Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens or Practical CakePHP Projects

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens

Author: Marc Campbell

You see them in magazines, pass them around in emails, and run across them everywhere on the web—incredibly cool, crazy, and sometimes strange images that you know have been doctored using Photoshop. Have you ever looked at them and wondered, "How did they do that?" Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens is filled with the tips and techniques that you need to know to use these powerful programs to create your own amazing images or retouch your digital photographs. Begin with the fundamentals of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements as you conquer the essential features and functions of each program. Master the interface and learn how to create and manage layers. Next, get ready to edit your images as you develop the skills you need to paint with the Brush, draw shapes and text, and apply special effects to your images. Put your new skills to the test as you complete a variety of hands-on projects, including making prints, dressing up your computer desktop, creating animation, laying out websites, and creating logos.

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Practical CakePHP Projects

Author: Kai Chan

If you’ve been using PHP for sometime now and would like to start using a web framework, you’ll want to try CakePHP, which is an open source rapid development web framework built on PHP.

PHP experts Kai Chan and John Omokore guide you through a variety of practical CakePHP applications. You will work on projects such as a video gallery, unit testing application, an e–commerce app, a blog site, and much more. Practical CakePHP Projects covers the key architectural concepts as well as including mini projects that you can use to enhance your own applications.

A friendly introduction for any web programmer looking to choose a PHP framework

Real–world projects based on current and future trends

Practical CakePHP techniques that you can use right away

What you’ll learn

Painlessly create a secure and dynamic web site with CakePHP and MySQL.

Discover how CakePHP can be used in high–level and demanding applications using CakePHP built–in components as well as methods such as Smarty, caching, and unit testing.

See how CakePHP integrates with technologies such as Ajax and web services.

Integrate your own components into CakePHP’s framework.

Apply CakePHP to mainstream technologies such as Google Video, blogging, mashups, and e–commerce.

Work through the few pitfalls of some of the CakePHP framework, for example, Access Control Lists.

Who is this book for?

Aimed primarily at CakePHP novices to professionals and PHP programmers seeking to build web applications easily usingCakePHP and related web technologies, this book will also appeal to programmers using other frameworks in other languages, for example, Ruby on Rails and Java Spring.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.