What's on the DVD?

The accompanying DVD includes:
 45 tutorial movies, totalling over 2 hours of real-time training
 all the project files used in the tutorials from the book
 100 high resolution, professional royalty-free images from Photos.com that have been carefully chosen by the author for their usefulness in montage applications
 over 200 high resolution images supplied by members of the Reader Forum
 Demos of the best Photoshop plug-ins
 Test Yourself files in which you can pit your wits against a range of problems designed to test your understanding of the techniques
 Bonus content: 13 high resolution renders of skeletons for you to use in your own projects.

A network is a system of two or more computers that are connected in some manner (you have lots of choices about the "manner"). Each computer on the network has access to the files and peripheral equipment (printers and modems) on all the other computers on the network.
Using multiple computers is much easier if you have a network. You don't have to remember which computer you were using when you started that letter to Uncle Harry because you can just reach across the network to finish it using any computer in the house. A home network allows you to do the work you have to do better and more efficiently. You can benefit from a network if you 

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American Photo Magazine (January-Febuary 2008)
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Todd Stauffer, "How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog"
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | ISBN-10: 0071492186 | October 22, 2007 | 460 pages | PDF | 17.5MB

Incorporate the hottest new Web technologies into your blog! How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog makes it easy to choose the blogging tools that are best for you and master the basics of blog design and template manipulation. You'll learn how to add different Web 2.0 services to your blog, including images, video, audio, forums, tags, wikis, and even money-making features. It's time to take your blog to the next level and get more hits, more fans, more friends, and more customers.

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Firefox Secrets A Need-To-Know Guide
2005 | 119 Pages | PDF | 1.66 MB

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Dave Minter, "Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional"
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