Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021. Boost your image-editing skills using the latest tools and techniques in Adobe Photoshop Elements - Third Edition

Robin Nichols

Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results is now a must-have skill for online bloggers, influencers, vloggers, social media users, and photography enthusiasts. Photoshop Elements helps you to manage this easily and boost your creative output.This third edition is updated with Elements 2021’s latest features and focuses on Adobe's AI-powered features along with the entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most out of your image files in an easy way. You’ll learn how to add significant visual improvements to your work using no more than a few one-click edits with AI-driven features and manual adjustments. The book is filled with useful instructions to guide you seamlessly through the often complex processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements. Finally, you’ll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable special effects, complex text, image combinations, and eye-popping visual techniques using both AI-driven features as well as manually operated tools.By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2021, and use them to greatly improve your photo editing and image retouching skills.

VMware vSphere Design Essentials. Unleash the performance, availability, and workload efficiency of your virtual data center using this fast-paced guide

Swapnil A Kambli, Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Customization & Configuration (MB2-866) Certification Guide. A practical guide to customizing and configuring Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 focused on helping you pass the certification exam

Neil Benson

Whether you are a consultant for a Microsoft partner, an IT professional, a developer working for a Microsoft customer, or a freelance CRM consultant; this book is the ticket to advancing your career. Stand out in the crowd by obtaining certification MB2-866 Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Customization and Configuration.The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Customization & Configuration (MB2-866) Certification Guide covers the official course syllabus including all the topics and procedures you need to know to pass the exam. 'Test Your Knowledge' sections at the end of each chapter offer a 75-question sample exam to help you practice and master the certification test.The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Customization & Configuration (MB2-866) Certification Guide covers the official syllabus for course 80294B including a 75-question practice exam.If you're new to Microsoft Dynamics CRM or Microsoft certifications then the book kicks off with an overview of both topics before diving into the official syllabus. There are in-depth chapters covering customization basics, the organization structure, entity and attribute customization, entity relationships, user interface customization, auditing, and solutions. Each chapter includes detailed procedures that you need to know for the exam as well as a self-test section to review your learning.Microsoft endorses IT pros and developers who've proven their expertise by attaining the certification. Use this book to supercharge your career by giving yourself an advantage. Stand out in the crowd!

Mastering Roblox Coding. The unofficial guide to leveling up your Roblox scripting skills and building games using Luau programming

Mark Kiepe

Roblox is a game platform with over 47 million daily active users. Something unique to Roblox is that you’re playing games made by other gamers! This means that you can make your own games, even if you have no experience. In addition, Roblox provides a free engine that allows you to create and publish a simple game in less than five minutes and get paid while at it.Most Roblox games require programming. This book starts with the basics of programming in Roblox Luau. Each chapter builds on the previous one, which eventually results in you mastering programming concepts in Lua. Next, the book teaches you complex technologies that you can implement in your game. Each concept is explained clearly and uses simple examples that show you how the technology is being used. This book contains additional exercises for you to experiment with the concepts you’ve learned. Using best practices, you will understand how to write and build complex systems such as databases, user input controls, and all device user interfaces. In addition, you will learn how to build an entire game from scratch.By the end of this book, you will be able to program complex systems in Roblox from the ground up by learning how to write code using Luau and create optimized code.

Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching. Engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform

Jeff Stanford, Moodle Trust

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here.This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook. For beginners or intermediate users this is a highly practical cookbook for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Now you can really get to grips with enterprise resource planning by engaging with real-world solutions through recipes and screenshots

Mark Polino, Ian Grieve

Microsoft Dynamics GP is an enterprise resource planning system, essentially an accounting system on steroids, designed for mid-sized organizations. The implementation of Dynamics GP is usually considered to be complex, and people often realize there must be more efficient ways of working with the system. This book will show readers how to improve their use of Dynamics GP and get the most out of this tool quickly and effectively.Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Cookbook picks up where implementation training leaves off. Whether you are new or experienced you will find useful recipes for improving the way you use and work with Dynamics GP. The clear recipe steps and screenshots make implementing these solutions easy for users of any level and will be sure to improve your efficiency with the Dynamics GP 2013 system.The book starts with recipes designed to enhance the usefulness of Microsoft Dynamics GP by personalizing the look and feel of the application. Most of the recipes are designed to give tips for a typical installation of Dynamics GP, including core financials and distribution modules. The book then moves through recipes that include automating Dynamics GP to allow users or administrators to focus on value adding tasks, harnessing the power of SmartLists to leverage both simplicity and power, connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office 2013, exposing hidden features in Dynamics GP, and much more!Through the final chapters, the book covers system maintenance and extending Dynamics GP with the Support Debugging Tool and Professional Services Tools Library.

Arduino BLINK Blueprints. Get the most out of your Arduino to develop exciting and creative LED-based projects

Samarth Shah, Utsav Shah

Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino has been used in thousands of different projects and applications by a wide range of programmers and artists, and their contributions have added up to an incredible amount of accessible knowledge that can be of great help to novices and experts alike.Want to build exciting LED projects with Arduino? This book will be your companion to bring out the creative genius in you. To begin with, you will get introduced to the maker movement and the open source hardware development Arduino boards. You will then move on to develop a mood lamp and a remote-controlled TV backlight. As you progress through the book, you will develop an LED cube and will learn to use sound visualization to develop a sound-controlled LED Christmas tree. You will then move on to build a persistence of vision wand.At the end of each chapter, you’ll see some common problems, their solutions, and some workarounds.

PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook. Over 120 recipes to build high-performance and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL database solutions

Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar

PostgreSQL has become the most advanced open source database on the market. This book follows a step-by-step approach, guiding you effectively in deploying PostgreSQL in production environments.The book starts with an introduction to PostgreSQL and its architecture. You’ll cover common and not-so-common challenges faced while designing and managing the database. Next, the book focuses on backup and recovery strategies to ensure your database is steady and achieves optimal performance. Throughout the book, you’ll address key challenges such as maintaining reliability, data integrity, a fault-tolerant environment, a robust feature set, extensibility, consistency, and authentication. Moving ahead, you’ll learn how to manage a PostgreSQL cluster and explore replication features for high availability. Later chapters will assist you in building a secure PostgreSQL server, along with covering recipes for encrypting data in motion and data at rest. Finally, you’ll not only discover how to tune your database for optimal performance but also understand ways to monitor and manage maintenance activities, before learning how to perform PostgreSQL upgrades during downtime.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with the essential PostgreSQL 13 features to build enterprise relational databases.