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Soft and Misty Paintings

Kathy Snider, "Soft and Misty Paintings"
Susan Scheewe Pub | 1989 | ASIN: B0017SMNEU | 100 pages | PDF | 51 MB

Spring rivers, hidden path, silent swim, daylight mist, burgundy, cotton tail and more projects.

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Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform {Repost}

Learn how to take the skills and knowledge you use to make games for entertainment to make serious games: games for education, training, healing, and more. Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform teaches game developers how to tap into the rapidly expanding market of serious games. Explore the numerous possibilities that serious games represent such as the ability to teach military training in a non-lethal environment and the ability to convey a particular political viewpoint through a game's storyline. You'll get a detailed overview of all of the major markets for serious games, including the military, educators, government agencies, corporations, hospitals, non-profit organizations, religious groups, and activist groups. Discover the goals of each market, the types of games on which they focus, and market-specific issues you need to consider. Case studies of how professionals in these various markets utilize games provide ideas and inspiration as well as credibility for serious games. "Serious Games" shows you how to apply your game development skills to a new and growing area and also teaches you techniques to make even entertainment-based games richer and more meaningful.

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How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation

Tony White, "How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation"
Focal Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0240810333 | 512 pages | PDF | 16,9 MB

Become Tony White's personal animation student. Experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond.all from the comfort of your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. How to Make Animated Films offers secrets and unique approaches only a Master Animator could share. Includes hands-on Tutorials, demonstrations and final sample animations. . Whether you want to become a qualified animator of 2D, 3D, Flash or any other form of animation, Tony White's foundations bring you closer to that goal.
*Look over the shoulder of award-winning Master Animator, Tony White, as he works at his animation lightbox. Watch, listen, experience as the author demonstrates everything you need to know.
*Tony White is a legendary animator with a strong following. His best-selling title: The Animator's Workbook has 80,000 copies to date.
*For aspiring animators on their own - without backing or funding. Get the same results the Disney animators do with bare minimum technique and equipment.

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The Vilppu Animal Drawing Manual

V. Vilppu, "The Vilppu Animal Drawing Manual"
MgH | 2007 | ASIN: B002MBQ78E | 131 pages | PDF | 15,2 MB

This is actually the pre-publication, draft version of this manual for those of you who have been asking for this. For those of you who have the earlier Xerox version, this has been revised for more clarity of the images. This item is not slated for completion beyond draft form at this point in time.

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A Creative Brush

Eileen Ackerson, "A Creative Brush"
Scheewe Publication | 2004 | ISBN: 1567705693 | 87 pages | PDF | 52 MB

A beautiful book for beginners and well taught in the method of tole painting. Lots of colored photos and patterns. Old crocks done to perfection will be ideal for a kitchen or family room wall. Snowmen large, small, fat and thin, each with a happy personality are painted on a jar lamp, plaques, clay pots, hurricane lantern, ornaments, candle holder, large sled, frame board or surface of your choice. Many of the pieces have clever whimsical sayings for extra smiles. The delightful Santa’s that are painted on large and small gourds, driftwood and spindle candle holder are the perfect holiday decorations or a special gift. The Fall and Winter barn scenes will please everyone and you’ll feel the chill in the Fall air or the cold snow of Winter. These projects will be tasteful gifts perfect for friends and family. Gardens abound with birdhouses and flowers heralding the soft, fresh colors of Spring and make perfect accent pieces. You will find practical, easy to understand instructions, patterns and colored photographs plus extra patterns. Both new and accomplished painters will enjoy painting these exciting new designs.

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Typography 27 - The Annual of the Type Directors Club

Typography 27 - The Annual of the Type Directors Club
Collins Design | 2006 | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0061144231 | ISBN-13: 978-0061144233 | PDF | 340 pages | 116 MB

For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the fiftieth Type Directors Club competition, the 240 winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design, encompassing wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters.

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100% Photoshop: Create Stunning Illustrations Without Using Any Photographs

Steve Caplin, "100% Photoshop: Create Stunning Illustrations Without Using Any Photographs"
Focal Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0240814258 | 256 pages | PDF | 202 MB

Just when you think you've learned all that you could ever know about working in Photoshop, digital artist and photomontage king Steve Caplin comes along with yet another masterful method for creating incredible works of art in Photoshop. This time, he'll show you how to create complete images, from start to finish, entirely within the software program. No source material, photographs, or existing files from other software packages are needed, saving you valuable time and resources. The techniques you'll learn in this ground-breaking new book will help you combine your artistic vision and skills with an understanding of how to manipulate the built-in Photoshop filters to produce impressive, eye-catching artwork.

Each chapter opens with a complete double page illustration, created entirely in Photoshop. Then, carefully laid out step-by-step instructions show you how each element in the illustration is created, and how they are all combined in the end to make a convincing final image. Using Steve's proven methods for success, you'll be able to produce images that reflect a more finely crafted, hand drawn approach, whether you're an artist for your own enjoyment or a working professional looking for a leg up on the competition.

*The only book of its kind that does not rely on any external images whatsoever--each and every element is created directly in Photoshop
*A chapter covering the basics of using specific filters and textures and a chapter providing a summary of common techniques and tools will help you brush up on your general Photoshop skills so you can move through the rest of the book successfully
*Be sure to visit Steve's website at www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com for even more Photoshop tips, tricks and advice

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Sehen und Verstehen. Die menschlichen Formen in didaktischen Zeichnungen

Gottfried Bammes, "Sehen und Verstehen. Die menschlichen Formen in didaktischen Zeichnungen"
MgH | 1988 | ISBN: 3061725113, 3363009674 | ASIN: B003C5CH2 | 372 pages | PDF | 85,7 MB

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Prof. em. Dr. päd. habil. Gottfried Bammes lehrte viele Jahre an der Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Dresden. Seine Werke zur Künstleranatomie sind Standardwerke und für die künstlerische Ausbildung von außerordentlicher Bedeutung.

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Pinnacle Studio 9 Ignite!

Covering the popular video editing and DVD authoring software that is used by 3.5 million users, "Pinnacle Studio 9 Ignite!" is a visual guide that will have you up and running in no time. With the many enhancements of Pinnacle Studio 9, this book is not only suitable for beginners, but also for users of Pinnacle looking to brush up on new features. Examining the core features of this software comprehensively, you'll learn how to create compelling interactive multimedia experiences on DVD. With the affordability and feature-rich design of Pinnacle Studio 9, it has never been easier to film video, assemble it into an interactive multimedia experience, view the masterpiece at home and share the DVD with friends and family. There has never been a better time or greater need for a get-started- quick guide and keep-on-hand reference tool on video editing than now. "Pinnacle Studio 9 Ignite!" effectively fills that need.

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Design and Technology

James Garratt, "Design and Technology"
Cambridge University Press | 1992 | ISBN: 052136969X, 0521556074 | 319 pages | PDF | 52,8 MB

The Government's National Curriculum Working Group on Design and Technology issued its final report in June 1989. This book reflects the main recommendations of the report. It is a textbook designed for the National Curriculum/GCSE courses and contains over 70 practical technology projects.

Summary: Fantastic book! A "must-buy" for books in its class!
Rating: 5

Design and Technology is really a splendid book!

The author has done a masterful job at clearly explaining and illustrating the design process and a core set of enabling technologies that underlie product design and manufacturing.

The book is really aimed at junior high school and high school students, but I've even used pieces of it with undergraduate mechanical engineers!

The book includes practical project ideas and examples of how these fundamental technological concepts are applied in real life.

I highly recommend this book to teachers at all levels, to parents who would like to encourage budding young engineers or scientists, or to anyone interested in finding out how things work.

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Concerning the Spiritual in Art By Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher: The Floating Press 2008 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 1449519806 , 1609420012 | PDF | 1 MB

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a fantastic Russian painter who is credited for painting the first modern abstract works. In this book, Kandinsky compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid; and the artist has the mission of leading others to the top.

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How To Do Everything Adobe InDesign CS4

Maximize the power of the number-one desktop publishing tool
This full-color guide shows you how to use the undisputed leader in desktop publishing tools to create any type of publication. Adobe Community Expert Donna Baker explains text, image, and drawing features; color and color management; and specialized types of output such as book and Web pages. The final chapters of the book are devoted to methods for evaluating and testing a publication and then generating high-quality print or PDF files.
This book focuses on using program workflows for results instead of merely touring program interface elements. Examples from the book, including publications, settings, files, images, and templates, will be available for download.

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The Art and Technique of Matchmoving: Solutions for the VFX Artist

Erica Hornung, "The Art and Technique of Matchmoving: Solutions for the VFX Artist"
Focal Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0240812301 | 328 pages | PDF | 52,8 MB

Matchmoving has become a standard visual effects procedure for almost every situation where live action materials and CG get combined. It allows virtual and real scenes that have been composited together to seamlessly appear as though they are from the same perspective. This authoritative step-by-step guide from one of the best matchmovers in the business allows you to master this technique that has been called the foundation upon which all VFX work stands. Author Erica Hornung (sr. matchmover for Lord of the Rings
: The Two Towers, Matrix: Revolutions, and more) imparts her techniques, tips, and wisdom from the trenches that will have you matchmoving like a true professional in no time.

Lessons in the most popular matchmoving software (Maya, Boujou, and others) are included, as well as tips and techniques for surveying on set, dolly moves, and operating nodal cameras. Individual chapters dedicated to object and character matchmoves show you how to matchmove for shadow casting, adding weapons and other objects, focusing on center of gravity, as well as complete CG character support.

The companion DVD includes Quicktime examples of techniques shown in the book, as well as project files that allow you to master these techniques yourself by working alongside the lessons featured in the text.

* Master the foundational VFX technique of matchmoving with tips, techniques, tools, and workflow considerations from a seasoned professional
* Companion DVD includes media project files for you to work along with the lessons in the text
* Your guide for when automated tracking solutions fail, the book includes in-depth lessons on methods of set construction w/out set data, as well as rotomation and non-automated techniques

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Mediendesign für Studium und Beruf: Grundlagenwissen und Entwurfssystematik in Layout, Typografie und Farbgestaltung

Norbert Hammer, "Mediendesign für Studium und Beruf: Grundlagenwissen und Entwurfssystematik in Layout, Typografie und Farbgestaltung"
Springer | 2008 | ISBN: 3540732179 | 422 pages | PDF | 38,1 MB

Mit Mediendesign für Studium und Beruf erarbeiten Sie sich praxisorientiertes Know-how für die Mediengestaltung und das notwendige Basiswissen in Layout, Farbgestaltung und Typografie. Das Buch bietet wertvolle Hilfestellung für alle, die per Desktop Publishing Briefbögen, Flyer oder Präsentationen erstellen oder Webseiten gestalten wollen. Mittels praktischer Übungsaufgaben und selbstevaluierbarer Quizzfragen können Sie Ihren erworbenen Kenntnisstand überprüfen. Anhand von komplexeren Entwurfsaufgaben mit begleitender Entwurfssystematik erproben Sie Ihre gestalterischen Fertigkeiten.
Mediendesign ist deshalb ein Anleitungsbuch für Studierende und Auszubildende der Medienberufe und ein Nachschlagewerk für alle diejenigen, die Gestaltungsaufgaben in ihrem individuellen Arbeitsgebiet selbst bewältigen müssen.

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Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S.

Jenny Sullivan, "Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S."
Rockport Publishers | 2005 | ISBN: 1592531261 | 246 pages | PDF | 56,3 MB

The latest installment in Rockport's Graphic Design America series is sure to top the previous two best-selling volumes. Like its predecessors, Graphic Design America 3 profiles more than 35 of the graphic designers and graphic design firms in the United States. The work being produced in America is wonderful, varied, and influential around the globe, which is the reason for the success of the first two books.

Each profile will feature a wide selection of the designers' or design firms' recent work that shows off a range of both their talents and breadth of style, as well as noted accomplishments and an overview of their signature style.

What is the status of graphic design in America today? Where is graphic design in America heading? This book provides the answers through the work profiles and essays by noteworthy writers in the graphic design industry.

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Adobe Photoshop CS: Photographers' Guide

Photography and Photoshop go hand in hand. If you feel there isn't enough photography in the average Photoshop book, and there isn't enough Photoshop in the average photography book, then the book you’re looking for is right in your hands. Whether you are a digital or conventional camera buff, this full-color book is the ideal guide for diving into the most important elements of Photoshop CS. Examine Photoshop from a photographer's perspective and learn how to fine-tune your photos as you transform them from quick snapshots into truly compelling images.

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Windows Server 2008 Inside Out

Learn how to conquer Windows Server 2008 from the inside out! Designed for system administrators, this definitive resource features hundreds of timesaving solutions, expert insights, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for administering Windows Server 2008 all in concise, fast-answer format. You will learn how to perform upgrades and migrations, automate deployments, implement security features, manage software updates and patches, administer users and accounts, manage Active DirectoryÂ® directory services, and more. With INSIDE OUT, you ll discover the best and fastest ways to perform core administrative tasks, with an award-winning format that makes it easy to find exactly the tips, troubleshooting solutions, and workarounds you need. Plus, the companion CD comes packed with a fully searchable eBook and more than 100 timesaving tools and scripts. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!

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Adobe Photoshop CS2: Photographers' Guide

Photography and Photoshop go hand in hand. If you feel there isn't enough photography in the average Photoshop book, and there isn't enough Photoshop in the average photography book, then the book you're looking for is right in your hands. This full-color book is packed with effective examples, simple to follow techniques, and tricks that serve as a jumping-off point to spark your own creativity into action. Examine Photoshop from a photographer's perspective as you cover both traditional and leading-edge photographic techniques, and learn how to reproduce or enhance them in Photoshop.

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Handbuch Lederarbeiten: Taschen Mappen Börsen Masken Gürtel

Valerie Michael, "Handbuch Lederarbeiten: Taschen Mappen Börsen Masken Gürtel"
Holzwerken im Vincentz Network | 2008 | ISBN: 3878707118 | 128 pages | PDF | 17,7 MB

Dieses Werk gibt einen grundlegenden Überblick über die faszinierende Kunst der Lederarbeiten. Verständlich und gut illustriert mit einer Fülle von Fotografien erläutert die Autorin die Materialien, Werkzeuge und Techniken. Der Darstellung von Grundtechniken - wie das Zurichten der Kanten, das Abschärfen, Anbringen von Nieten - folgen zehn Projekte, mit deren Hilfe der Lederhandwerker seine Fähigkeit perfektionieren kann. Die Formen und Dekore dieser Objekte sind ästhetisch ansprechend und vom Stil her ausgesprochen zeitlos.

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Schönes aus Leder

Schönes aus Leder
Egmont Franz Schneider | 1982 | ISBN: 3505011061 | 48 pages | PDF | 6,9 MB

Inhalt:
Leder - eines der ältesten und edelsten Materialien
Das Gerben
Techniken und Anleitungen
Buchhülle
Brieftasche
Gürtel
Gliedergürtel
Kuverttasche
Mokassins
Kleidungsstücke für jedes Alter
Weste
Squaw Rock
Schürze
Farbige Weste
Felldecke im Eskimo Look
Lederarbeiten aus aller Welt

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Making a Movie in iMovie HD and iDVD 5: Visual QuickProject Guide

So you've got a copy of iMovie HD and iDVD 5, a camcorder, and plenty of footage—but how do you get all this video footage into a watchable movie? Maybe you don't want to spend a lot of time learning all the ins and outs of the software, but just want to get your movie finished. Realizing that many users won't want to waste a single minute reading about all they can do with iMovie and iDVD, best-selling author Jeff Carlson cuts straight to the chase, using simple project-based instruction and big, colorful screen shots to guide them through the process of making their first movie on an interactive DVD. By focusing on that first project, rather than exploring every option and feature, Jeff demonstrates the quickest, easiest, smartest route to cinematic success. Each short lesson builds on the last as users learn how to shoot, edit, and produce their own movies and then distribute them on DVDs to share with friends, family, and colleagues.

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The Complete Illustrated Stitch Encyclopedia

With huge, illustrated color libraries that contain more than 250 needlepoint and embroidery stitches; special techniques such as Florentine and crewelwork; and instructions for planning, finishing and making up, this comprehensive guide is the one-stop needlecraft reference. It will inspire and encourage users, and teach the art of stitching from the most basic skills, such as cross- and satin-stitching, to more complex procedures such as blackwork, beading, tramé, and smocking. There’s also all the advice anyone will ever need to produce perfect stitches every time, and 30 projects such as shades, tiebacks, and pincushions that offer many ways to put newfound skills into practice. Full-color pattern guide and easy-to-follow design motifs make everything simple.

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Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser

Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser
Sterling | 2008 | ISBN: 1402752695 | English | 130 pages | PDF | 35.60 Mb

Priscilla Hauser has earned her title as the world’s “First Lady of decorative painting.” Her efforts to educate and inspire began in 1972 with the founding of the National Society of Tole and Decorative Painters and continues strong today. Here, the bestselling author applies her decades of experience to show crafters how to make a big impact on a small canvas. She starts with painting basics, including proper techniques for brushstrokes, and continues with her patented, easy-to-follow techniques for capturing grass, land, water, and trees. Through 15 of her own gorgeous works, Hauser shows readers how to combine all of those elements to create beautiful landscapes. Exquisite color photographs guide aspiring painters through every step of the process.

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Visual Thinking: for Design

Colin Ware, "Visual Thinking: for Design"
Morgan Kaufmann | 2008 | ISBN: 0123708966 | 256 pages | PDF | 16 MB

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance.

In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can directly apply. He demonstrates how designs can be considered as tools for cognition - extensions of the viewer's brain in much the same way that a hammer is an extension of the user's hand.

Experienced professional designers and students alike will learn how to maximize the power of the information tools they design for the people who use them.

. Presents visual thinking as a complex process that can be supported in every stage using specific design techniques.
. Provides practical, task-oriented information for designers and software developers charged with design responsibilities.
. Includes hundreds of examples, many in the form of integrated text and full-color diagrams.
. Steeped in the principles of "active vision," which views graphic designs as cognitive tools.

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Photoshop CS4 for Dummies

This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, it’s all here!
You’ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You’ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making color natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you’ll be making beautiful “art” with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques. Find out how to:

Import images and use all the tools and processes
Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows
Optimize images for print or the Web
Edit images
Explore the Painting function and master the daunting Brushes panel
Add layer styles
Create on-screen presentations, contact prints, and more
Complete with lists of ten reasons to love your Wacom tablet, ten reasons to own a digital camera, and ten favorite tips and tricks, Adobe CS4For Dummies is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Photoshop CS4 for all your digital photography needs.

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ZBrush Digital Sculpting Human Anatomy

Taking into account that many of today's digital artists -- particularly 3D character animators -- lack foundational artistic instruction, this book teaches anatomy in a coherent and succinct style. A clear writing style explains how to sculpt an accurate human figure, starting with the skeleton and working out to muscle, fat, and skin. Insightful explanations enable you to quickly and easily create and design characters that can be used in film, game, or print, and allows you to gain a strong understanding of the foundational artistic concepts.

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Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop

While Adobe Photoshop is the standard application for editing images for print, its powerful features also make it useful for editing images placed on the Internet. Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop goes beyond an explanation of creating and editing images by focusing on the next step in web development: placing images and graphics into working web pages. Whether your goal is to expand your professional skills or simply handle your local club's website, this book will help you not only create web pages but also get them working properly on the World Wide Web.

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Web Design All-in-One for Dummies

Web designers must wear many hats. Among books on Web design, Web Design All-in-One For Dummies is the one that helps you successfully wear all those hats without losing your head.
Full-color illustrations and five self-contained minibooks show you how to be a graphic designer, creative organizer, visual communicator, markup language technologist, and cutting-edge trendsetter, all in one. This book helps you lay the groundwork, follow design rules, test your site, register a domain name, and much more.

* Getting Started covers planning, defining your target audience, choosing the right software, and more
* Designing For the Web acquaints you with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus how to choose a layout and optimize graphics
* Building Web Sites gets down to nuts and bolts: putting text, images, hyperlinks, and multimedia files together, organizing content, and building navigation systems
* Web Standards & Testing teaches you how to test and validate so everyone can enjoy your site
* Publishing & Site Maintenance helps you get your site online and keep it current

Web Design All-in-One For Dummies also helps you learn how to choose a Web editor and graphics program, how to make your site accessible to the widest possible audience, and when it’s time to call in a pro like author Sue Jenkins. It’s just what you need to start and manage a great site.

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Minimal Art (Taschen Basic Art)

Daniel Marzona, "Minimal Art (Taschen Basic Art)"
Taschen | 2004 | ISBN: 3822830607 | 96 pages | PDF | 65 MB

Founded as a backlash against abstract expressionism, minimalism was characterized by simplified, stripped-down forms and materials used to express ideas in a direct and impersonal manner. By presenting objects as simple objects, minimal artists sought to communicate without referring to expressive or historical themes. This critical movement, which began in the 1960s and branched out into land art, performance art, and conceptual art, is still a major influence today. Featured artists: Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Ronald Bladen, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Robert Grosvenor, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Gary Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Anne Truitt.

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The Monster Makers Mask Makers Handbook

The Monster Makers Mask Makers Handbook teaches you, step by step, how to make your very own custom, Latex Rubber Halloween Monster Masks. If you've ever wanted to learn exactly how these amazing, hollywood style masks are made, this in-depth manual is for you. The Monster Makers Mask Makers Handbook takes you from start to finish, through design, sculpture, molding, casting, and painting of a Super-Deluxe Latex Rubber Halloween Mask. Includes tons of tips and valuable information about materials and techniques gathered from years of experience. A unique and fantastic resource! The Monster Makers Mask Makers Handbook is the only how-to book devoted to the subject of making latex rubber, Halloween masks. Available exclusively from Amazon and The Monster Makers. Fully illustrated with over 150 Black and white and 25 color photos.

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Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists

Sebastien St-Laurent, "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"
Course Technology PTR | 2004 | ISBN: 1592000924 | 512 pages | PDF | 10,1 MB

"Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists" - the title says it all. This book does something that other shader books don't. It focuses solely on shaders and their creation. You'll use ATI's RenderMonkey platform, giving you an easy-to-use framework for shader development and allowing you to focus your energy on shader development rather than the development of framework applications. Cover simple techniques, from the basics of color filters to more advanced topics, such as depth of field, heat shimmer, and high-dynamic range rendering. Extensive exercises at the end of each chapter allow you to test your skills by expanding upon the shader you've just developed. Whether you are an engineer or a technically minded artist, you've finally found the ideal guide for mastering shaders!

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Programmable shaders are the best and latest in the computer graphic industry. With the latest generations of video cards out there developed by ATI Technologies and nVidia, it is now possible to draw interactive scenes on a computer with an unsurpassed realism. With the current rate of advancement in this field, it is only a matter of years before the quality of graphics generated matches the visuals in some of most recent Hollywood movies such as "I, ROBOT" or "Spider Man 2". Some of the most anticipated video games this year, such as Doom 3, HALO 2 and Half-Life 2, take full advantage these cards and I wanted to show my readers exactly how easily it could be done.
Most books out there which cover the topic of programmable shaders also covered broadly the topic of computer graphics. I wanted to do something different and focus in-depth on the specific topic of programmable shaders. To accomplish this, I have taken advantage of a tool called RenderMonkey, developed by ATI Technologies, to quickly prototype shaders and spend less time worrying about the other aspects of computer graphics.

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Web Application Design Patterns

Pawan Vora, "Web Application Design Patterns"
Morgan Kaufmann | 2009 | ISBN: 012374265X | 448 pages | PDF | 24,1 MB

Ever notice that-in spite of their pervasiveness-designing web applications is still challenging? While their benefits motivate their creation, there are no well-established guidelines for design. This often results in inconsistent behaviors and appearances, even among web applications created by the same company.
Design patterns for web applications, similar in concept to those for web sites and software design, offer an effective solution. In Web Application Design Patterns, Pawan Vora documents design patterns for web applications by not only identifying design solutions for user interaction problems, but also by examining the rationale for their effectiveness, and by presenting how they should be applied.
. Design interfaces faster, with a better rationale for the solutions you choose.
. Learn from over more than100 patterns, with extensive annotation on use and extension.
. Take a short-cut into understanding the industry with more than 500 full-color screenshots and a web site for help, discussion, and a collection of additional patterns.

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Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Aperture

Welcome to Aperture, the revolutionary application for managing and editing digital photographs. Designed specifically for professional digital photographers, Aperture is an enormously powerful tool for handling some of the most time-consuming and tedious tasks of professional photography. This collection of Apple Pro Training tutorials will get you up and running in no time. You’ll learn how to sort, rank, and manage images with unparalleled efficiency; display onscreen proofs and contact sheets in compelling ways for clients; edit and retouch your selected images professionally; publish proofs, portfolios, and final images on the Web and in print; and archive images in a way that’s easy, secure, and intuitive. Available in 2005, these hands-on tutorials provide a great overview of an indispensable application for digital photographers.

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Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere–in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the Creative Suite 2 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the programs in a way that makes sense to them.

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Liliana Grueff - Disegni della Wagnerschule (Incomplete)

L'interesse crescente per ogni forma di documentazione visiva è uno dei fenomeni più evidenti della cultura contemporanea. Fra le tante risposte che possono soddisfare tale interesse, la documentazione visiva, la referenza fotografica, la raccolta di produzioni, sono certo assai importanti.
Questa nuova collana nasce dalla precisa volontà dell'editore di costruire una sorta di grande enciclopedia visiva di caratteristiche nuove ed originali, soprattutto per la scelta delle tematiche e degli argomenti, che vanno, con angolazioni spesso insolite, dalla Architettura al Design, dalla fotografia alla Grafica, dalle Arti minori alla Cultura materiale, dalle Arti dello spettacolo alla Città,senza escludere escursioni e incursioni in territori fuori dai confini rigidi e convenzionali.
Dunque il materiale illustrativo, fotografie o riproduzioni di segni e disegni, costituisce parte essenziale di ogni volume della collana, che percio si dà il nome di Album.
I testi scritti, introduzione, didascalie, schede, note, bibliografie ed altri eventuali apparati, saranno sintetici e strettamente funzionali a una fruizione ampia ed articolata delle sequenze visive, contemperando comunque rigore scientifico e divulgazione scientifica.
Le caratteristiche grafiche della collana rispondono all'esigenza di porre in rlievo la riproduzione delle immagini.

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Poser 7 Revealed: The efrontier Official Guide

Now you can conquer each essential feature of Poser 7! Poser 7 Revealed helps you develop the skills you need to create, render, and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. This hands-on guide provides you with step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow you to use each new skill on your own. Examine each feature room of Poser, including working with materials, cloth, hair, cameras, and bones. Put the power of Poser 7 to work for you as you learn how to simulate dynamic hair and cloth with collision detection, create realistic lighting with the image-based lighting feature, build custom morph targets with the new deformation brushes, use the new Talk Designer to automatically sync facial animations to an audio track, combine the power of Poser 7 with other software packages, create new motions using the new animation layers feature, and import externally created 3D models to enhance the scene.

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HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS,2 Ed

Rachel Andrew, "HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS"
SitePoint | 2006 | ISBN: 0975240277 | 528 pages | PDF | 10,1 MB

HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, 2nd Edition is for web developers looking to create websites using Cascading Style Sheets for layout, which allow for faster page downloads, easier maintenance, faster website redesigns, and better search engine optimization.
HTML Utopia covers all aspects of using Cascading Style Sheets in Web Development, and is a must-read for Web Developers designing new sites or upgrading existing ones to use CSS layouts.

This book includes one of the most comprehensive CSS2 references on the market. Jeffrey Zeldman, web design guru and co-founder of the Web Standards Project, says "After reading this book, you will not only understand how to use CSS to emulate old-school, table-driven web layouts, you will be creating websites that would be impossible to design using traditional methods".

The second edition of this popular book includes brand new coverage of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.1, new CSS Solutions, and greatly expanded coverage of popular, cross-browser, CSS layout techniques.

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Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth: Stamp, Screen & Stencil with Everyday Objects

Rayna Gillman, "Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth: Stamp, Screen & Stencil with Everyday Objects"
C&T Publishing | 2008 | ISBN: 1571204393 | English | 97 pages | PDF | 39.90 Mb

Create original cloth for quilts or wearable art by printing with found or recycled objects from around the house or hardware store, using a variety of pigments and surface design techniques including screen printing, stamping, rubbings, monoprinting with a gelatin plate, and working with soy wax for easy batik.

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Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics

Philip Schneider, David H. Eberly, "Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics"
Morgan Kaufmann | 2002 | ISBN: 1558605940 | 1056 pages | PDF | 5,1 MB

Reinventing the wheel is a terrible waste of time, yet legions of computer programmers do exactly that every day. Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics gives the working graphics programmer a vast collection of programming examples, complex code snippets explained and ready to use. Each chapter is filled with more than just code examples--the explanations needed to understand why these examples work the way they do are given by authors with experience both in writing and in the field.
There is nothing here for the casual graphics programmer and everything for the serious 2-D and 3-D programmer. Thirteen chapters, three appendices, and a three-column index that spans over 30 pages cover everything about computer-graphic geometry, from the basics of using matrices and linear systems to intersecting 3-D objects.

The appendices alone are worth the price: "Numerical Methods," "Trigonometry," and "Basic Formulas for Geometric Primitives" are treasures filled with hard-core examples of the kind that can be put to use right out of the box. Less experienced programmers will find these to be invaluable references, but then there's the rest of the book--nearly 1,000 pages loaded with examples and theory, page after page of information written in a clear, concise voice.

Any hard-core graphics programmer will appreciate the value of the examples presented here, as well as the discussion of theory. After all, there's no need to waste time experimenting with code once the theory is known. Geometric Tools represents the best of both worlds: discussion of theory and code examples built on and culled from years of experience. --Mike Caputo

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"An hour of a programmer's time often costs more than the price of a book. By this measure, you hold a volume potentially worth thousands of dollars. That it can be purchased for a fraction of this cost I consider a modern miracle. The amount of information crammed into this book is incredible." --Eric Haines

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Mastering AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007 {Repost}

There's a reason why Mastering AutoCAD is so popular year after year. Loaded with concise explanations, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects, this comprehensive reference and tutorial from award-winning author George Omura has everything you need to become an AutoCAD expert.
If you're new to AutoCAD, the tutorials will help you build your skills right away. If you're an AutoCAD veteran, Omura's in-depth explanations of the latest and most advanced features, including all the new 3D tools, will turn you into an AutoCAD pro. Whatever your experience level and however you use AutoCAD, you'll refer to this indispensable reference again and again.

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Focus On 3D Models (Game Development)

Focus On 3D Models covers today's most popular 3D model formats! Every programmer can take advantage of this 3D model and animation reference because it contains models that range from simple to complex based upon the skills and knowledge of the programmer and their intended use. Beginners can experiment with the easy-to-use basic 3D model formats. Intermediate and advanced programmers can expand their 3D modeling skills by mastering other popular formats presented in this book. The CD contains all source code from the book (including the necessary media and executables), Gmax, Paint Shop Pro 7 demo, Milkshape 3D, sample 3D models, and various freeware and shareware modeling programs.

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And Picasso Painted Guernica

Alain Serres, "And Picasso Painted Guernica"
Allen & Unwin | 2010 | ISBN: 1741759943 | 52 pages | PDF | 15,1 MB

Readers can come face to face with an astonishing creative spirit in this beautiful book for children about Picasso, his journey as an artist, and how he painted his iconic work, Guernica.

Picasso's artistic genius was clear from childhood. This outstanding book begins with the doves young Pablo painted with his father when he was only seven, then highlights his later passions for harlequins and street people, bulls and minotaurs, new ways of seeing, and new ways of rendering life. All of these contributed to the massive work 1937 Guernica, painted as a protest against the bombing of defenseless civilians and against the brutality of war everywhere. It is a biography of both an epoch-making artist and a unique painting that resonated with the outrage of people around the world. Not just a beautiful book, with many working drawings, photographs, and full-color paintings, this is also a fascinating insight into the creative process. At the heart of the book is the complete work, spread across an eight-page gatefold.

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Peindre sur bois, tome 2 : Meubles et décoration intérieure

Peindre sur bois, tome 2 : Meubles et décoration intérieure de Fransceska
Didier Carpentier | 2000 | ISBN: 2841671054 | French | 60 pages | PDF | 30.15 Mb

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each Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS5

Mike Wooldridge, "Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS5"
Visual | 2010 | ISBN: 0470612630 | 352 pages | PDF | 75 MB

Gets visual learners up to speed quickly on the newest Photoshop release

Photoshop is the gold standard for image-editing programs and is used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists. Designed for those who learn best visually, this full-color guide has been completely updated to cover the newest release of Photoshop. Previous editions have sold more than 150,000 copies.

* Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software used in both print and digital media, with more than four million users worldwide; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced tools
* People who learn more easily when they can see how something is done will quickly grasp essential Photoshop concepts and procedures in this visual, step-by-step format
* Covers importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing, enhancing digital images, adding custom 3D effects, editing images for the Web, creating a Web photo gallery, incorporating graphics into desktop publishing programs, color management, using layers and filters, compositing, and more

With step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots to demonstrate each task, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop makes learning easy.

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