Design remarkably realistic creatures, people, and objects using ZBrush and the new edition of this top selling book. Professional Hollywood animator and ZBrush artist Eric Keller combines his firsthand experience with detailed, step by step explanations to make you feel right at home with the interface and tools. The book reinforces the core concepts of ZBrush through fun, hands on tutorials that will help you achieve amazing results.

Completely free and highly robust, Ubuntu has the power to bring the Linux desktop to the masses. Introducing Ubuntu: Desktop Linux is your key to learning this new, userfriendly, and free alternative to Windows. Think of it as a personal tutorial, a one-on-one class with an expert user of Ubuntu. It begins by helping you choose the right Ubuntu for you (yes, theres more than one), and guides you through installing Ubuntu, managing the desktop, installing printers, and getting online. From there, the book moves on to describe how to perform everyday tasks under Ubuntu, such as sending and receiving e-mail, playing MP3s and movies, messaging with friends, working with digital images, and much more. Theres plenty of information on how to use OpenOffice.org programs such as Writer, Calc, and Impress as well. While this is an excellent book for the general consumer, the book also addresses businessoriented users of Ubuntu for the small to mediumsized business (SMB) market through the use of sidebars. This is the only "up-and-running" guide to Ubuntu you will ever need.

Clean Up, Edit, and Get Creative with Audio
Audition is a highly regarded audio post-production application that blends fast performance and professional tools with an extremely user-friendly interface. In CS5.5, Audition has greatly expanded its reach, replacing Adobe Soundbooth in many of the Creative Suite bundles and running natively on the Mac for the first time. In this course, Adobe Certified Instructor Maxim Jago introduces you to Audition’s powerful features, which include a multitrack editing environment, a comprehensive mixer, track-based controls and effects, and a separate effects rack, as well as extraordinary audio correction tools. Whether you’re new to audio editing or have experience with Soundbooth, Premiere Pro, or earlier versions of Audition, this course will get you rolling with Audition CS5.5 in a hurry.

Our StrumMaker strumming engine for creating realistic rhythm guitar parts. Choose from many preset chords or create your own!The pickup switch on the guitar is "real". That is, we took a perfectly good strat, pulled off the pick guard, and soldered a separate jack to each pickup.

Clean Up, Edit, Get creative with audio. Audition is a very popular post-production audio application that combines fast performance and professional tools with a very user-friendly interface. In CS5.5, Audition has significantly expanded its scope, replacing in many Adobe Soundbooth Creative Suite bundle and run natively on Mac for the first time. In this course, Adobe Certified Instructor Maxim Jago presents Audition powerful features that include a multitrack editing environment, a full mixer, based on the slopes of control and effects, and a separate effects rack, and extraordinary audio correction tools. Whether you are new to audio editing or experience with Soundbooth, Premiere Pro, or earlier versions of the hearing, this course will get you rolling with CS5.5 hearing in a hurry.

Revit all-stars present a fast, focused introduction to Revit functions, tools, and concepts
Hailed for its ease of use, power, and sophistication, Revit is the industry-leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software package. Introducing Revit Architecture provides a thorough overview of Revits concepts, interface conventions, tools, and tasks. In-depth discussions, reinforced by comprehensive step-by-step exercises, detail how to model, document, present, and share designs. Written by expert authors – all architects with years of Revit experience – Introducing Revit Architecture is the perfect resource for readers of all skill levels who want to quickly accomplish crucial Revit tasks.

OurStrumMaker strumming engine for creating realistic rhythm guitar parts.Choose from many preset chords or create your own!The pickup switch onthe guitar is real. That is, we took a perfectly good strat, pulledoff the pick guard, and soldered a separate jack to each pickup.

An Autodesk Official Training Guide to 3ds Max 2011
3ds Max is a popular 3D animation-and-effects software used in movies, visual effects, games, cartoons, short films, commercials, and other animation. However, it also presents a number of challenges to newcomers. This introduction to the latest version breaks down the complexities of learning 3D software and walks you through the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and using visual effects. Real-world examples from talented beginning 3ds max users motivate you to learn the software and helpful tutorials offer realistic, professional challenges for you to unravel. In addition, each chapter is richly illustrated with workflows to make learning 3ds max 2011 much easier and fn.

This text introduces the field of communication to students who may have little or no background in communication theory. Its three overriding goals are to help students understand the pervasiveness of theory in their lives, to demystify the theoretical process, and to help students become more systematic and critical in their thinking about theory.

What’s a Web application? Basically, it’s a set of publicly accessible pages bound to a well-known URL. No matter which direction Web-related technologies take in the future, this basic fact will never change. The reason is the underlying transport protocol, HTTP. If we were to change the underlying protocol, we would end up with a different type of application. Period.

The release of .NET 4.0 this year brings in a wide range of changes to the .NET Framework across a broad front ranging from C# to Silverlight, from WPF to ‘Oslo’. Many familiar technologies are being over-hauled, best practices are being changed and developer methodologies altered. With so many new ideas appearing developers are finding it hard to keep track of the opportunities that are opening up.

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s next-generation cloud-computing operating system and is designed to provide companies with new business opportunities as they migrate towards hosted services.

Introducing Microsoft Azure provides all the information developers need to get started with this new technology and apply it across a range of situations. Presented in a clear, concise, manner this book provides a carefully measured learning curve for surmounting the architectural and coding challenges that need to be faced when building a well-balanced Windows Azure service.

Introducing Physical Geography, Fifth Edition is a comprehensive text that builds upon the decades of success of Strahler, who is one of the foremost geographers in the world. This new fifth edition includes all new sections with the capabilities of connecting to multimedia and covers new updates to the subject area. The text also includes current examples of environmental phenomena relating to the global changes. The readability of the text has been enhanced with new placements of boxed features and supplementary material.

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is an approach to psychotherapy and organizational change popular among people keen to live fuller, more successful, and more rewarding lives. Whether you’re a salesperson wanting to close more deals or a teacher whod like to inspire their pupils, this Introducing Practical Guide is for you.

Over the course of its over ten-year history, Final Cut Pro has become the video editor of choice across all levels of video production, from independent filmmakers to episodic broadcast TV and feature film. With the latest release, Final Cut Pro X, Apple has redesigned the application from the ground up — making it more approachable and easier to learn and use, while still providing many of the features professionals need. In this course, Joseph Linaschke takes you through the basics of Final Cut Pro X to get you ready to start editing as quickly as possible. You’ll learn the fundamentals of video editing while also getting up to speed on advanced features like auto shot-detection, keyword ranges, auto color balance and matching, auto stabilization analysis, and much more.

Your first look at the easy-to-use tools for building your own data-driven website
Get a running start with Microsoft WebMatrix—the free, downloadable web development solution featuring all the tools you need for server-side programming. This practical book introduces the templates, helper libraries, and other tools in WebMatrix for building and customizing a data-driven site—including techniques for adding video, email, web forms, and other features. Learn how easy it can be to create a dynamic web presence for your small business or organization with WebMatrix.