Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Digital Photo Art or CSS Web Design for Dummies

Digital Photo Art: Transform Your Images with Traditional and Contemporary Art Techniques

Author: Theresa Airey

With its inventive blend of classic art and contemporary digital techniques, this fresh, exciting guide offers photographers and visual artists an array of creative concepts and projects found nowhere else.

Go beyond the boundaries of the simple digital photograph with these exciting mixed-media art techniques that employ both computer software and traditional hands-on materials. This unique blend of the classic and the new results in eye-catching images that incorporate painting, printmaking, photography, and digital art. Every magnificent page displays exciting and groundbreaking ways to utilize today's digital tools. Use programs such as nik Color Efex Pro! and Adobe Photoshop to reproduce the effects of an old bromoil print or a watercolor painting. With Lazertran inkjet paper, varnish, and turpentine, create a pseudo Polaroid transfer that looks just like an original. Hand color photographs with pastel pencils, or try encaustic wax for an otherworldly effect. With these time-honored artist's tools and modern computer effects, the sky's the limit on creativity.



Book review: Access 2003 Programming by Example with VBA XML and ASP or Game Design

CSS Web Design for Dummies

Author: Richard Mansfield



• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a Web markup standard that allows Web designers to define the appearance and position of a Web page using special dynamic effects

• This book is the perfect beginner reference, showing those new to CSS how to design Web pages and implement numerous useful CSS effects available

• Seasoned For Dummies author Richard Mansfield explains how CSS can streamline and speed up Web development

• Explains how to take control of the many elements in a Web page, integrate CSS into new or existing sites, choose the best coding techniques, and execute advanced visual effects such as transitions

• U Features a special discussion on browser incompatibility issues involving CSS and how to solve potential problems



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