The use of visualization, or creative imagery, to enhance skills, improve self confidence, and feel better about yourself.

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

In Part 1 of A New Image, put yourself in the sandals of Noah, Joseph, Moses, and Joshua, who foreshadow things to come-they are models of the image of Jesus. In a makeover, one usually doesn't know where to start. When one sees the wide-reaching effect of these four individuals by their complete obedience to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel), there is definitely a light at the end of the tunnel. Actually, this book may inspire one to read the most interesting stories found anywhere-the stories in the Bible. In Part 2, there are personal stories told by witnesses of the signs and wonders that are happening to them in today's time-and absolutely "supernaturally!" Several people give witness, confirming why they are developing a "new image" in Jesus by embracing their Hebrew roots-leading to a closer relationship with Yeshua (His name in Hebrew) through immersion in and obedience to the Torah, where one goes to learn even more about Him because He is the Word, the truth, and the light.

Join the digital revolution and take better pictures than you've ever dreamed possible. Intimidating technical terms become easy to understand, and forbidding bells and whistles become easy to manipulate. With detailed illustrations, see how the camera works. Learn to use memory cards. Then master the art of editing pictures on your PC, including special editing effects to enhance a photo's mood, transform its background, or delete clutter. Quickly, you're ready to print pictures on your printer and e-mail them to your friends. Later sections show you how easy it is to add accessories such as close-up, telephoto, and wide-angle lenses, remote controls, and software for editing and storage. Along the way: first-person accounts of "disasters and how I fully recovered."

In The Power of Pictures book and companion DVD, Beth Olshansky introduces teachers to her innovative art-based approach to literacy instruction. Widely practiced in classrooms across the country, the model has been proven by research to improve literacy achievement with a wide range of learners, especially those who struggle with verbal skills. At the heart of her approach is the Artists/Writers Workshop. Through study of quality picture books and hands-on art experiences, students learn to visualize, “paint pictures with words,” and ultimately create their own extraordinary artistic and literary work. The book and DVD explain how any teacher can successfully use this process to enable all students, particularly low performers, to make dramatic gains in both reading and writing.

With the 40 fabulous projects in this eye-opening manual and the revolutionary new forms of transfer paper on the market, such as Lazertran, it’s possible to reproduce any design on a wide variety of surfaces effortlessly. The basic technique couldn’t be easier. Simply photocopy an image onto the paper, soak it for a minute, and the picture slides off as a transparent decal. Adhere it to nonporous surfaces such as metal, plastic, or fabric using the adhesive on the back of the film. Embellish a metal cocktail shaker and matching ice bucket with a retro 50’s design, scatter coffee beans on an espresso cup, or put playful sheep on a child’s pillow. It’s creative fun, and an inspiring start to a great new craft.

A newly updated and revised edition of the classic introduction to digital image processing The Fourth Edition of Digital Image Processing provides a complete introduction to the field and includes new information that updates the state of the art. The text offers coverage of new topics and includes interactive computer display imaging examples and computer programming exercises that illustrate the theoretical content of the book. These exercises can be implemented using the Programmer's Imaging Kernel System (PIKS) application program interface included on the accompanying CD. Suitable as a textbook for students or as a reference for practitioners, this new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of these vital topics: Characterization of continuous images Image sampling and quantization techniques Two-dimensional signal processing techniques Image enhancement and restoration techniques Image analysis techniques Software implementation of image processing applications In addition, the bundled CD includes: A Solaris operating system executable version of the PIKS Scientific API A Windows operating system executable version of PIKS Scientific A Windows executable version of PIKSTool, a graphical user interface method of executing many of the PIKS Scientic operators without program compilation A PDF file format version of the PIKS Scientific C programmer's reference manual C program source demonstration programs A digital image database of most of the source images used in the book plus many others widely used in the literature Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's a good bet that at least half of those words relate to the picture's copyright status. Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine legal terms, constantly evolving copyright law, varying interpretations by museums and estates, and despair over the complexity of the whole situation. Here, on a white—not a high—horse, Susan Bielstein offers her decades of experience as an editor working with illustrated books. In doing so, she unsnarls the threads of permissions that have ensnared scholars, critics, and artists for years. Organized as a series of “takes” that range from short sidebars to extended discussions, Permissions, A Survival Guide explores intellectual property law as it pertains to visual imagery. How can you determine whether an artwork is copyrighted? How do you procure a high-quality reproduction of an image? What does “fair use” really mean? Is it ever legitimate to use the work of an artist without permission? Bielstein discusses the many uncertainties that plague writers who work with images in this highly visual age, and she does so based on her years navigating precisely these issues. As an editor who has hired a photographer to shoot an incredibly obscure work in the Italian mountains (a plan that backfired hilariously), who has tried to reason with artists' estates in languages she doesn't speak, and who has spent her time in the archival trenches, she offers a snappy and humane guide to this difficult terrain. Filled with anecdotes, asides, and real courage, Permissions, A Survival Guide is a unique handbook that anyone working in the visual arts will find invaluable, if not indispensable.

How computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical objects. Most of us think of computer graphics as a relatively recent invention, enabling the spectacular visual effects and lifelike simulations we see in current films, television shows, and digital games. In fact, computer graphics have been around as long as the modern computer itself, and played a fundamental role in the development of our contemporary culture of computing. In Image Objects, Jacob Gaboury offers a prehistory of computer graphics through an examination of five technical objects--an algorithm, an interface, an object standard, a programming paradigm, and a hardware platform--arguing that computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium. Gaboury explores early efforts to produce an algorithmic solution for the calculation of object visibility; considers the history of the computer screen and the random-access memory that first made interactive images possible; examines the standardization of graphical objects through the Utah teapot, the most famous graphical model in the history of the field; reviews the graphical origins of the object-oriented programming paradigm; and, finally, considers the development of the graphics processing unit as the catalyst that enabled an explosion in graphical computing at the end of the twentieth century. The development of computer graphics, Gaboury argues, signals a change not only in the way we make images but also in the way we mediate our world through the computer--and how we have come to reimagine that world as computational.

In simple terms, the book is designed to give IT professionals an extensive idea of what cloud computing is all about, the basic fundamentals, what the different options of cloud computing are for an enterprise, and how the same can be adopted to their own enterprise. This book is exhaustive and covers almost all the top cloud computing technologies and to the lowest level of details, which will help even a junior-level IT professional to design and deploy cloud solutions based on the individual requirements. This book offers high level of details, which will help IT administrators to manage and maintain the corporate and SME IT infrastructure. This book can also be a part of an engineering curriculum, especially where information technology and computer science courses are offered.