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The future looks bright for Web developers! With Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, you now have fantastic tools that enable you to create a wide array of content and graphics to deploy on a Web site that is dynamic and easy to maintain.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is a hands-on, easy-to-understand guide to the main features in all the CS3 Web development products. The no-nonsense approach is designed to help you build Web sites by covering the basics of each program—Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, Contribute, and Acrobat—as well as the new features in a clear and concise minibook. You get all the expert guidance you need to:

• Choose the right tools for the job
• Create basic HTML Web pages
• Punch up your pages with forms and frames in Dreamweaver
• Save Photoshop images for print and the Web
• Work with text, shapes, and images in Fireworks
• Understand page layout
• Use layers, filters, and effects in Illustrator
• Work with animation, sound, and video in Flash
• Add interactivity to PDF files in Acrobat
• Integrate Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Contribute with other Adobe products
• Tackle advanced concepts
• And much, much more!

This friendly guide doesn’t just cover all the new tools in the Suite; it also offers you a primer on Web design as well as insight into how the Suite influences design. Complete with helpful hints on securing your work, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is your one-stop guide to making the most of the Suite and developing for the Web quickly and easily!

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Recently we’ve seen consumer 3D printing gaining traction. The power of 3D printing is huge and its applications are seemingly endless—medicine, architecture, and food, to name a few. Incorporating 3D printing into your design cycle reduces overall project costs and lowers project duration, as it allows for rapid prototype iterations and instant, more descriptive feedback. 3D printing looks to revolutionize modern manufacturing and the technology is improving in leaps and bounds each and every day.

“3D Printing for Architects with MakerBot” strives to give you a good foundation for what MakerBot can do. It offers a hands-on way to learn about how 3D printing works, and how you can use its powerful features to produce great prints. With this book, you will learn everything you need to know about designing and printing architectural models using the MakerBot Replicator 2X and how to incorporate multiple parts and colours from designs created by you and the community.

“3D Printing for Architects with MakerBot” will take you through a number of clear, practical examples which will teach you how to unlock the power of your MakerBot Replicator 2X and the MakerBot community. It will show you how to create models composed of multiple parts and colours which are 3D printer ready.

You will also learn about the different types of 3D printing and the history leading up to the purchase of MakerBot by Stratasys. You will take a look into the details of 3D printing software, learning how to convert your 3D CAD model into a physical 3D prototype and how various options will affect your print. You will then create more advanced architectural models with parts created to fit together that are designed either by you or from the extensive community libraries found on Thingiverse and GrabCAD. If you want to learn how to gain the upper hand over the competition by creating architectural prototypes using 3D printing, then this is the book for you.

What you will learn from this book

• Modify and orient models in Makerware
• Reduce warpage during prints
• Discover the impact of print settings and other features on overall quality
• Use dual extruder for multi-colour printing
• Create advanced assemblies utilizing component tolerancing
• Learn how to design for assembly
• Incorporate flexibility into your designs
• Find and modify models from Thingiverse and GrabCAD
• Scale for a tradeoff between time and precision

Approach

This is a hands-on tutorial for a user to become well-versed with 3D printing using MakerBots.

Who this book is written for

“3D Printing for Architects with MakerBot” is ideal for architects looking to creating stunning prototypes using the MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D printer. Having experience using 3D CAD software is beneficial but not necessary as this book mentions several different CAD packages for beginners, up to those more advanced users who are perhaps looking for additional features.

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This book guides the reader through the complexities of GTK+, laying the groundwork that allows the reader to make the leap from novice to professional. The book is replete with real-world examples based on the author’s profound expertise and experience in this area.

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Dress up office documents the Apple way with iWork ’09 and this friendly guide

If you’re a Mac lover and want to explore life outside of that “other productivity suite,” here’s your chance to dress up your docs with Apple’s iWork ’09 and this easy-to-follow guide from Mac technology expert, Jesse Feiler. He draws on 20 years of experience with Apple software to share his secrets of producing fun and creative files using Apple iWork ’09.

Explore iWork’s word processing software, called Pages, and start cranking out text that not only reads well, it looksgreat. Add style to your spreadsheets with Numbers. And produce dazzling presentations with Keynote–all of it with iWork’s special bells and whistles that will give your everyday documents extra Apple style. Discover how to:

• Use this creative office productivity suite for your Mac
• Harness the creative possibilities of iWork for home or office
• Write text documents that look great, too
• Crunch numbers and build spreadsheets that look great with Numbers
• Easily build presentations that include multimedia and more

Why work when you can iWork with this great guide-and have some fun, too!

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Love Manga? The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and Manga Studio For Dummies makes it easy to get started.

Discover how to use Manga Studio to begin creating comics in manga or Western styles, add color to your creations, and share them with your adoring public. It’s a breeze once you know your way around the program. Manga may have begun in Japan, but Manga Studio For Dummies is written in plain English, and shows you how to:

• Build and use page templates
• Rough in your comic with penciling techniques
• Work 100% digital, or use a combination of digital and traditional tools if you prefer
• Work with layers, rulers, and panels
• Add speech bubbles and sound effects text
• Ink your work and add tones
• Prepare your creations for print or distribution on the Web

Written by a working digital artist, Manga Studio For Dummies covers both Manga Studio Debut and EX versions. As an added bonus, it even gives you a peek into the world of manga and comics in general. With the help of Manga Studio For Dummies, you just might find yourself among the comic artists whose work populates the Web and gathers thousands of fans!

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As technology becomes deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives, we’ve begun to expect more emotionally intelligent interactions. But smartphones don’t know if we’re having a bad day, and cars couldn’t care less about compassion. Technology is developing more IQ, but it still lacks EQ.

In this book, Pamela Pavliscak—design researcher and advisor to Fortune 500 companies—explores new research about emotion, new technology that engages emotion, and new emotional design practices. Drawing on her own research and the latest thinking in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, Pamela shows you how design can help promote emotional well-being.

You’ll learn:

• How design has transformed emotion and how tech is transforming it again
• New principles for merging emotional intelligence and design thinking
• How to use a relationship model for framing product interactions and personality
• Methods for blending well-being interventions with design patterns
• How emotional resonance can guide designers toward ethical futures
• Implications of emotionally intelligent technology as it scales from micro- to mega-emotional spheres

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Gets visual learners up to speed on the newest enhancementsin Photoshop

Photoshop is constantly evolving, and the newest version offersgreat new tools for photographers. This popular guide gets visuallearners up to speed quickly; previous editions have sold more than150,000 copies. With colorful screen shots illustrating thestep-by-step instructions, this book is perfect for Photoshopnewcomers and for visual learners who are upgrading from an earlierversion. It covers setting up the software, importing images fromthe camera, using all the tools, creating an online gallery, andmore.

• Covers the most important features of Photoshop CS6, includingimporting photos from a digital camera, retouching and repairingdamaged photos, enhancing digital images, and adding custom 3-Deffects
• Explains how to edit images for the web, create an online photogallery, and incorporate graphics into desktop publishingprograms
• Explores color management, using palettes, compositing, usinglayers, applying gradients, setting type, and working withfilters
• Features step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrationsdesigned for those who learn best when they see how things aredone

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop CS6 gets visuallearners ready to take advantage of everything the newest versionhas to offer.

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Take your Photoshop skills to the next level

Users who already know Photoshop basics will love this colorful, step-by-step guide to new tricks and techniques. Filled with beyond-the-essentials techniques that show how to take your Photoshop skills to the next level, it is lavishly illustrated with beautiful photos that inspire you to experiment. Numbered, step-by-step instructions make the techniques easy to learn, and this edition delves into all the capabilities of Photoshop CS6. Learn to get your images noticed.

• Users who are already familiar with Photoshop basics can expand their skills with these creative, original techniques
• Features numbered, step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots and beautiful photos
• Helps you take your skills to the next level and add “wow” to your images
• Veteran author is a well-traveled photographer and skilled Photoshop technician who has served as a demo artist for computer graphics software

Photoshop CS 6 Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks helps you expand your skills and enhance your photos.

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The top-selling book on Photoshop Elements—updated in a new edition

Photoshop Elements offers photo editors of all skill levels the power to turn run-of-the-mill images into beautiful works of art—and Photoshop Elements 2018 For Dummies shows you how. Those new to photo editing who are looking for advice on making the most common fixes and experienced editors in need of a road map to this version of Photoshop Elements will find great value in this book!

Start off by touring the Photoshop Elements interface with introductions to the tools that make the program so powerful. You’ll also follow simple step-by-step instructions for organizing images for editing, creating layers in your images, adjusting color and focus, applying artsy filters, adding text to an image, and so much more.

• Get simple explanations for handling image editing
• Find steps for giving your photos a digital makeover
• Discover tips for getting better photos
• Create frame-worthy pieces you’ll be proud to display

If you’re ready to take your photo editing skills to new heights, all the help you need is a page—and a click—away.

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The bestselling book on 3D printing

3D printing is one of the coolest inventions we’ve seen in our lifetime, and now you can join the ranks of businesspeople, entrepreneurs, and hobbyists who use it to do everything from printing foods and candles to replacement parts for older technologies—and tons of mind-blowing stuff in between! With 3D Printing For Dummiesat the helm, you’ll find all the fast and easy-to-follow guidance you need to grasp the methods available to create 3D printable objects using software, 3D scanners, and even photographs through open source software applications like 123D Catch.

Thanks to the growing availability of 3D printers, this remarkable technology is coming to the masses, and there’s no time like the present to let your imagination run wild and actually create whatever you dream up—quickly and inexpensively. When it comes to 3D printing, the sky’s the limit!

• Covers each type of 3D printing technology available today: stereolithology, selective sintering, used deposition, and granular binding
• Provides information on the potential for the transformation of production and manufacturing, reuse and recycling, intellectual property design controls, and the commoditization of products
• Walks you through the process of creating a RepRap printer using open source designs, software, and hardware
• Offers strategies for improved success in 3D printing

On your marks, get set, innovate!

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If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool. Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D.

• Describes 3D concepts in theory and their implementation using Away3D
• Dives right in to show readers how to quickly create an interactive, animated 3D scene, and builds on that experience throughout the book
• Each chapter contains a number of tutorials that focus on one specific feature or group of features

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Bad design is everywhere, and its cost is much higher than we think. In this thought-provoking book, authors Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier explain how poorly designed products can anger, sadden, exclude, and even kill people who use them. The designers responsible certainly didn’t intend harm, so what can you do to avoid making similar mistakes?

Tragic Design examines real case studies that show how certain design choices adversely affected users, and includes in-depth interviews with authorities in the design industry. Pick up this book and learn how you can be an agent of change in the design community and at your company.

You’ll explore:

• Designs that can kill, including the bad interface that doomed a young cancer patient
• Designs that anger, through impolite technology and dark patterns
• How design can inadvertently cause emotional pain
• Designs that exclude people through lack of accessibility, diversity, and justice
• How to advocate for ethical design when it isn’t easy to do so
• Tools and techniques that can help you avoid harmful design decisions
• Inspiring professionals who use design to improve our world

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A full-color guide for getting rewarding results with Flash CS5!

Flash is used in the creation of web animation, games, media rich websites, presentations, and more. Adobe’s Flash CS5 product has been divided into three separate products custom-tailored for different audiences, and this book covers the Professional product; the traditional animation/media serving tool; and Catalyst, the web/interface design tool. This book provides a fun and friendly full-color guide to Flash and all it can do to add some flair to your site.

• Walks you through both Professional and Catalyst as well as the traditional Flash animation tool
• Offers guidance for getting acquainted with the interface; creating images, objects, text, and layers for animation; and working with symbols and buttons
• Introduces using Flash for online publishing and mobile designs
• Addresses how to turn existing images into interactive sites or interfaces with Catalyst
• Offers helpful tips on troubleshooting and best practices for creating interactive websites

Using the knowledge you gain from Flash CS5 Professional & Flash CS5 Catalyst For Dummies, you’ll quickly prove that you are not a flash in the pan!

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Create your photo vision with Photoshop Elements 10

Photoshop Elements is the top selling consumer photo editing software and Adobe continues to add innovative features that allow digital photo enthusiasts to do it all. This value-packed reference combines nine content-rich minibooks in one complete package. User-friendly and detailed, it covers the key features and tools that beginner and experienced users need to create high-quality images for print, e-mail, and the web using Photoshop Elements 10. Presented in full color, this resource goes beyond the basics of the application and is undoubtedly the most comprehensive Elements book on the market.

• Explores filters, effects, styles, and distortions
• Shows you how to enhance your images by painting, drawing, and typing
• Walks you through working with layers and masks
• Details ways to retouch and enhance your photos
• Checks out the toolbox, options, and other essential menus

You’ll be a digital imaging pro in a snap with Photoshop Elements 10 All-in-One For Dummies!

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Create in 3D with Tinkercad!

If you can dream it, you can create it—using Tinkercad. This free tool gives everyone the power to create 3D models, regardless of your level of experience. With the help of Tinkercad For Dummies, you’ll have the knowledge you need to plan your designs, the know-how to utilize the platform’s drag-and-drop tools to create your design, and the information you need to print or export your designs to use them elsewhere.

Tinkercad is for everyone! It’s simple enough to be used by kids and students, but robust enough that an adult could use it to create a complex product prototype. With more than 4 million designs posted in the Tinkercad community, the platform is also popular with teachers around the world. Why not join in on the fun?

• Create your Tinkercad account and join the community
• Use the drag-and-drop tools to build 3D images
• Export your designs to have them 3D printed
• Learn the principles of great 3D design

Tinkercad is truly fun for all ages, and this hands-on guide makes it faster and easier to start using it right away!

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If you already possess some background in Civil 3D but want to broaden your understanding of this popular civil engineering software, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 will provide you with detailed coverage of advanced topics like surveying, LandXML and LDT Project Transfer, cross-sections, pipe networks, visualization, project management, and data shortcuts. Many of the featured topics and techniques, directly applicable to the civil engineering profession, are previously undocumented. Practical tutorials, tips, tricks, real-world examples and easy-to-follow explanations detail all aspects of a civil engineering project.