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Adobe Photoshop Unmasked: The Art and Science of Selections, Layers, and Paths
Authors: Nigel French
Venue:  (2006)

As the feature list of Adobe Photoshop continues to grow, even users with years of experience can feel overwhelmed by the many tools and methods for selecting or isolating parts of an image. Layers, channels, paths, clipping masks, layer masks, vector masks, the Pen tool, Magic Wand, and so on - all let users work on specific regions of an image, but in fundamentally different ways. Making clean, efficient selections are essential skills for any Photoshop user, whether a graphic designer, professional photographer, or hobbyist. Graphic designer, teacher, and Photoshop expert Nigel French saves you hours of frustration by illuminating the best selection tools and techniques for specific tasks, and the most flexible approaches to correcting and editing images in Photoshop. Using step-by-step examples, this book clarifies often-misunderstood selection methods, shows which masks best select a range of tone or color, and demonstrates how the right tools and techniques can help transform even the most mediocre picture into a polished image, saving you hours of time. · Learn the fundamentals of making selections, and when to choose which method · Blend images and replace backgrounds using layer, vector, and channel masks · Correct color and exposure using adjustment layers · Make next-to-impossible hair selections with channel masks · Create a non-destructive workflow, giving you total creative freedom The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
View Based Integration of Heterogeneous Web Service Registries--the Case of VISR
Authors: Schahram Dustdar, Martin Treiber
Venue: World Wide Web (2006)

Despite all standardization efforts in the Web service area, several different incompatible Web service registry implementations exist. The initial focus of these implementations was geared towards working with a centralized Universal Business Registry (UBR). However, these centralized approaches tend to be bottlenecks regarding performance and fault tolerance. A proposed solution is the replication of registry information among multiple distributed Web service registries. In addition, the creation of specialized Web service registries leads to a large number of different Web service registries. This leads to a situation where the search for a particular Web service becomes a very complex task. Besides, Web service provisioning includes a considerable administrative overhead when dealing with transient Web services. Transient Web services exist only for a limited lifetime and in a certain context. In this paper, we propose the VISR (View based Integration of Web Service Registries) peer to peer architecture for the transparent integration of multiple Web service registries and transient Web service providers. This work focuses on the integration concept of multiple Web service registries and transient Web service providers. The integration concept relies on so-called views. Views provide the needed abstractions for the seamless integration on the different registries. Views use common lightweight Web service profiles that serve as unified global data model. VISR Web service profiles allow the flexible extension of registry entries with value added information without changing the original Web service registry entries. To illustrate the view concept, we introduce a simple grammar (View Description Language) for view descriptions that is used in the working example throughout the paper. We present Web service communities as a possible application of the view concept and show how different types of Web services providers, respectively, their registries are integrated into a unified global data model.
Ds4000 Best Practices And Performance Tuning Guide
Venue:  (2006)

This is NOT a new version - Some changes made to DS4200 cabling diagrams - This book is intended for IBM technical professionals, Business Partners, and customers responsible for the planning, deployment, and maintenance of IBM TotalStorage DS4000 family of products. We realize that setting up a DS4000 Storage Server can be a complex task. There is no single configuration that will be satisfactory for every application or situation. First, we provide a conceptual framework for understanding the DS4000 in a Storage Area Network. Then we offer our recommendations, hints, and tips for the physical installation, cabling, and zoning, using the Storage Manager setup tasks. After that, we turn our attention to the performance and tuning of various components and features, including numerous recommendations. We look at performance implications for various application products such DB2, Oracle, Tivoli Storage Manager, Microsoft SQL server, and in particular, Microsoft Exchange with a DS4000 storage server. We review various tools available to simulate workloads and measure and collect performance data for the DS4000. We provide an overview and illustrate the usage of IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center for disk and Disk Magic. Another chapter provides guidelines for planning and implementing Enhanced Remote Mirroring. This edition of the book also includes guidelines for managing and using the DS4000 with IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller. We also consider the AIX environment, including High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP). The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Time-scale decomposition and equivalent rate-based marking
Authors: Yung Yi, Supratim Deb, Sanjay Shakkottai
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2006)

Differential equation models for Internet congestion control algorithms have been widely used to understand network dynamics and the design of router algorithms. These models use a fluid approximation for user data traffic and describe the dynamics of the router queue and user adaptation through coupled differential equations. The interaction between the routers and flows occurs through marking, where routers indicate congestion by appropriately marking packets during congestion.In this paper, we show that the randomness due to short and unresponsive flows in the Internet is sufficient to decouple the dynamics of the router queues from those of the end controllers. This implies that a time-scale decomposition naturally occurs such that the dynamics of the router manifest only through their statistical steady-state behavior. We show that this time-scale decomposition implies that a queue-length based marking function (e.g., RED-like and REM-like algorithms, which have no queue averaging, but depend only on the instantaneous queue length) has an equivalent form which depends only on the data arrival rate from the end-systems and does not depend on the queue dynamics. This leads to much simpler dynamics of the differential equation models (there is no queueing dynamics to consider), which enables easier analysis and could be potentially used for low-complexity fast simulation.Using packet-based simulations, we study queue-based marking schemes and their equivalent rate-based marking schemes for different types of controlled sources (i.e., proportional fair and TCP) and queue-based marking schemes. Our results indicate a good match in the rates observed at the intermediate router with the queue-based marking function and the corresponding rate-based approximation. Further, the window size distributions of a typical TCP flow with a queue-based marking function as well as the equivalent rate-based marking function match closely, indicating that replacing a queue-based marking function by its equivalent rate-based function does not statistically affect the end host's behavior.
Achieving Dependability in the Configuration, Integration and Testing of Healthcare Technologies
Authors: David Martin, Mark Hartswood, Roger Slack, Alex Voss
Venue: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2006)

This paper presents two case studies, which highlight the practical work involved in developing and deploying dependable healthcare systems. It shows how dependability is a thoroughgoingly practical, contexted achievement. We show how dependability is an outcome of the reasoning and argumentation processes that stakeholders engage in, in situations such as design and testing. What becomes relevant during these interactions stands as the dependability criteria that must be achieved. Furthermore, we examine the way in which different dependability criteria need to be managed, and even relatively prioritised, before finally discussing the types of work this provokes at the boundaries of organisations, particularly when integrating work and technologies.
Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Real World)
Authors: Bruce Fraser
Venue:  (2005)

Call it a control thing, but until recentlyï¾or, more specifically, until the availability of digital raw camera formatsï¾you simply weren't ready to make the move to digital photography. Raw formats, however, changed all of that by allowing you to retrieve images before any in-camera processing has been performed. Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw plug-in makes that process even easier by providing a standardized way of accessing and working with these uncompressed digital negatives in your favorite image-manipulation software. In the first volume devoted exclusively to the topic, best-selling author Bruce Fraser shows you how to take advantage of Adobe Camera Raw to set white balance, optimize contrast and saturation, handle noise, correct tint, and recover lost detail in images before converting them to another format. After learning about the raw formats themselves, you'll discover hands-on techniques for exposing and shooting for digital raw, using Bridge, Adobe's new standalone file browser, to preview images and automate tasks, and building a workflow around the digital raw process.
How to Sell Anything on Yahoo!...And Make a Fortune!, 1 edition
Authors: Skip McGrath
Venue:  (2006)

The book that puts online sellers in touch with Yahoo!’s 237 million users Yahoo! is the third most active shopping site on the Internet and this hands-on guide makes it easy for anyone to start selling on Yahoo! in no time. How to Sell Anything on Yahoo! . . . And Make a Fortune! explains: What it takes to set up a Yahoo! Store that’s popular and profitable How to take advantage of Yahoo! Web hosting, sponsored searches, and affiliate programs Registration of domain names and how to use Yahoo!’s business mail services If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner looking to make Yahoo! part of your online retail strategy, you need this book. Table of contentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Creating a Successful Web BusinessChapter 1: Before Getting StartedChapter 2: Elements of a Profitable Web-Based BusinessChapter 3: How Competition, Supply, and Demand Affect Your BusinessChapter 4: Niche Marketing for SuccessChapter 5: Researching and Finding Your NicheChapter 6: Website Designs That SellChapter 7: Making the SaleChapter 8: Payment SystemsChapter 9: Up-Selling and Cross-SellingChapter 10: Delivering the ProductChapter 11: Bringing the Customer Back for MorePart II: Setting Up Your Yahoo StoreChapter 12: Introducing Yahoo Merchant SolutionsChapter 13: Getting StartedChapter 14: Understanding the Elements of Your StoreChapter 15: Tools to Build Your SiteChapter 16: Creating Your Product ListingsChapter 17: Creating and Editing Your Store PagesChapter 18: Creating Additional Section PagesChapter 19: Creating Supplementary PagesChapter 20: Ordering Form and Checkout SettingsChapter 21: Testing, Troubleshooting, and Checking Your Store's ReadinessPart III: Marketing Your StoreChapter 22: Getting Found in Search ResultsChapter 23: Pay Per Click AdvertisingChapter 24: Cross Marketing and PromotionINDEX The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Microsoft Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out
Authors: Curtis Frye, Wayne S. Freeze, Felicia K. Buckingham
Venue:  (2003)

Take your Microsoft Office experience to the next level by programming custom business solutions with Excel 2003. This supremely organized reference and tutorial packs hundreds of timesaving answers, tips, and workarounds for advanced Excel users.
Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio
Authors: Glenn Honiball
Venue:  (2005)

For both Mac and Windows PC users, Photoshop CS2 is the market leader and industry standard for commercial bitmap image manipulation. Also known as the "digital dark room," Photoshop is the unparalleled tool of choice among graphics professionals and hobby photographers alike. Written by 20-year photo retouching veteran Glenn Honiball, Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the only book to deliver advice for the photographer and artist working with Photoshop CS 2 in a real world commercial environment. Honiball offers incomparable technical and artistic guidance for professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating and manipulating digital images. Production artists face unrealistically tight deadlines and heavy workloads that leave little time for trial and error. Photo retouchers need practical, immediate Photoshop solutions to help them produce quality images with minimal effort and in a short amount of time. All the tools, techniques, and skills you need to achieve consistent, professional results with Photoshop CS2 can be found in Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio. Anyone with intermediate-to-advanced Photoshop skills--whether you want to explore photo retouching personally or as an imaging professional or student--can use Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio to produce sharp, expert, extraordinary photos that don't look retouched. Under Honibell's seasoned direction, you'll be able to tackle your greatest photo-retouching challenges with ease, precision and efficiency. He guides you through Photoshop CS2's new and innovative features; explains advanced capabilities; shows you how to adapt and custom-fit the software to meet your needs; offers time-saving tips for accelerating your workflow; and delivers advice and inspiration for exercising your own creative genius. Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the ideal resource for any digital artist who wants to develop and perfect professional-level retouching using Photoshop CS 2. With this book, you will bring photo correction and manipulation to a whole new level. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Parallelism versus Memory Allocation in Pipelined Router Forwarding Engines
Authors: Fan Chung, Ronald Graham, Jia Mao, George Varghese
Venue: Theory of Computing Systems (2006)

A crucial problem that needs to be solved is the allocation of memory to processors in a pipeline. Ideally, the processor memories should be totally separate (i.e., one-port memories) in order to minimize contention; however, this minimizes memory sharing. Idealized sharing occurs by using a single shared memory for all processors but this maximizes contention. Instead, in this paper we show that perfect memory sharing of shared memory can be achieved with a collection of two-port memories, as long as the number of processors is less than the number of memories. We show that the problem of allocation is NP-complete in general, but has a fast approximation algorithm that comes within a factor of $\frac 32$ asymptotically. The proof utilizes a new bin packing model, which is interesting in its own right. Further, for important special cases that arise in practice a more sophisticated modification of this approximation algorithm is in fact optimal. We also discuss the online memory allocation problem and present fast online algorithms that provide good memory utilization while allowing fast updates.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
Authors: Olga M. Londer, Todd Bleeker, Penelope Coventry, James Edelen
Venue:  (2005)

Teach yourself how to simplify team collaboration using Windows SharePoint Services-one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on the CD.
Reconstruction with 3D geometric bilateral filter
Authors: A. Miropolsky, A. Fischer
Venue: Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2004)

In recent years, reverse engineering (RE) techniques have been developed for surface reconstruction from 3D scanned data. Typical sampling data, however, usually is large scale and contains unorganized points, thus leading to some anomalies in the reconstructed object. To improve performance and reduce processing time, Hierarchical Space Decomposition (HSD) methods can be applied. These methods are based on reducing the sampled data by replacing a set of original points in each voxel by a representative point, which is later connected in a mesh structure. This operation is analogous to smoothing with a simple low- pass filter (LPF). Unfortunately, this principle also smoothes sharp geometrical features, an effect that is not desired. The high performance results of bilateral filtering for removing noise from 2D images while preserving details motivated us to extend this filtering and apply it to 3D scan points. This paper introduces anisotropic 3D scan point filtering, which we have defined as 3D Geometric Bilateral Filtering (GBF). The proposed GBF method smoothes low curvature regions while preserving sharp geometric features, and it is robust, simple and fast.
The Digital SLR Guide: Beyond Point-and-Shoot Digital Photography
Authors: Jon Canfield
Venue:  (2006)

Have you stepped up to a digital single-lens-reflex (dSLR) camera only to find the range of capabilities daunting? Combining features traditionally found on 35mm film cameras - precise shutter speed and exposure settings, interchangeable lenses and accessories, superior image quality - with the ease and storage capacity of digital cameras, a dSLR is a powerful new tool that can create truly great digital pictures. But the learning curve for photographers moving from the point-and-shoot digital world can be formidable. In this book, photo-grapher and industry consultant Jon Canfield shows you how to take full advantage of dSLR photography, illuminating the entire process with nuggets of hard-won expertise. He also shows you how to use popular image-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements to improve your images.The Digital SLR Guide is brimming with tips and tricks for getting the most from your equipment. The book is heavily illustrated with images and provides everything you need to know about choosing and using dSLR cameras and equipment. You'll learn how to: · Get the right stuff. Explore popular digital SLR cameras and compare accessories, such as lenses, flashes, and filters. · Learn the camera inside and out. Master dSLR camera controls and advanced features for maximum impact. · shoot like an expert. Cut to the chase with innovative, time-saving, and creative photography techniques. · Edit your images. Use Photoshop and Photoshop Elements to make your pictures even better. · Boost quality. Work with high-quality raw capture modes for the best possible photos.
Web Mapping Illustrated
Authors: Tyler Mitchell
Venue:  (2005)

With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area. Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS. Mapping is a growing field that goes beyond collecting and analyzing GIS data. Web Mapping Illustrated shows how to combine free geographic data, GPS, and data management tools into one resource for your mapping information needs so you don't have to lose your way while searching for it. Remember the fun you had exploring the world with maps? Experience the fun again with Web Mapping Illustrated. This book will take you on a direct route to creating valuable maps.
Rapid and brief communication: Visual learning and recognition of 3D objects using two-dimensional principal component analysis: A robust and an efficient approach
Authors: P. Nagabhushan, D. S. Guru, B. H. Shekar
Venue: Pattern Recognition (2006)

Inspired by the conviction that the successful model employed for face recognition [M. Turk, A. Pentland, Eigenfaces for recognition, J. Cogn. Neurosci. 3(1) (1991) 71-86] should be extendable for object recognition [H. Murase, S.K. Nayar, Visual learning and recognition of 3-D objects from appearance, International J. Comput. Vis. 14(1) (1995) 5-24], in this paper, a new technique called two-dimensional principal component analysis (2D-PCA) [J. Yang et al., Two-dimensional PCA: a new approach to appearance based face representation and recognition, IEEE Trans. Patt. Anal. Mach. Intell. 26(1) (2004) 131-137] is explored for 3D object representation and recognition. 2D-PCA is based on 2D image matrices rather than 1D vectors so that the image matrix need not be transformed into a vector prior to feature extraction. Image covariance matrix is directly computed using the original image matrices, and its eigenvectors are derived for feature extraction. The experimental results indicate that the 2D-PCA is computationally more efficient than conventional PCA (1D-PCA) [H. Murase, S.K. Nayar, Visual learning and recognition of 3-D objects from appearance, International J. Comput. Vis. 14(1) (1995) 5-24]. It is also revealed through experimentation that the proposed method is more robust to noise and occlusion.
A condition for isotopic approximation
Authors: Frédéric Chazal, David Cohen-Steiner
Venue: Proceedings of the ninth ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications (2004)

In this paper, we give a very simple and purely topological condition for two surfaces to be isotopic. This work is motivated by the problem of surface approximation. Applications to implicit surfaces are given, as well as connections with the well-known concepts of medial axis and local feature size.
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Fast & Easy
Authors: Brian Proffitt
Venue:  (2003)

Relax. Learning how to use Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 is now a breeze. With this book's easy-to- use instructions, you'll master the unique FrontPage interface in no time. From building your first basic Web page to working with dynamic content, "Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Fast & Easy" gives you the step-by-step instructions you need to complete your task quickly. Simply look and learn! Features Wses a simple step-by-step approach to all tasks. Screenshots with numbered callouts provide a precise guide to all procedures. Stays directly on topic: how to learn FrontPage 2003 quickly and use it to become more productive immediately. An excellent index and glossary provide additional information for experienced users and fast learners.