“The Cg Tutorial: The Definitive Guide to Programmable Real-Time Graphics”, written by Randima Fernando, Mark J. Kilgard is available online for free from NVIDIA Developer Zone . This book teaches you how to use a programming language called Cg. It explains how to implement both basic and advanced techniques for today’s programmable GPU architectures.
Free 95 page ebook “Photoshop Elements 9 Guide” from ProDesignTools in pdf format.
“Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite” integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite.
PNG: The Definitive Guide is the first book devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting this important new and free image format. PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is the next-generation graphics file format for the Web. Designed as an open-source format to replace the proprietary GIF format, PNG is better, smaller, more extensible, and free. Already supported by major software like Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Office, as well as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, PNG is an elegant and feature-rich image format that has finally achieved broad industry support.
This free online book about GIMP provides powerful explanations for how to do advanced tasks.
It’s all about graphics file formats. As any graphics programmer or illustrator knows, there are many different file formats used for storing graphics data — data such as vector graphics, ray tracing, black-and-white photographs, truecolor images, animation data, motion video, and multimedia data.
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