Master Autodesk Civil 3D 2023 to develop real, project-specific, time-efficient civil infrastructure designs as an individual or an entire engineering team
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With Early Release eBooks, you get books in their earliest form-the author’s raw and unedited content as they write-so you can take advantage of the information long before the official release of the finished book.

User Experience has now become an expectation instead of a differentiator for the products and services delivered to and by organizations. UX teams are responsible for ensuring that those products and services are useful, usable, and accessible to their users, while also meeting stakeholder goals and missions.

The Autodesk Inventor 2024 Black Book is the new and updated 5th edition of our series on Autodesk Inventor. With lots of features and thorough review, we present a book to help professionals as well as beginners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step-by-step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing. We have tried to reduce the gap between university use of Autodesk Inventor and industrial use of Autodesk Inventor. In this edition of book, we have included the enhancements made in latest version of the software. The book covers almost all the information required by a learner to master the Autodesk Inventor. The book starts with sketching and ends at advanced topics like Mold Design, Sheetmetal, Weldment, and MBD.

2023 | English | 0137690664 | EPUB | 480 pages | 11.22 MB

 

Your bookbag can contain a video production studio so powerful, you can use it to share your greatest ideas with the entire world. There's a complete full-color guide to doing just that, whether your "video stories" take the form of short movies, video journalism, public service announcements, or anything else.  Renowned video producer and instructor RC Concepcion starts in exactly the right place: by teaching you an easy approach to using the language of storytelling that's captivated human beings for millennia. You'll master the essence of story, learn how to develop ideas, create story formats, build dialog, and organize stories to maximize your impact.  RC introduces you to the gear and techniques you need to execute your story, showing how to assemble and share it with the latest mobile or computer software. You'll transform theory into practice with three full projects: a short movie, public service announcement, and video journalism assignment. RC covers every step of production, shares inspirational "spotlight" stories illuminating individuals and key aspects of the video storytelling profession, and offers even deeper reference tutorials on a companion website.

AutoCAD 2024: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook is designed for instructor-led courses as well as for self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers, designers, and CAD operators interested in learning AutoCAD for creating 2D engineering drawings as well as 3D Models. This textbook is a great help for new AutoCAD users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. The textbook consists of 13 chapters, and a total of 548 pages covering major workspaces of AutoCAD such as Drafting & Annotation and 3D Modeling, teaching you to use AutoCAD software for creating, editing, plotting, and managing real-world 2D engineering drawings and 3D Models.

This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of AutoCAD but also on the concept of design. Every chapter of this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions on how to easily create mechanical designs and drawings. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives allowing users to experience AutoCAD's user-friendly and powerful capabilities.

The AutoCAD Electrical 2024 Black Book, the 9th edition of AutoCAD Electrical Black book, has been updated as per the enhancements in the AutoCAD Electrical 2024. Following the same strategy as for the previous edition, the book follows a step-by-step methodology. It covers almost all the information required by a learner to master the AutoCAD Electrical. The book starts with basics of Electrical Designing, goes through all the Electrical controls related tools and discusses practical examples of electrical schematic and panel designing. Chapter on Reports makes you able to create and edit electrical component reports. We have also discussed the interoperability between Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical which is need of industry these days. Two annexures have been added to explain basic concepts of control panel designing. Some of the salient features of this book are

Capture the Splendor of the Outdoors with 12 Beginner-Friendly Oil Painting Projects

Your artistic ability to bring wondrous backdrops to life is just a brushstroke away with Sarah Mckendry's Oil Painting Landscapes. Now you can create breathtaking scenery—even if you've never held a brush—with Sarah's easy-to-follow instructions and guided photography that take you carefully through each step.

Sarah makes the process easier than ever by providing helpful tips for blending color and adjusting artistic blunders, as well as information on oil painting techniques and material recommendations. To lower the cost of art supplies, each project uses only a handful of colors and keeps the number of necessary tools to a minimum—reducing stress for the aspiring artist.

Digitally repair damaged prints, correct color shifts, and even colorize black and white images. This thoroughly revised book will show you how to retouch and restore photos using the most up-to-date version of GIMP and it's latest tools and features.
Basic knowledge of GIMP is helpful, but the first chapter provides an overview of the free, open source image editing program. You'll then see how GIMP is a worthy alternative to Adobe Photoshop. You'll also work with step-by-step tutorials to duplicate the results using the same practice images used in the lessons. Because it is cross-platform friendly you can turn “unfixable” photos into digital art on Windows, macOS, and Linux enhancing your learning experience.

Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP provides insight into the powerful program's wide set of features for just about any type of retouching or restoration work.

Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design.

Going beyond a simple recitation of what has historically been said about color, artist and educator Aaron Fine provides an intellectual history, critiquing prevailing Western ideas on the subject and challenging assumptions. He analyses colonialist and gendered attitudes, materialist and romanticist perspectives, spiritualist approaches to color, color in the age of reproduction, and modernist and post-modernist color strategies. Highlighted throughout are examples of the ways in which attitudes towards color have been impacted by the legacy of colonialism and are tied up with race, gender, and class.

All of Chris Hart’s how-to-draw titles are best-sellers. And the best-sellers among all of his best-sellers are the ones about animals. How to Draw Cartoon Animals, just one example, appears regularly on the BookScan Top 50 Art Books list, with more than 190,000 copies sold. Now The Cartoonist’s Big Book of Drawing Animals is ready to roar onto the market! All the most popular animals are here, including dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, tigers, bears, and elephants, as well as the favorite sidekick animals—pigs, kangaroos, giraffes, turtles. Simple step-by-step drawings show how to capture every cartoon emotion, from cutesy-sweet to begging to scheming, and how to create every box-office type, from baby animals to villain animals to clueless animals and much more. Faces, bodies, paws, feet, wings, tails—every part of dozens of animals is explained in this bumper book by the world’s leading author of instructional art books. It’s a mega-menagerie for cartoonists!

GRAPHIC DESIGN SOLUTIONS, 6th EDITION, is the most comprehensive reference on graphic design for print and screen media. It introduces the principles of design and how they apply to the various graphic design disciplines–all explained and illustrated with vivid, professional art and diagrams. Providing a solid foundation for typographic design, advertising design and graphic design, its in-depth coverage includes such topics as design principles, the design process, concept generation, branding and visual identity, design for web and mobile, package design, portfolio development, social media, ad campaigns and more. GRAPHIC DESIGN SOLUTIONS has everything you need to know to start formulating concepts and creating powerful, effective visual messages.

Master the art of user experience design through the 100 laws, guidelines, human biases, and general considerations in this comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia.

Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, Universal Principles of UX pairs clear explanations of each concept with visual examples of the ideas applied in practice. The book is organized into six broad categories

The Autodesk Revit 2024 Black Book is the 5th edition of our series on Autodesk Revit. This book is designed to help beginners in understanding the workflow in Revit and how simple BIM models are created. The book follows a step-by-step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing. We have tried to reduce the gap between educational use of Autodesk Revit and industrial use of Autodesk Revit. The book covers almost all the information required by a beginner to master Autodesk Revit. The book covers Architectural Design, Structural Design, Project Management, Revit Family Components, MEP, Mass and Site Creation, Drafting, Data Management and Collaboration, Macros, Visual Scripting, and Precast. A residential building project is given in this book which revises major topics discussed throughout the book. Some of the salient features of this book are

This handy deck of drawing prompts delivers just the bite-sized encouragement that beginners crave and makes it easy to start drawing—anytime, anywhere—and keep drawing.

A regular drawing practice improves so much more than technique—it also boosts your self-awareness and productivity. Serving up bite-sized creative prompting in a convenient, display-worthy package, this deck offers 45 inspiring exercises that encourage doodlers, sketchers, and artists of all levels to develop a regular drawing habit.

With this 80-plus page fully illustrated ebook, you’ll learn about measurement and proportions, and how to take an artwork from the initial block-in stage through to the shading of values and details.
This ebook features demonstrations with different mediums. With a full-color photograph for each stage in the drawing, the demonstrations clearly show you Nguyen creates his drawings from start to finish.
These demonstrations use CarbOthello pastel pencils, charcoal and chalk pencils. A full materials list is included.

If you have always wanted to excel at drawing, then The Essential Book of Drawing & Illustration is for you. All you need is a pencil, a blank piece of paper and the expert guidance you will find in these pages. This book will systematically teach you the basics of drawing and help you to develop your own drawing style.

Suitable for beginners and improvers alike, the easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations tackle all aspects of our environment, from simple object drawing to people and landscapes. Including advice on sketching and observation, perspective and techniques, this practical guide contains everything you need to know to create striking artworks.

This comprehensive guide to simple, effective drawing techniques encourages the reader to focus on expression and style to achieve artistic 'truth'. Rather than copying every element of a subject, the reader is urged to develop his or her own way of seeing subjects to produce an individual, expressive style of drawing. While offering demonstrations on matters such as proportion, perspective, light sources and mark-making, author Peter Gray inspires readers to become confident in their own abilities as artists.

In this comprehensive guide to the world of drawing, acclaimed teacher Barrington Barber leads you through the major challenges faced by every artist. The Complete Book of Drawing Skills shows you how to recognize form and shape, tackle perspective and imbue your subjects with expression.

Chapters dedicated to the major themes of still life, landscape, portraits and figures deal with the specific challenges raised by these subjects. If you are feeling in need of a little inspiration, there are drawings after masters such as Raphael, Rembrandt and Picasso to excite your interest.

Artists looking to build up their skills and produce accomplished artworks will find this comprehensive drawing reference invaluable. Barrington Barber looks at the key areas - still life, figures, landscape and portraits - and demonstrates the specific skills needed for each type of subject matter. His easy-to-follow approach makes him an ideal tutor for beginners as well as those who can already draw competently.

Starting with the basics of drawing, the book moves on to deal with more challenging areas such as figures in action, symbolism in portraits and imaginary landscapes.

Do you dream of becoming a fashion designer? This inspirational, practical and stylish introduction to the industry reveals what it takes to become a first-rate fashion illustrator. Including sections on templates and poses, fabrics, accessories and clothing design, Fashion Drawing offers instruction in the full range of skills required to reach a professional standard. In addition to providing step-by-step tuition, the book showcases an exciting range of work by established fashion designers and illustrators.

Learning to draw isn't as hard as you might think. Within these pages, bestselling author Barrington Barber introduces you to the basic techniques of drawing and provides exercises so you can keep improving your skills. You'll learn how to draw simple and complex shapes, create depth and perspective, master composition and produce lifelike drawings across a wide range of subject matter, including trees and vegetation, landscapes, life drawing and portraits. This is the perfect start-up book for those who wish to discover the artist within.

The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure!

This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the human body for artists to study and implement in their drawing work. In this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella simplifies the human body into basic shapes and forms, offering profound insight for artists of all kinds, sparking the imagination and improving one's observational abilities. Rather than going the traditional route of memorizing a repertoire of poses, Lauricella instead stresses learning this small collection of forms, which can then be combined and shaped into the more complex and varied forms and postures we see in the living body.

Geared toward artists of all levels—from beginners through professionals—this handy, pocket-sized book will help spark your imagination and creativity. Whether your interest is in figure drawing, fine arts, fashion design, game design, or creating comic book or manga art, you will find this helpful book filled with actionable insights.