Dive into Flash Professional CS5 Everyone’s has to start somewhere if they want to learn new technology. Adobe CS5 products can be a bit daunting to the beginning and intermediate animator, or illustrator. However, the Digital Classroom books take into account everyone’s not an expert in technology.

Teach Yourself How to Build iPhone Apps in 24 Hours John Ray relays sound advice in his book Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours. The Introduction points out what readers will learn in the this book, what they’ll need to know before tackling each chapter and what information isn’t in this book. [...]

When Pigs Fly I am a visual writer. I write thinking in pictures, so when I review a how-to book that offers detailed images with short, but clear directions, I’m hooked. How To Cheat in Adobe Flash CS5 by Chris Georgenes offers distinct illustrations and photos with easy to follow directions that allow users to [...]

Advanced Techniques Integrating Photoshop Derek Lea offers good imagery and explanation to incorporate Photoshop with a variety of 2D and 3D applications. This book demonstrates hows how artists can integrate Photoshop CS4, or CS5 with 2D and 3D applications into a comprehensive, creative environment. For example, Poser and Cinema 4D are 3D character animation environments [...]

Step-by-Step Instruction Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book (CIAB) offers beginning illustrators the opportunity to apply individual lessons in learning Adobe Illustrator CS5. Advanced illustrators familiar with Illustrator CS5 can also pick up advanced tips and techniques in later chapters.

Acquiring Essential Skills For all digital photographers, there are four levels of Adobe Photoshop software (Photoshop Elements 9, Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5, and Photoshop CS5 Extended). The book Photoshop CS5 Essential Skills by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews is written for intermediate to professional photographers with some experience using photo editing software, and want to [...]