More than 500 photos and illustrations show you exactly how to perform each step of each procedure the right way and avoid drips, smudges, and ugly surfaces. You'll find out how to choose the best paint for the job, figure out how much paint you'll need, and use rollers, brushes, and other painting tools with skill and precision. Before you know it, you'll have the confidence and ability to tackle any household painting project with ease. You'll discover how to:

• Select the proper tools and materials for each painting job
• Choose colors that will work for you—now and for years to come
• Prepare your room and the surface for painting
• Make necessary wall and ceiling repairs before painting
• Brush up on painting basics
• Create faux finishes with shapes and patterns
• Use glazes to dazzling effect
• Bring out the beauty of wood trim, windows and doors
• Finesse furniture, frames, and other household items

Complete with a handy list of dos and don'ts for perfecting your painting skills, Painting Do-It-Yourself for Dummies, gives you the guidance, tips, and information you need to get a professional-level outcome every time.

Essential Design Techniques From the Workbench of a Pro

Harness the power of the PIC microcontroller unit with practical, common-sense instruction from an engineering expert. Through eight real-world projects, clear illustrations, and detailed schematics, Making PIC Microcontroller Instruments and Controllers shows you, step-by-step, how to design and build versatile PIC-based devices. Configure all necessary hardware and software, read input voltages, work with control pulses, interface with peripherals, and debug your results. YouAnd#39;ll also get valuable appendices covering technical terms, abbreviations, and a list of sample programs available online.

• Build a tachometer that gathers, processes, and displays dataAndnbsp;
• Make accurate metronomes using internal PIC timers
• Construct an asynchronous pulse counter that tracks marbles
• Read temperature information through an analog-to-digital converter
• Use a gravity sensor and servos to control the position of a table
• Assemble an eight-point touch screen with an input scanning routine
• Engineer an adjustable, programmable single-point controller
• Capture, log, monitor, and store data from a solar collector

Key Book Benefits

Guides system engineers and administrators how to design and implement PKI-based solutions

Explains how to exploit the tight integration of Windows Server 2008 PKI services with Active Directory® directory service

Features best practices based on real-world implementations
Includes a CD with tools, scripts, and a fully-searchable eBook

About the Author

Brian Komar, president of IdentIT Inc., is a principal consultant specializing in network security and PKI. Brian has authored MCSE Training Kits, Microsoft Prescriptive Architecture Guides, and PKI white papers, and he is the coauthor of the Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit. Brian is also a frequent speaker at IT conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Windows and .NET Magazine Connections, and Microsoft IT Forum.

•        Office: Organize information and add impact with clip art, SmartArt diagrams, tables, and charts with a new results-oriented interface

•        Word: Create great-looking documents faster using themes, styles, and templates

•        Excel: Use organizing, processing, and presenting tools to create data in Excel

•        PowerPoint: Create powerful presentations faster using ready-made design templates and themes

•        Outlook: Use tools for creating and managing your e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks

•        Publisher: Use task panes to quickly create a brochure or a newsletter without being a designer

•        SharePoint: Collaborate and share documents and information

•        Prepare for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam

•        Practice your new skills with the useful workshops inside

On the Web

This book uses real-world examples to give you a context in which to use a task. This book also includes  workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Office example files that you need for project tasks are available at www.perspection.com

Perspection has written and produced books on a variety of computer software—including Microsoft Office 2003 and XP, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Mac OS X Panther, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macromedia Flash 8, Macromedia Director MX, and Macromedia Fireworks—and Web publishing. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve Johnson founded Perspection, Inc. Perspection is committed to providing information and training to help people use software more effectively. Perspection has written more than 80 computer books, and sold more than 5 million copies.

Includes MCAS Exam Objectives!

This courseware meets the objectives for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCAS). Upon completion of this courseware, you may be prepared to take the exam for MCAS qualification. To learn more about becoming a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist, visit www.microsoft.com.

Steve Johnson has written more than 35 books on a variety of computer software, including Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Mac OS X Panther, Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and 8, Macromedia Director MX 2004, Macromedia Fireworks, and Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve founded Perspection, Inc., which writes and produces software training. When he is not staying up late writing, he enjoys playing golf, gardening, and spending time with his wife, Holly, and three children, JP, Brett, and Hannah. When time permits, he likes to travel to such places as New Hampshire in October, and Hawaii. Steve and his family live in Pleasanton, California, but can also be found visiting family all over the western United States.