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So you've made the jump to digital photography and you're having a ball with your new camera, right? Now, you're wondering just what it would take to make your photos a little more than just snapshots. Well, Digital Art Photography For Dummies is a great place to find out!You'll not only discover great new ideas, you'll see the effects in full color. This book will help youGet fabulous, well-exposed photos, no matter what your shooting conditions may beTweak, edit, and enhance your images to create something a lot better than what you started with, or maybe something entirely newProduce gallery-worthy art prints that people are willing to pay forFind out if it's time to upgrade your computer to handle graphics workSound like fun? This plain-English g...

There's a pattern here, and here's how to use it!Find out how the 23 leading design patterns can save you time and troubleEver feel as if you've solved this programming problem before? You -- or someone -- probably did, and that's why there's a design pattern to help this time around. This book shows you how (and when) to use the famous patterns developed by the "Gang of Four," plus some new ones, all designed to make your programming life easier.Discover how to:* Simplify the programming process with design patterns* Make the most of the Decorator, Factory, and Adapter patterns* Identify which pattern applies* Reduce the amount of code needed for a task* Create your own patterns...

As the fastest growing dashboarding solution on the market, Xcelsius is an intuitive stand-alone Windows application that enables Excel users to transform the contents of an ordinary Excel spreadsheet into an engaging, interactive Flash-based dashboardOffers step-by-step instruction on the wide array of functionality that Xcelsius has to offer so that readers can complete mini-dashboards of increasing complexity with each chapterAddresses how to prepare Excel spreadsheets for use with Xcelsius dashboards and then use basic components of Xcelsius (charts, buttons, labels)Shows ways to add advanced functionality to dashboards (gauges, sliders, maps) and create interactive business calculators with XcelsiusDiscusses integrating Xcelsius reports into Pow...

A report is only useful if those who receive it understand what it means. Knowing how to use Crystal Reports gives you the edge in producing reports from your database that really are crystal clear.Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies is a quick and easy guide to get you going with the latest version of this bestselling report-writing software. In fact, it's so popular that previous editions have made it a bestseller too. Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies gives you just what you should know to produce the reports you'll need most often, including how to:Pull specific information from your database, sort and group it, and find the details you needUse dynamic or cascading promptsTroubleshoot and print reports and save time with templatesView reports on your...