Microsoft Office Live: Take Your Business Online
Author: Katherine Murray
Learn how to use Microsoft Office Live-and take your business online! In this tutorial, well-known author and columnist Katherine Murray gives you an insider's look at the features and capabilities of Microsoft Office Live offerings: Office Live Basics, Office Live Collaboration, and Office Live Essentials. Small businesses with fewer than 10 employees finally have the online capabilities they need to more easily and more affordably establish an online presence, automate key business tasks, and collaborate. With this practical tutorial, you'll discover how to create, manage, and track statistics for your business Web site; manage and store critical business information; and improve business processes. You'll even learn how to stay in touch-from synching up with Office Live Mail, to using on-demand business applications to collaborate and accomplish tasks from anywhere in the world with Internet access. Part inspiration and part "how-to," this guide offers real-world techniques you can use to hit the ground running with Microsoft Office Live!
Key Book Benefits:
• Offers an expert overview and exclusive insights from a well-known author, with input from the Microsoft Office Live product group
• Includes practical tutorials, case studies, and real-world techniques for managing your small business
• Helps you choose the offerings that are right for your business
• Shows you how to take your business online-create and manage a Web site, market your site, and track site statistics
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Poser 7 Revealed: The efrontier Official Guide
Author: Kelly Murdock
Poser 7 Revealed: The Official Guide offers a thorough introduction to Poser, explaining how to use the latest version. It is ideal for the beginning reader, using conceptual discussions and elementary, engaging tutorials to explain each topic. Poser can be intimidating for new users. This book tackles the difficulties of working with Poser and includes coverage that explains each amazing Poser feature. The growing popularity of Poser is making it a frequently used program across the globe in a variety of outlets, including design schools, gaming companies, and movie production companies.
Table of Contents:
Revealed Series Vision xxiiiAuthor Vision xxiii
Learning the Poser Interface 2
Learn the Interface Controls 6
Explore the Pose Room 13
Use the Document Window 21
Discover the Other Rooms 29
Configure the Interface and Set Preferences 34
Get Help 38
Using the Poser Library 44
Work with the Library 48
Load Library Figures 53
Discover the Library Categories 57
Save Content to the Library 65
Remove Content from the Library 72
Use Content Collections 74
Editing and Posing Figures 78
Position Figures Within the Scene 82
Set Figure Properties and Style 86
Select Figure Elements 91
Use the Basic Editing Tools 96
Use the Parameter Dials 104
Use Symmetry, Limits, Balance, and Inverse Kinematics 121
Work with Hierarchies 127
Working with Files and Accessing Content Paradise 124
Work with Poser Files 128
Import 3D Objects into Poser 132
Import OtherContent 137
Export from Poser 142
Access Content Paradise 146
Load Custom Content 152
Dealing with Props 160
Import External Props 164
Select, Position, and Edit Props 167
Attach Props to Elements 170
Replace an Element with a Prop 175
Create Props from a Selected Group 178
Use Prop and Conforming Hair and Cloth 181
Establish a Scene-Cameras and Backgrounds 188
Learn the Available Cameras 192
Work with Cameras 197
Change Camera Parameters 204
Aim and Attach Cameras 209
Change the Background 213
Adding Scene Lighting 220
Learn Basic Lighting Techniques 224
Work with Lights 227
Enable Shadows and Ambient Occlusion 233
Set Light Materials 239
Use Image-Based Lighting 242
Creating and Applying Materials 248
Learn the Material Room Interface 252
Create Simple Materials 258
Create Advanced Materials 264
Learn the Various Material Nodes 269
Use Wacros 275
Create Smoothing and Material Groups 279
Add Atmosphere Effects 284
Creating a Face and Facial Expressions 288
Learn the Face Room Interface 292
Create a Face from Photos 297
Change Texture Variation 303
Use the Face Shaping Tool 307
Add the Face to the Figure 312
Work with Expressions 315
Adding Hair 320
Learn the Hair Room Interface 324
Grow Hair 328
Style Hair 333
Use Hair Dynamics 339
Change Hair Material 342
Working with Dynamic Cloth 346
Create a Cloth Simulation 350
Create Cloth 354
Create Cloth Groups 359
Simulate Cloth Dynamics 363
Rigging a Figure with Bones 368
Access and Edit Existing Bone Structures 372
Create and Name Bones 375
Group Body Parts 379
Use Inverse Kinematics 381
Use the Joint Editor 387
Animating Figures and Scenes 392
Work with Keyframes 396
Use the Animation Palette 399
Edit Animation Graphs 407
Use Animation Layers 414
Define an Animation Set 417
Create a Walk Path 420
Morphing Figures and Using Deformers 426
Morph Figures 430
Create Morph Targets 433
Use a Magnet Deformer 438
Add a Wave Deformer 441
Add a Wind Force Deformer 444
Lip Synching with Talk Deformers 450
Use the Talk Designer Interface 454
Work with Sound 459
Rendering Scenes 464
Render Images 468
Access Render Settings 476
Use the Sketch Designer 483
Set Render Dimensions 487
Render Animations 490
Use Rendering Effects 494
Using Poser with Other Software 500
Use Poser with Other e frontier Products 504
Use Poser with 3D Packages 510
Retouch Images in Photoshop 514
Writing Python Scripts 520
Access Pre-Built Scripts 524
Edit Python Scripts 530
New Features in Poser 7 534
Poser 7 Keyboard Shortcuts 538
Glossary 544
Index 550
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