After Effects CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide / by Antony Bolante (Author).Here to get filmmakers, Web designers, broadcasters, and digital artists of all kinds up to speed on After Effects CS4-and in time to meet their next deadline-is everyone s favorite task-based guide. Through step-by-step instructions, enhanced by tips, sidebars, and plenty of visual aids, veteran video editor Antony Bolante shows readers how to effectively and efficiently import and manage footage, view and edit layers, apply effects, animate type, and more. They ll learn about key features with real world examples of how and when features should be used, including what s new in After Effects CS4: the addition of Imagineer System’s Mocha for Adobe After Effects, which allows users to do motion tracking for difficult shots; the ability to export rich media compositions from After Effects to Adobe Flash; searchable timelines and projects, plus easier composition navigation; the ability to import Photoshop 3D layers; independent keyframing of X, Y, and Z axis positions; the new Cartoon effect for creating an animated look to live footage; and many more enhancements.

AJAX is based on a collection of open and standards-based technologies that can give Web pages you build a responsiveness that rivals what you get in desktop applications. The course starts out with an exploration of the fundamentals of AJAX. Then you’ll go through a few of the more interesting features in javascript that will help you write code that runs in the browser. Next up is an introduction to the five server-side controls that you can use in a Web forms page to reduce the amount of data that has to move between client and server. Then you’ll explore some of the techniques you can use to create applications that give users a good experience with your Web application. Next you’ll look at the AJAX Control Toolkit, a collection of server-side controls and extenders that do a lot of the work that you used to have to write reams of javascript code to accomplish.

AJAX is based on a collection of open and standards-based technologies that can give Web pages you build a responsiveness that rivals what you get in desktop applications. The course starts out with an exploration of the fundamentals of AJAX. Then you’ll go through a few of the more interesting features in javascript that will help you write code that runs in the browser. Next up is an introduction to the five server-side controls that you can use in a Web forms page to reduce the amount of data that has to move between client and server. Then you’ll explore some of the techniques you can use to create applications that give users a good experience with your Web application. Next you’ll look at the AJAX Control Toolkit, a collection of server-side controls and extenders that do a lot of the work that you used to have to write reams of javascript code to accomplish.

Sams Teach Yourself More Visual Basic.NET in 21 Days provides step-by-step coverage of the most important new features of Visual Basic.NET and .NET that will allow programmers to begin creating rich Web applications and Web Services. Intermediate programmers gain the knowledge and skills to be able to design professional Windows applications and Web services.

It seems that each time the American woman begins to veer toward feminism, mainstream magazines put her back in her proper place, portraying her as wife, mother, and consumer. Kitch (journalism, Temple Univ.) traces the early development of this trend, beginning in the 1890s with Alice Barber Stephens s American Woman series and ending 30 years later with the ideal families depicted by Norman Rockwell and Jessie Willcox Smith. In between, she considers such influential icons as the flapper, the vamp, the nurse, the girl graduate, and Charles Dana Gibson s eponymous representation of womanhood, who is tellingly called a girl, not a woman.

Microsoft Excel is the world s most-popular spreadsheet program--used by schools, offices, and home users. In Excel 2007, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface, making it more intuitive and more attractive. But anyone needing to get started quickly without learning all the ins and outs of the software still needs a handy guide. And with Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide they ve got one. Excel expert Maria Langer walks readers through the new interface and teaches them the tools they will use throughout the project. From there, she helps them create their first workbook, using formulas, adding formatting, adding a visually rich chart. Readers also learn how to effectively print their spreadsheets and charts--something that s much more confusing than it sounds! Along the way all readers will learn how to create attractive, professional, and effective Excel documents. Each book in the Visual QuickProject Guide series now has a companion website featuring sample project files--making it even easier for users to work through each project as they read through the book. Other features on the companion website may include articles on getting the most out of the topic, a database of frequently asked questions, excerpts from the book, general tips, and more.

In Visual Training Company s tutorial Microsoft Visual Basic for Excel, Pravah Pugh helps you get started by going over macros, the VBA programming language, and the VBA development environment. He then teaches you about the use and creation of functions for Visual Basic for Excel and how to access and save code. You will also learn about cell referencing, labels, names and much more. To get started, simply click one of the topics below.

Featuring all the favorite Looney Tunes characters, from Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, this is the first visual history of the groundbreaking animated classics.

With its local cursor engine, tight coupling between language and data, and powerful features, Visual FoxPro 9.0 is a great tool for building database solutions of all sizes. Its data centric, object oriented language offers developers a robust set of tools for building database applications for the desktop, client server environments, or the Web.

Visual Build is a powerful tool that enables developers and build masters to easily create an automated, repeatable process for building and deploying desktop software, games, web and enterprise applications. Visual Build is RAD for software builds.

The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues

This is the only book in the After Effects market to focus exclusively on the creation of visual effects, and is a onestop resource for anyone who wants indepth explanations that demystify the realm of visual effects and how they were created, thanks to veteran author Mark Christiansens friendly and accessible style.

In this course, youll learn how to use features of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Basic 2010 to build ASP.NET Web pages. Youll gain an understanding of the architecture behind ASP.NET and how to use the various ASP.NET server controls. Youll learn to create consistent web sites using Master Pages, add membership features and configuredeploy ASP.NET applications, to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, direct users using Site Navigation tools, debug .NET, and to display/edit data using ASP.NET and ADO.NET.

CoffeeCup VisualSite Designer is a WYSIWYG Website Creator and Editor that helps you make Web pages with no experience or HTML knowledge. Just drag and drop images or text on the page until you like what you see, and then upload to your Website. VisualSite Designer comes with over 70 Web Page Templates to start you off and you can make Websites with multiple pages, text-fields, graphics, animations and more. Create pages with your own images or use the built-in button and background creators to make every step a breeze.

“Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta” released by scene group KOPiE, it helps you to solve the specific business needs by enabling you to quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family.

LightSwitch is a stand alone Visual Studio product (it will also be available in future versions of Visual Studio Professional and above).  VS Professional gives you a lot of options for building your application, including being able to build top tier enterprise wide apps.  This is very powerful but also presents you with a lot of options to sort out up front as you contemplate your architecture.  With LightSwitch we make it really simple with two choices:  VB or C#!

In this course, youll learn how to use features of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Basic 2010 to build ASP.NET Web pages. Youll gain an understanding of the architecture behind ASP.NET and how to use the various ASP.NET server controls. Youll learn to create consistent web sites using Master Pages, add membership features and configuredeploy ASP.NET applications, to authenticate users and limit their access to resources, direct users using Site Navigation tools, debug .NET, and to display/edit data using ASP.NET and ADO.NET.

Description : Containing numerous contemporary images by leading photographers, this indispensable manual concerning wedding portraits explains posing fundamentals as well as how to create a flattering, feature specific photograph one that focuses on the head, shoulders, arms, legs, or torso in different levels of close ups, from head shots to full lengths. Since posing is the second most challenging aspect of photography and with the added complications of a wedding from the bride`s personal style to her figure and gown it can be very easy for a photographer to make a wrong turn. This perceptive reference provides the perfect place to turn when in need of quick posing strategies and fresh ideas.