С помощью Adobe Photoshop 5.5 вы сможете создать яркий запоминающийся образ и с одинаковой легкостью адаптировать дизайн к помещению его на сайт или к печати. Вместо адской смеси различных программ, необходимых для создания комплексного веб-дизайна, вы теперь можете обратиться к одному первоклассному продукту. Полиграфист, профессионально работающий с допечатными процессами, Веб-мастер или Веб-креатор - все найдут в Photoshop 5.5 набор инструментов для создания лучшего решения в своей области. Adobe Photoshop 5.5 предлагает серию новых возможностей для веб-оптимизации файлов, позволяющую создавать высококачественную веб-графику с минимальными размерами файлов: вы можете сравнить несколько версий файла с различными установками степени сжатия, цветовых настроек и установок браузера в новом окне LiveView. С помощью этого инструмента вы сможете точно балансировать между качеством графики и ее размером. (См. "Оптимизация графики для Веб" www.illustrator.ru/articles/ software/Graphics_to_Web.pdf) Photoshop предлагает новую опцию GIF-формата: сжатие с потерей информации, позволяющее сократить размер файлов на 260-50% при минимальных потерях в качестве. Пакет Adobe Photoshop 5.5 включает в себя компонент ImageReady 2.0 для решения "продвинутых" веб-задач, таких как резка изображений на составные части, создание ролловеров, динамическая анимация и image maps. Этот компонент настолько интегрирован с Photoshop, что вы без труда будете работать с ними обоими. Более того, в одной программе вы сможете откатить операции, сделанные в другой, сохраняя слои и эффекты файла. Кроме этого, Photoshop включил в себя несколько креативных функций, рекомендованных пользователями. Теперь вы можете работать с новым инструментом выделения, более удобным в использовании и более точным в определении границ выделяемой области. Новая Art History Brush позволяет раскрашивать изображение мазками с цветом из выбранного источника из палитры History или Snapshot. Появились новые возможности у функции contact sheet, благодаря которым вы можете экспортировать одну картинку в разных размерах в виде набора. Вы также можете разместить на листе несколько картинок или организовать их в виде веб-галереи. Вместе все эти нововведения делают функциональность Adobe Photoshop 5.5 еще более совершенной. В этом документе рассмотрены новые мощные инструменты для работы с Веб-графикой, а также новые креативные возможности.

Written by designers for designers, this friendly guide covers every quirk of Quark, from panes and palettes to prepress and production--all the major tools for layout, text editing, special effects, Web page development, and more.

Learn by doing! Macromedia Studio 8: Training from the Source provides a comprehensive, working introduction to the most powerful Web design and development suite available. Starting from the ground up, you'll build two Web sites. In the first half of the book, you'll combine the strengths of Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver to create an attractive, yet maintainable site. In the second half of the book, you'll focus on building a powerful and dynamic user experience by combining Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Contribute, FlashPaper, and ColdFusion. The enclosed CD-ROM contains all the files you need to complete the projects, plus completed files for you to compare with your results and use as models for future projects.

In this book, renowned engineer, author and seminar leader Douglas Brooks teaches PCB designers how to successfully design boards for any high speed application. Brooks begins withan easy to understand electronics primer for every PCB designer, then offers practical, real world solutions for every important signal integrity problem. Based on his legendary seminars, this book offers even more design rules, specific recommendations, examples, illustrations and diagrams.

Use this book to learn Dreamweaver MX, the latest web development tool, and publish impressive web sites, as well as learn about Dreamweaver MX’s built-in support for the ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages, PHP, and ColdFustion MX programming languages.

Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverablesthe documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, author Dan Brown shows you how to make the documentation you're required to provide into the most efficient communications tool possible. He begins with an introductory section about deliverables and their place in the overall process, and then delves into to the different types of deliverables. From usability reports to project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, and more, each chapter includes a contents checklist, presentation strategy, maintenance strategy, a description of the development process and the deliverable's impact on the project, and more.

What Is Packaging Design? lays the foundations and professional guidelines for best practice when designing contemporary packaging. It opens with several short essays which define good packaging design and the issues faced by designers in this field. Design basics such as format, layout, and typography are explored within the context of packaging design, taking into account genre-specific elements such as product information, branding, marketing, and legislation.

In an industry that involves the skills, expertise, and labor of a wide-range of professionals and workers, good communications become crucial, and a common vocabulary is key to successful projects. Many of the terms used in landscape architecture, land planning, environmental planning, and landscape construction are unavailable, or so new, or industry-specific that they can’t be found in conventional dictionaries. This unique resource delivers definitions as well as how-to information via details and photos, going above and beyond the scope of a typical professional dictionary. With straightforward definitions and clear illustrations on each page, everyone from architects, designers, and contractors through grounds maintenance workers will benefit from this important resource. In addition, an appendix with labeled construction details will illustrate not just what a term means, but also how it’s applied in the profession.

Crawford and Kaplan's J2EE Design Patterns approaches the subject in a unique, highly practical and pragmatic way. Rather than simply present another catalog of design patterns, the authors broaden the scope by discussing ways to choose design patterns when building an enterprise application from scratch, looking closely at the real world tradeoffs that Java developers must weigh when architecting their applications. Then they go on to show how to apply the patterns when writing realworld software. They also extend design patterns into areas not covered in other books, presenting original patterns for data modeling, transaction / process modeling, and interoperability.

The understanding of design in general and the structure of scientific research in design inevitably leads to discussions of the central categories for design. Constructive debate and struggles for acceptance fuel such a process—a process that, as a sign of fruitful further refinement, can never be completely finished. It is well known that such a development, especially in design, cannot be addressed without obstacles and indeed dissent. Even within a single cultural or linguistic realm, the positions are supposedly irreconcilable. Any undertaking that attempts to create understanding across cultural and linguistic borders is that much more ambitious.

Hotel architecture tends to look like office building architecture in some cases, and not that interesting office architecture, but the dull type. Fortunately, there are also cases of unique and well thought architectural plans for hotels, showcased in this article through a few examples. A small number of these are just projects or in construction, but the rest are just architectural marvels.

The information age has created unparalleled opportunities for graphic designers to showcase their work across a variety of media. However, digital technology has often denied access to the deep color expertise that has been developed by generations of artists and designers working with physical media. Color Management is a unique, one-stop resource for designers and graphic artists in every field of visual communication, whether they are working in print, interactive, environmental, or web-based design. The book explains all the technical issues that are relevant to communicating with color, in two-dimensional and three-dimensional environments, and in still and moving images.

Ideal for a first course in digital electronics, yet comprehensive enough for use by students at the senior design project level and EET professionals, Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL uses programmable logic as the primary vehicle for instructing readers in the principles of digital design. More specifically, emphasis is on Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs) and the software tools used for their programming, with a decided shift away from fixed-function SSI and MSI devices. Immediately following discussion of digital fundamentals (e.g., Boolean algebra, logic minimization, combinational and sequential circuits), Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL introduces its readers to Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs). Subsequent chapters on the MAX+PLUS II design environment, combinational logic functions, arithmetic circuits, latches and flip-flops, PLD architecture, counters and shift registers, and state machines are all based primarily on CPLDs and VHDL programming. By featuring VHDL and MAX+PLUS II applications throughout the book, readers are guaranteed exposure to this new digital paradigm as an integral part of their training, rather than as an optional add-on. Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL also includes a CD-ROM that provides the reader with a complete digital design and prototyping system that can be used at school…or at home. Included are graphic design files, VHDL files, plus all of the simulation files from the examples presented in the book. Readers may opt to run simulations or program CPLDs with these ready-to-use, error-free files. Or, they may choose to use the files as templates for their own modifications.

3D Game Engine Design is the first book to go beyond basic descriptions of algorithms and accurately demonstrate the complex engineering process required to design and build a real-time graphics engine to support physical realism. Faster algorithms will always win out over faster processors and assembly-language optimization techniques. Implementing those algorithms, however, can be a challenge for even experienced programmers.

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This thesis describes the hardware design of a hybrid system for the composition and performance of electronic music in real-time. While analog circuitry is primarily employed in the generation and processing of sounds, digital circuitrsy is devoted to the exercise of control, under the immediate supervision of the composer/performer. Such a digital vs. analog partition, together with a proper choice of the man vs. machine interface, is intended to satisfy the niuch emphasized musical need for the immediate, real-time interaction between the composer/performer and his instrument.

This beautifully illustrated guide celebrates some of the most significant award winning public spaces in major cities in the UK and Ireland over the last ten years.Dealing with a range of contemporary and innovating designed landscapes from urban spaces to public parks, this book focuses on those that have been awarded the highest design accolade from the Royal Institute of British Architects, The Royal Town andPlanning Institute, The Landscape Institute and The Civic Trust. Focusing on designs in ten major cities, and providing a snappy synopsis of each of the spaces in terms of its design statement, function, location, design team and award commentary, It illustrates tothe reader what makes 'good design' in the public realm, providing both information and inspiration.* Beautifully illustrated guide to award winning contemporary urban spaces in the UK and Ireland* Covers a diverse selection of spaces from parks to water fronts to city spaces* Provides a synopsis for each design including comments from each of the judging panels involved