Books or tutorials.... recommendations please

Any recommendations on tutorials or books to help me learn the LR work flow or management of raw files? thanks

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom-Digital-Photographers/dp/0321555562
You'll also find a lot of video tutorial link directly from the Lightroom on-line User Manual http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.0/WS0BF9374E-119D-418e-BE03-8D5E6EBD4BD7.html

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Photoshop CS3 Book and Tutorial Recommendations

Hi there,
I am a beginner CS3 user. My main interest is in enhancing old graphic prints (not digital photography). By enhancing I mean changing colors, brightness, contrast, and sometimes redrawing a section of the original print. I typically scan the prints and save the images as tiff files that I then open in CS3. I'm running OSX 10.4.11.
There are numerous books on Photoshop CS3 on Amazon, but I am finding it difficult to make a choice. I would like book and tutorial recommendations from the Photoshop user forum community.
Thanks!
Al

I'll suggest a different tack altogether. As I'm a visually oriented, I find that being shown is far more effective than reading about things. Parsing intellectual abstractions (language) rather than dealing directly with the subject through imagery always seems like an extra labor... at least at the beginning until I have enough of a syntax built to enable contextual relevance.
With that preface I'd suggest you look at Deke McClelland's video tutorials now available online from Lynda.com. Start with "Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: The Essentials' followed by "Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Beyond the Basics" and "Photoshop CS3 One-on-One: Advanced Techniques." After Deke's tutorials you will be prepared to dive into any of the many others Photoshop CS3 authors available on Lynda.com.
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/authors/author/?aid=98
When I first started Photoshop, it was so dense and alien that, even with several books to help, I considered myself only a beginner even after a year or so of intense struggle. Then I ran into Deke's training and felt that I made a huge jump in comprehension and skill set in a very short time. I would watch the training and during the first go would do the examples. After once through I would work with PS for a bit to let the training sink in and then watch once more followed by more work. After the third viewing, I'd absorbed almost all I was going to and Deke's jokes were old so it was time to move on.
The training on Lynda.com is very reasonably priced for the value of the training and I would suggest Deke's tutorials to any beginner as a more effective way to start than books.

I have a Mac Pro using OSX 10.7.4. When using apple mail I click on the address icon to obtain email address and nothing happens. I've restarted both the application and the Mac but still won't open address book. Any ideas please.

I have a Mac Pro using OSX 10.7.4. When using apple mail I click on the address icon to obtain email address and nothing happens. I've restarted both the application and the Mac but still won't open address book. Any ideas please.

Assuming you have these accounts set up in Mail, open preferences and under Accounts tab, edit the SMTP outgoing server list. Do you have a .mac address in the list? If so, delete it.
Are you using iCloud?
For the troubled account, select the correct SMTP server for that account in the box and check the box to use only that server with that account.

Recommendations, please, for external DVD writer for my 2006 iMac. (Internal drive unable to write coherently.)

Recommendations, please, for an external DVD writer for my 2006 iMac whose internal drive is writing unreadable discs.
Model Name:          iMac
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I was given a replacement and told to set it up on itunes but now I cannot retrieve my address book, can anyone help please?

I was given a replacement and told to set it up on itunes but now I cannot retrieve my address book, can anyone help please?

a message appears saying that there is a problem with the windows installer.
What's the precise text of the message please? (There's a few different ones I can think of that you might be getting.)

Beginneer to J2EE, which book do you recommend me?

Hi mates!
I have a lot of experience in C++ and Java SE, but I never used J2EE.
I would like to create an app that uses web interfaces, data bases (persistence) and a multithreaded server. I guess that is possible with J2EE, but no idea about Hibernate/Spring/JSF/Beans/WebFlow....
What book do you recommend me to learn about that kind of things?
Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it a lot.

I'd recommend to start with the free book [Core servlets 2nd edition|http://pdf.coreservlets.com] to learn about servlets & JSPs. In the mean time I'd find a good tutorial about JDBC and learn how to do database actions with Java.
When you know that, the next step in my opinion would be to get the book [Enterprise Javabeans 3.0|http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-JavaBeans-3-0-Richard-Monson-Haefel/dp/059600978X] , as it is still the best EJB book I know of.
Finally if you want to go for the full package, I'd read [Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API|http://www.amazon.com/Pro-EJB-Java-Persistence-API/dp/1590596455] or even its newer second edition, [Pro JPA 2|http://www.amazon.com/Pro-JPA-Mastering-Persistence-Technology/dp/1430219564] to stay up to date with the times. I haven't read the second edition yet, but the first one was an excellent book about the Java Persistence API.
What remains would be a book about JavaServer Faces, if you want to use that as the view technology. I cannot really recommend a book about that.

Missing Selection Icon (Flower Icon) in ELM planning book..Can anyone please help

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http://scn.sap.com/thread/3235153
Hello Shahin,
As suggested by Kapil, Please check for authorization error. You can also view SU53 immediately after you enter into Planning book.
C_APO_FUN is the authorization object which has two key functions C_SELECTION and C_SELORG. User of C_SELECTION is - If user is not assigned C_SELECTION function then selection icon does not appear in Planning Book.
Also please read this SCN thread which will be useful -
Hope this will help.
Thank you
Satish Waghmare

I am an amateur, just now doing digital SLR. Have used simple Sony Cybershot editing but need better software. Recommendations please--Adobe Lightroom 5 vs Photoshop Elements 12 (or other)? Thanks!

I am an amateur, just now doing digital SLR. Have used simple Sony Cybershot editing but need better software. Recommendations please--Adobe Lightroom 5 vs Photoshop Elements 12 (or other)? Thanks!

Download the trial versions and then you will have a better idea what you need.

We have 1 computer and 2 nook colors. Only able to transfer books onto 1 device. please advise

we have 1 computer and 2 nook colors. Only able to transfer books onto 1 device. please advise

First, it's protocol to post an issue only once on the forum. You posted
twice....
I read the other thread, and there are a couple of messages being
displayed. So, let me go through them also in this post.
One of the messages was 'no permission to copy here'. That message tells
you that there is copy protection in place for that particular ebook. The
publisher has specified that you can't copy the ebook to another device.
This is digital rights management in action, and there's nothing further
that you can do legally to make this go away.
Another message relates to whether a device was authorized. The process
for setting up an ereader involves going to the website for that ereader
and registering the device. When you do that, the site will download a
small file with that information onto the ereader, and ADE reads that
file when you attach that ereader to ADE. If the device wasn't registered,
ADE won't be able to work with it and gives this message.
We have a small dilemma here. It's much easier to register all of
the ereaders with your Adobe ID, because ADE won't have this problem if
you do. But that's not practical because you want to have each ereader
with its own ID. So, ADE gives you the ability to switch ADE users by
deactivating one user ID and then change to another user ID. That process
is described in the HELP files of Digital Editions.
Don't forget the maximum number of two computers and four ereaders, however.
Hope this helps!
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In light of Leopard, Xcode 3.0 and Obj-C 2.0 what book do people recommend

I am new to programming on a Mac or any modern GUI OS for that matter. All the third party books on Mac programming seem to be a couple years out of date. Other then Apple developer docs what book do people recommend as the most relevant today?

You know, "old books" are way enough to learn how Cocoa and Objective-C works. The basis remains in each systems. The books only teaches you to use the basis, then you have to find by yourself the best way to accomplish what you want to do.
And also, Objective-C 2.0 is really new, it was released officially only 4 days ago, it can't already exist books about it.

I have a playlist that will not transfer from my Itunes on my laptop to my IPhone 4S during synching. Recommendations please!

I have a playlist that will not transfer from my Itunes on my laptop to my IPhone 4S during synching. Recommendations please!

Regular or smart?
You may need to remove any references to Podcasts, e.g. use "Playlist is Music" instead of "Podcast is false".
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New to J2ee. Book recommendations please.

Hello,
We're finally moving our Servlet/JSP/JDBC app to J2EE. Can anybody recommend a
good book which covers in depth the following topics: EJBs(Session, Entity, Message
Driven), JMS, JTA.
Found quite a few on Amazon. A lil' confused on which to buy.
We'll be running on weblogic 6.1. If there are any books written specifically
for that, that would be great.
Thanks a lot.
Raj

I'll steal Rob's thunder on this one.
You need to check out:
J2EE Applications and BEA WebLogic Server
by Michael Girdley, Rob Woolen, and Sandra Emerson
It is written by BEA Engineers who really know this stuff and it is specifically
targeted at the WLS 6.x releases. Good book. I have a copy signed by the authors! ;-)
Bill
Rajan wrote:
Hello,
We're finally moving our Servlet/JSP/JDBC app to J2EE. Can anybody recommend a
good book which covers in depth the following topics: EJBs(Session, Entity, Message
Driven), JMS, JTA.
Found quite a few on Amazon. A lil' confused on which to buy.
We'll be running on weblogic 6.1. If there are any books written specifically
for that, that would be great.
Thanks a lot.
Raj[att1.html]

Recommendations - books and tutorials on advanced features.

Dear members:
While reading a few books on presentations over the weekend I became quite interested in using some advanced features and animations to enhance my presentations. The books I've read mention these advanced animations but do not give the technical details on how to get them done.
Is there a book (or maybe books) I can read that would cover advanced techniques in Keynote including advanced animation options ? What about tutorial ? Everything I have found only seems to cover the basic.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Joseph Chamberlain

Hi, Alancito.
Thank you for your help and suggestions.
I have tried the Apple Training Series before and really don't like the format they have adopted. The books in these series try to simulate a class where you have to read and then do some exercise on your computer. This may work well for others but I find it quite difficult annoying to follow this format.
They type of effects I am trying to implement include type effects, transitions (both object transitions and slide transitions) and visual special effects.
I just recently read "Slideology" which is authored by Nancy Duarte, CEO of Duarte Design and the one who designed the entire presentation used by Al Gore for his movie and presentations "An Inconvenience Truth". She describes on this book transitions that she created with text (not for An Inconvenient Truth but another presentation) so that as attendees would walk into the room they would be greeted by this text special effect on the screen. This section appears on page 154 and is titled "Playing Text Animations as the Audience Enters".
This is just a sample of the type of information I am looking for. I haven't even been able to create reflection for text in Keynote let alone any type of interesting special effects for text.
I am looking for books that go beyond the texts offered by Apple to cover basic topics and dive deeper into advanced effects and tricks such as the one above.
Do you have any idea of where I can find information on advanced techniques in Keynote ?
Thank you again for your help,
Joseph

Interesting difference between books and tutorials

I started coding in Java about four years ago. When I started I learned from a book (that I no longer have), I think it was "Sam's Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours". I was just a kid then and I became fairly proficient in all of the basic requirements and such. Now, four years later, I am looking into getting back to Java when I can find the time, and possibly getting a certification. Instead of the book, I now use the online tutorials and API docs. Something I noticed about the tutorials is that they use coding methods that I never saw in the book. For instance from this tutorial on using the SpringLayout, the code follows this syntax:
import /*neccessary items*/
public class SpringDemo1 {
     * Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the                  <----I didn't add this. Guessing it has something
     * event-dispatching thread.                                    to do with preventing the thread from crashing...?
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        //Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("SpringDemo1");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        //SpringLayout code here....
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
}whereas, when I learned from the book, I always did this and I still do:
import /*neccessary items*/
public class myClass extends JFrame {
    public myClass() {
        //set up GUI here
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        myClass mc = new myClass();
}If I am going to get my certification, I don't want to be using practices that could cause a program to crash and get someone angry at me. If I am doing something wrong, please chew me out. It's better than losing a job...

The book is old-fashioned, that's all. Neither version of the code is so bad that it will crash and you will lose your job and become a drug addict accosting people on the street for money.
The "extends JFrame" version was the usual way to write things back in the early days of Java. And then people started thinking more about object orientation, and noticed that there was nothing in most Swing programs which created a modified JFrame. They simply used the features of a JFrame to get their work done.
So under the flag of "Prefer composition to inheritance", the OO people rewrote the standard Swing application to do that. And so they should... Java is an object-oriented language, after all, so why not do things right? Let's not extend JFrame (inheritance) if we can just create one and use it (composition).
Of course they couldn't go back and change all the paper books and all the thousands of programs that people had already written in the old way, but they could change the tutorials. And they did.
So my suggestion would be to follow the style shown in that tutorial. You won't lose your job over it. In fact being able to explain why you did it might even improve your status at your job.

I know this may be very subjective. What book do you recommend to learn Photoshop CC 2014?

I recently acquired program. Signed up at a local community college to take an on line beginner's course. What reference book do you like?

Taking the college class is a good step. It will bring you up to speed much quicker than learning on your own. Though I never discourage learning on your own as that is how I did it.
As for books, there are a huge slew of books available. Searching amazon is a good place to start.
To be honest though, most of my training came from videos so even if your not a big fan of video tutorials, don't rule them out completely. There are times when they can show what a book can not.
(free)
http://creativesuitepodcast.com/
http://kelbytv.com/
http://tv.adobe.com/
(pay)
http://kelbyone.com/
http://Lynda.com
Kelby team also writes books which are available in most book stores.
Scott Kelby - Amazon.com: scott kelby: Books
Cory Barker - Amazon.com: cory barker: Books
Matt Kloskowski - Amazon.com: matt kloskowski: Books
RC Concepcion - Amazon.com: rc concepcion: Books
Steve Caplin has a few good books as well, which were recommended to me from a member of the abobe forums. 100% Photoshop, and How to cheat in Photoshop. - Amazon.com: steve caplin: Books
This should get you started.

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