“…. • How to stitch panoramas, how to process HDR for a realistic look, and tricks for pulling way more out of your images than you ever dreamed possible. • The latest Photoshop special effects for photographers (there’s a whole chapter just on these!). …”

“…As a bonus, you'll take a look at that funky Flexbox, currently all the rage! …”

“…What You Will Learn Get to grips with Swift 3 and Xcode, the building blocks of Apple development Get to know the fundamentals of Swift, including variables, constants, and control flow Discover the distinctive design principles that define the iOS user experience See how to prototype your app with Swift’s Playgrounds feature Build a responsive UI that looks great on a range of devices Find out how to use CoreLocation to add location services to your app Add push notifications to your app Make your app able to be used on both iPhone and iPad In Detail You want to build iOS applications for iPhone and iPad—but where do you start? …”

“…Skill Level Beginners Intermediate Advanced What You Will Learn How Google and other search engines work and what they look for when creating their search rankings. How to use SEO techniques to improve your site's search ranking. …”

“…And you don't have time to hang around. Whether you're looking to usher in the next generation of smart TVs, fitness wearables, games consoles, game-changing AI, smartwatches, or you just want to build simple apps for good old-fashioned fun, Android 8.0 Oreo is your key to unbridled creativity. …”

“…You'll also find this book useful if you're a PowerShell expert looking to expand your knowledge in areas such as PowerShell Security and DevOps. …”

“…After decades of working with Macs and accumulating massive collections of photos and videos, Jeff has pulled together a wide-ranging book about Mac storage that contains just the help you're looking for. Among many other topics, this book covers: How to choose a new (internal or external) hard drive, SSD, or hybrid drive Determining how much storage space you need What you need to know about APFS, Apple’s new filesystem How to use APFS snapshots (a.k.a. …”

“…What You’ll Learn: Understand the basics of the most popular open source tools—Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and Ansible—and how to use them in the context of deploying and scaling a SharePoint farm Use Vagrant to build SharePoint development environments in less than an hour, and add automated testing Use Packer to create a “golden image” with preconfigured settings, and then use it as the base image in your Terraform configuration for both AWS and Azure farms Use Terraform to scale your SharePoint farm topology Use Red Hat’s Ansible Playbooks to perform configuration management on your farm Use Terraform to deploy immutable infrastructure environments using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) Use InSpec 2.0 to stay in compliance by testing your cloud infrastructure Use Ansible to apply Microsoft updates and patches This book is for IT pros and developers who are looking to expand their knowledge and take a modern approach by using open source technologies to work with Microsoft products. …”

“…Also, you'll learn how to mask hair and create super-realistic composites (you'll be amazed when you learn how easy this is), plus how to take advantage of all the latest Photoshop technology, how to leverage the latest features (so you're doing things the easy way), and a bunch of today's most popular techniques (the same commercial looks you're seeing in hot demand), so you'll be using Photoshop like a shark in no time. …”

“…You will then work on creating a 3D game using the SceneKit framework. Further, we will look at how to add monetization and integrate Game Center. …”

“…Skill Level Beginner Intermediate What You Will Learn The tools you’ll need to use D3 How to create stunning graphics using SVG How to make an interactive chart with D3 How to build graphics based on CSV files, and other external data sources How to best take advantage of D3’s vast online community and ecosystem Who Should Take This Course Designers and visual storytellers who want to make custom interactive web graphics and developers looking to quickly get started with D3 Course Requirements Familiarity with HTML and CSS Some familiarity with JavaScript Table of Contents Lesson 1: Welcome to the World of D3 1.1 Appreciate the beauty of D3 1.2 Take a tour of D3’s code, documentation, and ecosystem 1.3 Download the tools you’ll need to use D3 Lesson 2: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2.1 Understand what SVG is 2.2 Understand the connection between SVG and D3 2.3 Make basic graphics in your brows..…”

“…Twitter: @trisha_gee Skill Level Intermediate What You Will Learn How to build modern UIs using AngularJS How Java can be used between the front-end and MongoDB on the back-end More about MongoDB, a document database How to use these tools together to rapidly prototype web applications Who Should Take This Course Developers looking for a demonstration on how to use front-end and back-end tools to rapidly prototype web applications. …”

“…Measure, optimize, and improve the performance of your Python code with this easy-to-follow guide About This Book Master the do's and don'ts of Python performance programming Learn how to use exiting new tools that will help you improve your scripts A step-by-step, conceptual guide to teach you how to optimize and fine-tune your critical pieces of code Who This Book Is For If you're a Python developer looking to improve the speed of your scripts or simply wanting to take your skills to the next level, then this book is perfect for you. …”

“…Skill Level Beginner What You Will Learn The basics of AngularJS, including data binding and filtering How angular uses MVC to let you build up web applications or SPAs How to organize applications using modules and splitting up files into various locations How to load and post data to remove servers How to extend it all by writing directives, filters, and more How to complete an application, implement network access, and test the app Who Should Take This Course Web developers Course Requirements HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and some programming experience beyond writing script for web pages Table of Contents Introduction Lesson 1: Getting Started Learning Objectives 1.1 Understand what AngularJS is and why it's important 1.2 Install AngularJS 1.3 Install Bootstrap 1.4 Write your first AngularJS application 1.5 Look at what you will build with AngularJS 1.6 Understand what you should know before you begin 1.7 Stay up to date and find the help you nee..…”

“…Create effective and reliable responsive designs with CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript Use progressive enhancement to consistently provide the right content while making the most of each device and browser Establish breakpoints and write CSS media queries to respond appropriately to each user agent Choose the right layout and wireframing approach for your site Use web fonts to control typography and choose sizes that look good on any device Master three ways to make tables responsive Build responsive forms using the latest HTML5 tags and attributes Implement responsive navigation patterns that users understand intuitively Test for responsiveness and performance Use Responsive Design + Server Side Components (RESS) to optimize performance CONTENTS AT A GLANCE PART I: INTRODUCTION TO RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN H OUR 1: What Is Responsive Web Design? …”

“…Twitter: @trisha_gee Skill Level Intermediate What You Will Learn Sort messages containing information about users to create a leaderboard of the most active Twitter users Consume messages about tweet sentiment to create a pie chart that updates in real time to show overall mood on Twitter Filter sentiment messages to create a view of happiness levels over a ten-minute period Build a microservice that parses a file of real Twitter data and publishes these tweets via web sockets Build a microservice that parses Twitter messages and emits just the username Build a microservice that analyses Twitter messages for sentiment and publishes these moods Connect the application to a live Twitter feed Who Should Take This Course Experienced Java developers familiar with Java 7 looking to learn Java 8 Course Requirements Working knowledge of the Java programming language Table of Contents Introduction Lesson 1: Introduction to Java 8 Features Overview of Java 8 Our application Creating a stub user service What are lambdas? …”

“…After quickly taking you through C# and how .NET works, we'll dive into the internals of the .NET class libraries, covering topics such as performance, monitoring, debugging, internationalization, serialization, and encryption. We'll look at Entity Framework Core 1.0 and how to develop Code-First entity data models, as well as how to use LINQ to query and manipulate that data. …”

“…You'll learn how to effectively use Ember CLI and how to create and deploy your application. We'll take a close look at the Ember object model and templates by examining bindings and observers. …”

“…For all current and aspiring project managers who are preparing for the Project Management Institute’s PMP or CAPM online certification exam. Looking for a better way to master today’s rapidly changing technologies? …”

“…What you will learn Integrate Data Explorer pools with all other Azure Synapse services Create Data Explorer pools with Azure Synapse Studio and Azure Portal Ingest, analyze, and serve data to users using Azure Synapse pipelines Integrate Power BI and visualize data with Synapse Studio Configure Azure Machine Learning integration in Azure Synapse Manage cost and troubleshoot Data Explorer pools in Synapse Analytics Secure Synapse workspaces and grant access to Data Explorer pools Who this book is for If you are a data engineer, data analyst, or business analyst working with unstructured data and looking to learn how to maximize the value of such data, this book is for you. …”