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Country Streams Screensaver 3.6.0

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Five beautiful paintings come to life with rippling streams and playful butterflies. Soft piano music plays in the background.

Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio

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Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio
O’Reilly Media | ISBN: 059600849X | 257 pages | August 22, 2005 | CHM | 6MB

 
For both Mac and Windows PC users, Photoshop CS2 is the market leader and industry standard for commercial bitmap image manipulation. Also known as the “digital dark room,” Photoshop is the unparalleled tool of choice among graphics professionals and hobby photographers alike.
Written by 20-year photo retouching veteran Glenn Honiball, Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the only book to deliver advice for the photographer and artist working with Photoshop CS 2 in a real world commercial environment. Honiball offers incomparable technical and artistic guidance for professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating and manipulating digital images.
Production artists face unrealistically tight deadlines and heavy workloads that leave little time for trial and error. Photo retouchers need practical, immediate Photoshop solutions to help them produce quality images with minimal effort and in a short amount of time. All the tools, techniques, and skills you need to achieve consistent, professional results with Photoshop CS2 can be found in Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio.
Anyone with intermediate-to-advanced Photoshop skills–whether you want to explore photo retouching personally or as an imaging professional or student–can use Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio to produce sharp, expert, extraordinary photos that don’t look retouched.
Under Honibell’s seasoned direction, you’ll be able to tackle your greatest photo-retouching challenges with ease, precision and efficiency. He guides you through Photoshop CS2’s new and innovative features; explains advanced capabilities; shows you how to adapt and custom-fit the software to meet your needs; offers time-saving tips for accelerating your workflow; and delivers advice and inspiration for exercising your own creative genius.
Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the ideal resource for any digital artist who wants to develop and perfect professional-level retouching using Photoshop CS 2. With this book, you will bring photo correction and manipulation to a whole new level.

Flash MX Design for TV and Video

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* Includes perspectives from both traditional broadcast animators and seasoned Flash animators.
* Provides information on pitfalls to avoid and where to find additional resources on Flash, animation, and television production.
* Packed with tips, techniques, and case studies from shops on the cutting edge of Flash development.
* Companion Website includes dynamic examples from the book and links to the hottest broadcast Flash animation created by third parties.

Crystal Reports 9 on Oracle

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Maximize Crystal Reports in the Oracle Environment
Create dynamic, effective reports from Oracle databases using Crystal Reports 9 and the extensive information in this practical resource. Learn to use one of the most powerful data analysis tools to draw information from Oracle databases, query and rank data, consolidate results, and develop integrated, interactive reports. Plus, leverage the power of the Oracle database in your reports. You’ll find full details on everything from Oracle SQL and PL/SQL functions, procedures, and expressions to the Oracle data dictionary and the new Crystal object repository. Get the insider advice you need to optimize performance, solve difficult reporting problems, and integrate non-Oracle data.

Essential Skills for Database Professionals
* Install and configure the components required to use Crystal Reports with Oracle
* List, summarize, and rank data using Oracle SQL Select options
* Formulate and maintain a data dictionary report
* Configure, update, and administer the Crystal object repository
* Use Oracle Flashback to document past database states
* Improve efficiency with Oracle optimizers and parse reduction
* Use PL/SQL stored procedures as data sources in Crystal Reports
* Optimize report performance using SQL Expressions and SQL Commands

Quickbase: The Missing Manual

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Nancy Connner, «Quickbase: The Missing Manual»
O’Reilly | ISBN 0596529600 | October 1, 2006 | CHM | 9.9Mb

Overview

QuickBase is a Web-based, workgroup-friendly, data-sharing program that puts you in control of your work. Like a crackerjack assistant, it lets you quickly and easily manage and share the information that makes your business tick: sales figures, project timelines, drafts of documents, purchase or work requests–whatever you need to keep business flowing smoothly. No more coordinating your team through a blizzard of emails or playing frustrating games of “guess which document is the right one.”

Still, QuickBase is a database at heart, and most mortals need some guidance to get it humming perfectly. If you’re the type who thinks designing a database solution for your business needs sounds about as fun and easy as a do-it-yourself root canal, prepare to have your mind changed. QuickBase: The Missing Manual will show you where to dive in (the water’s fine!) and how to get started. Before you know it, you’ll want to use QuickBase for everything from managing sales leads to organizing your grandmother’s recipe collection.

If, on the other hand, you’ve been managing information and designing databases ever since you first got bored with coloring books and nursery rhymes-if you dream in rows and columns-QuickBase: The Missing Manual will elevate you to QuickBase guru, helping you use the site to its full potential.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Signing Up and Taking a Quick Tour
Creating an Account
Using Your My QuickBase Page
Getting Started with Applications
Different Ways of Viewing Your Data
QuickBase’s View Formats
Creating, Editing, and Printing Views
Tips for Creating Specific View Types
Working with Data and Documents
Getting Data and Documents into QuickBase
Finding, Changing, and Exporting Data
Editing and Collaborating on Documents
Reports, Change Notifications, and Reminders
Sending Reports to Yourself and Others
Modifying Report Subscriptions
Triggering Change Notification Emails
Sending Reminders
Using vCard and iCalendar with QuickBase
Planning Your QuickBase Solution
Defining the Problem
Exploring Your Workflow
Tracking Information
Keeping the Team on Track
From Planning to Application
Using QuickBase’s Prebuilt Applications
A Tour of QuickBase’s Templates
Templates in Action: Three Examples
Creating an Application from a Template
Adapting a Template to Suit Your Needs
Creating Your Own Application
Building a New Application
Creating an Application by Importing Data
Modifying an Application’s Properties
Managing Applications
The Administrator’s Dashboard
Sharing an Application
Managing Applications
Managing Tables
Managing Roles and Groups
Managing Roles
Managing Groups
Creating Relationships Between Tables
How Table Relationships Work
Creating a Relationship
Working with Advanced Fields
Automating QuickBase with Formulas, Forms, and Dynamic Rules
Writing Formulas
Customizing Forms
The QuickBase API
Exact Forms: Creating Sophisticated Reports
Downloading and Opening the Template
Designing the Exact Form
Saving Your Exact Form
Printing Your Documents from an Exact Form
Editing an Exact Form
The Missing Credits

Ophthalmic Drug Facts 2007

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Ophthalmic Drug Facts is the definitive single source of objective, up-to-date drug information for eye care professionals. Both Rx and OTC products are grouped by therapeutic category for quick, easy reference and comparison. Detailed monographs include all of the drug information that practitioners need to make therapeutic decisions: actions, interactions, adverse reactions, contraindications, dosages, off-label uses, and patient information. The book also includes dozens of charts, tables, and administration illustrations, contact lens products, a manufacturers index, and selected AOA practice guidelines. A comprehensive index helps the reader locate drugs by generic or brand name, synonym, common abbreviation, or therapeutic group.