Worth 1000 Photoshop Tricks| eBook | PDF format

An e-book on 1000 tricks in Adobe photoshop by an expert graphics designer

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS3. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames. From there, readers will learn how to work with vector and bitmap graphics; create and edit symbols; modify text and add interactivity with ActionScript 3.0; and incorporate animation, music, and sound to their projects. They'll also learn how to prepare and export their finished projects for Web and broadcast. Of course, readers will also learn how to take advantage of the new features of Flash CS3–the streamlined user interface, native support for Photoshop and Illustrator files, revamped drawing tools, new video encoding features, code editing enhancements, and much more. The companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete all of the projects. 

Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies is an introductory level book that gets you using Crystal Reports quickly and effectively. It covers all the major capabilities of Crystal Reports but doesn’t bog you down in intricate detail. The objective is to give you the information you need to produce the types of reports that most people need most of the time. I also get into some out-of-the-ordinary report types that you might be called upon to generate on occasion.

Use this book as a handy reference guide. Each chapter deals with an individual feature that you may need at one time or another. Pull out the book, read the chapter, and then do what you need to do. In many cases, step-by-step procedures walk you through commonly needed operations. You might find it worthwhile to put the book beside your computer and perform the operations as you read about them.

The goal of this book is to make you immediately productive, creating Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic and its associated tools.

By creating applications, you will learn Visual Basic as it has evolved for .NET. You'll see how to use the tools effectively, and you'll learn the details of building robust object-oriented applications.

The focus of this book is on building Windows applications and building Web applications (including Web Services). In a sense, this is really two books in one. The first book could have been called Building Windows Applications with Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2005, and the second Building Web Applications And Web Services with Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2005. By putting them in a single volume, we can combine all the supplemental and background material, and give you more bang for your buck.

This book is intended for experienced VB programmers who are upgrading from VB6 or VS 2002/2003 to VB 2005. Basic familiarity with the VS 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) is assumed. However, no prior VB6, VBA, or VBScript database programming experience is necessary, except for Chapter 1, iMigrating from ADO to ADO.NET.î Some experience with writing Micro$oft Transact-SQL (T-SQL) statements and authoring simple stored procedures is expected. Familiarity with XML1.0 and XMLschemas will aid your understanding of DataSets and SQLServer 2005's new xml datatype. Some experience with writing XPath 1.0 expressions will be helpful to get the most benefit from Chapter 12, iExploring the xml Datatype.î

One-on-One Expert Visual Basic 2005 Database Programming concentrates on programming the .NET Framework 2.0's System.Data namespace, which implements ADO.NET 2.0 and related namespaces, such as System.Transactions and System.Xml. The book isn't a new user's guide to the .NET Framework, VS 2005, VBX, or VB 2005; it's devoted entirely to data-related topics.

This book is divided into four parts of three chapters each. Most chapters build on the knowledge you've gained from preceding chapters. Thus, it's recommended that you work your way through the chapters sequentially. Following is a brief description of the parts and their chapters' contents.

Blogging has moved rapidly from being a craze to become a core feature of the Internetfrom individuals sharing their thoughts with the world via online diaries, through fans talking about their favorite sports teams or music, right up to serious business minds discussing industry futures. And that includes you, right? If you haven't got a blog already, you want to start one, and want to find out how. If you have already got one, you want to know how to customize it, and make it look cooler than everybody elses. In either case, this is the ideal book for you. In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world's most popular blogging engines — Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog. The last chapter even shows you how to build your very own PHP/MySQL-based blog engine! With this book in hand, youll have found your way to blog heaven in no time! Summary of contents:

• Chapter 1: The "Web Log"
• Chapter 2: Creating a Local Test Environment for Your Blog
• Chapter 3: Movable Type
• Chapter 4: ExpressionEngine
• Chapter 5: WordPress
• Chapter 6: Textpattern
• Chapter 7: Write Your Own Blog Engine

Microsoft Office 2007 is a major upgrade from the last version of Office; Access will also be greatly revised. Alison Balter is the name that Access developers will trust to guide them through Access 2007's new features. She has the rare ability to take complex topics and explain them clearly, as shown by the success of her ten previous books on Access. Balter is known for providing real-world solutions to specific Access development problems. She also is known for her ability to back up her practical examples with just enough underlying theory to give the reader a good overall understanding of Access. In short, this book will provide beginning and intermediate Access developers with everything that they need to know to design and build Access 2007 applications. It should also appeal to DBAs and power users who want or need to get started building custom Access apps. This latest book in her Mastering Access series will not disappoint her many fans who anxiously await each new version, and should win her new fans as well.

It is easy to create a bad looking chart in Excel. This book teaches you how to unlock the beautiful formatting options available to make incredible looking charts. The first section will talk about how to decide which chart type to use. Subsequent chapters will walk through each chart type, how to create them, how to utilize them, and special options available for each chart. The book discusses themes, colors, creating metallic charts, shadows, transparency, etc. The book also handles anything graphical in Excel. It will show the new In-Cell Data Bar charts available in Excel 2007. A section will talk about creating business flowcharts with IGX Graphics and how to display product pictures in Excel, and a section on VBA will cover creating 100's of charts using the macro language.

Foreword by Thomas H. Davenport, coauthor, What's the Big Idea? and The Attention Economy

For years, companies have outsourced service functions like IT and facilities management with an eye toward streamlining overall corporate efficiency. But a new model — transformational outsourcing — can make big changes happen quickly throughout the organization by outsourcing not just support areas but core business functions. Based on a major Accenture study, Outsourcing for Radical Change offers a refreshingly candid look at amazing successes (and a few notable failures) from major organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

Outsourcing for Radical Change includes valuable features such as:

* Ten leadership imperatives to make transformational outsourcing work * Four ways organizations are already using outsourcing to transform themselves * A practical approach for creating a viable business model * Step-by-step guidance for executing and measuring the success of an outsourcing strategy