Designing with Web Standards or Photoshop Lightroom Adventure

Designing with Web Standards (Voices That Matter Series)

Author: Jeffrey Zeldman

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman has updated his classic, industry-shaking guidebook. This new edition--now in full color--covers improvements in best practices and advances in the world of browsers since the first edition introduced the world to standards-based design. Written in the same engaging and witty style, making even the most complex information easy to digest, it remains an essential guide to creating sites that load faster, reach more users, and cost less to design and maintain.

Readers will learn from Jeffrey's insights as he demonstrates how web standards are driving search engine friendliness ("findability") and the Web 2.0 applications that have reinvigorated the medium and the online marketplace. Readers will discover new techniques to make CSS layouts work better across multiple browsers and ways to make web content more accessible.

Read also If You Want What We Have or Anxiety and Depression

Photoshop Lightroom Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers

Author: Mikkel Aaland

This beautifully illustrated and eminently practical book is the first to offer a complete tour of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.2, the integrated digital photography workflow application that allows serious photographers to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images. Augmented by photos and case studies from a demanding road test in Iceland, award-winning photographer Mikkel Aaland explains how Lightroom 1.2 can improve the way you work. After watching -- and often helping -- Adobe create Lightroom entirely from the ground up, Aaland (author of Photoshop CS2 RAW) was ready to see how well it would do in the field. He organized a group of 12 top-notch photographers for a trek to "Nature's Light Room," the pristine Icelandic landscape where each summer day is bathed in 22 hours of horizontal light -- and where the only studio was Lightroom on a laptop. In Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, Aaland uses hands-on knowledge from the trip to demonstrate how Lightroom 1.2 can help you create the best possible image under any conditions. This unique tutorial walks you step-by-step through Lightroom's: Library module for uploading, sorting, tagging, ranking and adding keywords to your images Develop module with Adobe Camera RAW for complete non-destructive color and tonal adjustments Slideshow module, where you select and size images, and export the show to HTML, Flash, or PDF formats Print module, which includes several templates for printing contact sheets or full images Web module, where you can create Flash or HTML web galleries With many gorgeous examples shot in the soft natural light of Iceland, this book lets you see the results for yourself. Mikkel Aaland'strademarkability to teach complicated topics on digital imaging with straightforward, easy-to-follow text makes this book a valuable learning tool for anyone serious about digital photography. This is not an update of previous Lightroom versions, but the first book that's completely up-to-date for Lightroom 1.2.

Table of Contents:

Foreword     xi
Introduction     xiii
The Lightroom Workspace Revealed     1
Lightroom Modules     2
Organizing the Lightroom Workspace     10
Creating Identity Plates     18
Importing Images into Lightroom     21
Importing Images into Lightroom     22
Import Photos Dialog Options     26
Creating & Using Watched Folders     40
Using the Library Module     43
The Library Module Revealed     44
Creating & Applying Keywords in the Library Module     59
Using the Metadata Pane     61
Editing a Day's Shoot in Iceland     66
Using Virtual Copies to Create Multiple Versions     75
Creating & Using Stacks     76
Using Quick Develop     80
The Develop Module     85
The Develop Module Revealed     86
Develop View Options     92
Cropping in Develop Module     96
Retouching Tools in Develop     101
Noise Reduction     106
Sharpening the Way You Like it     109
Lens Corrections     115
Develop Great-Looking Photos     119
Evaluating Tonal Distribution &Color     120
Adjusting White Balance     126
Basic Tone Controls     132
Tone Curve for Advanced Control     138
Color-Tuned Photos     147
Controlling Vibrance & Saturation     148
Adding Clarity     150
The HSL Color Pane     154
The Split Toning Pane     160
Color Calibrating Your Camera     162
Black and White and Special Effects     167
When to Convert to Black and White     168
Basic Black and White Conversion     174
Using Grayscale Mix for More Control     176
Adding a Color Tint     182
Getting A Cross-Processing Look with Split Toning     186
Pushing the Boundaries with Special Effects     188
Develop Recipes from Iceland     193
Controlled Toning     194
Mixing Light     198
High Drama     202
A Cibachrome Look     206
An Antique Look     210
High Key     214
The Velvia Look     218
The Bergman Look     220
Oz Colors     224
Exporting Files     229
Exporting Revealed     230
Editing in Photoshop & Other Applications     240
Saving Metadata to the Original File     246
Lightroom Slideshows     253
The Slideshow Module Revealed     254
Real World: Creating the Adventure Slideshow     262
Using Metadata and Custom Text for Slideshow Captions     268
Exporting to a PDF Slideshow     270
Creating a QuickTime Slideshow     271
Power Printing     275
The Print Module Revealed     276
Selecting & Printing a Single Full-Page Image     282
Adding Text to Prints     288
Printing Multiple Images     290
Lightroom Color Management     296
Creating a Web Gallery     301
The Web Module Revealed     302
Customizing a Web Gallery     310
Adding Text to Web Galleries     318
Index     323