Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Design, Graphics & Media - Graphics Tools

From first installation to advanced image manipulation techniques, Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition explains how anyone can utilize GIMP: a free, open source image manipulation program. You will learn how to install GIMP on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. Once you've installed the application, you'll learn about the interface and configuration options, and then jump into a quick and simple project to familiarize yourself.

With four-color graphics and screenshots throughout, you'll learn how to prepare camera images for...

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the First PASCAL Machine Learning Challenges Workshop, MLCW 2005. 25 papers address three challenges: finding an assessment base on the uncertainty of predictions using classical statistics, Bayesian inference, and statistical learning theory; second, recognizing objects from a number of visual object classes in realistic scenes; third, recognizing textual entailment addresses semantic analysis of language to form a generic framework for applied semantic inference in text understanding.

Build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently using Google App Engine and this book, even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development.

App Engine is perhaps the most appealing web technology to appear in the last year, providing an easy-to-use application framework with basic web tools. While Google's own tutorial assumes significant experience, Using Google App Engine will help anyone get started with this platform. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build complete, interactive applications and deploy them to the...

Seit vielen Jahren spielen TeX und LaTeX eine wichtige Rolle bei der Erstellung hochwertiger Textausgabe; dabei ist LaTeX der vom Anwender verwendete Textformatierer, wahrend TeX im Hintergrund nahezu unbemerkt den von LaTeX aufbereiteten Text in Stil, Qualitat und Prazision eines Schriftsetzers setzt. Ferner gibt es eine grosse Anzahl weiterer Produkte im Umfeld von TeX und LaTeX, wie Bildschirm- oder Druckertreiber, Tools zur Erstellung von Grafiken, HTML- oder PDF-Seiten sowie zur Erzeugung von Schriften, die von einem grossen Anwenderkreis eingesetzt werden. Das vorliegende Buch gibt...

Komplexitat und Umfang aktueller Websites nehmen stetig zu, grafische Darstellung und Interaktionsformen entwickeln sich weiter. Um Usability auf der einen und innovative Konzepte auf der anderen Seite zu gewahrleisten, etabliert sich in Agenturen und Design-Buros die Informationsarchitektur als Bestandteil des Entwicklungsprozesses. Die erfolgreiche Arbeit von Informationsarchitekten stutzt sich nicht nur auf eigene Methoden, sondern hangt von der Integration in einen ubergreifenden Workflow ab.

In diesem Buch werden flexibel anwendbare Methoden und Techniken vorgestellt, die...

After Effects CS5.5 Update:

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Chris and Trish Meyer have created a series of videos demonstrating how to use their favorite new and enhanced features in After Effects CS5.5. Virtually all of these videos use exercise files from Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects (5th Edition for CS5) as their starting point, extending the usefulness of this book for its owners. These videos may be viewed for free on AdobeTV.

* 5th Edition of best-selling After Effects book by renowned...

Die Themen Screen-, Interface-, Interaction- und Informationsdesign, deren Zusammenhange und Grundlagen fur Konzeption und Gestaltung werden in diesem Buch ausfuhrlich dargestellt. Dabei betrachtet der Autor auch die medienspezifischen Gestaltungsmethodiken und beschreibt darauf aufbauend Gestaltungskonzepte und Produktionsablaufe.

Der Autor erlautert, wie man Nutzerbedurfnisse und Bedienqualitat durch Usability-Testverfahren und Evaluierungsstrategien ermitteln und ermoglichen kann.

Es wird aufgezeigt, dass Screendesign nicht nur die Illustrierung vorgegebener Konzepte ist...

Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics. Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies: interpretive analysis of written texts.Computers can handle vast amounts of data,...

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Statistics show that 81% of people have a story they want to write, but very few actually do it. For most, this is because they either don’t know how to enter the publishing process, or they feel their writing isn’t good enough. Self-Publishing for Profit was designed to help you overcome both of these fears by giving you detailed publishing guidance, while simultaneously helping you become a better writer.



Produced by veteran independent author and self-publisher Chris Kennedy, Self-Publishing for Profit details the...