The Hidden PowerTM of FlashTM Components


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Flash Components: The Key to Faster Development and Sophisticated Functionality You don't have to be a programmer to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how--and the enclosed CD provides a library of powerful components ready for you to practice with, build upon, and use in your own projects. For those of you with just a little programming experience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of your experience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be within your reach. Coverage includes: Determining the most effective ways to leverage components Avoiding component pitfalls Customizing external resources for use with components Building your own components Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for a component Customizing component artwork Using components to build games Understanding the difference between components and SmartClips Troubleshooting component construction and application Using multiple components to create more complex effects Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.




The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2


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Unlock Photoshop Elements' Awesome Power with Sophisticated Techniques and Original Power Tools Until now, Adobe's Photoshop Elements hasn't been considered powerful or full-featured enough for serious image correction. This is the book that changes that forever, revealing advanced features locked inside Photoshop Elements, ready to be turned loose. All you need are the techniques found in this book and the author's custom Hidden Power Tools included on the CD--powerful enhancements that unlock key Photoshop features, like curves, channel separations in RGB and CMYK, and masking. Soon you'll do more with Photoshop Elements than you ever thought possible, including: * Radically upgrade the quality of your color results using channels, custom separations, and image luminosity * Alter reality by creating new photo-realistic objects and adding them to existing images * Create dynamic images for the Web using animation and rollovers * Correct and enhance image tone and color with Curves, Color Balance, and custom layer-blending tools * Make complicated masks and advanced selections to easily target your corrections * Create original, scalable line art for logos by harnessing the power of customized vectors See the author's supporting web site at www.hiddenelements.com.




The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 3


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Clear Instruction + Custom Power Tools = Supercharged Results from Photoshop Elements Thanks to release 3, which offers RAW support and 16-bit image editing for digital photographers, Photoshop Elements is more powerful than ever. But here's the real news: this popular application already contains a huge stash of hidden power that anyone with the right knowledge and tools can put to work. In this thorough update of his award-winning best-seller, Richard Lynch supplies those tools, plus the in-depth background and detailed instruction you need to apply them effectively. In no time, you'll be using Photoshop Elements to get results you never thought possible. For example: Get better color by using channels, custom separations, and image luminosity Create photo-realistic objects and incorporate them into existing images Use animation and rollovers to make images dynamic Correct image tone and color with Curves, Color Balance, and custom layer-blending tools Target your corrections by using advanced masks and selections Use vectors to create scalable line art for logos




Red Justice


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The Justice League has been called to the Ural Mountains in Russia where a decaying nuclear reactor threatens to melt down. The heroes are able to shut down the reactor, but in doing so they also cut off the power to a long-forgotten cryogenic lab hidden deep under the mountains. A group of genetically engineered meta-humans frozen in the lab are revived. Code-named Red Dawn, they are endowed with powers that rival and mirror those of the Justice League. The Justice League has finally met its match–unless the Flash can save them in time.




GC Inlets


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Backpacker


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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.







Popular Science


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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.







Cycle World


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