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Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook - Third Edition
Author Enrico Valenza
Over 40 practical recipes to create stunning materials and textures using the Cycles rendering engine with BlenderIn DetailBlender is the graphics software of choice for designers and media professionals alike. This book will teach you how to utilize the power of th....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Real World Adobe® Photoshop® CS2: Industrial-Strength Production Techniques
Author David Blatner , Bruce Fraser
Fooling around with Photoshop to create interesting composite artwork is all well and good. But if you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, fooling around won't cut it! You need results, and you need them n....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Handbook of Serial Communications Interfaces
Author Louis E. Frenzel
This book catalogs the most popular and commonly used serial-port interfaces and provides details on the specifications and the latest standards, enabling you to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly. Each chapter is b....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Mike Monteiro
Whether you’re a designer or not, you make design decisions every day. Successful design projects require equal participation from both the client and the design team. Yet, for most people who buy design, the process remains a mystery. In his follow-up to Design Is ....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Author Steve Aukstakalnis
The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the technologies, applications and human factors considerations of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) systems and wearable computing devices.Practical Augmented Reality is ideal for practitioners and studen....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book® (2017 release)
Author John Cruise , Kelly Kordes Anton
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe InDesign choose Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release) from Adobe Press. The 16 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques fo....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Take Control of Screen Sharing in Leopard
Author Glenn Fleishman
Screen sharing lets you control one Mac while you sit at another. It's great for providing remote tech support, managing remote servers, and for collaborating with colleagues. Leopard brings screen sharing to normal Mac users, but adds complexity by enabling scree....
Release Date 2009/06 -
ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting
Author Scott Spencer
ZBrush's popularity is exploding giving more CG artists the power to create stunning digital art with a distinctively fine art feel. ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting is the must-have guide to creating highly detailed, lush, organic models using....
Release Date 2008/06 -
Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
Author Julien Smith , Chris Brogan
How to tap the power of social software and networks to build your businessIn Trust Agents, two social media veterans show you how to tap into the power of social networks to build your brand's influence, reputation, and, of course, profits. Today's online influen....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Author Douglas Self , Doug Self
Whether you are a dedicated audiophile who wants to gain a more complete understanding of the design issues behind a truly great amp, or a professional electronic designer seeking to learn more about the art of amplifier design, there can be no better place to....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Author Lars Schmidt , Richard Mosley
Attract the very best talent with a compelling employer brand!Employer Branding For Dummies is the clear, no-nonsense guide to attracting and retaining top talent. Written by two of the most recognized leaders in employer brand, Richard Mosley and Lars Schmidt, thi....
Release Date 2017/02 -
VFX Fundamentals: Visual Special Effects Using Fusion 8.0
Author Wallace Jackson
Learn concepts central to visual special effects using the free Black Magic Design Fusion 8.0 software package. This book also provides foundational background information regarding concepts central to digital image compositing, digital video editing, digital illus....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Designing Social Interfaces, 2nd Edition
Author Christian Crumlish , Erin Malone
Designers, developers, and entrepreneurs today must grapple with creating social interfaces to foster user interaction and community, but grasping the nuances and the building blocks of the digital social experience is much harder than it appears. Now you have help.....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Just Enough Research, 2nd Edition
Author Erika Hall
Good research is about asking more and better questions, and thinking critically about the answers. Done well, it will save your team time and money by reducing unknowns and creating a solid foundation to build the right thing, in the most effective way.Erika Hall ....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Fashioning Data: A 2015 Update
Author Liza Kindred
While many dismiss the fashion industry as frivolous, it's a very big, demanding, and profitable business—projected to create $3.75 trillion in revenues in 2016. Today's fashion industry has embraced big data analytics in every part of the product lifecycle. In t....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Wearable Programming for the Active Lifestyle
Author Brian Jepson
If you want to design apps for smart watches, it’s important to know that different platforms have vastly different capabilities. Apple Watch and Android Wear, for instance, serve primarily as smartphone extensions with fast CPUs, bright displays, and relatively sh....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Ibarionex Perello
With today’s photo technology, almost anyone can pick up a camera and create a photograph that is well-exposed and in focus. And if you take enough pictures, you’re bound to get lucky and create a few “keepers” that impress family and friends. But eventually, you hi....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Rico Pfirstinger
In this book, X-Pert Corner columnist and workshop mentor Rico Pfirstinger teaches you all about the capabilities of the Fujifilm X series lineup of cameras, which he’s discovered through years of in-depth research, experience, and experimentation. No matter which ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Author Guy Tal
A deeper look at the creativity, art, expression, craft, and philosophy of landscape photography.More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition is a passionate and personal book about creativity and expression. In this series of over 70 brief essays, photographer and teacher Guy Tal share....
Release Date 2020/09 -
Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects
Discover how to implement Revit best practices along with Dynamo and Power BI to visualize and analyze BIM informationKey FeaturesBoost productivity in Revit and apply multiple workflows to work efficiently on BIM projectsOptimize your daily work in Revit to perform more tasks in less timeTake a han.... -
Author Zhiying Wang , Wei Shi , Mingche Lai , Libo Huang , Sheng Ma
Networks-on-Chip: From Implementations to Programming Paradigms provides a thorough and bottom-up exploration of the whole NoC design space in a coherent and uniform fashion, from low-level router, buffer and topology implementations, to routing and flow control sch....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population
Author Kate Finn , Jeff Johnson
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design presents age-friendly design guidelines that are well-established, agreed-upon, research-based, actionable, and applicable across a variety of modern technology platforms. The book offers g....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Author Jon Yablonski
Every designer today should learn the fundamentals of psychology. Instead of forcing users to conform to a product design or experience, designers need to learn how users behave and interact with various digital interfaces.This guide provides some key principles fr....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Blender 3D By Example - Second Edition
Author Oscar Baechler , Xury Greer
Get up and running with Blender 3D through a series of practical projects that will help you learn core concepts of 3D design like modeling, sculpting, materials, textures, lighting, and rigging using the latest features of Blender 2.83Key FeaturesLearn the basics of 3D d....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Creating Interfaces with Bulma
Author Dave Berning , Aslam Shah , Mikko Lauhakari , Oleksii Potiekhin , creator of Bulma J
This book, written by Jeremy Thomas (Bulma creator) and a team of Bulma experts, is a step-by-step guide that will teach you how to build a web interface from scratch using Bulma. The example website that you will build is an administration interface for an online....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Remember That Leaders Are Always “On Stage”
Author Karen Otazo
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Being a Leader (9780131873384) by Karen Otazo. Available in print and digital formats.How to perform your leader “role” all day long, in front of all your audiences.Actors turn on like a light as they become their char....
Release Date 2010/06