In the past, photography was looked upon as an art. It still is today but everything is much simpler to do and almost everything just relies upon the subjects you take. In the past, you will need quite a lot of equipments just to manufacture a wonderful photograph. You will need to find out about film speed, exposure value, shutter speeds, and focal length. You will likewise use an old adjustable film camera and will have to have a handheld light meter in order for you to know the grade of lighting you have in a certain environment.
The photographs in the past were printed in dark rooms, and it needs to be hung to dry. You likewise need to manage chemical substances that can be extremely dangerous and toxic to cope with. Today, all of that is required is a camera, start taking pictures without worrying about the light quality, connect the camera to your computer after taking photographs, and print it out with a color printer on photo paper.
However, you can ask any professional photographer that they still edit their photos in order to produce professional looking pictures. Even with SLR digital cameras, many professional photographers still uses photo editing software as a way to improve the quality of the photos they took. And, most of them utilize a computer software called Adobe Photoshop.
So, just why is Adobe Photoshop the preferred imaging software by a lot of professional photographers?
Well, Adobe Photoshop has all the necessary tools to create a regular looking picture look as if it was taken by a professional in the best lighting condition possible. Everything that you require in photography is here.
The great thing about Adobe Photoshop is the simplicity of it all. You don't need to deal with hazardous and bad smelling chemical substances to produce photos, and also you don't need to worry about lighting conditions as you can edit it with Adobe Photoshop.
Even when you took an image in a dark environment, you can make it appear as if it was accepted at the best lighting condition possible with Adobe Photoshop. Also, Adobe Photoshop will enable you to remove red-eyes that do ruin a seemingly perfect picture. It will also allow you to remove objects in the photo in addition to replace it with something else as if it was really there. As an example, you can remove a garbage can from the photos you get rid of a specific landmark. Or, you can even remove a complete stranger that ruined an ideal group photo of your mates. You can also replace the setting in a particular photo with Adobe Photoshop.
With a digital scanner, you can scan very old and damaged photos to make a digital copy of it and bring back it with Adobe Photoshop. You will be aware that after printing it with a high quality printer and photo paper, it will look as if the picture was just taken the day before. And, you can do this a lot simpler with Photoshop than by performing it manually with chemical substances.
There are fundamentally a great deal of possibilities that you can do with Adobe Photoshop. If photography is your hobby, then you will certainly see that Adobe Photoshop will be in a position to assist you in ways that you never thought possible. With this software, you can be certain that you will be in a position to make any photos you take look professional.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
IT Outsourcing in Pakistan
Pakistan is emerging as the destination of choice for IT outsourcing in Pakistan for the following reasons:
* An IT workforce of 133,000 with good English language and people skills growing at a phenomenal rate of almost 20,000 a year.
* A hundred and ten ISO-certified IT companies, with over 25 undergoing CMMI rating.
* A reliable digital telecommunications infrastructure with backup and reliable energy and transport networks.
* An ambitious program of world-class IT Parks, with a rental rate of approx. US$1 per sq ft /month.
* A prosperous economy that offers lucrative domestic opportunities and is attracting increasing amounts of international investment.
* A steadily improving risk rating and a tightening environment for intellectual property protection.
* A streamlined government regulatory process of one of the most attractive incentive programs anywhere, which includes tax exemptions, 100% foreign equity and earnings repatriation.
* International leaders such as BearingPoint, NCR Teradata, Mentor Graphics and ZTE have chosen to locate their development and consultancy center in Pakistan.
* A hundred and ten ISO-certified IT companies, with over 25 undergoing CMMI rating.
* A reliable digital telecommunications infrastructure with backup and reliable energy and transport networks.
* An ambitious program of world-class IT Parks, with a rental rate of approx. US$1 per sq ft /month.
* A prosperous economy that offers lucrative domestic opportunities and is attracting increasing amounts of international investment.
* A steadily improving risk rating and a tightening environment for intellectual property protection.
* A streamlined government regulatory process of one of the most attractive incentive programs anywhere, which includes tax exemptions, 100% foreign equity and earnings repatriation.
* International leaders such as BearingPoint, NCR Teradata, Mentor Graphics and ZTE have chosen to locate their development and consultancy center in Pakistan.
Government Incentives
In order to promote its IT industry, the Government of Pakistan has provided several incentives to investors. The establishment of a reliable IT infrastructure and the provision of an incentives package are instrumental in the development of the local IT industry.
In order to promote its IT industry, the Government of Pakistan has provided several incentives to investors. The establishment of a reliable IT infrastructure and the provision of an incentives package are instrumental in the development of the local IT industry.
Other benefits provided to the IT companies are in the form of tax holidays for 15 years and 100% foreign equity ownership. Because of these incentives, an increasing number of foreign IT companies have chosen Pakistan for their outsourcing operations. Some of the areas in which the Government is facilitating the private sector companies include:
* Information Technology Parks with low rent, fiber optic connectivity, libraries and conference rooms
* Provision of funds for software companies to get ISO-9000 and CMM-level certifications
* Foreign investors allowed 100% ownership of equity in "IT/ITeS companies"
* Tax exemption for IT companies till 2016
* 100% repatriation of profits allowed to IT companies
* Seven years' tax holiday for Venture Capital funds
* The rate of depreciation on computer equipment is 30%
* The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has allowed the opening of Internet Merchant Accounts by banks
* Instant, reliable and high-speed connectivity available
* Over 85% of telecommunications infrastructure is on fiber optic cables
* Internet access is available in over 1862 cities/towns across Pakistan
* Pakistan is the first country in this region to establish DWDM telecommunications infrastructure
* Several cellular companies are using digital transmission (GSM and TDMA)
* The cost of 2 Mbps connection has been lowered to US$ 1000/month
* Redundant backup connectivity is available through PTCL for call centers.
* Provision of funds for software companies to get ISO-9000 and CMM-level certifications
* Foreign investors allowed 100% ownership of equity in "IT/ITeS companies"
* Tax exemption for IT companies till 2016
* 100% repatriation of profits allowed to IT companies
* Seven years' tax holiday for Venture Capital funds
* The rate of depreciation on computer equipment is 30%
* The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has allowed the opening of Internet Merchant Accounts by banks
* Instant, reliable and high-speed connectivity available
* Over 85% of telecommunications infrastructure is on fiber optic cables
* Internet access is available in over 1862 cities/towns across Pakistan
* Pakistan is the first country in this region to establish DWDM telecommunications infrastructure
* Several cellular companies are using digital transmission (GSM and TDMA)
* The cost of 2 Mbps connection has been lowered to US$ 1000/month
* Redundant backup connectivity is available through PTCL for call centers.
Software development process
Software development is a process in which products are developed as according to clients needs with prior high satisfaction.These poducts are developed in various programming languages and it includes a long research .We will achieve good results only if we do both marketing and engineering process are being performed. As Software development tasks are not only related to engineering process but also on various factors like Human Resources,Market Research,Budgeting,Risk management etc. It is a complicated process which requires marketing,programming and development areas.All things starts with a simple design to coding,analysis,project management alterations deployment and developing the needed software.Initially before startng any project we need to do lot of ground work regarding that We meed to analyse thoroughly regarding any new software or an application or even a newsystem .This kind of anaysis is called Domain Analysis .By doing this analysis we can able to know all th required information about clients demands as well as customers needs.After gathering all the requirements then developers will start doing the project by starting with preparing functional and technical requirements of the project along with required dataflow diagrams and after this process is over then they will start implementing the project by writing coding.
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