The RAW file format is the uncompressed data file captured by a digital camera's electronic sensor. When your camera saves an image in RAW format, settings like white balance, sharpening, contrast and saturation are not applied to the image but are saved instead in a separate header. Because RAW files remain virtually untouched by in-camera processing, they are essentially the digital equivalent to exposed but undeveloped film.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to WordPerfect 11 reveals all the secrets necessary to meet your word processing needs. This guide starts from the very beginning and then takes you step-by-step through the essential tasks to produce any type of document, including: letters, invoices, lists, reports, newsletters, invitations, charts, presentations, spreadsheets, and much more. With its lighthearted tone and straightforward approach, you'll be using WordPerfect 11 with confidence in no time!

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The third edition of this best-selling book, published in full color, has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and newer browsers, including Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8. It's the most complete question-and-answer book on CSS, with over 100 tutorials that'll show you how to gain more control over the appearance of your web page, create sophisticated Web page navigation controls, design for today's alternative browsing devices including phones and screen readers, and much more.

Surreal digital photography is not only an enjoyable extension of many enthusiast’s repertoire, but is has firmly established a foothold in the world of art. This book reveals the latest developments in the field and demystifies the techniques used by modern surreal photographers, whether they favor SOOC (straight out of the camera) or sophisticated digital manipulations. Breaking down the shooting and editing process for any reader to follow and emulate, this book provides step-by-step instructions for creating extraordinary scenes. With contributions from numerous artists—including Natalie Dybisz, Jon Jacobsen and Dariusz Klimczak— readers will be able to explore many different artistic styles from impossible landscapes to unsettling portraits.

David D. Busch has been demystifying arcane computer and imaging technology since the early 1980s. However, he had a successful career as a professional photographer for a decade before he sat down at the keyboard of his first personal computer. Busch has worked as a newspaper photographer, done commercial studio and portrait work, shot weddings, and roved the United States and Europe as a photojournalist. His articles on photography and image editing have appeared in magazines as diverse as Popular Photography and Imaging, Petersen's PhotoGraphic, Rangefinder, and The Professional Photographer, as well as computer magazines such as Macworld and Computer Shopper. He's currently reviewing digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper.

Здесь рассматриваются основополагающие вопросы, необходимые для начала работы на С#. В книге дается обзор С# и .NET Framework, рассказывается, что представляют собой эти технологии, какие причины побуждают ими пользоваться и каким образом эти технологии соотносятся между собой. Начнем мы с самого общего рассмотрения .NET Framework. Это новая технология, и она включает множество понятий, которые на первый взгляд кажутся хитроумными (так как .NET Framework использует принципиально новый подход к разработке приложений). Отсюда следует, что при обсуждении этой темы вам за короткий промежуток времени придется столкнуться с большим количеством новых понятий. Однако это неизбежно, поскольку знание основ крайне важно для понимания программирования на С#. В книге многие из этих тем будут рассмотрены повторно и более детально. Далее приводится упрощенное описание собственно языка С#; среди прочего будут рассмотрены его корни и черты сходства с C++. Наконец, вы познакомитесь с основным инструментом, который будет использоваться на протяжении всей книги,— Visual Studio.NET (VS).

Nowadays, not only tackling the phenomena of physics, but also many issues in technology, engineering and production, oftentimes require complicated mathematical processing. Recently, a CEO of an industrial plant revealed that, through application of a boundary value problem of elastic stress, he was able to save 30 percent in material. It seems that close cooperation of sci- ence with technology and production is more relevant today than ever. Many processes of production and technology can be simulated through differential equations. Knowledge of these mathematical procedures and their applica- tions is therefore not only essential in theory for the student, but also vital for the practitioner, the engineer, physicist or technologist.

This incisive, witty book looks at some of the most influential marketing and business philosophies in technology and, through hindsight, provides an educational and vastly entertaining examination of why they didn't work.

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With compelling insights and illuminating examples, the author reveals how Web sites, software applications, and mobile devices can be used to change people’s attitudes and behavior.

No two crime scenes are the same, and each scene presents a unique set of obstacles to overcome. While there is no one "right" way to handle every situation, the goal of collecting evidence while preserving its integrity remains the constant motivation of the crime scene investigator.

50 Fast Photoshop "X" Techniques for is an immensely useful book for anyone wanting to take advantage of the very latest release of the world's top digital imaging tool, Adobe Photoshop. The techniques are valuable to both pros and hobbyists alike - they enable everyone to enjoy successful creation of fine art images and prints! The step-by-step and richly illustrated collection of awesome techniques are easily accessible and understandable to users on every level. This is a new kind of Photoshop book-one that can help both casual users through professional users save time while creating professional quality images and effects!

This guide explains the operation of Bluetooth devices, how the marketplace is growing for short-range wireless devices, and how Bluetooth compares with other technologies.

Provides a detailed examination of computer science and technology, including a chronology of significant events in computing, a listing of achievements in the field, and brief descriptions and contact information for important organizations in the computer field. Major corporations and organizations in the computer field are covered, as well as many new biographies.

Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted sweeping social welfare and public health measures to safeguard people's well-being. Extensive state surveillance of the population went hand in hand with literacy campaigns, political education, and efforts to instill in people an appreciation of high culture. In Cultivating the Masses, David L. Hoffmann examines the Party leadership's pursuit of these seemingly contradictory policies in order to grasp fully the character of the Stalinist regime, a regime intent on transforming the socioeconomic order and the very nature of its citizens. To analyze Soviet social policies, Hoffmann places them in an international comparative context. He explains Soviet technologies of social intervention as one particular constellation of modern state practices. These practices developed in conjunction with the ambitions of nineteenth-century European reformers to refashion society, and they subsequently prompted welfare programs, public health initiatives, and reproductive regulations in countries around the world. The mobilizational demands of World War I impelled political leaders to expand even further their efforts at population management, via economic controls, surveillance, propaganda, and state violence. Born at this moment of total war, the Soviet system institutionalized these wartime methods as permanent features of governance. Party leaders, whose dictatorship included no checks on state power, in turn attached interventionist practices to their ideological goal of building socialism.