Happy New Year User Group Members!

With a new year comes new resolutions and new opportunities. Perhaps you’ve always wanted to share your musings with the world? Well, here’s your chance. Best-selling author Elizabeth Castro takes you through each step of the blogging process with “Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide” the quick and easy, start-to-finish guide to creating your own blog.

Maybe you’ve made a resolution to finally do something with all those digital pictures you’ve taken. “Creating a Photo Album in Photoshop Elements for Windows: Visual QuickProject Guide” cuts straight to the chase to guide you through the process of making your first photo album with Photoshop Elements.

We have many additional new titles for you to enjoy this month and we invite you to check them all out below. As we go to “press” with this edition, Macworld San Francisco 2005 is about to get started so look out for highlights from the show in the February edition.

AWARDS

We’re proud to announce that the following two books have received Best of 2004 Awards from Design, Typography, and Graphics Magazine.

“Best in Photoshop and Image Editing”
Commercial Photoshop with Bert Monroy, ISBN: 0-7357-1388-X
By Bert Monroy
http://www.peachpit.com/title/073571388X

“Best in Web Design”
Defensive Design for the Web, ISBN: 0-7357-1410-X
By 37 Signals
http://www.peachpit.com/title/073571410X

Read the full article at
http://www.design-bookshelf.com/BEST/index.html

MORE AWARDS!

We’re also excited to announce that Game Architecture and Design: a New Edition (ISBN: 0-7357-1363-4) by Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris has been chosen by Game Developer magazine as a finalist for a coveted Front Line Award! Check out this link to learn more about the book:
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0735713634

Front Line Award winners will be announced in the January 2005 issue of Game Developer Magazine, which will be available on newsstands in mid-January. Visit the magazine’s homepage for more information:
http://www.gdmag.com/homepage.

BOOK SELECTIONS FOR JANUARY 2005:

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3D/Animation/Game Design/Game Programming
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Model, Rig, Animate with 3ds max 7
By Michele Bousquet; ISBN: 0-321-32178-2; $39.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321321782

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Database Design
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Creating a Database in FileMaker Pro: Visual QuickProject Guide
By Steve Schwartz; ISBN: 0-321-32121-9; $12.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321321219

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Design and Layout
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PDF Reference, Fifth Edition version 1.6
By Adobe Systems, Inc; ISBN: 0-321-30474-8; $54.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321304748

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Digital Audio
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Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7
By Martin Sitter; ISBN: 0-321-25614-X; $44.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/032125614X

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Digital Video/Photography/Interactive Media
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Adobe Premiere Elements Classroom in a Book
By Adobe Creative Team; ISBN: 0-321-26794-X; $35.00
http://www.peachpit.com/title/032126794X

Macromedia Captivate for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Tom Green; ISBN: 0-321-29417-3; $21.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321294173

Premiere Elements for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
By Antony Bolante; ISBN: 0-321-26790-7; $21.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321267907

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Image Editing
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Adobe Photoshop Elements One-Click Wow! Third Edition
By Jack Davis; ISBN: 0-321-30468-3; $29.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321304683

Creating a Photo Album in Photoshop Elements for Windows: Visual
QuickProject Guide
By Katherine Ulrich; ISBN: 0-321-27081-9; $12.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321270819

Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks
By Scott Kelby; ISBN: 0-321-27835-6; $34.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321278356

Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart
Guide
By Craig Hoeschen; ISBN: 0-321-27078-9; $21.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321270789

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Macintosh/iApps
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Mac OS X Server 10.3 Panther: Visual QuickPro Guide
By Schoun Regan with Kevin White; ISBN: 0-321-24252-1; $29.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321242521

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PDAS/OTHER GADGETS
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Global Mobile: Connecting without walls, wires, or borders
By Fred Johnson; ISBN: 0-321-27871-2; $15.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321278712

Secrets of the iPod and iTunes, Fifth Edition
By Christopher Breen; ISBN: 0-321-30459-4; $21.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321304594

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Web Design
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How To Wow: Photoshop for the Web
By Jan Kabili and Colin Smith; ISBN: 0-321-30330-X; $39.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/032130330X

Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide
By Elizabeth Castro; ISBN: 0-321-32123-5; $12.99
http://www.peachpit.com/title/0321321235