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Digitals Digest | July 2009, Issue 7

2009-09-06T20:58:00.000+08:00

Digitals Digest | July 2009, Issue 7
17 pages | pdf | 6.75 MB

Digital Scrapbooking Ideas. In this issue: Slices of Summer, Layouts from our Gallery, July Crops, and Eight Beautiful Gifts.

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Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

2009-09-05T20:58:00.000+08:00

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George Penston, "Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques"
The MIT Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0262134632 | 437 pages | CHM | 8 MB

The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere–in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices, and this info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the Creative Suite 2 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the programs in a way that makes sense to them.

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Dover - Victorian Foliage Designs

2009-09-04T20:58:00.000+08:00

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Dover - Victorian Foliage Designs
PDF| 44 page | ISBN 0486427420 | 11 mb
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Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art

2009-09-03T20:58:00.000+08:00

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Jennifer New, "Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art"
Princeton Architectural Press | 2005-06-02 | ISBN: 1568984456 | 192 pages | PDF | 59 MB

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of these exceptions—books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs. Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers—an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a cancer patient, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, an artist, a cyclist, and a scientist, to name just a few—illustrating a broad range of journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore. For those who already keep a journal, Drawing from Life will be an inspiration. For those who have always wanted to—or tried and failed—it might just be the motivation needed to get past that first week.

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Computers and Art

2009-09-02T20:59:00.000+08:00

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Computers and Art
Intellect Ltd | ISBN: 1841500623 | 2008 | 192 pages | PDF | 5.8 MB

Computers andA Art provides insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a practising artist and a researcher. Mealing looks at the potential for future developments in the field, looking at both the artistic and the computational aspects of the field.

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Explorations in Theory and Practice By Stuart Walker

2009-09-01T20:59:00.000+08:00

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Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice By Stuart Walker
Earthscan Publications Ltd. 2006-09 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1844073548 | PDF | 5 MB

To advance the subject of design one has to engage in the activity of designing. Sustainable by Design offers a compelling and innovative,design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relationship between intellectual design criteria,physical expression and aesthetic experience.

This book will introduce vital concepts to students and will inspire designers by providing a well-articulated basis for understanding the complexity and potential of sustainable design, and extolling the contribution of design to the creation of a more meaningful material culture.

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World Of Fashion

2009-08-31T20:59:00.000+08:00

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World Of Fashion
1 PDF | English | 45 mb

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Lighting for Artworks and Museum Displays

2009-08-30T20:59:00.000+08:00

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Light for Arts Sake: Lighting for Artworks and Museum Displays
Butterworth-Heinemann | ISBN: 0750664304 | 2007 | PDF | 301 pages | 18.6 MB

Conservation scientists in museums and galleries have a clear understanding of the damage that light can inflict on an object, but what of the designers that create exhibitions to display these precious items?
Light for Arts Sake provides a basis for a level of professional expertise for lighting practice in museums.
Rather than portraying conservation and display as having diametrically opposed objectives, the central concept is that the interaction of light and art media is the source for both the visual experience and the degradation of the artwork. Optimal solutions derive from understanding and controlling the interaction process, and the need is for the level of understanding among lighting professionals to be brought closer to that found among conservation scientists.

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Dreamweaver MX Extensions

2009-08-29T20:59:00.000+08:00

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Dreamweaver MX Extensions
New Riders Press | ISBN: 0735711828 | 2002-09-09 | CHM | 552 pages | 6.6 MB

Do you use Dreamweaver? Have you downloaded and installed extensions from the Dreamweaver Exchange, and do you love the whole idea of being able to add objects, behaviors, commands, and so forth, to the program? Do you often find yourself thinking, "If only Dreamweaver did it this way..." or "Why doesn't someone write an extension that does...?" Do you know your way around HTML and JavaScript and feel you just might be ready to start writing your own Dreamweaver extensions? If so, Dreamweaver MX Extensions is for you.
Dreamweaver MX Extensions is written for Dreamweaver users who want to learn how Dreamweaver extensibility works and how to create extensions to address their workflow needs or to share with others. Dreamweaver MX Extensions explores what extensibility is and how it works, focusing on how Dreamweaver uses a combination of HTML, JavaScript, and XML to create objects, behaviors, menu commands, inspectors, floating panels, server behaviors, and other program elements. For each extension type, the reader is taken through a series of practice exercises. The book's 14 workshops provide step-by-step instructions for strategizing, designing, and creating functional, useful extensions!

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Packt Publishing

2009-08-28T20:59:00.000+08:00

Packt Publishing | ISBN: 1847196969 | 2009 | 420 pages | PDF | 4.6 MB

The Drupal View modules give you flexibility and freedom to customize the display of your web site's content. Although there are more than 100 views-enabled modules, few site administrators use Drupal Views to its full potential.
This book will enable you to realize the fullest potential of this powerful resource by providing a wide variety of powerful recipes for creating and displaying a wide variety of views - essential classics you will use again and again to innovative display methods that will make your Drupal site stand out. Pick and choose the ones you would like to prepare for your web site.
In this book you will find ninety-four recipes to create a wide selection of views. The list includes event listings, interactive calendars and timelines, maps, proximity search, podcasting, carousels, Views Fusion, and many more. You will also explore default views, views with CCK, and master a variety of ways to associate views with related content.

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Alina Reyes and Bernard Matussiere - Female Nudes

2009-08-27T21:43:00.005+08:00

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Alina Reyes and Bernard Matussiere - Female Nudes
Fitway Publishing | 2005 | ISBN: 2752801661 | Pages: 144 | PDF | 19 MB

Alina Reyes and award winning photographer, Bernard Matussiere join forces to deliver this magnificant tribute to the female nude.

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Mastering Digital SLR Photography

2009-08-27T21:43:00.004+08:00

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Mastering Digital SLR Photography (Mastering) by David D. Busch
Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (December 21, 2004) | ISBN-10: 1592006051 | PDF | 9 Mb | 280 pages

This unique guide emphasizes digital "photography", rather than software. You'll learn how to take compelling pictures and make great images using imaging technology while focusing on the special strengths of digital SLR cameras. Whether you're a snap-shooting tyro, or an experienced photographer moving into the digital SLR realm, you'll find the knowledge you need inside the pages of "Mastering Digital SLR Photography." If you have mastered you digital camera's basic features and now wonder what to do with them, this is your dream guide to pixel proficiency. Learn how to overcome the quirks and maximize the strengths of your dSLR camera. From lens selection and creative exposure techniques to controlling composition and mastering special features, this book will help you effectively combine the essentials of photography with digital technology.

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Shoot Like a Pro! Digital Photography Techniques

2009-08-27T21:40:00.004+08:00

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ulie Adair King, "Shoot Like a Pro! Digital Photography Techniques"
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media | ISBN: 0072229497 | 2003 | 256 pages | PDF | 8.6 MB

Produce the kind of images that would otherwise demand a professional photographer or darkroom--or both. Through a series of tutorial projects, author Julie Adair King shows readers how to light shots, choose the right camera settings, use camera accessories and photographic software, and much more. You'll learn step-by-step to use your existing digital camera for professional results. Set up a home studio, create a 360-degree panoramic image, learn low light and action photography, work in black and white, and adopt many other professional techniques.

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Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers

2008-12-22T12:43:00.001+08:00

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Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers
Publisher: Ilex (Nov 2005) | ISBN 1904705685 | PDF | 176 pages | 70 Mb

The power of Adobe's flagship application, Photoshop, is legendary. Buried deep within its palettes, menus, tools, and dialog boxes lie features that are either so little understood or simply so demanding of time that they have never had their full potential aired. One of these features, "blending modes", controls how pixels in an image are affected by combining the image with the same - or another - image. In itself, a simple enough process. However, the sheer number and variety of options, and the way different colours behave when blends are applied, means that it requires endless hours of trial and error to discover how a particular blending mode - or combination of blends - will affect an image. And now, with the recent explosion of the digital photography phenomenon, a whole new variety of image-maker has entered the Photoshop studio: the digital "art" photographer. These enthusiasts, with their voracious appetite for creative imagery, demand an easy route into learning everything that Photoshop has to offer. Amazingly, no book has ever attempted to exploit and explain the hidden power of this incredible feature of Photoshop - until now.

The Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers explains everything there is to know about blending modes - how they work and what they can be used for - and provides, in a clearly laid out format, hundreds of ready made recipes for the enthusiast to examine, without having to waste hours on fruitless experimentation.

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Profitable Photography in Digital Age: Strategies for Success

2008-12-22T12:41:00.001+08:00

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Profitable Photography in Digital Age: Strategies for Success 256 pages | Allworth Press (June 1, 2005) | ISBN: 1581154127 | PDF | 2 Mb

The rapid evolution of digital photography and the ease of distribution over the Internet has transformed the photo industry. Everything from marketing and sales to competitive pricing and job security has been affected. And now that the flood gates have come down, everyone from semi-pros to amateurs to the common consumer affects how business is done, whether it's pricing, assignments, or just getting your photos seen by potential buyers. In a market once dominated by agencies and seasoned professionals, succeeding in today's industry demands a fresh new approach. For those who are just starting out or those who are established photographers trying to compete more effectively in a changing market, Dan Heller’s book Profitable Photography in the Digital Age provides a new and progressive approach to understanding and succeeding in the photography business in today’s market.

It will help established photographers find new strategies for diversifying revenue streams and adding nontraditional sources of income. For serious amateurs, this book explores realistic perspectives on what to expect and how to gauge their aptitudes for making it in this highly competitive arena. Profitable Photography in the Digital Age shows how photography is more accessible than ever to the average person, even though making money with photography can be more challenging. It also offers new ways of teaching (and learning) the basics of the photo industry apart from just making an impressive portfolio or reaching the right art director. It outlines some of the available paths to success, examines the methods available and provides the analysis on which methods achieve the desired results. While there is heavy competition, many new opportunities have opened up and more buyers are entering the field. "The digital era isn't just about making great websites or being great at photoshop," says Heller. "One must be able to work within that and many other mediums to broaden one’s reach and market segments. What’s more," he says, "the buyer’s perception of images and the culture of the business has also taken an abrupt turn that isn't as accommodating to the traditional models as it once was." By following Heller’s strategies and integrating the concepts presented in Profitable Photography in the Digital Age, anyone who wants to have a career in the photo industry will have the tools he or she needs to succeed.

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Photography Your Way: A Career Guide to Satisfaction and Success

2008-12-22T12:33:00.001+08:00

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Chuck DeLaney “Photography Your Way: A Career Guide to Satisfaction and Success"
Allworth Press | 2005-08-01 | ISBN: 1581154054 | 352 pages | PDF | 2,7 Mb

Excellent! A great introduction for someone considering the study of photography. Takes an unusual, sort of psychologically analytical approach to the field, in addition to dealing with the specifics of education, equipment and the like.

It was after reading this book that I finally made the decision to study photography through the New York Institute of Photography where Chuck Delaney is dean. He came across as being a down-to-earth, no-nonsense expert in the field, and his NYIP course bore that fact out. Both his book and the course gave me more than they promised, something that is rare today.

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The 123 of Digital Imaging Interactive CD Tutorial

2008-12-22T02:19:00.001+08:00

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Vincent Bockaert, "The 123 of Digital Imaging Interactive CD Tutorial"
123Di | 2005 | 3rd Ed. | English | 88 Mb

"Vincent Bockaert has created an excellent interactive tutorial for beginner and more experienced shutterbugs alike. Through an intuitive straightforward interface, you are guided through starter, essential and advanced sections on all thinkable facets of digital imaging. The guide is well structured; topics are clearly written and exemplified with comprehensive and animated illustrations."

The 123 of digital imaging combines several digital photography books into one comprehensive Interactive Learning Suite.123di is packed with more than 2,500 screen-size pages filled with thousands of colorful graphics and animations.

123di covers digital imaging via a three step workflow:

Understanding digital imaging and digital camera selection
Enhance your images in the "pixelroom"
Manage, view, share, and print your images.

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250 HTML and Web Design Secrets

2008-12-20T13:38:00.001+08:00

* This value-priced guide by one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web delivers 250 solutions, workarounds, tips, and annoyance-busters that Web designers won't find anywhere else
* Offers 500 pages of insider techniques to improve workflow and efficiency, save development time and money, and increase search engine rankings and site traffic, whether designers want to enhance an existing Web site or build a state-of-the-art site from scratch
* Covers topics such as HTML, XHTML, CSS, graphics and multimedia, cell phone and PDA accessibility, content development, tools, usability, information architecture, globalization, and site redesign

Molly Holzschlag is a steering committee member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and spokesperson for the World Organization of Webmasters, as well as a frequent lecturer at industry conferences and the author of twenty-five previous books

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100 of the World's Best Graphic Designers

2008-12-20T13:36:00.002+08:00

Covering a vast range of cutting-edge graphics, with politically charged anti-commercial work placed in the same context as Nike's latest ads, this book presents a sweeping look at today's most progressive graphic currents - from signage at packaging to branding and web design.

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XML in 60 Minutes a Day by Linda McKinnon

2008-12-20T13:34:00.002+08:00

* XML is now ubiquitous, not just in Web development, but as the underpinning of interactive Web services: applications that really do run on any platform
* Includes twenty-four one-hour lessons that recreate a typical week-long introductory seminar
* Provides readers with a sound, fundamental understanding of XML and how it changes application development
* Explains how to use XML when dealing with transforms, schemas, and other Web services requirements
* The authors teach courses for IBM Canada
* Companion Web site features an online presentation by the authors that follows along with each chapter and includes an audio-only option for readers with dial-up Internet connection

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The Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time

2008-12-20T13:32:00.001+08:00

When it comes to learning how to take great travel photographs, who better to learn from than the pros whose work graces the pages of all those travel magazines and brochures you’ve examined longingly? These are exactly who you get as instructors when you purchase this book–the world-famous photojournalists, commercial and fine-art photographers, and trainers who make up the Blue Pixel team (which instructs thousands of students annually through the highly respected Nikon School of Photography). Drawing on years of in-the-trenches experience, the Blue Pixel authors outline everything you need to know to take great travel shots using the digital tools available today. Offering clear, concise instruction plus practical advice, real-world examples and anecdotes, and loads of beautiful photos, this beautiful full-color guide offers everything you need to get the right shot every time. From what equipment to buy to how to set up the perfect shot (plus more advanced topics like lighting and composition), you’ll learn how to capture the magic of locales both local and exotic.

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Java Concurrency in Practice

2008-12-20T13:31:00.001+08:00

This book covers:
* Basic concepts of concurrency and thread safety
* Techniques for building and composing thread-safe classes
* Using the concurrency building blocks in java.util.concurrent
* Performance optimization dos and don'ts
* Testing concurrent programs
* Advanced topics such as atomic variables, nonblocking algorithms, and the Java Memory Model

"I was fortunate indeed to have worked with a fantastic team on the design and implementation of the concurrency features added to the Java platform in Java 5.0 and Java 6. Now this same team provides the best explanation yet of these new features, and of concurrency in general. Concurrency is no longer a subject for advanced users only. Every Java developer should read this book."
--Martin Buchholz
JDK Concurrency Czar, Sun Microsystems

"For the past 30 years, computer performance has been driven by Moore's Law; from now on, it will be driven by Amdahl's Law. Writing code that effectively exploits multiple processors can be very challenging. Java Concurrency in Practice provides you with the concepts and techniques needed to write safe and scalable Java programs for today's--and tomorrow's--systems."
--Doron Rajwan
Research Scientist, Intel Corp

"This is the book you need if you're writing--or designing, or debugging, or maintaining, or contemplating--multithreaded Java programs. If you've ever had to synchronize a method and you weren't sure why, you owe it to yourself and your users to read this book, cover to cover."
--Ted Neward
Author of Effective Enterprise Java

"Brian addresses the fundamental issues and complexities of concurrency with uncommon clarity. This book is a must-read for anyone who uses threads and cares about performance."
--Kirk Pepperdine
CTO, JavaPerformanceTuning.com

"This book covers a very deep and subtle topic in a very clear and concise way, making it the perfect Java Concurrency reference manual. Each page is filled with the problems (and solutions!) that programmers struggle with every day. Effectively exploiting concurrency is becoming more and more important now that Moore's Law is delivering more cores but not faster cores, and this book will show you how to do it."
--Dr. Cliff Click
Senior Software Engineer, Azul Systems

"I have a strong interest in concurrency, and have probably written more thread deadlocks and made more synchronization mistakes than most programmers. Brian's book is the most readable on the topic of threading and concurrency in Java, and deals with this difficult subject with a wonderful hands-on approach. This is a book I am recommending to all my readers of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, because it is interesting, useful, and relevant to the problems facing Java developers today."
--Dr. Heinz Kabutz
The Java Specialists' Newsletter

"I've focused a career on simplifying simple problems, but this book ambitiously and effectively works to simplify a complex but critical subject: concurrency. Java Concurrency in Practice is revolutionary in its approach, smooth and easy in style, and timely in its delivery--it's destined to be a very important book."
--Bruce Tate
Author of Beyond Java

"Java Concurrency in Practice is an invaluable compilation of threading know-how for Java developers. I found reading this book intellectually exciting, in part because it is an excellent introduction to Java's concurrency API, but mostly because it captures in a thorough and accessible way expert knowledge on threading not easily found elsewhere."
--Bill Venners
Author of Inside the Java Virtual Machine

Threads are a fundamental part of the Java platform. As multicore processors become the norm, using concurrency effectively becomes essential for building high-performance applications. Java SE 5 and 6 are a huge step forward for the development of concurrent applications, with improvements to the Java Virtual Machine to support high-performance, highly scalable concurrent classes and a rich set of new concurrency building blocks. In Java Concurrency in Practice, the creators of these new facilities explain not only how they work and how to use them, but also the motivation and design patterns behind them.

However, developing, testing, and debugging multithreaded programs can still be very difficult; it is all too easy to create concurrent programs that appear to work, but fail when it matters most: in production, under heavy load. Java Concurrency in Practice arms readers with both the theoretical underpinnings and concrete techniques for building reliable, scalable, maintainable concurrent applications. Rather than simply offering an inventory of concurrency APIs and mechanisms, it provides design rules, patterns, and mental models that make it easier to build concurrent programs that are both correct and performant.

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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 7

2008-12-20T13:28:00.002+08:00

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Mike Wooldridge, Linda Wooldridge “Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 7" Visual | 2008-11-03 | ISBN: 0470396687 | 352 pages | PDF | 79.8 MB

Covers the most important features of Photoshop Elements including: importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, compositing great group shots, enhancing digital images, changing print size, canvas size, and resolution, editing images for posting on the Web, creating a Web photo gallery, and incorporating graphics into desktop publishing programs. Teach Yourself VISUALLY? Photoshop Elements 7 contains tasks on all the newest features of Photoshop Elements; covering new topics such as using the sharpness and curves tool, converting color to black and white images, and geographically tagging photos and viewing them as icons on a map. The associated website provides all the images used in the book so that readers can practice along with all the example techniques featured in the book. Photoshop Elements features the sophisticated tools and functionality of Photoshop but at a much more affordable price for home and prosumer users.

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2008-12-20T13:27:00.001+08:00

Digital Photography Simplified by Rob Sheppard

2008-12-20T13:25:00.002+08:00

Are you new to digital cameras? Does new technology make you nervous? Relax! You're holding in your hands the easiest guide ever to digital photography - a book that skips the long-winded explanations and shows you how things work. All you have to do is open the book and discover just how easy it is to get up to speed.

* Set up your camera and learn program modes
* Understand good composition and exposure
* Experiment with lenses and focal length
* Download and organize your images
* Fine-tune your photos with Photoshop(r) Elements
* Select paper and printers to make quality prints
* "Simplify It" sidebars offer real-world advice
* Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
* Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
* Self-contained, two-page lessons make learning a snap

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