"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does -- it...

If you’re an application programmer you’ve probably run into a relational database at some point in your professional career. Whether you’re writing enterprise client-server applications or building the next Web 2.0 killer application, you need someplace to put the persistent data for your application, and relational...

Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby,...

Congratulations — you've chosen to take greater control over your photos with a dSLR camera! Now get expert advice on making the most of your Nikon D3000. Learn how to use its many settings, how to get the best results in...

Modern society is driven by data. Whether it is at a personal level, like a notebook containing scribbled notes; or at a countrywide level like Census data, it has permeated all our workflows. There is always a growing need to efficiently store and organize it so that meaningful information can be extracted out of raw data.

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Learn how to get the most out of all the newest features of Photoshop and improve your images with "Complete Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Digital Photographers." Photoshop is the new darkroom, providing instant results and making professional-level tools accessible even to amateurs. This new edition of the book is filled with brand new...

Create dynamic dashboards and put your data on display with "For" "Dummies" No matter what business you're in, reports have become a staple of the workplace, but what good is a report if no reads it, or even worse, understands it? This all new edition of "Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies" is here to...

Object tracking is a broad and important fi eld in computer science, addressing the most different applications in the educational, entertainment, industrial, and manufacturing areas. Since the early days of computer vision, the state of the art of visual object tracking has evolved greatly, along with the available imaging devices...