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1.	Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Office 2010 By Steve Schwartz Sep 1, 2010 Steve Schwartz, author of Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, reviews 10 features in the various Office 2010 modules that give current users some impetus to upgrade. Whether you're champing at the bit to get the newest version or you're skeptical about needing to upgrade, you may find some of these improvements enticing.
2.	The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers: Editing Essentials -- How to Develop Your Photos By Scott Kelby Aug 31, 2010 Scott Kelby shows you how to develop your photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, including setting white balance, seeing befores and afters, and applying changes made to one photo to other photos.
3.	Creating Web Content in Adobe Illustrator CS5 By Brian Wood Aug 30, 2010 Brian Wood, author of Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, presents best practices and handy tips for using Illustrator to create and save artwork for your website. Follow his advice to create better-looking and faster-loading art that adds value to your site.
4.	Real World Adobe InDesign CS5: Type By Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, Bob Bringhurst Aug 26, 2010 This chapter provides a walk through of InDesign's typesetting features, including character formatting (font, point size, kerning, and baseline shift are examples of character formatting), paragraph formatting (indents, tabs, space above and below, and composition), and formatting using character and paragraph styles.
5.	Top 10 New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5 By Brian Wood Aug 25, 2010 Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, loves the handy new (and often long-awaited) features in Illustrator CS5. He highlights 10 of his favorites for users who want to know whether CS5 fulfills its promises.
6.	Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5: Creative Drawing By Mordy Golding Aug 24, 2010 Creative drawing in Illustrator can be fun to use and also be rather addictive. Mordy Golding shows you how to use Live Paint and how to work with the Pencil Tool, brushes, and Gradient Mesh to get the color, composition, texture, and feel you want.
7.	Introducing HTML5: Video and Audio By Bruce Lawson, Remy Sharp Aug 23, 2010 HTML5 provides a competing, open standard for delivery of multimedia on the Web with its native video and audio elements and APIs. This chapter largely discusses the video element, but most of the markup and scripting are applicable for both audio and video.
8.	Using Photoshop Actions to Make a Flipbook By xtine burrough Aug 23, 2010 xtine burrough, coauthor of Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite, interprets the Photoshop Actions panel as a metaphor for artificial intelligence, comparing Photoshop tasks that can be automated with tasks mandating human collaboration. The final result is a template for making a flipbook.
9.	Building a TypePad Blog People Want to Read: Managing Blogs from the Dashboard By Scott McNulty Aug 19, 2010 The TypePad Dashboard is command central. From this vantage point, you can see your blog stats at a glance, look at what the people you follow on TypePad are up to, and see whether anyone left a comment or trackback on your blog. You can even post right from the Dashboard. Scott McNulty shows you how.
10.	Photoshop for Video: What About Transparency? By Richard Harrington Aug 19, 2010 One of Photoshop’s greatest powers lies in its ability to preserve complex transparency. By employing masks, both in layers and embedded into the saved files as alpha channels, this transparency data can travel seamlessly into the nonlinear editing (NLE) or motion-graphics environment.
11.	Creating ebooks for the Apple iPad and Other ereaders: Advanced EPUB Formatting By Elizabeth Castro Aug 18, 2010 Elizabeth Castro covers advanced EPUB formatting, including ensuring ereaders use your CSS, how InDesign writes XHTML and CSS and what to do about it, how to choose and specify fonts for your ebook, what to do about hyphenation, how to insert images and have text wrap around them, how to add links, tables, and even video to your ebook, and how to convert InDesign inheritance into CSS inheritance.
12.	Flash Professional CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Modifying Simple Graphics By Katherine Ulrich Aug 18, 2010 This chapter covers using the selection, lasso, and subselection tools to select and modify the elements in Flash Professional CS5. You also learn about using the Property inspector and other panels to modify elements’ attributes.
13.	Canon EOS Rebel T2i / 550D: The Creative Zone By Jeff Revell Aug 17, 2010 If you really want to take that next step in controlling your photography, it is essential that you understand not only how to control aperture and shutter speed, but why you are controlling them. Jeff Revell shows you how to use the Creative mode in the Canon EOS Rebel T2i / 550D.
14.	Thinking It Through: Planning the Perfect Photo Shoot By Nicole S. Young Aug 16, 2010 Many photos are unplanned and candid - you're out with your camera and just happened to get a great shot - but others need to be created intentionally, pre-visualized and well-thought-out. Nicole S. Young, author of Canon 7D: From Snapshots to Great Shots, advises on many of the elements involved when planning a photo shoot.
15.	Camera Raw Controls By Jeff Schewe, Bruce Fraser Aug 12, 2010 This chapter looks at Camera Raw in detail, including process versions, keyboard commands, Adobe Lens Profile Creator, and the darkroom toolkit.
16.	Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: ColdFusion Server Configuration By Ben Forta Aug 11, 2010 This chapter will walk you through each part of the ColdFusion Administrator, explaining important settings and making recommendations along the way.
17.	The Business Playground: Idea Spaghetti By Dave Stewart, Mark Simmons Aug 10, 2010 If coming up with many ideas -- ‘idea spaghetti’ -- is such an important driver, the question is: ‘What helps make a lot of spaghetti?’ The answer, it turns out, is not just having a big pasta pot to cook it in (though that helps), but instead the ability to think divergently.
18.	Five Tips for Creating Great Photographs By Nicole S. Young Aug 9, 2010 Photography is more than just following the rules. Nicole S. Young, author of Canon 7D: From Snapshots to Great Shots, goes beyond lighting and composition advice and shares five useful tips to help improve your photography.
19.	Canon 7D: From Snapshots to Great Shots - Making Great Portraits By Nicole S. Young Aug 5, 2010 Images of friends and family often become our most cherished possessions. In this chapter Nicole Young explores some camera features and techniques that can help you create great portraits.
20.	The Top Mac Hard Drive Utilities, 2010 Edition By Ryan Faas Aug 4, 2010 Ryan Faas, updating his highly popular article from 2007, evaluates some of the best tools for analyzing and repairing problems with Mac hard drives and directory structures.

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