Create Newsletters, Brochures, Web Pages, and More! Creating high-quality publications right on your own PC is easier than you think-with a little help from Microsoft Publisher 2000 For Dummies. Straightforward explanations, illustrations, and tips guide you through the ins and outs of desktop publishing. You'll discover how scanned images, clip-art graphics, and distinctive typefaces can make your print documents and Web pages come alive in no time-without spending a lot of money. Inside, find helpful advice on how to: Choose the perfect fonts and design elements for any project Design custom layouts for newsletters, brochures, stationary, and much more Drop in images from Publisher's clip-art gallery-or use your own pictures Turn any document into a Web page in a few simple steps Use hyperlinks, textures, and colors to build better Web sites Create and maintain a consistent image for your small business Unleash the time-saving capabilities of Publisher's powerful PageWizards Get money-saving tips on service bureaus, paper options, and printing Integrate Publisher with other Microsoft Office 2000 applications for even greater productivity

Covers PhotoDraw 2000 Versions 1 and 2 Check out the full-color example graphics inside! Your guide to the graphics software that does it all — illustrations plus photo-editing Want to add a little zip to your fliers, brochures, presentations, or Web pages? Even if the last time you drew something was in kindergarten, this friendly guide to the versatile new graphics program from Microsoft will have you creating illustrations, retouching photos, and building 3-D headlines — in no time! Discover how to: Understand computer graphics fundamentals Master the drawing and photo-editing tools Use built-in templates, clip art, and designer effects Combine photos, drawings, and text Export images to documents, presentations, or the Web The Dummies Way™ Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun Get smart! www.dummies.com Register to win cool prizes Browse exclusive articles and excerpts Get a free Dummies Daily™ e-mail newsletter Chat with authors and preview other books Talk to us, ask questions, get answers

Isn’t that digital camera so cool? There must be a hundred things it will do that you haven’t really figured out yet, right? For that matter, just getting the hang of all the features you DO know about may be keeping you busy. With your digital camera, you can See immediately whether you got the shot you wanted Take dozens of photos to be sure you get what you want, and just delete the ones you don’t like Edit and enhance your pictures on your computer E-mail images to friends, post them on the Web, make prints, or create photo gifts The more you know about your digital camera and about digital photography, the more you’ll enjoy taking pictures and the better your pictures will be. Of course, the best way to see examples of good photographic techniques is in full color, and Digital Photography For Dummies, 5th Edition gives you exactly that — plenty of beautiful, colorful photos that show you what you can accomplish and start the ideas popping. With a digital camera, a computer, and some photo-editing software, you can explore unlimited creative opportunities. You don’t have to be a computer whiz or a professional photographer, either. Digital Photography For Dummies, 5th Edition helps you get the hang of Choosing the right camera, software, and accessories for what you want to do Editing your images with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Using your camera’s settings, composing great pictures, managing exposure and lighting, and working with automatic modes Getting your images out of the camera and onto your computer, organizing them, and sharing them online or in print Doing cool things with your pictures, like sharpening focus, covering flaws, adding people from other photos, and jazzing up your images with special effects Written by Julie Adair King, a photographer who has penned several other books on the subject, colorful Digital Photography For Dummies, 5th Edition can help you take better digital photos, do more with them, and have a lot more fun with your camera. You’ll get the picture!

Covers All 8 Office 2000 Programs The Microsoft Office 2000 Guide That Gives You More! Microsoft Office 2000 is powerful. It's versatile. And it's very complicated. Which is why you need this encore to Microsoft® Office 2000 For Windows® For Dummies®. It's packed with advanced techniques and secrets that will help you get More out of every program in the suite — and make you More creative, More efficient, and More productive. Inside, find helpful advice on how to: Find out how to make the advanced modules of Office — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook — work together seamlessly Try out keyboard shortcuts, macros, templates, and customization features that make Office 2000 work smarter Get up to speed on graphics and multimedia basics — and add impact to documents, presentations, printed pieces, and Web pages Use PhotoDraw and FrontPage to make Web-page design as simple as creating a Word document Get a handle on Small Business tools like Business Planner, Direct Mail Manager, Customer Manager, and Financial Manager Create business cards, brochures, flyers, and other desktop publishing projects quickly and easily with Publisher

A few years ago, geeks, academics, and soda-fueled computer jocks populated the Internet. Today, everyone – from CEOs to seventh-grade students to weekend technology fiends – wants to get online. And people don’t just want to surf. They each want to carve out a unique personal space: They want a Web site. Until recently, only the technically gifted and artistically inclined attempted to publish sites on the Web. Not anymore. FrontPage 2000 brings new ease to Web publishing. Without any knowledge of HTML (the language used to create Web pages), you can use FrontPage to build and manage a beautiful and sophisticated Web site, complete with exciting effects you see on those other sites. FrontPage 2000 For Dummies introduces you to the ins and outs of online design, while sharing expert insight into ways to Tweak your text Make things happen with hyperlinks Add pictures and graphics to your pages Create an image map Work with themes Launch your page into the big, wide Internet world Whether you're a beginner building your first family Web page or a professional designer looking to polish certain aspects of your site, FrontPage 2000 For Dummies will put you in the driver's seat in a race through cyberspace. Expect to discover how to Create Web pages that incorporate text, graphics, hyperlinks, image maps, tables, and multimedia. Add creative fonts, lists, symbols, borders and shading, comments, and user forms to your Web pages. Take advantage of FrontPage 2000's integration with Office 2000. Maintain and update your Web site using FrontPage 2000. Use all the features of FrontPage to keep your site looking and feeling brand-spanking fresh and new. With so many people jumping on the Web publishing bandwagon, you can easily feel like you’ve been left in the dust. If you’re edging your way into the Internet Age (or being dragged in, kicking and screaming, by your employer or your kids), you’re in for a pleasant surprise: Creating your own Web site with FrontPage 2000 is easy and fun with FrontPage 2000 For Dummies.

A user-friendly reference book provides separate sections covering each Office 2000 module plus Windows 98 and includes pointers on getting the modules to work together.

Think back to the last time you browsed through your photo collection. You probably didn’t get very far before you thought to yourself, “This picture would have been great if only. . . .” If only the exposure had been better. I only that big plant, sign, or other distracting object wasn’t cluttering up background. If only the print hadn’t been sitting for 30 years in the basement being attacked by mildew, dirt, and paper-munching bugs. In years past, you either had to live with the damaged photos or pay big bucks to have them professionally repaired. Today, thanks to the development of consumer-friendly photo-editing software, you can use your computer to do the job yourself. Whether you want to fix a 100-year-old family photo or a business shot you took yesterday, Photo Retouching & Restoration For Dummies shows you how. You’ll discover how to: Scan and prep photos for editing Work with photo-editing software Fix the five most common photo flaws Get creative with collages and backgrounds Print photos or share them on the Internet Here are just some of the things you can do by following the simple, easy-to-understand instructions provided by the book: Bring new life to old, faded photographs Adjust colors throughout the picture or in a certain object Improve exposure and contrast Sharpen focus Cover up flaws such as negative scratches, scanner dust, and dirt Remove unwanted elements from the scene Get rid of red-eye, soften wrinkles, and do other facial retouching Replace a busy background with one that compliments the subject The techniques in the book use screen shots from Photoshop Elements as illustrations, but you can get the same results using Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, or most other intermediate or professional-level photo-editing software. To help you get started, the book comes with a CD-ROM featuring tryout versions of all the programs mentioned above, as well as other useful photography software. And to help you get the hang of color correction and other photo restoration techniques, the book includes 16 pages of full-color before-and-after examples. In short, you get just what you need to jump right in and start turning your flawed photos into frame-worthy masterworks!

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 is a very nifty business graphics program for folks who don't typically create graphics for a living. If you don't have time to worry about bezier curves, or the differences between vector and bitmap graphics, PhotoDraw is for you -- and so is "Microsft Photodraw 2000 At A Glance."

More than 70 million people have made Microsoft Office the most popular business software package on the planet. Whether you're a newcomer to the power and productivity of the entire Office suite -- with its word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, Web design, desktop publishing, and e-mail software -- or discovering Microsoft Office for the first time, you'll find yourself right at home with the friendly advice and plain-English answers inside Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies. Get all Office 2000 programs working together -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Outlook, Publisher, PhotoDraw, and Internet Explorer -- and take your computing skills to the next level. Publish professional-looking Web pages from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and FrontPage. Organize your schedule and e-mail with Outlook; create dazzling slide presentations with PowerPoint; create documents quickly with Word; and budget your finances with Excel's cool charts and graphs. Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers the Standard, Professional, and Premium editions of Office 2000, so whatever your needs, we've got the answers!