Written for the non-specialist media producer, this book offers a practical and engaging guide to basic digital media production using modern equipment and software.
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2023: 2D and 3D Drawing, Design and Modeling presents a combination of step-by-step instruction, examples and insightful explanations.
Digital Twin Driven Smart Service draws on the latest industry practice and research to explain how to implement digital twin service in a range of scenarios.
Computational Intelligence in Manufacturing addresses applications of AI, machine learning and other innovative computational techniques across the manufacturing supply chain.
Software Engineering, Volume I is a compilation of the proceedings of the Third Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences held in Miami Beach, Florida, on December 18-20, 1969.
Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Volume II: Models of Innovative Design, Reasoning About Physical Systems, and Reasoning About Geometry focuses on the processes, programs, techniques, and technologies involved in the employment of artificial intelligence in engineering design.
Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design is a three-volume edited collection of key papers from the field of AI and design, aimed at providing a state-of-the art description of the field, and focusing on how ideas and methods from artificial intelligence can help engineers in the design of physical artifacts and processes.
The rapid rate at which the field of digital picture processing has grown in the past five years had necessitated extensive revisions and the introduction of topics not found in the original edition.
When we learn to present naked, we reach our audiences by communicating the essence of the message, stripping away all that is unnecessary and embracing the ideas of simplicity, clarity, honesty, integrity, and passion.
Adobe InDesign CS5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide highlights the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign.
With Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the interface and image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know.
Are you looking for a book that focuses on just the most important and most useful stuff about your iPod (including the iPod touch, nano, classic, shuffle, and the iTunes Store)?
Completely revised for Final Cut Pro 7 and featuring new footage from TNT's hit show Leverage and the international music creation event Playing For Change: Peace Through Music, this best-selling, Apple-certified guide provides a strong foundation in all aspects of video editing.
Just about every digital image requires sharpening since softness is inevitably introduced during the image digitizing process, and oftentimes with digital photography, images are sharpened badly.
Over the course of the last several years, the DIY market has exploded spawning magazines, books, movies and fueling the growth of the online, handmade marketplace.
This book is for anyone who upgrades from their point-and-shoot or first DSLR to a Canon Rebel T1i/500D and wants to get the best shots possible but isn't sure what to do next.
These days, it's not just corporate marketing directors tasked with giving computer-based presentations-anyone forced to stand in front of a crowd and talk for more than three minutes had better know how to put together a slide presentation.
This best-selling guide from authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas has been the go-to tutorial and reference book for photography/design professionals and the textbook of choice in college classrooms for decades.
THE FIRST BOOK WITH ONE FOOT ON THE COFFEE TABLE, AND ONE FOOT IN THE CLASSROOM Joe McNally, one of the world's top pro digital photographers, whose celebrated work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, Time, and National Geographic (to name a few), breaks new ground by doing something no photography book has ever done-blending the rich, stunning images and elegant layout of a coffee-table book with the invaluable training, no-nonsense insights, and photography secrets usually found only in those rare, best-of-breed educational books.
Following up on the great success of The Moment It Clicks and The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes, legendary magazine photographer Joe McNally takes us on another memorable ride with Sketching Light, another trip into the land of light--but this time running the gamut from small flash to big flash, and everywhere in between.
Capture NX 2 from Nikon is a powerful image-editing application that lets photographers work with digital photographs with more speed and efficiency than other software programs.
Build your Photoshop expertise, one technique at a time Why spend time searching through a thick reference book when you can focus on the essential techniques?
A comprehensive, best practice guide from Apple Certified Trainer Iain Anderson, with illustrated step-by-step instructions to explore a Final Cut Pro editing workflow from shoot to deliveryKey FeaturesExplore the best ways to use FCP, from importing and editing to finishing and exporting the final cutUnlock the power of editing in the magnetic timeline to make huge changes or subtle adjustmentsFinish with pro-level color correction, tracking, effects, transitions, audio, titles, and captionsBook DescriptionFinal Cut Pro (also known as FCP, previously Final Cut Pro X) is Apple's efficient and accessible video editing software for everyone, offering powerful features that experienced editors and novices will find useful.
Build immersive game experiences using the new Unity 2020 features with this practical guideKey FeaturesUnleash the capabilities of C# scripting for creating immersive UI, graphics, Game AI agents and much moreExplore Unity's latest tools, including Universal Render Pipeline, Shader Graph, and VFX graph, to enhance graphics and animationGet started with building augmented reality experience using Unity's AR FoundationBook DescriptionOver the years, the Unity game engine has extended its scope from just being about creating video games to building AR/VR experiences, complex simulations, real-time realistic rendering, films, and serious games for training and education.
Make your WebAssembly journey fun while making a game with itKey FeaturesCreate a WebAssembly game that implements sprites, animations, physics, particle systems, and other game development fundamentalsGet to grips with advanced game mechanics in WebAssemblyLearn to use WebAssembly and WebGL to render to the HTML5 canvas elementBook DescriptionWithin the next few years, WebAssembly will change the web as we know it.
Discover the power of Unreal Engine 5 and the MetaHuman Creator to develop realistic digital characters, infusing them with full body and facial animationKey FeaturesCreate realistic characters using the MetaHuman Creator using a mixture of preset and custom toolsImport your character into Unreal Engine 5 to access more editing options and begin animating itCombine face and body motion capturing to fully animate your digital humansBook DescriptionMetaHuman Creator (MHC) is an online, user-friendly 3D design tool for creating highly realistic digital humans that can be animated within Unreal Engine (UE) and enhanced with motion capture technology.
Leverage this well-illustrated, easy-to-understand end-to-end guide to become an accomplished photo editor, image retoucher, and creative artistKey FeaturesUpdated to the latest version of Photoshop Elements 2021 with focused coverage of Adobe's latest AI technologyOrganize, search, and manage an ever-increasing number of images and videos using expert practicesUncover common solutions to a wide range of photographic and image-editing problemsBook DescriptionManaging thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results is now a must-have skill for online bloggers, influencers, vloggers, social media users, and photography enthusiasts.
A practical guide that takes you from understanding the fundamentals of Logic Pro to discovering professional music creation techniques with an easy-to-follow approachKey FeaturesExplore the world of music production by getting up to speed with Logic ProUnderstand the fundamentals of music production such as recording, editing, and adding effects to musicLearn to produce virtual sounds and music effects to enhance your music and create a final master from a raw music fileBook DescriptionLogic Pro is Apple's flagship application for music creation, found in many professional music studios across the globe.
Learn animation programming from first principles and implement modern animation techniques that can be integrated into any game development workflowKey FeaturesBuild a functional and production-ready modern animation system with complete features using C++Learn basic, advanced, and skinned animation programming with this step-by-step guideDiscover the math required to implement cutting edge animation techniques such as inverse kinematics and dual quaternionsBook DescriptionAnimation is one of the most important parts of any game.
Learn Unity game development with C# through a series of practical projects ranging from building a simple 2D game to adding AR/VR experiences and machine learning capabilities in a simple yet effective wayKey FeaturesGain a high-level overview of the Unity game engine while building your own games portfolioDiscover best practices for implementing game animation, game physics, shaders, and effectsCreate fully featured apps, including Space shooter and a 2D adventure game, and develop AR/VR experiences and Game AI agentsBook DescriptionThe Unity game engine, used by millions of developers around the world, is popular thanks to its features that enable you to create games and 3D apps for desktop and mobile platforms in no time.
