Creating a blog post Assembling and presenting slideshows Developing a publication Building a spreadsheet Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task Succinct explanations walk you through step by step Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

Book 11

* This full-color guide walks digital photography fans through Photoshop Elements fundamentals and beyond, showing them how to make the most of this inexpensive, full-featured image-editing package
* Covers importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, and enhancing digital images
* Shows readers how to add custom 3-D effects, edit images for the Web, create a Web photo gallery, and incorporate graphics into desktop publishing programs
* Demonstrates how to take advantage of enhancements and new features in the latest program version

Book 22

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Photoshop CS3 tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including:
  • Finding images and video clips.
  • Changing size and resolution.
  • Using the Quick Selection tool.
  • Adjusting hue and saturation.
  • Applying Smart Filter effects.
  • Creating a contact sheet.
  • Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks.
  • Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task.
  • Succinct explanations walk you through step by step.
  • Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules.

Order your copy today and master Photoshop CS3.


Book 36

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Photoshop CS tasks. Each task-based spread includes these great features to get you up and running on Photoshop CS2 in no time:
* Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks
* Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step
* Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task
* Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modules

Learn how to
* Browse and sort images in Bridge
* Change image size and resolution
* Paint and draw with color
* Create duotone images
* Apply layer and filter effects

Book 56

Make the most of your iLife with this full-color guide to Apple's exciting new digital lifestyle suite

Every Mac computer comes preloaded with iLife, which consists of iPhoto, iWeb, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand,. With iLife, you can turn a home movie into an Oscar-worthy film, compose and record original music, create Web sites and blogs, and do so much more. Full-color throughout, this book captures the essence of iLife and gets you up to speed on all the new features of the latest release.

Packed with helpful examples, straightforward tasks, and step-by-step instructions, Teach Yourself VISUALLY iLife '09 encourages you to learn each application within iLife '09 at your own pace. You'll discover how to organize, manage, and share your digital content like never before.

  • iLife allows you to do more with your movies, music, and photos than ever before, and this introduction walks you through all the essentials of this digital lifestyle suite
  • Enhance, edit, and present images using iPhoto; create and update a Web site in no time with iWeb; record, edit, and arrange songs with GarageBand
  • Full-color screen shots, easy-to-follow instructions, and helpful examples serve to get you started using each application immediately

Whether you're looking to organize and share photos, edit and enhance home movies, or record music using software instruments, this useful book is an ideal introduction to iLife '09.


Book 59

The ultimate guide to the new Photoshop Elements 8 for visual learners

Photoshop Elements is the best-selling consumer digital image-editing software on the market and this book is a must-have for visual learners who are eager to get up and running with all the new and improved features of Photoshop Elements 8.

Veteran author Mike Wooldridge covers the most important features of Photoshop Elements, including importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, perfecting group shots with Photomerge, editing images for posting on the Web, using the sharpness interface to correct blurry images, exploring the Curves tool to adjust contract and brightness, and organizing images with auto-stacking.

  • Covers the most important features of Photoshop Elements 8, the most popular digital image-editing software program on the market
  • Shows how to import photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouch and repair damaged photos, and enhance digital images
  • Explains what changing print size, canvas size, and resolution entails
  • Walks you through creating a Web photo gallery
  • Takes on new topics while also reinforcing the fundamentals to building a solid skill set
  • Accompanying Web site provides all the images used in the book so that you can practice along with all the example techniques featured in the book

Packed with examples and featuring helpful tasks, this book will sharpen your photo editing skills so that you can create stunning images.


Book 76

Learn to use the bestselling photo editing software the visual way!

Photoshop Elements offers professional-quality photo editing tools in a reasonably priced software package with user-friendly features. This book shows you how to use those features, with easy, step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots. If you prefer to learn by seeing how things are done, this is the book you need to get up and running with the newest version of Photoshop Elements.

  • Photoshop Elements offers hobbyists as well as professional photographers top-quality image editing tools at a reasonable price; previous editions of this visual guide to the software have sold more than 85,000 copies
  • Designed for visual learners, this book explains dozens of common tasks with step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots
  • Covers importing photos from cameras and scanners, retouching and repair, compositing, enhancing, changing print size and resolution, editing images for the Web, creating online photo galleries, incorporating graphics into desktop publishing projects, and much more

With Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements, you will see how things are done and quickly learn to edit and enhance your digital images like a pro.


Book 98

Make mark-up language more manageable with this visual guide

HTML5 is the next-generation of web standard mark-up language, and among other things, it offers amazing new avenues for incorporating multimedia into your sites. What easier way to master all of HTML5's new bells and whistles than with a guide that shows you, screenshot by screenshot, just what to do? Over a hundred tasks that web designers need to know most are explained using, full-color screenshots and how-to steps. From the easy stuff like revised new header and footer elements to complex updates such as canvas and audio, this guide covers the new, as well as most-commonly used, tags and features.

  • Helps you get up to speed on the completely redesigned new HyperText Markup Language, HTML5
  • Shows you how to incorporate rich media content into the sites you design, without relying on proprietary software such as Flash
  • Explains revisions, from essential structural elements like header and footer to more complex elements such as canvas and audio—over a hundred tasks in all
  • Uses easy-to-follow, full-color, two-page tutorials, so you can see step by step how to do tasks and quickly obtain the information you need

Web designers, keep your HTML skills up to date with this "learn-by-seeing," visual guide.


Book 111

See what to do and how to do it in this visual guide to Photoshop Elements 10 If you want practical coverage of the most important features of Photoshop Elements 10, this book is for you. Packed with step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots, this book clearly shows you how to do tasks, rather than using lengthy explanations. Even better, the book includes an associated website with all the images in the book available for download, so you can get hands-on practice as you go. It's an efficient, easy-to-follow way to get up to speed on the latest and best that Photoshop Elements 10 has to offer.



A visual guide to Photoshop Elements 10, perfect for visual learners
Helps you build your skills through clear, step-by-step instruction and ample, full-color illustrations
Covers important new features such as importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, perfecting group shots with Photomerge, and editing images for posting on the web
Also covers using the sharpness interface to correct blurry images, exploring the Curves tool to adjust contract and brightness, and organizing images with auto-stacking

Get the very most out of Photoshop Elements 10 with Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 10.

Book 119

Full-color, step-by-step instruction for using the new Photoshop Elements 11

Covering the most important features of Photoshop Elements 11, this book is packed with step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots that clearly shows you how to do tasks, instead of resorting to lengthy explanations. Even better, the book includes an associated website with all the images in the book available for download, so you can get hands-on practice as you go. With this book, veteran author Mike Wooldridge gets up to speed on the latest and best that Photoshop Elements 10 has to offer.

Walks you through the improved organizational and navigational tools that will help you categorize imagesDetails the enhanced tool for converting color images to B&W as well as the Flash-based web gallery templates to display imagesCovers importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, perfecting group shots with Photomerge, and editing images for posting on the webHelps you utilize the sharpness interface to correct blurry images as well as the Curves tool to adjust contract and brightness

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 11 makes learning the new Photoshop Elements elementary!


Book 142

Get savvy with the newest features and enhancements of Photoshop CC

The newest version of Photoshop boasts enhanced and new features that afford you some amazing and creative ways to create images with impact, and this popular guide gets visual learners up to speed quickly. Packed with colorful screen shots that illustrate the step-by-step instructions, this visual guide is perfect for Photoshop newcomers as well as experienced users who are looking for some beginning to intermediate-level techniques to give their projects the "wow" factor! Veteran and bestselling authors Mike Wooldridge and Brianna Stuart show you the fast and easy way to learn Photoshop CC in this classic Visual guide.

• Covers setting up the software, importing images from a digital camera, using all the tools, creating an online gallery, and more

• Walks you through retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, and adding custom 3-D effects

• Explores color management, palettes, compositing, layers, gradients, type, and filters

• Features step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CC is designed for those who learn best when they see how things are done.

Gets visual learners up to speed on the newest enhancements in Photoshop

Photoshop is constantly evolving, and the newest version offers great new tools for photographers. This popular guide gets visual learners up to speed quickly; previous editions have sold more than 150,000 copies. With colorful screen shots illustrating the step-by-step instructions, this book is perfect for Photoshop newcomers and for visual learners who are upgrading from an earlier version. It covers setting up the software, importing images from the camera, using all the tools, creating an online gallery, and more.

Covers the most important features of Photoshop CS6, including importing photos from a digital camera, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, and adding custom 3-D effectsExplains how to edit images for the web, create an online photo gallery, and incorporate graphics into desktop publishing programsExplores color management, using palettes, compositing, using layers, applying gradients, setting type, and working with filtersFeatures step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations designed for those who learn best when they see how things are done

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS6 gets visual learners ready to take advantage of everything the newest version has to offer.


Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 Photoshop Elements tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Photoshop Elements 12 in no time.

You'll learn to:

  • Use both the Organizer and Editor
  • Import photos from various sources
  • Enhance lighting and color
  • Restore old photos and add effects
  • Save, back up, and share photos

Designed for visual learners

  • Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
  • Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
  • Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
  • Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 120 Excel 2003 tasks. Each task-based spread includes these great features to get you up and running on Excel 2003 in no time: helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks; succinct explanations that walk you through step by step; full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task; and, two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modules. Learn how to: work with task panes and toolbars; assign workbook passwords; enter data with AutoFill; reference absolute and relative cells; increase or decrease decimals; and, create charts with Chart Wizard.