Author: Scott Kelby
By Peachpit Press

lighten up, 2010-02-27
I got this book as im new to Photography and I find it very helpful the negative comments on here are stuck up comments of Photography snobs,
If you're new to Photography it will help a new beginner it did me.
So Lighten up you lot and by the way if you was not happy with the book you could sell it back on Amazon

Author: Scott Kelby
By Peachpit Press

Books, 2010-03-03
Scott Kelby's digital photograpy boxed set: v.1,2&3. I bought these books for my husband as he is very interested in photography, they have helped him immensly the information given is easy to read and understand, clear and to the point without too much technical jargon which can be off putting when learning about photography. Exellent for the beginer!

Author: Diana Weynand
By Peachpit Press

Excellent, 2010-01-01
Really great book on which to learn FCP. Tried many methods but this did it for me. The DVD files are excellent

Author: David Nahmani
By Peachpit Press

For beginners it's great, 2009-12-29
I purchased this book after upgrading from logic express 8 to logic express 9.
Originally I thought it was going to be a whole new look at the world of logic, but when the book arrived it was nearly the same as the logic 8 book. It does however have a few different exercises that are explained quite well, it also gives you some great demos to work on.
All in all a great book and well worth the price.

Author: Jeff Carlson
By Peachpit Press

Author: Larry Ullman
By Peachpit Press

Book for advanced, 2010-01-20
This is a very good book with code examples from real world. Is better to read first PHP 5 IN EASY STEPS or PHP FOR THE WEB.

Author: Elizabeth Castro
By Peachpit Press

brilliant!!, 2010-01-05
I think this book is absolutely brilliant. I've had a bit of experience with CSS and XHTML, as I did a course with the Open Uni. I've just read the first few pages of this new book and it details things so much more clearly than the course I did. It's really refreshing. It gives you the background on HTML and why it moved to XHTML - the positives and negatives this brings, also why CSS is important, with the author giving her own views on such things!

The Index is brilliant - not only giving an index on normal words, but giving an index on symbols.

It gives you a 2 page chart of colours, from the hexadecimal ones, to the 16 pre-defined ones, also giving you a very brief overview on what they mean, and a website where you can get the full range. So helpful in my opinion, as I've many times tried to find a part in the book where I can remember the author giving a website but can't find it!

It gives a list of graphic tools, from Dreamweaver to Photoshop, providing a brief description, & a URL to purchase it from.

20 pages detail all types of XHTML elements, from elements and attributes (tags), to properties and values that you'd include in a css file (eg. background-color.. etc), "intrinsic events" (eg. onmouseover / onkeypress .. etc), special charactors (eg. ><"&-,./), Greek, and finally... shapes and arrows.

I find it very hard to concentrate whilst reading a book if there's a lot of text - it puts me off so much - but this book is really good, as for each page, it's spilt down the middle into 2. For the beginning, the introducions only take up half of each page, so it doesn't look like a lot of text at all. You can have a sneek look of pages on Amazon I think.. I think they're called page turners? I had a look before I purchased this book, as I liked the look of the content.

The content itself is really interesting - it describes things in a few sentences that the course I've done with the Uni would of used a whole chapter for! But it does include all the info you'll need.

There are a few piccies on each page or every other page, so it doesn't look all text. Headings and colours are used to seperate things, and also there's a lot of boxes titled "Tips!" so you know where the best bits are.

Overall a brilliant book. I think even for experienced css/xhtml users, this is a "refer back to" book, that you'll always have open on your desk! For beginners like myself, it's a must-have, as the author puts her opinions in so you don't feel like you're reading from a school book.. it's quite personalised.

Brilliant! A*

Rachael

Author: Scott Kelby
By Peachpit Press

Hit Trilogy, 2010-02-21
Just as great as its predecessors.

The Digital Photography Book: v. 3 builds on the first two volumes with useful hints and tips of photographic techniques and equipment.

Brilliant for Photographers at all levels and will inevitably improve your game. It's like your on a photo shoot with Scott Kelby. He's straight talking and to the point, which is perfect as in photography you don't often get chance to beat around the bush.

You could start on this book but I highly recommend getting all three.

Author: Jeff Revell
By Peachpit Press

Excellent book for a beginner, 2010-02-25
Having bought the D5000 camera and been put off by the dryness and tediousness of the manual, this is the ideal book for me. By the end of the first chapter you can take top quality photos and as the book develops you can add to this quality and really bring out the best in the camera. When i first bought the camera I feared I had bought a camera which was too complicated for me to use - this book has already shown me that this is not the case, and has already enabled me to get some brilliant shots.

Author: Scott Kelby
By Peachpit Press

super read, 2010-03-04

this book is like an instruction manual to taking better pictures. it is jam packed with great tips from cover to
cover. it is the type of book that you would use as a reference for a particular type of photography,especially if you were a bit rusty.great read and would recommend to others.