Over 300 productivity enhancing secrets you need to know about Illustrator CS. Fully illustrated, stand-alone tips reveal the hidden features and productivity-enhancing tricks that allow you to accomplish more in less time with Illustrator cs. Easy-to-browse format lets you find and apply information instantly and includes many tips and techniques that focus on Illustrator cs' new features: 3D extrusion, enhanced type capabilities, expanded print options, and more.

Illustrator Cs Killer Tips: The Hottest Collection of Cool Tips and Hidden Secrets for Adobe Illustrator

Computers & Technology

Cross, Dave

Programming

Peachpit Pr

Over 300 productivity-enhancing secrets you need to know about Illustrator CS. Fully illustrated, stand-alone tips reveal the hidden features and productivity-enhancing tricks that allow you to accomplish more in less time with Illustrator CS2. Easy-to-browse format lets you find and apply information instantly and includes many tips and techniques that focus on Illustrator CS2’s new features: Converting bitmaps into vectors with Live Trace, Painting with the new Live Paint tool, creating Custom Workspaces, and more.

Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips

Kloskowski, Matt

After years of fielding questions at seminars from Photoshop users, Dave Cross realized there was a lot of common ground: there were many questions that were indeed "frequently asked." In addition, most questions seemed start with “How come I can’t…." "How do I…." or "Why won’t the (fill in the blank) tool work?" This book addresses the most common problems and questions in Photoshop by both providing answers to the most frequently asked questions, and outlining strategies that can help you avoid problems in the first place. You’ll see: • Where to start when things don't work: from tool settings to re-installing Photoshop • The most common warning dialogs: why they appears, how to fix them, and how to avoid them • The Photoshop CS2 Checklist: what to check when things go wrong, or before you start working, to help avoid problems • Solutions to typical problems when using the Adobe Creative Suite • How to avoid problems by creating flexible documents (adjustment layers, layer masks, groups, smart object, layer comps, and more) • Frequently asked questions—and their answers—in all key areas of Photoshop CS2: • general operations (palettes, workspaces, menus, etc.) • color (CMYK, color management, spot color, choosing color, etc.) • type • selections • making adjustments • layers • preferences and settings • image capture (resolution, Camera Raw, file size) • sizing (canvas size, image size, copping) • automation (actions, batch, built-in automation commands) • common image problems (exposure, focus, noise, color cast, etc.) • painting (brushes, choosing color) • output (web, PDF, video, printing) • special effects (filters, layer styles) • tools (that don't fit into any other category) • How to customize Photoshop CS2 to work the way you want it to (actions, menus, workspaces, shortcuts, preferences) • How to make your own brushes, swatches, shapes, styles, and patterns

Photoshop Cs2 Help Desk

There's nothing like having a teacher at one's side when learning a new program--especially one as powerful and complex as Photoshop CS2. But a private tutor is a luxury few users can afford. With this DVD, they don't need to! Adobe Certified Instructor Dave Cross provides all the essential information beginning users need to dive right in and start using the image manipulation program immediately! Throughout, the focus is on the practical advice that will get users familiar with the program fast. In short order, Dave provides clear, succinct explanations of pixels, resolution, color modes, and file sizes; how to set up the workspace; which tools to use for what; how to take advantage of the History palette and layers for making changes; how to use Photoshop's selection tools effectively (and why this is so crucial); methods for adjusting and retouching images; techniques for cropping, transforming, and using filters; and more. A slew of timesaving tips and shortcuts ease the way!

Photoshop Cs2 for Beginners

If you're primarily interested in finishing touches--the million creative ways you can use your favorite software to improve, polish, and add pizzazz to your images--this is the book for you! The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Finishing Touches for Photoshop CS2 offers a treasure chest of creative finishing techniques. With chapters on frames and border effects, color and artistic effects, presentation, sharpening, and printing, this full-color guide covers everything from creative cropping to dramatic lighting, stock photos, collage ideas, combining black-and-white and color, selective blurring, storybook layouts, PDF presentation, and more. Each technique is a stand-alone tutorial, so you can jump in at any point without weeding through a lot of info that's not relevant to the task at hand. Even better, author Dave Cross' two-column format--with simple instructions in one column and lavish, full-color photos and artwork running alongside--makes the techniques instantly accessible. You'll also find several variations for most techniques as well as instructions for creating reusable templates.

Photoshop Finishing Touches

Aphorisms, jokes, quotations, anecdotes, ancient observations, song lyrics, T-shirts, greeting cards, movie dialog, bumper stickers, bubble-gum wrapper horoscopes, something scratched on a restroom stall--"the jazz riffs of thinking," unexpected turns, humorous resolutions.

Caveman Potluck: Collected Wit and Wisdom Vol II

Literature & Fiction

Brady, Will

Literary

BEACHTOWN PUBLICATIONS

Among the many different approaches to "templating" with Perl--such as Embperl, Mason, HTML::Template, and hundreds of other lesser known systems--the Template Toolkit is widely recognized as one of the most versatile. Like other templating systems, the Template Toolkit allows programmers to embed Perl code and custom macros into HTML documents in order to create customized documents on the fly. But unlike the others, the Template Toolkit is as facile at producing HTML as it is at producing XML, PDF, or any other output format. And because it has its own simple templating language, templates can be written and edited by people who don't know Perl. In short, the Template Toolkit combines the best features of its competitors, with ease-of-use and flexibility, resulting in a technology that's fast, powerful and extensible, and ideally suited to the production and maintenance of web content and other dynamic document systems.In Perl Template Toolkit you'll find detailed coverage of this increasingly popular technology. Written by core members of the technology's development team, the book guides you through the entire process of installing, configuring, using, and extending the Template Toolkit. It begins with a fast-paced but thorough tutorial on building web content with the Template Toolkit, and then walks you through generating and using data files, particularly with XML. It also provides detailed information on the Template Toolkit's modules, libraries, and tools in addition to a complete reference manual.Topics in the book include:
<ul>
<li>Getting started with the template toolkit</li>
<li>The Template language</li>
<li>Template directives</li>
<li>Filters</li>
<li>Plugins</li>
<li>Extending the Template Toolkit</li>
<li>Accessing databases</li>
<li>XML</li>
<li>Advanced static web page techniques</li>
<li>Dynamic web content and web applications</li>
</ul>The only book to cover this important tool, Perl Template Toolkit is essential reading for any Perl programmer who wants to create dynamic web content that is remarkably easy to maintain. This book is your surefire guide to implementing this fast, flexible, and powerful templating system.

Perl Template Toolkit: Scalable Templating for the Web

Chamberlain, Darren

Wardley, Andy

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

Here's the proven, step-by-step program to super-charge your business! The Small Business Tune-Up is your vehicle for achieving the level of success that you deserve. Using the analogy of an automobile, author Dave Cross shows you how to diagnose, assess and resolve the things in your business that are holding you back. It's practical, how-to insight that works! The Small Business Tune-Up is designed to get you on the road and accelerate your success. Small Business Tune-Up helps you think differently about your business. It shows you how to realize success using a "systems" approach. It's easy to understand and apply in any business. Author Dave Cross passes along the techniques and methods that have made his businesses extremely successful. Whether your business is service, retail, wholesale or manufacturing, you'll gain valuable tools. This book is not another "start-up" manual. Here are some of the topics covered: Getting and staying organized Small Business toolbox (methods, techniques and short-cuts) Reading the indicators of your business The primary business components Profit margin and cash flow Customers and sales Signs of trouble -- and what to do about them Working environment Quality systems and measurement Marketing and advertising Profit power Organization and leadership Drive, enthusiasm and stress Company image Employee issues Watching the competition Protecting your company Staying legal

Small Business Tune-Up

Business & Money

Personal Finance

Cypress Pub Group Inc

How do you get the best out of Photoshop? It's a combination of knowing what you want and knowing how to do it properly: a mixture of creativity and acumen. As you learn more, you make fewer mistakes, your workflow becomes faster, and you have more time to explore creative possibilities. This book is dedicated to showing you the tricks of the trade, to sharing the insider's knowledge which will speed up your work, and to improving your understanding of Photoshop as a tool. The book is divided into eight chapters, in the first three we look at ways of improving your efficiency, good selection techniques, and how to use layers effectively. In the next three chapters we look at practical applications of Photoshop for retouching and correction, Web graphics and special effects. The final two chapters look at the practicalities of Photoshop's configuration and hardware. Throughout the book, we cover the new features of Photoshop 7, so if you're not yet up to speed with the latest version, we'll show you the way. You've mastered the basics of Photoshop and you're ready to move on to the next level - this book is jam-packed with the hints, tips, and advice from four Photoshop experts that you need to take you there. To get the most information out of each of the authors that we possibly could, we used a collaborative method of writing. Each of the four authors chose two subject areas to be the main writer on, and once they had finished writing the sections, they were passed on to the other three authors for them to add their own tips and tricks to. All these parts then went out to review, and the reviewers (themselves Photoshop users) added their tips to the tip-tank. All of these tips then came together in editorial, where they were ordered and polished. In this way, we hoped to maximize the amount of insightful and essential information, and to give you the greatest benefit.

Photoshop 7: Trade Secrets

Smith,Colin

Cromhout, Gavin

Aronoff, Janee

Apress

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