Grafika komputerowa
Robin Nichols
Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results has now become a must-have skill for bloggers, influencers, all social media users, and photography enthusiasts.Photoshop Elements 2022 has all the right tools to help you manage your growing multimedia assets and significantly boost your creative output.This fourth edition is updated with Elements 2022's latest features, including Adobe's AI-powered tools that perfectly complement its entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most from your image files in a simple, easy-to-follow way. You'll find out how to add significant visual improvements to your projects using brilliant AI-driven single-click edits or through more complex manual adjustments, all depending on your skill level and requirements. The book is packed with clear instructions to guide you effortlessly through the hundreds of processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements 2022. You'll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable images using photos, text, graphics, downloadable content, animation, and a range of fantastic AI-driven features.By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2022 with confidence.
Robin Nichols
Dive into the world of digital photo editing with this latest edition, crafted by a seasoned photographer and digital imaging expert, and harness the full potential of the latest Photoshop Elements 2024. With a unique blend of in-depth tutorials and practical applications, this book is an essential resource for photographers at all levels. Alongside introducing new features like Dark Mode, Match Color, and Photo Reels, as well as advanced techniques like layering and artistic effects, this book addresses common user feedback from previous editions, ensuring a refined and user-friendly experience. With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to leverage AI to stitch widescreen panoramas, remove people from backgrounds, defocus backgrounds, recompose images, and even create a range of calendars and greeting cards for your friends and family.You’ll take your prowess to the next level by learning how to correct optical distortion, reshape images, exploit layers, layer masking, and get to grips with sharpening techniques to create the perfect picture or imaginative fantasy illustration. The online realms of animation, video creation, and third-party plugins will also be covered.By the end of this book, you'll know how to leverage the incredible features of Photoshop Elements 2024 with complete confidence.
Robin Nichols
Adobe Photoshop Elements is a raster graphics editor for entry-level photographers, image editors, and hobbyists. Though it shares many of Photoshop CC's high-end features, it also boasts a significant number of simple to use, yet highly effective tools not found at the professional level.This book presents the complexities of image editing in easy-to-follow, bite-sized chunks, allowing you to quickly recognize the editing challenge, and helps you to identify the tools and techniques required to make improvements, and to apply those techniques quickly and efficiently. You will start by learning how to import, organize, manage, edit, and use your pictures in a format that's designed for creative photography projects. Going further, you'll discover how to fix a wide range of photographic problems based on the book's extensive repertoire of commonly applied solutions. You'll be escorted through a wide range of common processes that include applying artistic effects to creative projects, custom image makeovers, processing images for social media, and other file export methods.Towards the end of the book, you will understand what the most important tools and features actually do in Photoshop Elements, answering the often-asked question; What, when, and where would you use these features in a precise and practical way.
Roy Shilkrot, David Millán Escrivá
Mastering OpenCV, now in its third edition, targets computer vision engineers taking their first steps toward mastering OpenCV. Keeping the mathematical formulations to a solid but bare minimum, the book delivers complete projects from ideation to running code, targeting current hot topics in computer vision such as face recognition, landmark detection and pose estimation, and number recognition with deep convolutional networks.You’ll learn from experienced OpenCV experts how to implement computer vision products and projects both in academia and industry in a comfortable package. You’ll get acquainted with API functionality and gain insights into design choices in a complete computer vision project. You’ll also go beyond the basics of computer vision to implement solutions for complex image processing projects.By the end of the book, you will have created various working prototypes with the help of projects in the book and be well versed with the new features of OpenCV4.
Ricardo Zea
Building powerful and accessible websites and apps using HTML5 and CSS3 is a must if we want to create memorable experiences for our users. In the ever-changing world of web design and development, being proficient in responsive web design is no longer an option: it is mandatory.Each chapter will take you one step closer to becoming an expert in RWD. Right from the start your skills will be pushed as we introduce you to the power of Sass, the CSS preprocessor, to increase the speed of writing repetitive CSS tasks. We’ll then use simple but meaningful HTML examples, and add ARIA roles to increase accessibility. We’ll also cover when desktop-first or mobile-first approaches are ideal, and strategies to implement a mobile-first approach in your HTML builds.After this we will learn how to use an easily scalable CSS grid or, if you prefer, how to use Flexbox instead. We also cover how to implement images and video in both responsive and responsible ways. Finally, we build a solid and elegant typographic scale, and make sure your messages and communications display correctly with responsive emails.
Marco Secchi, Marcos Romero
Modern game development demands performance, scalability, and control that visual scripting alone cannot provide. Unreal Engine 5’s C++ system offers this power—but mastering it requires a deeper understanding of engine architecture and gameplay design. In this book, you’ll learn how to use C++ to build efficient gameplay systems, optimize performance, and structure scalable game architectures. You’ll explore core engine systems, implement complex logic, and use profiling and debugging techniques to refine and improve your code. Guided by real-world examples and a practical project, you’ll apply these concepts in realistic development scenarios, gaining the confidence to manage complexity and make informed technical decisions. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design, develop, and optimize advanced gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5 using C++. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Dariush Derakhshani
Poznaj potęgę programu Maya i wejdź w świat profesjonalnej animacji oraz realistycznej grafiki 3D! Jak sprawnie poruszać się w środowisku programu Maya? Jak modelować, organizować i animować obiekty na scenie? Jak tworzyć cyfrowe oświetlenie i niezwykłe efekty specjalne? "Władca Pierścieni", "Matrix", "Shrek" i "Avatar"… to tylko część filmów, w których za porywającą animacją i niezwykle realistyczną grafiką stoi program Maya. Jeśli miałeś okazję widzieć choćby jeden z tych kultowych obrazów, zapewne już wiesz, jak ogromny potencjał kryje się w potężnym narzędziu firmy Autodesk. Maya, od lat używana głównie przez wielkie wytwórnie filmowe i czołowych producentów gier komputerowych do tworzenia niesamowitych efektów specjalnych i modeli 3D, dziś stała się bardziej dostępna zarówno pod względem ceny, jak i wymagań sprzętowych. W związku z tym coraz częściej trafia do amatorów w dziedzinie tworzenia trójwymiarowej grafiki i animacji. Jedynymi ograniczeniami w korzystaniu ze wszystkich magicznych możliwości tego programu pozostają już tylko umiejętność jego sprawnej obsługi i… granice ludzkiej wyobraźni! Oto podręcznik, który stanowi tak doskonałe wprowadzenie w świat grafiki trójwymiarowej i programu Maya, że nie pozostanie Ci nic innego, jak tylko uwolnić swoją kreatywność i zacząć tworzyć niezwykłe animacje! Najpierw zdobędziesz ogólną wiedzę o procesie powstawania filmów animowanych i poszczególnych fazach ich produkcji, a potem prześledzisz każde działanie od początku do końca, by zrozumieć, jak odbywa się to w praktyce. Dzięki licznym przykładom i praktycznym ćwiczeniom zaczniesz swobodnie poruszać się w środowisku programu Maya, a także dowiesz się, jak program ten definiuje i organizuje obiekty na scenie. Stopniowo opanujesz tajniki komputerowego modelowania oraz zdobędziesz wszystkie umiejętności pozwalające na teksturowanie, cieniowanie i — co najważniejsze — animowanie stworzonych modeli. Przeczytasz także o tworzeniu i edycji cyfrowego oświetlenia oraz dokładnie zgłębisz niezwykle istotny proces renderowania. Na koniec zajmiesz się tworzeniem zachwycających efektów specjalnych i nadawaniem obrazom pożądanej, naturalnie wyglądającej dynamiki. Z tym podręcznikiem: poznasz podstawowe pojęcia z zakresu trójwymiarowej grafiki komputerowej opanujesz interfejs programu Maya 2011 utworzysz prostą animację planet w Układzie Słonecznym poznasz właściwości powierzchni NURBS i wielopodziałowych wymodelujesz ludzką dłoń, szkatułkę i parowóz odkryjesz niuanse cieniowania i teksturowania obiektów nauczysz się riggować modele pod kątem automatyzowania animacji, stosowania systemów kinematycznych, więzów itp. opanujesz oświetlanie obrazami HDR, animowanie zgodne z zasadami dynamiki i malowanie efektów Naucz się modelowania, animowania, teksturowania i oświetlania cyfrowych scen na najwyższym, profesjonalnym poziomie!
Midjourney. Leverage The Future Of Creativity
Adrian Twarog
Unleash the full potential of Midjourney by mastering the essentials of prompt creation. The book begins with an in-depth exploration of prompt anatomy, teaching you the key components that make up an effective input. From there, you'll move on to crafting your first Midjourney prompt, gaining confidence as you bring your creative ideas to life.As you progress, you'll delve into the vital commands and the parameter list that enable you to fine-tune your results. Each concept is broken down into actionable insights, ensuring you fully understand how to control Midjourney’s output. By learning the interplay of these elements, you’ll start crafting outputs tailored to your vision.Finally, advanced techniques take center stage, showing you how to push the boundaries of your creativity. Whether you're creating stunning visuals, refining complex ideas, or exploring new ways to express yourself, this course equips you with the tools and knowledge to excel in the world of Midjourney.