How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3: The art of creating photorealistic montages Ebook

With his in-depth knowledge of the little-known secrets used by the pros to produce awardwinning illustrations, Steve is THE go-to guru for professional designers, graphic artists, illustrators, retouchers and students of design media and illustration who want to create photorealistic effects using Photoshop. Updated for Photoshop CS3, this must-have resource unlocks your creativity and helps you save time in the software so you can spend more time creatively. The book is also relevant to any version of Photoshop.

* Create convincing smoke effects and make effective explosions the simple way

* Take years off someone's appearance

* Turn a photograph of someone looking straight into the camera into a different perspective with the entire head (not just the eyes)

* Modify a statue so it looks like a living person or paint hair directly on any surface

* Produce the perfect cutout in the shortest time with Photoshop CS3's new Quick Selection tool and more
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Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring E-book

Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring (Paperback) AUTHOR : by Michael Badger (Author) PUBLISHER : Packt Publishing publisher ISBN : 1847194281 EDITION : 1st PUB DATE : June 20, 2008 LANGUAGE : English RLS DATE : 06/15/2008 Step-by-step guide to configuring, using, and adapting this free Open Source network monitoring system - with a Foreword by Mark R. Hinkle, VP of Community Zenoss Inc.

* Discover, manage, and monitor IT resources

* Build custom event processing and alerting rules

* Configure Zenoss Core via an easy to use web interface

* Drag and drop dashboard portlets with Google Maps integration

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Learning JQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple Javascript Techniques Ebook

jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular jQuery learning resource, learningquery.com, share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. This book provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages-even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled. For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features, as well as provide you with a reference to the jQuery library to return to again and again. This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions for each of them. A detailed reference rounds off the book, making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge

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