Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure or Office and Sharepoint 2007 Users Guide

Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure

Author: Mikkel Aaland

This beautifully illustrated and eminently practical book offers a complete tour of Lightroom 2, the integrated digital photography workflow application that allows serious photographers to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images. Augmented by photos and case studies from a demanding road test in Tasmania, award-winning photographer Mikkel Aaland explains how Lightroom can improve the way you work. After watching -- and often helping -- Adobe create Lightroom entirely from the ground up, Aaland (author of Photoshop CS3 RAW) decided to try it out in the field. He organized a group of top-notch photographers for a trek to Tasmania, the exotic island south of mainland Australia, where the only studio was Lightroom on a laptop. In Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure, Aaland uses hands-on knowledge from the trip to demonstrate how Lightroom can help you create the best possible image under any conditions. This unique tutorial walks you step-by-step through Lightroom's: Library module for uploading, sorting, tagging, ranking and adding keywords to your images Develop module with Adobe Camera RAW for complete non-destructive color and tonal adjustments Slideshow module, where you select and size images, and export the show to HTML, Flash, or PDF formats Print module, which includes several templates for printing contact sheets or full images Web module, where you can create Flash or HTML web galleries With many gorgeous examples shot in the exotic wilds of Tasmania, this book lets you see the results for yourself. Mikkel Aaland's trademark ability to teach complicated topics on digital imaging with straightforward, easy-to-follow text makes this book avaluablelearning tool for anyone serious about digital photography.

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Office and Sharepoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating Sharepoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word

Author: Michael P Antonovich

Web sites. Collaboration. Document management. Paperless offices. We want it all in business today, but how do you achieve all of these goals? More importantly, if you work for one of the millions of small to medium–sized businesses, how do you find the time and build the expertise necessary to reach these goals? Even the most powerful tool will not allow you to succeed unless you can get the majority of your staff to use it efficiently and effectively. You need a guide that demonstrates a platform small to medium–sized businesses can use to reach these goals.

Office and SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word demystifies the path every Microsoft Office user can follow to benefit from the synergism of tools they are already familiar with. Together with SharePoint 2007, users can achieve goals like web sites with a consistent single view, improved collaboration within their organization, better document management, and maybe even get one step closer to the paperless office we’ve been promised for years. This book has topics for Office users of all skill levels, from those just starting to use Office tools to the experienced power user. It examines each major Office tool and shows how it contributes to the support and use of SharePoint in today’s increasingly electronic–based office environment.

What you’ll learn

In this book, you will discover

How to access, customize, share, and extend SharePoint document libraries in conjunction with Word, Excel, and other Office products

Different ways to working through Office while interacting withSharePoint, like synchronizing your calendar and contacts, exporting databases, and modifying them with SharePoint’s list view, and so on

The best ways of managing content across teams and your entire organization

What it really means to leverage all of SharePoint’s capabilities by tying them directly into the Office applications you use every day

Who is this book for?

Office and SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word is a perfect reference for everyone who works at a company or organization that is using or planning to use either Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and who wants to make a difference by developing content, collaboration, and benefiting from the synergism working with several Microsoft products can provide.