Pro Android Graphics is a comprehensive goldmine of knowledge and techniques that will help you design, create, and optimize 2D graphics for use in your Android Jelly Bean applications. Android application developer and expert multimedia producer Wallace Jackson of Mind Taffy Design shows you how to leverage Android's powerful graphics APIs in conjunction with professional open source graphics design tools such as GIMP 2.8.6 and more.
You'll learn about:
The foundational graphics concepts behind the three core new media areas (digital imaging,...
Pro Android Graphics is a comprehensive goldmine of knowledge and techniques that will help you design, create, and optimize 2D graphics for ...
Beginning Java 8 Games Development, written by Java expert and author Wallace Jackson, teaches you the fundamentals of building a highly illustrative game using the Java 8 programming language. In this book, you'll employ open source software as tools to help you quickly and efficiently build your Java game applications. You'll learn how to utilize vector and bit-wise graphics; create sprites and sprite animations; handle events; process inputs; create and insert multimedia and audio files; and more.
Furthermore, you'll learn about JavaFX 8, now integrated...
Beginning Java 8 Games Development, written by Java expert and author Wallace Jackson, teaches you the fundamentals of bu...
Use Java to write 2D and 3D games for desktops. Written by Java gaming expert Wallace Jackson, this book uses Java 9 and JavaFX to add features including animation, splash screens, scripting, and a desktop tray interface. After reading Pro Java 9 Games Development, you'll come away with enough expertise to build your own successful and fun Java-based games.
What You'll Learn
Design and build simple 2D Java games using Java 2D and JavaFX
Design and build 3D games using Java 3D and JOGL
Integrate various input...
Use Java to write 2D and 3D games for desktops. Written by Java gaming expert Wallace Jackson, this book uses Java 9 and JavaFX to add features inc...
Digital Image Compositing Fundamentals is an introductory title covering concepts central to digital imagery and digital image compositing using software packages such as Adobe Photoshop or the open source GIMP software, which is used for this book because it is free for commercial use.
This book builds on the fundamental concepts of pixels, color depth and layers, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering pixel transparency using the alpha channel, pixel blending using Porter-Duff blending and transfer modes, and digital image file formats and key factors...
Digital Image Compositing Fundamentals is an introductory title covering concepts central to digital imagery and digital image compositing u...
This bookis a brief primer covering concepts central to digital imagery, digital audio and digital illustration using open source software packages such as GIMP, Audacity and Inkscape. These are used for this book because they are free for commercial use. The book builds on the foundational concepts of raster, vector and waves (audio), and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what new media assets are best for use with Android Studio as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process and why it is important. What You Will Learn- What are the...
This bookis a brief primer covering concepts central to digital imagery, digital audio and digital illustration using open source software pac...
Learn the foundational concepts of vector graphics and raster imaging, including what new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, Kindle and HTML5, as well as key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, and why data footprint optimization is important. Digital Painting Techniques covers concepts central to digital painting using the Inkscape 0.91 open source software package as well as the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting software package.
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The terminology of digital...
Learn the foundational concepts of vector graphics and raster imaging, including what new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java ...
This concise book builds upon the foundational concepts of MIDI, synthesis, and sampled waveforms. It also covers key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, streaming versus captive digital audio new media assets, digital audio programming and publishing platforms, and why data footprint optimization is important for modern day new media content development and distribution.
Digital Audio Editing Fundamentals is a new media mini-book covering concepts central to digital audio editing using the Audacity open source software package which also apply to...
This concise book builds upon the foundational concepts of MIDI, synthesis, and sampled waveforms. It also covers key factors regarding the data fo...
This fun, concise, full color book introduces the fundamentals of digital illustration, and covers how to develop and optimize these types of scalable vector graphics (SVG) using Inkscape 0.91 or later. It also covers concepts central to digital painting using the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting and illustration paid software package, which also has a free trial version, and a discount for purchasers of this book.
The book builds upon the foundational concepts of vector graphics and the SVG format, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what...
This fun, concise, full color book introduces the fundamentals of digital illustration, and covers how to develop and optimize these types o...
Gain concepts central to digital video using the affordable Corel Video Studio Ultimate X9 software package as well as open source digital video editing package EditShare Lightworks 12. This compact visual guide builds on the essential concepts of digital imaging, audio, illustration, and painting, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering what digital video new media formats are best for use with Android Studio, Java and JavaFX, iOS, and HTML5. Furthermore, Digital Video Editing Fundamentals covers the key factors of the data footprint optimization work process,...
Gain concepts central to digital video using the affordable Corel Video Studio Ultimate X9 software package as well as open source digital video editi...
This compact syntax reference covers syntax and parameters central to JSON object definitions. You'll learn the syntax used in the JSON object definition language, logically organized by topical chapters, and getting more advanced as chapters progress, covering structures and file formats which are best for use with HTML5. Furthermore, the JSON Quick Syntax Reference includes the key factors regarding the data footprint optimization work process, the in-lining of CSS and JS files, and why a data footprint optimization work process is important. What You'll Learn - Use the...
This compact syntax reference covers syntax and parameters central to JSON object definitions. You'll learn the syntax used in the JSON object definit...
