GoLive 5 Visual Insight


Book Description

GoLive 5 Visual Insight teaches the most useful features of this emerging product released to compete with Macromedia Dreamweaver. Readers go straight to work on learning how to create their own Web sites by learning basic GoLive features such as working with text, applying images, and applying advanced features such as forms, tables, and dynamic HTML. Over 20 real world projects let readers apply their knowledge first hand by creating various elements of a Web site. Like all Visual Insight books, this book appeals to visual learners who need to see - rather than read - how to create something. Its unique format allows readers to see an effect in the book and then duplicate it on their screen. Unlike other small sized books, GoLive 5 Visual Insight features a 16-page color section that illustrates color related tasks and project results.




Visual Insights


Book Description

A guide to the basics of information visualization that teaches nonprogrammers how to use advanced data mining and visualization techniques to design insightful visualizations. In the age of Big Data, the tools of information visualization offer us a macroscope to help us make sense of the avalanche of data available on every subject. This book offers a gentle introduction to the design of insightful information visualizations. It is the only book on the subject that teaches nonprogrammers how to use open code and open data to design insightful visualizations. Readers will learn to apply advanced data mining and visualization techniques to make sense of temporal, geospatial, topical, and network data. The book, developed for use in an information visualization MOOC, covers data analysis algorithms that enable extraction of patterns and trends in data, with chapters devoted to “when” (temporal data), “where” (geospatial data), “what” (topical data), and “with whom” (networks and trees); and to systems that drive research and development. Examples of projects undertaken for clients include an interactive visualization of the success of game player activity in World of Warcraft; a visualization of 311 number adoption that shows the diffusion of non-emergency calls in the United States; a return on investment study for two decades of HIV/AIDS research funding by NIAID; and a map showing the impact of the HiveNYC Learning Network. Visual Insights will be an essential resource on basic information visualization techniques for scholars in many fields, students, designers, or anyone who works with data.




Illustrator 9 F/x and Design


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Aimed at those who want a better understanding of Illustrator's intermediate and advanced features, this book covers the product upgrades and leads readers through the process of creating intricate illustrations. The CD contains images and clip art; demo versions of Illustrator, Photoshop(, and Extensis filters; and all the files needed to complete the exercises.




Flash 5 Visual Insight


Book Description

London's in-depth guide teaches the fundamentals of Flash 5 while focusing on projects that show the full range of it's capabilities. It appeals to visual learners who need to see, rather than read, how to create something.




Illustrator 9 Visual Insight


Book Description

Collects real-world projects demonstrating Illustrator's basic features, including drawing techniques, layers, masks, filters, and actions.




Photoshop 6 Visual Insight


Book Description

Complemented by a variety of suggested real-world applications, a introductory guide to Photoshop 6 utlizes screenshots and instructional captions to explain how to utilize such features as paths, masks, layers, filters, and Web Graphics to create a variety of interesting visual effects. Original. (




The Art of Insight


Book Description

Learn how expert data visualization designers reason about their craft In The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think, renowned visualization designer and educator Alberto Cairo, in conversation with several leaders in the field, delivers an inspiring exploration of how they make design choices. The book is a celebration of visualization, and a personal journey that dives into subjects like: How the professional background and life experiences of every designer shape their choices of what to visualize and how to visualize it. What designers from different countries and cultures, and working in different fileds, such as data art, data analytics, or data journalism, have in common, or how they differ from each other. How designers reflect on research, ethical reasoning, and also aesthetic judgments, to make decisions such as selecting the most appropriate ways to encode data, or the most appealing visual style. Perfect for data scientists and data journalists, The Art of Insight will also inspire artists, analysts, statisticians, and any other professional who uses data visualizations.




A Companion to Illustration


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A contemporary synthesis of the philosophical, theoretical and practical methodologies of illustration and its future development Illustration is contextualized visual communication; its purpose is to serve society by influencing the many aspects of its cultural infrastructure; it dispenses knowledge and education, it commentates and delivers journalistic opinion, it persuades, advertises and promotes, it entertains and provides for all forms of narrative fiction. A Companion to Illustration explores the definition of illustration through cognition and research and its impact on culture. It explores illustration’s boundaries and its archetypal distinction, the inflected forms of its parameters, its professional, contextual, educational and creative applications. This unique reference volume offers insights into the expanding global intellectual conversation on illustration through a compendium of readings by an international roster of scholars, academics and practitioners of illustration and visual communication. Encompassing a wide range of thematic dialogues, the Companion offers twenty-five chapters of original theses, examining the character and making of imagery, illustration education and research, and contemporary and post-contemporary context and practice. Topics including conceptual strategies for the contemporary illustrator, the epistemic potential of active imagination in science, developing creativity in a polymathic environment, and the presentation of new insights on the intellectual and practical methodologies of illustration. Evaluates innovative theoretical and contextual teaching and learning strategies Considers the influence of illustration through cognition, research and cultural hypotheses Discusses the illustrator as author, intellectual and multi-disciplinarian Explores state-of-the-art research and contemporary trends in illustration Examines the philosophical, theoretical and practical framework of the discipline A Companion to Illustration is a valuable resource for students, scholars and professionals in disciplines including illustration, graphic and visual arts, visual communications, cultural and media and advertising studies, and art history.




Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours


Book Description

This step-by-step tutorial uses a friendly, conversational, noncondescending approach to teaching readers the basics of Illustrator 9. Covering both Macintosh and Windows platforms, this book covers the following topics: the interface, tools and palettes; setting preferences; drawing and editing objects; layers; working with selections, and more.




Books Always Everywhere


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Babies and toddlers join in an exuberant celebration of books of all shapes and sizes in this charming picture book. For little kids, books can be anything from a chair, to a tower, to a hat. But once little ones discover the magical world that can be found inside a book, the best thing a book can be—is a book! This joy of discovery is evident on the faces of these little kids as they open up a book and find a favorite story. In short, this book about books is so adorable and tempting, it will have toddlers and parents running to libraries and bookstores everywhere.