Recent Books by David Karlins
 If you want to add great-looking Flash video to your Web site fast but don't want to get bogged down in the details, Creating a Web Video in Flash: Visual QuickProject Guide is just the book for you. The full-color projects in this book teach you all the techniques you need to enhance your Web site with Flash video.
Explore the various video formats and players and discover why Flash Video is the best solution for delivering video content to your Web site visitors. Learn how to choose the right delivery method: progressive download, streaming, or embedded.
See how to use the Flash Video Encoder prepare Windows Media and QuickTime movies for the web, and to encode them as fast-downloading Flash Video files. And learn to embed your Flash Video files in Dreamweaver web sites, generating appropriate Flash Player skins. Creating a Web Video in Flash: Visual QuickProject Guide shows you just what you need to get your project done fast.
 Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful Web design tool: As part of Creative Suite 3 (which includes Photoshop CS3 and Flash CS3), it's a key component of an overall Web design workflow that encourages users to rely on all of their applications to seamlessly create graphically rich content for the Web and motion graphics. This information- and image-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Dreamweaver CS3 features they're most likely to use, including Spry framework for Ajax and Spry widgets and effects, and Absolute Placement objects; the book showcases each in a stand-alone tip, complete with a relevant hint or two and helpful screenshot. This is how readers can learn just what they need to know, exploring the program at their own pace, exploring just the features and tools they need.
Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
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 As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 3, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the new path eraser tool and making vivid artwork using the new Live Color feature and the updated recolor filters, as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash. .
RECENT BOOKS BY DAVID KARLINS:
Dreamweaver 8 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
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 Dreamweaer 8 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques is a highly focused survey of the one-hundred most essential things anyone needs to know to use Dreamweaver 8. New web designers will find clear, basic, easy-to-understand explanations of the techniques, tools, and tricks they need to quickly create professional quality web sites.
Experienced users or designers migrating from GoLive, FrontPage, or HTML hand-coding will find a handy reference with insights, tips, and shortcuts that will help even experts be more productive..
Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques is a highly focused survey of the one-hundred most essential things anyone needs to know to use Illustrator CS2. Folks new to Illustrator will find clear, basic, easy-to-understand explanations of the techniques, tools, and tricks they need to quickly become productive with Illustrator. Experienced users will find a handy reference with insights, tips, and shortcuts that will help even experts be more productive.
Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques was written specifically for CS2, and integrates the important new features of Illustrator CS2, including Live Paint, Live Trace, new Type format features, and helpful new interface innovations. Written by veteran illustrators David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins,Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques breaks down confusing concepts and clearly explains and illustrates how to master the challenges of drawing and editing vector paths. David Karlins teaches Illustrator at San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program, and Bruck K. Hopkins has been a professional illustrator for a decade, creating everything from fine art to technical drawings.
Covering the latest release of Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator Gone Wild features over 50 eye-popping illustration effects, with enough detail so that readers with familiarity with Adobe CS can step-by-step recreate the techniques in the book. Readers will learn to create beautiful and complex DNA-like strands of materials, Escher-like patterns, spectacular car body effects, warped-out buildings, surreal complex shadowing, jewels with semi-transparent layers, liquid type, and much more.
The book combines technical detail and aesthetic quality with insights, behind the scenes tricks, and war stories from the world of cutting edge professional graphic design. David Karlins is one of the most widely published authors on Illustrator and vector graphic design. Bruce K. Hopkins, was the fabric pattern designer for Joe Boxer shorts during their heyday, creating dozens of highly recognizable designs. His spectacular Space poster series and other fine art has been featured in books and galleries.
 Digital Sports Photography
- Take Winning Shots Every Time
by Serge Timacheff and David Karlins
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Applies the fundamental concepts of great digital photography to sports photography, an increasingly popular speciality that is difficult to master due to bad lighting, unpredictable weather, flash limitations, fast-moving athletes, and other variables.
Written with amateurs, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and semi-pros in mind, the book addresses the new digital photographer who has either recently converted from film or who might be attempting serious photography for the first time.
Helps readers take advantage of the numerous innovations in software and online services that are available today to help photographers get their photos optimized, distributed, and printed.
Hundreds of dynamic color images help non-professional photographers get the most out of shooting any sport.
 PC Magazine Guide to Printing Great Digital Photos
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Packed with practical, hands on guidance, the perfect book for computer users who are looking to get that little bit extra out of their color printer investment. Digital print expert David Karlins guides readers through everything -from selecting the right kinds of ink and paper, calibrating your computer monitor and making colors match, to getting your images ready for printing and giving your photos that professional touch with a bit of editing. Readers also learn tips for printing photo projects such as invitations, stationary and greeting cards and even t-shirts!
"If you're serious about your printed images, this one's for you." - Bill Camarada, December, 2004 READ ONLY.
"This clear and concise guide is a great resource for beginners and serious amateurs. Well-organized and well written, it covers all aspects of digital photo printing, from selecting equipment, supplies, and software to preserving and presenting photos. Windows and Macintosh users alike will find good information. Rather than focusing upon a single photo-editing program, the author gives general photo editing advice, with examples from a variety of software packages. Confusing issues like camera resolution versus screen resolution versus printer resolution are explained clearly. ..".- Zach Pine "nature sculpture artist and photographer" (Berkeley, CA USA)
 Total Digital Photography: The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook
-by Serge Timacheff, David Karlins | PDF of front & back cover| Order now
Featuring 600 full-color illustrations, this comprehensive guide is the perfect reference for any professional or serious amateur photographer who wants to go digital.
Whether you're a professional or a serious enthusiast, digital photography offers you so many exciting opportunities and advantages. But working with digital requires a unique procedure, and until now, there was no single source to guide you through. In this landmark work, two respected professionals help you develop an efficient workflow that incorporates Photoshop, leading RAW file software, and other essential technological tools. Richly illustrated with full-color photographs by the authors and packed with the wisdom they've acquired, this volume smoothes every step of the way from planning a shoot to delivering perfect digital images.
* Transition smoothly from film to digital
* See how your workflow encompasses photography, computing, and graphic design
* Explore hardware and software and choose what's right for your purpose
* Optimize the quality of your images with Photoshop®
* Choose the appropriate file types to display your images
* Recognize the capabilities and limitations of digital files
* Select the best method of printing your photos
* Understand the principles of color calibration and how they affect your prints
RECENT MAGAZINE ARTICLES BY DAVID KARLINS:
Macworld: Review of Flash Professional 8
Flash Professional 8 constitutes a leap in the evolutionary chain for Macromedia’s Web video and animation authoring program; it provides significant enhancements in scripting, graphical effects, Web-video display, and development of media destined for mobile devices. (Macromedia is also offering, for the first time, Flash Basic 8, a lower-priced version of the software that includes much of the program’s core functionality, but which is targeted to designers who don’t need high-end digital video or mobile phone authoring features.)
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Macworld: Review of FlashPaper 2
FlashPaper 2, part of the Macromedia Studio 8’s version of Contribute 3 (, February 2005), allows you to effortlessly convert Microsoft Office documents to Flash (SWF) files.
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CreativePro: Review of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
The release of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (as part of Studio 8) comes at a time when the graphic and interactive design community is buzzing with speculation about what apps will be left standing after the Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia is completed. While Macromedia spokespeople told me they can't yet comment on acquisition issues, Dreamweaver will likely emerge from the process as the single dominant professional Web design package. I got an official "no comment" from contacts at Macromedia, but sources at Adobe winked and nodded when asked if Dreamweaver would win the battle of the Web-development tools.
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Well laid out, colorful and pleasant to read ... I can't say enough about how clearly this book is written... Terrific.
- Alaska Apple User's Group
This handy resource teaches you how to generate professional graphics for multiple media, including print and Web. Master Illustrator's defining feature: creating and editing drawings by defining anchor points and the paths between them. Plus, the book features an art gallery displaying professional work to help illustrate the lessons and inspire you.
in full color! Create illustrations, maps, logos, CD covers, animation objects, fine art, and more with help from this full-color guide. Illustrator expert David Karlins' clear, step-by-step instruction will help you quickly grasp--and easily master--the fundamental and advanced features of this vector graphics tool. You'll also learn the techniques professional artists apply to their work in a special "Behind the Scenes" section. Whether your goal is to create graphics for professional or personal use, you'll find what you need in How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS.
* Understand Illustrator's capabilities in drawing and design
* Gain total control over lines, curves, fills, and color effects
* Draw with objects, shapes, intersections, cutting, and many other techniques
* Add and alter type, edit colors, sizes, fonts, and more
* Use new, advanced tools for paragraph formatting
* Master fills and effects--even integrate bitmap images
* Work with layer, style, and action strategies
* Venture into 3-D effects, warps, and envelopes
* Manage Illustrator's many color palette options for Web and print
* Export to GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, PDF, and Flash files for Web use
"Web designer David Karlins has written a basic, accessible, intelligent little book on the nuts and bolts of doing precisely what the title says. ....For brevity, accessibility and ease of use, Build Your Own Web Site gets high marks. If you want a quick way to the web, this is your guide."- Andrew Allentuck,Toronto Globe and Mail
If you have finally decided to put up your own web site, "Build Your Own Web Site" by David Karlins is the book for you. ...Right off the shelf we learn how to collect content, get server space and decide on a domain name. ... Whether you are building a site for your family, hobby or business you will find what you need here. Rather than just a "how-to" book, this book is a think-it-through book that provides real value without a high-tech price tag. - Cleveland PC User's Group
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 Complete Idiot's Guide to... Dreamweaver MX
"David Karlins is a good teacher (He teaches at the MultiMedia Studies Program at San Francisco State). You can tell that from his writing. He has a good pace and covers things informally and easily. Since this is one of the Idiot's guide books, you'd expect little else there. The easy manner makes learning Dreamweaver quite fun and if you cover a chapter a day or so, you can learn at your leisure. While he attempts to cover, at least in passing, just about everything in the app, Karlins does not bog down into detail unless absolutely necessary... " - Matt Brown, Community Manager for Macromedia Dreamweaver
"As well-seasoned as Dreamweaver has become at every level of Web design, MX launches it to new heights. Indispensable, essential, requisite. This is both David Karlins, and his new book....David's hands-on experience in the Web design world, and his experience working with students lends itself to insights that help you construct your own intuitive process. By the end of this book, who knows, maybe you'll even develop a new sense of humor." - Cathy Flight, Program Director, Multimedia Studies Program, San Francisco State University
Free chapters: 7 (Tables) , 8 (Layers) , and 13 (Forms) ... PDF files best viewed and printed at 150%.
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 Complete Idiot's Guide to Flash 5
with illustrations by Paul Mickulecky
"...starts with the basics and is planned in such a way that saves you from suffering through lengthy or technical explanations before getting to the good stuff...well-thought out and fun to read" - XDUDE.com
"...If you are trying to learn Macromedia Flash 5, then there is no better place to start than The Complete Idiot's Guide To Flash 5. It covers all of the basic elements in the Flash 5 program and will help you get up and running with your first Flash movie. " - BVS Reviews
Translations: Arabic, Spanish, Polish
Corrections & updates
Tutorials: Splash Screen | Logo with Shape Transition | Masking + Animation
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 FrontPage 2002 Bible
by David Elderbrock and David Karlins
"I teach Electronic Commerce at Mountain View College of the Dallas County Community College District. My classes include lab assignments using FrontPage. ...The FrontPage Bible is a great reference. I have reviewed many textbooks, but none compare to the FrontPage Bible. If you really want to learn FrontPage, use the FrontPage Bible." - Gemmy Allen, Instructor, Mountain View College
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 FrontPage 2000 Bible
by David Elderbrock and David Karlins
80,000 copies shipped (English) plus translations including:
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Serbo-Croatian
- Norwegian
- Dutch
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 FrontPage 2002 Virtual Classroom
"My bookshelf is full of FrontPage books, from 'bibles' to 'how to.' and at best they are reference books, sources to pore over in a crisis. FrontPage 2002 Virtual Classroom with CD represents an exciting new concept. We often ask 'walk me through' a problem, and here we have someone to do just that anytime we want. The combination of clear explanation and animated screen shots is a powerful teaching tool, and I found that I quickly assimilated several procedures which have given me fits til now. Quickly absorbed, clear, effective, I highly recommend this method of owning your own trainer who lives on your bookshelf." - Martin Demarest, web designer at Finger Lakes Webs
Sample video from the book
 Adobe Illustrator 10 Virtual Classroom
Includes one hour of instructional video - a great way to learn Illustrator
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Additional Titles by David Karlins
- Teach Yourself CorelDRAW 8 in 24 Hours
- MCSD: Designing and Implementing Web Sites Using Microsoft FrontPage 98
- Sam's Teach Yourself Microsoft Money 99 in 24 Hours by Winston Steward and David Karlins
- Teach Yourself Microsoft Frontpage 98 in a Week (2nd Edition)
- Sams Teach Yourself CorelDRAW 9 in 24 Hours
- Using Applixware for Linux (Special Edition Using)
- Advanced Productivity with Microsoft Word 97 Student Guide
- Wild Web Graphics With Microsoft Image Composer
- Create Frontpage Web Pages in a Weekend
- Microsoft Works for Kids & Parents
- How to Use Microsoft FrontPage 97 by Celine Latulipe, David Karlins, and Elaine Madison
Recent/Selected Books with Contributions by David Karlins:
Wi-Fi Toys: : 17 Cool Wireless Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment
by Mike Outmesguine, 2004
Contributing writer - Chapter 2 on Wi-Fi Antennas
Mastering Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks
by David Crowder, Rhonda Crowder
Chapter on Flash 5
Microsoft Office 2000 Bible
by Ed Willett, et al
Contributing author: Chapters 42-47 (FrontPage 2000)
Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office 2000
by Ed Bott and Woody Leonhard
Contributing author: Part VIII - (Microsoft Publisher)
Platinum Edition Using Microsoft Office 2000
by Laura Monson
Contributing author: Section on Microsoft Publisher 2000
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Additional Writing & Editing Projects:
- Technical Editor, Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Real World) by Mordy Golding
- Technical Editor, Adobe CS Shortcuts
By Guy Hart-Davis, 2004
- Technical Editor, Illustrator 10: Mastering Artistic Design (Muska & Lippman, 2002)
- Contributor: Professional Edition using Microsoft Office 97 (Que, 1997, section on FrontPage)
- Contributor: Special Edition Using FrontPage (Que, 1996, section on Image Composer)
- Technical Editor: Netscape Composer for Dummies (IDG, 1997)
- Contributor: Online resources section, Latin America Studies textbook (CCI, 1996)
- Author: Advanced Productivity with Microsoft Word (ACT, 1997)
- Author: How to Use FrontPage 97 (ACT, 1997)
- Author: How to Use Microsoft Project, and Advanced Productivity with Microsoft Project with interactive Skills Evaluation Exam (ACT, 1997)
- Reviser: STR Quicksteps Guide to Microsoft Word (STR, 1997)
- Reviser: STR Quicksteps Guide to PowerPoint (STR, 1997)
- Reviser: STR Quicksteps Guide to Microsoft Access (STR, 1997)
- Contributing Reviser: Mastering WordPerfect 8 for Windows (Sybex, 1996)
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Adobe Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild
Build Your Own Web Site 