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A Case for Web Storytelling
By Curt Cloninger
Jan 25, 2002
In our attention to style and technology, we often overlook a vital element in Web design: narrative voice. As Curt Cloninger points out, you can have slick style and meaty content, but without a mature narrative voice, your site will fail.
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A Cause for Integration: How to Play Music on Your Mac (and Your iPod)
By Scott Kelby
Sep 8, 2006
One of the coolest things about the Mac is how it handles music, especially when using your Mac with an Apple iPod MP3 player. The seamless way these two work together is just a beautiful thing to behold (and putting together and sorting your music collection is really a lot of fun. In fact, it's so much fun that compiling your library of songs can almost become a hobby of its own). In this 20-minute lesson from best-selling author Scott Kelby, you'll learn to import music into your Mac, download music from the Internet, and create a library of music. Then, you'll organize your music into playlists and import this music into an Apple iPod MP3 player.
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A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop: The Unwitting Ally 2.0
By Vincent Versace
Mar 23, 2011
In this chapter, you will go beyond exposure and apply the concepts of Extended Dynamic Range photography (ExDR) to focus, blur, and image structure by using image harvesting. You will apply this to the image editing process in order to support the aesthetic choices you make regarding light, shape, gesture, and color when you first take the picture.
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A Complete(-ish) Login System Using jQuery
By Larry Ullman
Nov 23, 2011
A login system is a fundamental part of many websites. Requiring only a simple HTML form and a backend script, this feature can readily be improved using Ajax, and is easy enough to do with the jQuery framework. In this article, Larry Ullman explains how to create a complete(-ish) and fully reliable jQuery-enabled login system.
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A Critical Look at Flash MX
By David Emberton
Jun 14, 2002
Venture beyond regular software reviews and get some practical advice on what Flash MX has to offer you. David Emberton cuts through the "marketese" to discover the real Flash 6.0.
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A Detailed Look at Camera Raw Controls
Jun 16, 2006
Camera Raw starts working as soon as you point the file browser at a folder full of raw images, creating thumbnails and previews. In this chapter, we'll look at the Camera Raw controls in detail.
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A Digital Photographer's Guide to Shooting Film: Choosing Your Film Stock
By Jonathan Canlas, Kristen Kalp
Mar 7, 2012
Jonathan Canlas shares the film stocks that trip his trigger and helps you find the ones that trip yours.
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A Filmmaker’s Reading, Listening, and Viewing List by Norman Hollyn
By Norman Hollyn
Apr 19, 2012
Norman Hollyn, long-time film and music editor, writer, consultant and Professor and Editing Track Head at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, offers a list of his favorite resources for producing, directing, editing, sound, music, cinematography and production design.
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A First Look at the Book Module and Map Module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
By Adobe Creative Team
Mar 6, 2012
This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Classroom in a Book shows you how to work with the new Book and Map modules in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.
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A Holistic Approach to Book Design
By Jessi Taylor
Jun 28, 2010
To grab the target reader, your book design needs to be physically attractive and emotionally appealing. Jessi Taylor, a consulting designer for InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design, explains why designers need to know about the book's audience as well as its content.
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A Java Programmer's Introduction to Objective-C: Memory Management
By Marcus Zarra
Sep 23, 2005
Developers continue to debate the question of memory management solutions. Which is best? Although Objective-C's retain/release runs smoother and faster than Java's garbage collection, it places a much larger burden on the developer and introduces a much larger risk of memory leaks. In the first of a series of articles that detail the important differences between Java and Objective-C, Marcus Zarra compares and contrasts memory management in Java and Cocoa/Objective-C.
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A jQuery Reading List by Jay Blanchard
By Jay Blanchard
Jan 26, 2012
Jay Blanchard shares a few of his favorite jQuery books.
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A Killer Compilation of Mac OS X, Photoshop, and Windows Tips
By Scott Kelby, Felix Nelson, Kleber Stephenson
Jan 1, 2004
We've gathered some of the best and the brightest minds from our Killer Tips series to bring you a faster, better way to get your work done. And these aren't just any tips—they're tips built for speed; inside tips from pros, Scott Kelby, Felix Nelson, and Kleber Stephenson, that help you accelerate your production and smoke the competition! It's your turn to enjoy the bragging rights that come with knowing the best inside secrets in Photoshop, Windows, and Mac OS X.
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A Peek at Lightroom 3: Imaging Effects
By Dan Moughamian
Dec 18, 2009
In Part 3 of the four-part series on Lightroom Public Beta 3, Dan Moughamian shows you how to use the new area in the Develop Module called Effects.
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A Peek at Lightroom 3: Importing Images
By Dan Moughamian
Dec 2, 2009
Digital photographers around the world recently received some good news: The Lightroom 3 Public Beta build is available from Adobe Labs, and it’s loaded with some great new features. In Part 1 of the four-part series, Dan Moughamian introduces you to the impressive new photo import capabilities.
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A Peek at Lightroom 3: Improved Capture Sharpening and Noise Reduction
By Dan Moughamian
Dec 11, 2009
In Part 2 of the four-part series on Lightroom Public Beta 3, Dan Moughamian shows you how to use the capture sharpening and color noise reduction improvements for Lightroom 3.
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A Peek at Lightroom 3: Watermarking
By Dan Moughamian
Dec 18, 2009
In Part 4 of the four-part series on Lightroom Public Beta 3, Dan Moughamian shows you how to use the new Watermarking features in Lightroom which, while only partially complete, allow you to embed graphical watermarks created in Photoshop or create text-based watermarks directly in Lightroom.
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A Photographer's Guide to Developing Themes and Creating Stories with Pictures
By Jerod Foster
Feb 29, 2012
Amid all the shutter actuations, lens changing, model posing, gear buying, and minutes spent in front of the computer screen, Jerod Foster suggests it’s probably worth a second of your time to reflect on what it is we are actually doing when using all the equipment we collect in the name of photography.
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A Photojournalist’s Field Guide: In the Trenches with Combat Photographer Stacy Pearsall
By Mark Edward Harris, Stacy Pearsall
May 28, 2013
Photographer Mark Edward Harris interviews photojournalist Stacy Pearsall about her role as a combat photographer, her new book, A Photojournalist's Field Guide, and why being prepared is critical for any photographer.
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A Photojournalist's Field Guide: Stacy Pearsall's Shooting Methodology
By Stacy Pearsall
Mar 27, 2013
Award-winning photojournalist Stacy Pearsall takes you through her shooting methodology, including her "What IFS" technique, mode, metering, light, color and the 10-frame methodology.

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