Digital Painting in Photoshop

Digital Painting in Photoshop 

 256 Pages | PDF | 31 MB

Have you ever considered using Photoshop to create fine art? 

Photoshop is usually used for enhancing photos, but this extremely powerful software package is capable of so much more. Every feature, from brushes to background, can be customised and optimised for artistic effect. With a little guidance from a pro, your photoshop results can go from competent retouching of images to visually stunning re-interpretations of them, turning everyday pictures into breathtaking works of art.

In this beautiful and inspiring book, acclaimed artist, author and lecturer Susan Bloom shows you how to do just that. Starting with the fundamentals: creating your own artistic brushes and textured papers virtually, she goes on to demonstrate how to create a variety of classic artistic styles in Photoshop, with chapters on watercolours, pastels, charcoal and oil. Further chapters cover illustration techniques in photoshop, and using third-party software to create painterly effects.

While the results are highly polished and realistic, this is not a book written specifically for artists. The techniques are aimed squarely at the Photoshop user looking to broaden their pallette, with emphasis on altering photographs to create artwork, rather than creating artwork from scratch.


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Computer Active - # 311, (24 January 2010 (UK)

Computer Active - # 311, (24 January 2010 (UK)
English | 76 pages | PDF | 34.90 Mb


Computer Active - The UK best-selling computer & technology magazine offering essential productivity and buying advice, delivered in an entertaining, informative and plain English style. Computeractive has maintained its position as the UK No1 computer magazine for over 6 years as a result of the impartial editorial content, the emphasis on consumer advocacy and PC troubleshooting and its unique fortnightly publishing schedule.


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iPhone Life - Vol.2 No.2 (2010)

 

iPhone Life - Vol.2 No.2 (2010)
English | 106 pages | PDF | 26.90 Mb

iPhone Life magazine is chocked full of news, reviews, and tips for both consumers and enterprise users.

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Computer Active - #310 (7 January 2010)

Computer Active - #310 (7 January 2010)
PDF | 74 pages | 37.4 Mb | English

The UK's best-selling computer & technology magazine offering essential productivity and buying advice, delivered in an entertaining, informative and plain English style. Computeractive has maintained its position as the UK's No1 computer magazine for over 6 years as a result of the impartial editorial content, the emphasis on consumer advocacy and PC troubleshooting and its unique fortnightly publishing schedule.


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Excel as Your Database

Excel as Your Database 

 250 Pages |  PDF | 3 MB

Excel As Your Database guides those of you who need to manage facts and figuresyet have little experience, budget, or need for a full-scale relational database management system. Youll learn how to use Excel to enter, store, and analyze your data. This book is written and organized in a way that assumes you have some familiarity with Excel, but not with databases. 

The book features quick-start solutions, practice exercises, troubleshooting tips, and best practices. This book covers Excel 2007 and 2003.The author clarifies not just how to use a technique, but under what realistic scenarios.The text features step-by-step, how-to procedures.Try-it-out exercises are based on realistic sample data.

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Computer Music - February 2010

Computer Music - February 2010
PDF | 133 pages | 64.2 Mb | English

Computer Music's goal is to help its readers create great music with a PC or Mac.
Each month find easy-to-follow tutorials for all sorts of music software, unbiased reviews of the latest products and answers to technical questions.

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Absolute C++

Absolute C++ 

 976 Pages || PDF | 5 MB

Offers complete coverage of the C++ programming language. This title offers provides all the tools necessary for experienced and novice programmers to master C++, including: thorough coverage of the Standard Template Library; complete and fully executable code throughout; sections highlighting programming tips and common pitfalls; and a logical order of coverage of C++ topics in order for readers to better understand the language. 

This book is appropriate for anyone interested in learning how to programming using the C++ programming  language.

From the Back Cover
Absolute C++ is the definitive textbook on C++ from best-selling author Walt Savich. This brand new book provides complete, thorough, absolute coverage of the C++ programming language.
Absolute C++ provides all of the tools necessary for experienced and novice programmers alike to master C++, emphasizing the qualities and complexities of the language aver elementary programming technique. Thus, it presents:
* Complete and fully executable programs throughout to demonstrate language features
* Extensive coverage of the Standard Template Library (STL)—this is a necessary element in understanding C++ as it examines the full functionality and versatility of the language
* A logical ordering of topics that allows readers to better understand the language (for example, covering arrays before classes-this institutes a more progressive method of learning how the language works before moving on to advanced features
* Material on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Patterns to take advantage of the latest trends in software engineering
* Sections highlighting programming tips and common pitfalls to enhance understanding Absolute C++ also offers a full supplements package for instructors, including instructor's manual, solutions manual, PowerPoint slides, and Testfen, a computerized test generator. A companion web site (aw/savitch) is available for all readers to help enhance and test their understanding of the material.


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Production Plannning and Control with SAP

Production Plannning and Control with SAP

This all-new, extended second edition provides readers with a detailed introduction to the tasks associated with industrial operations as well as highly detailed descriptions of the core processes of SAP PP (mySAP ERP 2005 Release). The various processes of discrete manufacturing are explained clearly in the following contexts: What are the business requirements? How can they be implemented using SAP? Which configuration steps are necessary and what are their effects? With step-by-step instruction and detailed, expert guidance, this book enables you to successfully implement and apply SAP PP in your own company. You ll also benefit from exclusive content devoted to exploring possible scenarios and the vast potential of mySAP SCM (APO) integration.

(Only Chapter 3,Production Planning and Control in mySAP ERP, is available in this package; not the whole book)

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Enterprise Management with SAP SEM/ Business Analytics

Enterprise Management with SAP SEM/ Business Analytics

PDF | 219 pages | 7,1 mb

In order to make strategy happen there is a need for powerful management information systems. SAP focuses on the application of modern business administration concepts, e.g. Value Based Management, the Balanced Scorecard, the Management Cockpit or flexible planning methods.

The book describes the methodology and implementation of a powerful tool for enterprise management. Practical examples show how SAP Strategic Enterprise Management/Business Analytics (SAP SEM/BA) can help to improve cross functional planning, reporting and analyzing. SAP SEM/BA is a leading edge IT-solution for top management and related departments in large enterprises and groups. It demonstrates the state of the art of modern management information and decision support systems.

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The SAP R/3 Handbook, Second Edition

The SAP R/3 Handbook, Second Edition

English | PDF | 680 pages | 11 MB

Provides a completely updated handbook covering SAP/R3 Versions 4.0, 4.5 and 4.6, comprehensive and practical guide to Basis system administration for SQP R/3. Covers ABAP/4, Workbench Organizer and CTS, Background Jobs Management and SAP Database Administration.

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Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems:

Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems:

Architecture and Planning Processes
English 207 pages | PDF | 3,6 MB


Supply Chain Management (SCM) is not a buzzword like many others in management and IT - it is here to stay. 'Megatrends' such as globalization and increasing specialization result in a complex division of labor at national and international levels. Lean and agile supply chains have become a major management target, and the interorganizational coordination of business processes has become highly relevant. The complexity of today's supply chains cannot be mastered without the support of powerful information systems.

SAP has established itself as the market leader in this type of IT systems.The book describes SCM using a pyramidal framework and relates it to the SAP SCM Solution Map. Desired features of IT support for SCM are formulated, and the extent to which SAP systems provide these features is shown. We describe the functionalities of SAP APO in detail, present case studies on implementing and running SAP SCM systems, and discuss SCM aspects of the new SAP Business ByDesign approach.


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Software Engineering:

Software Engineering:

Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches and Practices

432 pages | PDF | 5,55 MB

“It is not enough to aim; you must hit.” - Italian Proverb

“Software engineering – the “engineering” of software – is part process, part technology, part resource management, and, debatably, until recently, part luck – which make interesting challenges for educators at the undergraduate or graduate level. Learning to be a software engineer – learning about software

– learning about engineering (the former, a nebulous topic, the latter an equally nebulous attitude of professionalism) form the target that educators are aiming to hit. Unfortunately, with constant “innovations” in methodologies, technologies, and programming languages, this is a moving target.

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Simply put, the aim of this book is to better prepare educators to better prepare students to be better software engineers. The material in the 18 chapters of this book hits the mark by providing proven ammunition for student learning and assessment, curriculum development, innovative teaching methods, and project approaches that solidify classroom concepts, as well as instill an engineering mindset with respect to responsibility, ethics, certification and licensing. It provides a synergistic experience base that can serve the ongoing and future needs of software engineering educators.

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Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

CHM | 10 MB

Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is written for any software team that is considering running a software project using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), or evaluating modern software development practices for its use. It is about the value-up paradigm of software development, which forms the basis of VSTS: its guiding ideas, why they are presented in certain ways, and how they fit into the process of managing the software lifecycle. This book is the next best thing to having an onsite coach who can lead the team through a consistent set of processes.

Readers will learn what they need to know to get started with VSTS, including The role of the value-up paradigm (versus work-down) in the software development lifecycle, and the meanings and importance of “flow” he use of MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement Work items for planning and managing backlog in VSTS Multidimensional, daily metrics to maintain project flow and enable estimation Creating requirements using personas and scenarios Project management with iterations, trustworthy transparency, and friction-free metrics Architectural design using a value-up view, service-oriented architecture, constraints, and qualities of service

Development with unit tests, code coverage, profiling, and build automation Testing for customer value with scenarios, qualities of service, configurations, data, exploration, and metrics

Effective bug reporting and bug assessment Troubleshooting a project: recognizing and correcting common pitfalls and antipatterns This is a book that any team using or considering VSTS should read.

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Software Engineering and Computer Games

Software Engineering and Computer Games

CHM | 544 pages | 10,4 mb

This book solves the dilemma of wanting to learn Windows-based software engineering without knowing Windows programming. The basics in Windows programming are explained alongside ideas of object-oriented software engineering. The basics of software engineering are thoroughly discussed first. Once completed, MFC Windows is then introduced through a video game. For programmers interested in learning Windows-based software engineering and Windows programming.

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Visual Studio Tools for Office:

Visual Studio Tools for Office:

Using Visual Basic 2005 with Excel, Word, Outlook, and InfoPath

CHM | 1120 pages | 15,9 mb

"With the application development community so focused on the Smart Client revolution, a book that covers VSTO from A to Z is both important and necessary. This book lives up to big expectations. It is thorough, has tons of example code, and covers Office programming in general terms--topics that can be foreign to the seasoned .NET developer who has focused on ASP.NET applications for years. Congratulations to Eric Lippert and Eric Carter for such a valuable work!"

--Tim Huckaby, CEO, InterKnowlogy, Microsoft regional director "This book covers in a clear and concise way all of the ins and outs of programming with Visual Studio Tools for Office. Given the authors' exhaustive experiences with this subject, you can't get a more authoritative description of VSTO than this book!"

--Paul Vick, technical lead, Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Corporation"Eric and Eric really get it. Professional programmers will love the rich power of Visual Studio and .NET, along with the ability to tap into Office programmability. This book walks you through programming Excel, Word, InfoPath, and Outlook solutions."

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FileMaker 8 @Work:

FileMaker 8 @Work: Projects and Techniques to Get the Job Done

English | 240 pages | PDF | 11,4 MB

Most books on databases approach the reader with descriptions of how to use tools, and make some reference to putting those tools into a real-world context. FileMaker 8 @Work: Projects and Techniques to Get the Job Done turns this approach on its ear by introducing key tools in a single chapter, then moves on to what you really want to know - how to use the product to complete the projects that they face at work.

This book provides step-by-step coverage of how to complete a variety of projects that a panel of users has verified as common projects those using the application are asked to complete. Tips, tricks, and notes are provided with the information you need to carry over what you learn on these projects to others you'll undoubtedly be asked to create.

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Maya Professional Tips and Techniques

Maya Professional Tips and Techniques

PDF | 221 pages | 11,7 mb

Designed for busy Maya users like you, this guide offers dozens of how-tos, workarounds, and shortcuts culled from years of experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven production pipeline. You’ll discover tricks and timesavers on texturing particles, customizing Paint Effects brushes, modeling polygon faces, creating facial rigs with wire deformers, and much more—and helpful full-color illustrations reinforce the concepts. From modeling, animating, and rigging to texturing and lighting, this book will help you streamline workflow and improve your skills.

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Asterisk 1.6

Asterisk 1.6

PDF | 240 pages | 5.02 MB

This book will show you how to build a telephony system for your home or business using this open source application. 'Asterisk 1.6' takes you step-by-step through the process of installing and configuring Asterisk. It covers everything from establishing your deployment plan to creating a fully functional PBX solution. Through this book you will learn how to connect employees from all over the world as well as streamline your callers through Auto Attendants (IVR) and Ring Groups.

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