Covers various features in Corel Painter 11 and the Wacom Intuos4 pen-tablet. This book helps you learn how to paint from scratch as well as a loose expressionistic approach to painting from photographs. It includes a CD that offers four QuickTime movies as well as custom brushes, art materials and a Painter workspace.

Inkscape is a powerful, free, cross-platform, vector-based drawing tool similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW. The Book of Inkscape, written by Inkscape developer and graphic designer Dmitry Kirsanov, is an in-depth guide to Inkscape, offering comprehensive coverage and creative advice on Inkscape's many capabilities. Kirsanov draws on his experience using Inkscape for design and ...

Offers you various things you need to know in order to take amazing photographs using your Nikon D40 or Nikon D40x. This guide walks you through the essential controls, features, and functions of your Nikon D40 or D40x digital SLR using step-by-step instructions and full-color images of various menu screens.

3ds Max Design is a real-time 3D design, modeling, and animation tool for architectural visualizations. This book covers the software's features, including how to simulate and analyze sun, sky, and artificial light - crucial factors for sustainable design - and how to define and assign realistic materials and work with AutoCAD and Revit files.

Taking into account the strategic role of personalisation in the information technologies, this book provides a technical overview of the research and development trends, considering the wide range of application areas (education, government, and entertainment) and the multiple devices (personal computers, digital TV set-top boxes, and PDAs).

Digital cameras, advances in color printing, and software tools have changed the landscape of photography forever. The challenge now is to go beyond the basic digital photograph and print, and move toward the next level of expression. For many, this means pushing the technologies available and combining the artistic tools found in both photography and painting. Geared for intermediate to ...

Want to design amazing, web friendly graphics? Want to fix or modify your digital photographs? Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 can show you how. But how do you use Corel Paint Shop Pro? This book teaches you what you need to know to become a Paint Shop Pro master. It shows you how to use this Paint Shop Pro knowledge to create items.

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours Phillip Kerman 24 Proven One-hour Lessons In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to create dynamic animations using Adobe(R) Flash(R) CS3 Professional. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Flash from the ground up. Step-by-ste

This innovative product from Adobe Press combines interactive video and a printed reference to teach you the basics of Flash CS4. Structured around the objectives of the 'Rich Media Communication using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional' exam at the Adobe Certified Associate level, the product teaches you not only the fundamentals of Flash, but also how to use the program to create effective forms of ..

iPhoto 08 has events - a way of navigating through the digital photos you've taken over the years; the ability to hide photos and bring them back later; and, a unified search feature, so you can search by date, keyword and rating. This work explains how things work, with plenty of tips and tricks for mastering the iPhoto.

Covers topics such as - Planning the project; Introducing Fireworks and Dreamweaver; Working with layers; Creating a logo; Text and effects; Combining text and graphics; Fixing problems with photos; Cutouts and painting selections; Preparing images for screen and print; and, Creating the Eportfolio.

Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, this work offers editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. It also helps you learn how to: work efficiently with images shot in the raw format; create and manage a personal image library; and export images for print or Web.

This text covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work. Procedural shading, long valued for off-line rendering and production animation is now possible on interactive graphics hardware. The authors include examples of techniques.

This volume contains 22 papers from the First International Conference on Multimedia, Hypermedia and Virtual Reality, held in Moscow in 1994. Topics covered include: hypermedia models and architecture; enhancing multimedia support; and technologies for virtual reality.

Presents a visual way to learn Macromedia Flash 8 and create your interactive website. This book features step-by-step instructions with accompanying 4-color visuals. It teaches how you can integrate and add interactivity with tools, develop content using pre-built components and effectively improve authoring capabilities with custom extensions.

Examines the changes in IT education which are imposed by the proliferation of networked applications within commercial organisations. This book reviews positive and negative impact of network-centric, multimedia IT on business and professional educational activities.

Provides information on sculpting and texturing characters, setting them in motion, lighting the scene, and producing the final animation - for movies, games, television, and the Web. The coverage includes: understanding basic 3D concepts; modeling in polygons, patches, and NURBS; creating detailed models; and more.