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Take your document from ordinary to extraordinary electronic matter of information. Learn how to create amazing professional quality documents. Easy Steps to Word 2010 gives you step by step simplistic approach to learning. Easily organize and write your documents more efficiently and design impressive formatting of content. Learn how to work with customize themes and templates, format content and illustrations and make them come alive visually. Start a new business, take advantage of invoices, forms, flyers, letterhead, timesheet, budgets, contracts, brochures and utilization of other power packed built-in templates. Soar into your destiny and take your Word skills higher. This book is packed with lots of screenshots and tips to meet you at the level of your experience. You can learn unlimited possibilities with Easy Steps to Word 2010.

If you want to learn Prezi, and specifically design within Prezi, this is the book for you. Perhaps you already know a bit about Prezi but have never used it, or perhaps you have used Prezi before but want to learn how to incorporate your own custom design elements. In either case, this book will get you up and running quickly. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic design concepts and the use of Prezi, but prior experience is not essential.

Take your presentation skills to the next level. Easy Steps to PowerPoint 2010 gives you a step by step simplistic approach to learning PowerPoint 2010. It will help you to create professional and unique presentations. It will give you an edge in your delivery to the audience of your presentation. You will learn about PowerPoint templates, backgrounds, utilization of vivid colors, graphic effects and themes, eye-catching transitions and animations, the use of audio and video to convey your message more effectively and other powerful presentation features. This book is packed with lots of screenshots and tips to meet you at the level of your experience and learning unlimited possibilities.

Intended for use with Speaking Photoshop CS6 textbook. Workbook provides additional learning opportunities in the form of written questions and project assignments. Ideal for university, college or high school courses. Also useful for anyone interested in practicing and perfecting their newly attained Photoshop skills through supplementary, real-world Photoshop projects. Grading rubrics, a midterm and final are available to teachers using the workbook for their classes.

This timely book helps educators unleash the interactive potential of PowerPoint to build their own multimedia material that perfectly matches the needs of their students. While PowerPoint affords powerful capabilities for creating dynamic classroom lessons and enriching curriculum, few educators understand how to take advantage of these built-in features. The second edition of this practical guide helps educators produce creative multimedia material for their students, regardless of their level of programming proficiency. Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive, Second Edition discusses the educational benefits of multimedia instruction and provides a review of intermediate PowerPoint skills. Author David Marcovitz explains the concept of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting and provides progressively advanced skills and practice examples. While other books that describe VBA are written in a highly technical manner, this book is geared toward educators with little or no programming background and includes tips for modifying the practice examples for their own interactive multimedia projects. Tips for modifying included examples into classroom projects Updated material includes advanced scripting techniques, new figures, and new interactive features of PowerPoint Numerous quizzes and tests to reinforce skills A selection of commonly-used templates are provided

Presentational Skills for the Next Generation covers a wide range of topics that presenters need to know. Some of the topics, such as organizing the content and working with audio-visual technology are rarely covered. The author's emphasis on rehearsing and considering the audience first are very valuable. You'll also find excellent coverage on the delivery aspect of presenting, including how to dress, what equipment to pack, dealing with fear, and more. The Resources section at the end is very useful, too.

Here is the GIMP online user manual in handy printed form! GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program, a freely distributed program for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass-production image renderer, an image-format converter, and so on. Gimp runs on UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. For more information (and to download the program at no charge), visit www.gimp.org.

About 80% of people have the desire to write a book at some point. With the advance of computer and printing technology, this dream can become a reality. One important factor of publishing a book is to create a professional looking book cover. This book uses book cover design as a case study to teach you how to use FREE Scribus software (instead of expensive professional software like InDesign, Photoshop, and QuarkXpress) to create professional presentations. With fewer words and many full color screenshots, we walk you step by step through the entire process. No prior experience is needed.

You will learn how to:

1.Download all the FREE software needed.

2.Put the cover template in correct formats.

3.Set up the sheet correctly using units, colors (RGB or CMYK), layers, the imported cover template, sizes, guides, bleed area, and safety margin.

4.Add the background color for the cover with a shape or image frame.

5.Add the cover image and author's photo, as well as how to handle a fully bleed image.

6.Add the titles and text accurately, including information on selecting or changing the text color, using the text box, centering the text, aligning different text boxes, and rotating the text.

7.Add the barcode by extracting the barcode from an EPS file and moving all the barcode elements together or by adding the barcode as a JPEG image file.

8.Use Scribus software to create professional presentations such as book covers, magazine covers, graphic designs, posters, newsletters, renderings, and more.

About the authors

Alice Chen is an avid Scribus user. She has extensive interest in presentation software, and resides in California.

Gang Chen holds a master's degree from the School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture, South China University of Technology. He has over 20 years of professional experience. Many of the projects he was in charge of or participated in have been published extensively in Architecture, Architectural Record, The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, etc. He has worked on a variety of unusual projects, including well-known, large-scale healthcare and hospitality projects with over one billion dollars in construction costs, award-winning school designs, highly-acclaimed urban design and streetscape projects, multifamily housing, high-end custom homes, and regional and neighborhood shopping centers.

Gang Chen is a LEED AP and a licensed architect in California. He is also the internationally acclaimed author for other fascinating books, including Building Construction, Planting Design Illustrated, and the LEED Exam Guide series, which includes one guidebook for each of the LEED exams.