From the basics of importing and organizing your images through to the essentials of image adjustments and corrections, this guide builds up your skills before moving on to more advanced techniques. Covers complex  topics such as working with layers and filters, creating panoramas, and outputting your images for web, with small projects.

Guides you through the process of designing and developing game apps that work on both smartphones and tablets, thanks to the new Android SDK 4.0.From 2D-based casual games to 3D OpenGL-based first-person shooters, you find that learning how to create games on the fastest growing mobile platform has never been easier.

Create professional-quality media applications and components with Microsoft Media Foundation. Learn how to build applications to capture video and audio files of different types, process media information, and stream it over the Internet. For C++/COM developers, especially those looking to transfer their skills from Microsoft DirectShow.

Shows you how to you to improve your CSS, from the basics to advanced topics, from first installation to sprucing up your buttons. You'll see how to code the right way in Sass thanks to short, clear examples. Two-page spreads show the explanation on one side and code examples on the other. You'll learn how to improve your pages in minutes.

Demonstrates how to use decision management systems to drive business value and shows how to integrate operational and analytic technologies to create systems that are more agile, more analytic, and more adaptive. Using case studies shows how to combine technologies such as predictive analytics, optimization, and business rules.

Also referred to as "the Camel" this book became the Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991. This much-anticipated update cover the language up to its current version, Perl 5.14, with a preview of features in the upcoming 5.16. In a world where Unicode is increasingly essential for text processing, Perl offers the best support of any major language.

Shows how to easily set up an Android development environment and quickly begin with some simple games using sprites and choreographed movement. Next, learn how to handle user input in the modern age of touch screens and motion. Discover how to use the extra screen space on a tablet to provide more interesting user interactions in your games.

In-depth guide to writing efficient batch applications. Starting with the basics, it discusses the best practices of batch jobs along with details of the Spring Batch framework. You'll learn by working through dozens of practical, reusable examples in key areas like monitoring, tuning, enterprise integration, and automated testing.

Subtitled, "Develop and Design" this book shows how to use Android tools to begin writing the next generation of Android applications. After a tour of how to install and configure the Android SDK and Eclipse IDE, you jump right in, building your first Android project, starting with how to use the major building blocks to create an intuitive and good-looking interface.

Shows how Apple’s implementation of Ruby gives access to all the features available to Objective-C programmers with code samples and complete project examples and quick programming techniques such as prototyping. If you use Ruby, you can tap your skills to take advantage of Interface Builder, Cocoa libraries, the Objective-C runtime, and more. If you’re a Cocoa developer, you’ll learn how to improve your productivity with MacRuby.

A tour of the key features of developing for Microsoft's devices.Covers everything from data handling to accelerometers, from mapping to WCF and walks you through monetizing your application through Microsoft's online Windows Phone store. Along the way points out how .NET and C# differ in their execution of the standard OOP concepts from other languages' implementations.

Master the most powerful photo editing tools and techniques that Elements has to offer! Whether you want to create impressive, seamless montages, optimize your photos for perfect print quality, or simply enhance your images for maximum impact, this step-by-step guide provides the skills and know-how needed to create professional quality results.