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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Tom Negrino

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Microsoft PowerPoint is nearly ubiquitous in today's world--from business to schools to clubs to organizations, PowerPoint presentations are everywhere you turn. To get up and running quickly and to learn to create the best-looking presentations--the ones that stand out in terms of content and visual appeal--readers need Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. PowerPoint presenter extraordinaire Tom Negrino steps readers through the redesigned user interface and highlights the tools readers will use as they create their presentations. Trusted teacher Tom Negrino gives step-by-step instruction on using all the new features in PowerPoint 2007, such as using the dynamic SmartArt Diagrams, custom layouts, applying attractive new themes (change them in just one click!), and how to manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements in much richer ways than ever before. Readers learn about writing their presentation, gathering images and sound files, choosing a design, working with text, and adding graphics and slide effects and transitions. In the end, users will have a professional-looking and visually appealing presentation they can use anywhere! As with all Visual QuickStart Guide books, clear, concise instructions and lots of visual aids make learning easy and painless.

Microsoft Office for Windows 95 for Dummies

Roger C. Parker

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

If you are beginner 3 out of 5 stars.
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Very old book. If you are beginner, but can get this book without paying for it, get it and read it. All components of Microsoft Office for win95 are covered very good. Book describes in detail everything reader need for starting with MS Office such as starting any of comonents, using and sharing information within different component. If you are, at least, intermediate user of MS tools, you know enough to skip this book.

Editorial Review:

You know that Microsoft Office is loaded with powerful features, but putting them to use can prove daunting. Now, with Microsoft Office For Windows 95 For Dummies, you get the practical, ready-to-use guidance you need to do everything from integrating information contained in Excel, Word, Access, and other applications to automating simple and complex tasks. Microsoft gives you a powerful tool; Microsoft Office For Windows 95 For Dummies shows you how to use it.

Premiere Pro CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Visual Quickpro Guide)

Antony Bolante

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Here to get filmmakers and digital video pros up to speed on Premiere Pro CS3 - in time to meet their next deadline -is everyone's favorite task-based guide, but geared toward more advanced users. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows you  how to effectively and efficiently work with audio, create transitions and titles, manipulate subclips and virtual clips, and more. you'll  learn about key features with real-world examples of how and when features should be used, including all that's new in Premiere Pro CS3: the ability to build Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and Flash projects with Adobe Encore CS3 (now included with Premiere Pro CS3); Adobe OnLocation CS3, which lets on-the-road users record footage directly to their computer disk--removing the need to capture video to tape later. You will enjoy learning to create slow-motion effects with Time Remapping, and will get up to speed on Premiere's new editing tools.

Graphics Gems IV IBM (Graphics Gems - IBM)

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Essential if you can't find it in a library! 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This contains my favorite "Graphics Gem", an algorithm for testing whether a polyhedron intersects with a 3-D box or many boxes.

The full set of Graphics Gems is so expensive that I can't bring myself to buy it. Instead, I've looked up gems like that intersection test in a library copy of the book. If you don't have convenient access to it in a library, then you might as well dig up your credit card.

Editorial Review:

Graphics Gems IV is the newest volume in the Graphics Gems series. All of the books in the series contain practical solutions for graphics problems using the latest techniques in the field. The books in this series have become essential, time saving tools
for many programmers. Volume IV is a collection of carefully crafted gems which are all new and innovative. All of the gems are immediately accessible and useful in formulating clean, fast, and elegant programs. The C programming language has been used for most of the program listings, although several of the gems have C++ implementations. *IBM version Includes one 3 1/2" high-density disk. System Requirements: 286 or higher IBM PC compatible, DOS 4.0 or higher

The Bryce 5 Handbook (Graphics Series)

Shamms Mortier

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Populate barren landscapes with far out vegetation; add clouds, sky, fog, or haze to your world; and learn how to animate environments – these are just some of the creative possibilities you can explore with Bryce 5.

Bryce 5 has evolved into a powerful 3D tool that combines power and ease of use and provides beginning to advanced users with a plethora of creative options. Using the guidance and tutorials found in the Bryce 5 Handbook, you can master the interface and new tools of Bryce, and take your 3D skills to the next level of mastery. You’ll find helpful insights projects, and practice with a variety of topics and tools, including Primitives, Trees, Metaballs, Booleans, Terrain Models and Objects, the Materials Lab, The Deep Texture Editor, Atmospherics, Lights, Animation, and more. With the hands-on tutorials provided in The Bryce 5 Handbook, you’ll increase your 3D skills and learn how to reproduce the awesome power and reality of nature.

HIGHLIGHTS

* Provides a tutorial-based approach to learning the powerful features of Bryce 5

* Teaches materials, infinite planes, animation, and modeling, including detailed coverage of Metaballs

* Provides helpful ideas for handshaking with other popular programs

* Includes and appendix on "undocumented" Bryce features

* Teaches innovative ways to create awesome textures for your Bryce worlds

On the CD!

Demos of Popular Applications

* Amapi 3D 6.1 (Win/Mac Demo)

* BodyPaint 3D (Win/Mac Demo)

* Illusion (Win Demo)

* Poser 4 and ProPack (Win/Mac Demo)

* Xfrog (Win Demo)

* Tutorial project files and images, materials, models, and textures

* Color images from the book

Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Jan Ozer

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Good book about unbelievable piece of junk software 1 out of 5 stars.
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The book is good. The software is plain horrible. It sounds a strange combination but how you could qualify a memory hog which eventually shuts down my pretty good home computer with 2 GB of memory, with horrible boot time, and random crashes or hangs and features I would not care for in ages, like ability to keep my media on INet.

Editorial Review:

Pinnacle Studio 10 is the latest version of the industry leading home video editing tool aimed at the Windows consumer market. In Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, veteran journalist and teacher Jan Ozer tackles Pinnacle Studio version 10 in classic and popular QuickStart style--with step-by-step instructions, plenty of illustrations, and straightforward language. Jan provides the skinny on all popular Studio 10 features like built-in DVD authoring with motion menus and custom navigation; Pan and Zoom, enabling users to quickly create engaging video slideshows from digital photos; SmartMovie II, a tool that let's you create home movies in minutes; dual monitor display; key framing special effects in real-time; and the Instant DVD Recorder. He also covers key Pinnacle Studio Plus 10 features including picture in picture (PIP); Chroma Key effects (green screen); and full HD editing, particularly creating HD slide shows from digital photos.

After Effects 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

Antony Bolante

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Need to take your Adobe After Effects skills to the next level? Learn After Effects the fast, efficient way! This Visual QuickPro Guide uses illustrations and in-depth explanations. You’ll be a master in time!

•    Takes a visual, task-based approach to teaching After Effects, using pictures to guide you through the software and show you what to do.
•    Works like a reference book—you look up what you need and then get straight to work.
•    Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts.
•    Affordably priced, because buying a computer book shouldn’t be an investment in itself.

Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows you how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. You’ll learn about key features with real-world examples of how and when features should be used, including what’s new in After Effects 7.0: motion tracker, powerful animation and keyframing controls, high quality keying and matte tools, network rendering, expert effects, nondestructive vector painting, and more!

Macromedia FreeHand MX for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Sandee Cohen

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The latest of Macromedia¿s award-winning software packages to join the MX family, Macromedia FreeHand MX brings the popular vector-based drawing and layout program into the present day. Whether you¿ve built your career on FreeHand and can¿t wait to master the software¿s new features or you¿re just learning FreeHand for the first time, there¿s no faster way to get up and running with Macromedia FreeHand MX than Macromedia FreeHand MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. Updated by best-selling author Sandee Cohen to include plenty of new step-by-step how-tos and screenshots specific to Macromedia FreeHand MX, this task-based reference is the perfect tool for learning this visual program. The first few chapters provide an overview of the program before walking you through how to create sophisticated artwork using Macromedia FreeHand MX¿s many powerful features: layers and layering, points and paths, working in color, strokes and fills, creating text and text effects, and more. The final chapters explain printing, preferences and using artwork with other applications and the Web.

Fundamentals of X Programming: Graphical User Interfaces and Beyond (Series in Computer Science)

Theo Pavlidis

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The X is the dominant window system under Unix, and X servers are available for Microsoft Windows, thus enabling graphics over a network in the PC world. This book provides an overview of the X Window System, focusing on characteristics that have significant impact on the development of both application programs and widgets. It pays special attention to applications that go beyond graphical user interfaces (GUIs), such as visualization and imaging programs; issues affecting video games; and designing widgets with a complex appearance. While the book does not assume previous knowledge of X, it is intended for experienced programmers, especially those who want to write programs that go beyond simple GUIs.

Os/2 Presentation Manager Gpi: A Programming Guide to Text, Graphics, and Printing (VNR computer library)

Graham C. E. Winn

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