Digital Photography Techniques - Spring 2009

Digital Photography Techniques - Spring 2009
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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Tutorialz

With CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, you can confidently tackle a wide variety of projects, from logos and Web graphics to multi-page marketing brochures. In CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 Essential Training, Mark Abdelnour teaches you the essential tools and techniques you'll need to start using this powerful software collection effectively. Mark begins with an overview of the interface and moves on to cover basic drawing, coloring, and editing. He then advances to transparency, type, the new Interactive Design Tools, special effects, and much more. Tips and specific examples that teach users how to improve workflows and maximize productivity are also included. This training is flexible, so experienced CorelDRAW users can go directly to the movies on features new to X3, while beginning users can watch all of the movies in progression. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

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Learn How To Draw Collection

Learn How To Draw Collection

Publisher: John Hagan | ISBN: N\A | edition 2002 | PDF | 151 pages | 5,5 mb

These lessons are designed using basic skills already learned by students; to measure and to draw straight lines using a ruler. Elements of self-expression are based on familiarity and habit and will come gradually - particularly when the student grows comfortable with the lesson structure. Such self-expression is first emphasised in the homestudy area.

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Animation and Effects with Macromedia Flash MX 2004

Animation and Effects with Macromedia Flash MX 2004
by Jen deHaan

ISBN: 032130344X | CHM | 20 Mb | 472 pages
What started as a simple animation tool has evolved into a full-fledged Web development environment. Which means that if you're like many of today's Flash developers, you may know little about actually creating animations and effects with the program. Here to solve that dilemma is a hands-on guide from one of today's leading Flash experts. By showing you how to create 10 projects based on real-world Web solutions, author Jen deHaan provides a thorough grounding in all of Flash's effects and animation fundamentals. Each chapter represents a single project with simple step-by-step instructions for re-creating the cool Web elements pictured in these pages: an animated character, a Flash interface that uses transitions to "page" through different areas of a site, an animated gallery, a dynamic menu that animates using the Tween classes, a simple game, button effects, Timeline animations, scripted effects, text effects, and more! Ten real-world projects reveal the magic behind the most useful Flash-produced animations and effects, and a companion CD includes lesson files and sample software.

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Mental ray for Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI: A 3D Artist’s Guide to Rendering

Turn 3D models into film-worthy digital animations by mastering mental ray rendering once and for all. This must-have guide is the only book on the market to focus exclusively on mental ray in Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI, and it's packed with techniques and insights you can't get anywhere else. Best of all, the book's advanced rendering concepts apply to other rendering software as well, including V-Ray, Brazil, Maxwell and RenderMan.

From scattering light to reducing render artifacts to deciphering rendering and shadow algorithms, you'll get a high-level look at advanced lighting, camera, and workflow techniques that usually take professionals years to figure out. This valuable book also covers the very latest on HDR image editing, viewing, and compositing tools—and features a sixteen-page color insert that showcases final rendered images.

*Get the fundamentals on light, cameras, and mental ray output
*Render from the host application or from the stand-alone renderer
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*Get exclusive coverage of custom shaders that don't ship with any of the host applications
*Simulate light bounce with indirect illumination for more realism
*Apply textures, projections, and light profiles
*Perform subsurface scattering and Nuke compositing
*Master the fine points of Final Gather and ambient occlusion
*Create photo-realistic characters, objects, and landscapes

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How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS2 by Colin Smith

How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS2 by Colin Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2 edition (May 12, 2005) | 432 pages | ISBN: 0072261609 | PDF | 51 MB

In this full-color, easy-to-use book, award-winning designer and best-selling author colin Smith teaches the fundamentals of Photoshop then covers the more advanced features the software has to offer. Learn to use traditional drawing and painting tools ranging from pencils to airbrushes, then discover how to add and manipulate text, retouch photos, create special effects , and more. The techniques professional artists apply to their work are revealed in a special "Behind the Scenes" section.

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Maximize all the features Photoshop has to offer with help from this full-color guide. Award-winning designer Colin Smith shows you how to create, edit, and enhance sophisticated images and feature-rich web pages using this powerful graphics tool. You’ll learn to use all of Photoshop’s painting and drawing tools, fix and retouch photos, add special effects, print high-quality images, and much more. A bonus “Behind the Scenes” gallery demonstrates the Photoshop techniques used by professional artists.

* Manage the interface, toolbar, palettes, options, and preferences
* Import, place, organize, and size images and adjust resolution
* Edit, repair, retouch, and organize digital photos
* Draw and paint with the built-in tools
* Create and manipulate text
* Use and manage multiple layers
* Create a variety of colors using channels
* Automate tasks using tool presets, actions, droplets, and other methods
* Create bevels, sheens, shadows, and other special effects
* Use ImageReady to create Web graphics
* Set up your Photoshop file for high quality printing

About the author: Colin Smith is an award-winning graphic designer and author or co-author of 11 graphic design books including Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration. He is also founder and publisher of the #1 resource site for Photoshop users, photoshopcafe.com.

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Kelby Training Mastering The Pen Tool Photoshop Extended

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This course covers all aspects of using paths and shapes inside Photoshop. Everything from basic paths, vector masks, and complex selections.
Lesson 01 Introduction (0:32)
Lesson 02 Raster vs. Vector (3:27)
Lesson 03 Pen and Shape Tools (4:35)
Lesson 04 Pen and Shape Options (8:53)
Lesson 05 Paths Panel (8:28)
Lesson 06 Anatomy of a Path (6:15)
Lesson 07 Create and Edit Paths (10:53)
Lesson 08 Vector Masking (7:23)
Lesson 09 Clipping Paths (5:05)

Lesson 10 Vector and Layer Mask (6:33)
Lesson 11 Shape Layers (10:16)
Lesson 12 Selections - Part 1 (6:05)
Lesson 13 Selections - Part 2 (10:31)
Lesson 14 Convert Text Into Paths (6:18)
Lesson 15 Wrapping Text Inside a Shape (6:30)
Lesson 16 Text on a Path (7:59)
Lesson 17 Painting with Paths (10:14)
Lesson 18 Importing and Exporting Paths (7:39)
Lesson 19 Creative Techniques (9:23)
Lesson 20 Illustrating Techniques Using Paths (7:39)
Lesson 21 Final Thoughts (0:33)
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Adobe Creative Suite 2

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More than just an upgrade to the world's leading imaging, design, and print production software, Adobe's Creative Suite 2 will change the way you harness your creativity. Creative Suite 2 is a fully integrated design and workflow environment that is engineered to help creative professionals work faster, smarter and with better results. Robust new tools in Photoshop CS2, tighter integration between Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2, new object styles in InDesign CS2, and the revolutionary streamlining and collaboration offered by Adobe Bridge make Creative Suite 2 Adobe's biggest release yet. Other top features include the ability to establish color settings across all the components of Adobe Creative Suite, access to robust help services, and easier control of, and access to, historical and alternate file versions.

The premium edition of Adobe Creative Suite 2 combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos.

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software is a unified design environment that combines full new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional software with new Version Cue CS2, the Adobe Bridge file browser, and Adobe Stock Photos. Delivering the next level of integration in creative software, plus consistent color and Adobe PDF file creation across components, Adobe Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere—in print, on the Web, or on mobile devices.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 is a unified design environment, combining several Adobe suite into one complete creative suite. Using the tools available in Adobe Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2 and InDesign CS2, you'll realize the full potential of your creative ideas. GoLive 7 and Acrobat 7.0 Professional help you create compelling static and dynamic visions that deliver your message. Combined with Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Stock Photos, you've got all you need to reach the next level of productivity, collaboration and realization. Live Trace - Quickly and accurately converts photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths Image editing with Adobe Photoshop CS2 Drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator CS2 Page layout with Adobe InDesign® CS2 Web design with Adobe GoLive CS2 Client review and print output with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional File sharing and versioning with Version Cue CS2 File browsing and organizing with Adobe Bridge Royalty-free images with Adobe Stock Photos

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques

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If you’re ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to “Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!” this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature style–intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth–helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop’s most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2–such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point features–are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether you’re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

About the Author

A senior engineer from NASA once said that this man gave the best technical seminar he ever attended. That same year a computer-phobic who had been struggling with Photoshop for years proclaimed that “He takes the Boogie Man out of Photoshop!” This seems to be Ben Willmore’s special gift; he has an uncanny ability to connect with users of every level and mindset; whether it’s first-timers taking their first sniff of Photoshop, or razor-sharp nerds and nerdettes who are on the fast track to technical illumination. The common echo that Ben leaves in his wake seems to be “Aha! I finally GET Photoshop!”
To date, Ben has personally taught over 45,000 Photoshop users on three continents. His descriptions of Curves and Channels are thought to be the best in the industry and his breakthrough teaching style of “not-just-how-but-why,” has made him the in-house instructor of choice for companies such as Mercedes Benz, Adobe Systems, America Online, the U.S. Airforce, Lexis Nexis and Fisher-Price Toys. His award-winning, best-selling book, Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques is said to be “Arguably, one of the best Photoshop books ever written.” by Photoshop User’s publisher, Jim Workman. His latest book ‘Photoshop CS2: Up to Speed’ is a new concept in books and is the only book focused exclusively on the new features in Photoshop CS2. He is also co-author (with Jack Davis) of “How to Wow: Photoshop for Photographers”, and creator of the best-selling Master Series videos.
He continues to be a featured speaker at publishing conferences and events worldwide, including Photoshop World, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the Royal Photographic Society of England. He’s a member of the Dream Team for NAPP and writes for numerous digital imaging and photography publications, including a monthly column for Photoshop User magazine. In 2004 he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. His reputation as the “expert’s expert” prompted NAPP’s president, Scott Kelby, to say, “When we get stuck, we call Ben!”
Ben sold his house in the mountains of Colorado in early 2006 and started to live a mobile lifestyle. His home is a 1997 40′ Prevost bus (often referred to as a Rock Star Bus) that was converted by Liberty coach into a motorhome. The bus is pretty much a one bedroom apartment on wheels. Ben spends his time driving to speaking events and photographing National Parks and small town America.


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Photoshop Anthology 101 Web Design Tips Tricks Techniques

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The Photoshop Anthology is full-color, 101 question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Websites and create better looking web graphics more effectively. The book will show you how you can use Photoshop to create buttons, backgrounds, text effects, optimized photos, web interfaces, animated GIFs and more for your Website. Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.
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The Photoshop Anthology is full-color, question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Websites and create better looking web graphics more effectively.

The book covers:

* Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts
* Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more
* Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors
* Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds
* Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more
* Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images and more
* Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce and more
* Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more
* Advanced: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions and more

Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.

Among the 101 Tips, Tricks & Hacks you'll learn how-to:

* Design attractive web graphics
* Touch up photographs for web use
* Create web site mockups using Photoshop
* Improve your digital workflow
* Master menus, buttons and background tiles
* Use nondestructive editing techniques


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Photoshop CS4 For Dummies

Photoshop CS4 For Dummies


This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, it’s all here!
You’ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You’ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making color natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you’ll be making beautiful “art” with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques.
Find out how to:
Import images and use all the tools and processes
Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows
Optimize images for print or the Web
Edit images
Explore the Painting function and master the daunting Brushes panel
Add layer styles
Create on-screen presentations, contact prints, and more
Complete with lists of ten reasons to love your Wacom tablet, ten reasons to own a digital camera, and ten favorite tips and tricks, Adobe CS4For Dummies is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Photoshop CS4 for all your digital photography needs.


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How to Draw General Anime Faces

In this tutorial, I will attempt to go over how to draw general anime faces, so you can both get a better idea of how anime faces are
drawn and proportioned, as well as an idea of how use what you
know to create interesting original characters. I’ve divided this
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Flash Animation for Teens

Publisher Course Technology
Author(s) Eric D. Grebler
ISBN 1598632302
Release Date 20 June 2006

Welcome to your no-experience-required, introductory guide to creating animations with Macromedia Flash! Flash Animation for Teens will help you develop the fundamental Flash skills that you need to confidently create your own animations. Covering the basics of Flash animation, this book uses Flash 8 to teach you the techniques you need to create a variety of animation styles, including games, web sites, stand-alone applications, and cartoons. Ideal for readers with little to no Flash experience, this project-based guide will help you conquer the basics and begin creating your own animations.


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Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles

Paperback: 832 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall India
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8120327969
ISBN-13: 978-8120327962
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Total Training for Adobe Photoshop Extented Essentials

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Total Training for Adobe Photoshop Extented Essentials


Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 (55 min)

1. Exploring the Toolbox
2. The New CS4 Applications Bar & the Options Bar
3. Exploring Panels & Menus
4. Creating & Viewing a New Document
5. Customizing the Interface
6. Setting Preferences
7. Zooming & Panning an Image
8. Working with Multiple Images, Rulers, Guides & Grids
9. Undoing Steps with History
10. Adjusting Color with the New Adjustments Panel
11. The New Masks Panel & Vibrance Color Correction Command
12. The New Note Tool & the Save for Web & Devices Interface
13. The New Auto-Blend & Auto-Align Layers Commands
14. The New 3D Commands

Chapter 2: EXPLORING ADOBE BRIDGE (16 min)

1. Browsing Images in Bridge
2. Metadata, Keywords & Filters
3. Building Collections & Smart Collections
4. Moving, Copying & Renaming Images


Chapter 3: RESIZING & CROPPING IMAGES (29 min)

1. Understanding Pixels & Resolution
2. The Image Size Command
3. Interpolation Options
4. Resizing for Print & Web
5. Cropping & Straightening an Image
6. Adjusting Canvas Size & Canvas Rotation

Chapter 4: WORKING WITH BASIC SELECTIONS (38 min)

1. Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee Tool
2. Using the Magic Wand & Free Transform Tool
3. Selecting with the Regular & Polygonal Lasso Tools
4. Combining Selections
5. Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool
6. Using the Quick Selection Tool & Refine Edge
7. Modifying Selections

Chapter 5: GETTING STARTED WITH LAYERS (55 min)

1. Understanding the Background Layer
2. Creating, Selecting, Linking & Deleting Layers
3. Locking & Merging Layers
4. Copying Layers, Using Perspective & Layer Styles
5. Filling & Grouping Layers
6. Introduction to Blending Modes
7. Blending Modes, Opacity & Fill
8. Creating & Modifying Text

Chapter 6: PAINTING IN PHOTOSHOP (43 min)

1. Using the Brush Tool
2. Working with Colors & Swatches
3. Creating & Using Gradients
4. Creating & Working with Brushes
5. Using the Pencil & Eraser Tools
6. Painting with Selections

Chapter 7: PHOTO RETOUCHING (31 min)

1. The Red Eye Tool
2. The Clone Stamp Tool
3. The Patch Tool & the Healing Brush Tool
4. The Spot Healing Brush Tool
5. The Color Replacement Tool
6. The Toning & Focus Tools
7. Painting with History

Chapter 8: INTRODUCTION TO COLOR CORRECTION (25 min)

1. Color Spaces & Color Modes
2. The Variations Command
3. The Auto Commands
4. Adjusting Levels
5. Adjust Curves, Non-Destructively, with Adjustment Layers

Chapter 9: USING QUICK MASK MODE (13 min)

1. Quick Mask Options
2. Painting a Selection
3. Saving & Removing a Selection from the Background

Chapter 10: WORKING WITH THE PEN TOOL (18 min)

1. Understanding Paths & the Pen Tool
2. Creating Straight & Curved Paths
3. Creating Combo Paths
4. Creating a Clipping Path

Chapter 11: CREATING SPECIAL EFFECTS (27 min)

1. Getting Started with Photoshop Filters
2. Smart Filters
3. Creating Text Effects
4. Applying Gradients to Text

Chapter 12: EXPORTING YOUR WORK (16 min)

1. Saving with Different File Formats
2. Saving for Web & Devices
3. Printing Options
4. Credits



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Scott 2008 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue: Countries of the World: C - F (Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue Vol 2 Countries C-F) (Scott Standar

EAN : 9780894873966
ISBN : 0894873962
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Publisher : Scott Publishing Company/Amos Hobby Publishing Co
Pub Date : 2007-05-10
Edition : 164
Pages : 1358
Language : English

Description : Early issues continue to push values higher in Volume 2 where more than 13,000 value changes were recorded. More than 600 value changes were made in Canada. In the Peoples Republic of China increases tend to be concentrated in the early issues and the Liberation Area posts. More than 2,700 value changes were made in Ecuador. Many changes, mostly upward, were also made in Cuba and France.

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Digital image processing using matlab - Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, Steven L. Eddins

Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB is the first book that provides a balanced treatment of image processing fundamentals and the software principles used in their practical implementation. The book integrates material from the leading text, Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez and Woods, and the Image Processing Toolbox of the MathWorks. Inc., a recognized leader in scientific computing.
The Image Processing Toolbox provides a stable, well-supported set of software tools for addressing a broad range of applications in digital image processing. A unique feature of this hook is its emphasis on showing how to enhance those tools by the development of new code. This is important in image processing, where there is a need for extensive experimental work in order to arrive at acceptable problem solutions.

After an introduction to the fundamentals of MATLAB programming, the book addresses the mainstream areas of image processing. Areas covered include intensity transformations, linear and nonlinear spatial filtering, filtering in the frequency domain, image restoration and registration, color image processing, wavelets, image data compression, morphological image processing, image segmentation, regions and boundary representation and description, and object recognition.
Some Highlights

* The book is self-contained.
* Over 60 new image processing functions are developed—a 35% increase over the comprehensive set of functions in the Image Processing Toolbox.
* A fully documented listing of every new function developed is included in the book.
* Using C code with MATLAB is covered in detail.
* There are 114 examples, over 400 images, and over 150 graphs and line drawings that enhance the discussion of the material.
* All MATLAB, Image Processing Toolbox, and new functions used in the book, are conveniently summarized in an appendix.
* The design of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) is covered in detail.
* A book web site provides complimentary support.

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Digital Art Photography Book Free Download

Introduction
In this book, I cover the art form of digital art photography. I start by giving you an introduction to the world of film-based photography and how it relates to digital photography. From there, I go on to cover the whole gambit of digital art photography, from shooting great photos to tweaking them in Photoshop to producing final output fit for a gallery wall. If that sounds intriguing, this book is for you whether you’re film-based or digital-only or both.

About This Book

Here are some of the things this book will help you do:

1. Get a fabulous, well-exposed photograph, no matter what your shooting conditions

2. Tweak, edit, and enhance your images to create something entirely new — or just simply better than what you started with

3. Produce gallery-worthy art prints

4. Find out when it’s time to upgrade your computer to handle graphics work

Conventions Used in This Book -Written By Author

By conventions, I simply mean a set of rules that I employ in this book to present information to you consistently. When you see a term italicized, look for its definition, which I include so you know what that term means in the context of digital art photography. Sometimes, I give you information to enter onscreen; in those cases, I format what you need to type bold. Web site addresses and e-mail addresses appear in monofont so that they stand out from regular text.
What You Don’t Have to Read

Because I structure this book modularly — that is, so you can easily find only the specific information you need — you don’t have to read whatever doesn’t pertain to your task at hand. You also don’t have to read the Technical Stuff icons, which parse out uber-techy tidbits (which you might or might not be interested in).

How This Book Is Organized

Digital Art Photography For Dummies is split into five parts. You don’t have to read parts sequentially; you don’t have to read each chapter in each part; and you don’t even have to read all the sections in any particular chapter. (But I think that you’ll want to look at every picture. . . .) You can use the Table of Contents and the index to find the information you need and quickly get your answers. In this section, I briefly describe what you’ll find in each part.

Part I: The Art of a Digital Picture

This part serves as an introduction to the world of art photography and how it relates to digital photography. In Chapter 1, I detail the five essential steps to creating a digitized masterpiece and provide a few essentials of composition. Chapters 2 and 3 cover the digital side of digital art photography; I have to admit, this information can get a little dry and techy. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) When it comes time to purchase a new digital camera or to upgrade your computer to handle all the heavy-duty graphics work you’ll be doing, however, you’ll be glad you have these two chapters by your side. In Chapter 4, things get fun again while I brainstorm with you to decide just what kind of digital art photographer you want to be.

Part II: The Photo Shoot

Part II is all about getting great shots, and so I dive right into ISOs, f-stops, exposure settings, and when to use a flash. This part runs the gamut, from shooting great photos outdoors or indoors (Chapters 5 and 6) to photographing people and animals (Chapter 7) to shooting for great color or outstanding black and white (Chapters 8 and 9) to capturing stunning nighttime images (Chapter 10) to achieving wonderful effects before you ever get to Photoshop (Chapter 11) — whew! That’s a lot of photography!

Part III: Photoshop Art: Using Software to Enhance or Create Art Photos

If you’re anxious to repair or jazz up some old photos, use Chapter 12 as your guide. In that chapter, I discuss various Photoshop tools and techniques that can bring back vivid color to images 50 years old or eliminate annoying scratches and dust. Chapter 13 is where you can find out how to merge images into one giant photograph, and Chapter 14 gives you the lowdown on using Photoshop layers (a great tool for creating digital art photography). I couldn’t not discuss Photoshop’s filters, so I include a whole chapter on them (Chapter 15).

Part IV: The Final Output: Gallery-Worthy Prints

Drum roll, please . . . the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Just itching to click that Print button so you can hold your masterpiece in hand and admire it lovingly? This is the part for you. In Chapter 16, I discuss all things that have to do with managing electronic files (a tedious albeit necessary part of digital art photography), and Chapter 17 covers printing prep and printing. Then comes the really fun part: matting and framing. Chapter 18 has all the information you need to make your art presentable to the world (and paying customers).

Part V: The Part of Tens

I would be remiss in my duties if I didn’t include a Part of Tens. So here you’ll find ten rules — or if you prefer, guidelines — of digital art photography (Chapter 19) and ten snappy digital art tricks (Chapter 20).

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Sams teach yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 hours

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be editing and organizing your photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation in both the creative process and techniques, allowing you to learn the essentials of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 from the ground up.
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Photoshop Elements tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.
Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.
Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
Color section includes a full-color collection of images found throughout the book.

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34 Special Flash CS3 Components Book

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book
352 pages | Adobe Press; 1 edition (April 27, 2007) | English | 0321499824 | 39 MB

This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS3. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames.
From there, readers will learn how to work with vector and bitmap graphics; create and edit symbols; modify text and add interactivity with ActionScript 3.0; and incorporate animation, music, and sound to their projects. They'll also learn how to prepare and export their finished projects for Web and broadcast. Of course, readers will also learn how to take advantage of the new features of Flash CS3--the streamlined user interface, native support for Photoshop and Illustrator files, revamped drawing tools, new video encoding features, code editing enhancements, and much more. The companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete all of the projects.

Flash components are pieces of advanced flash work,
also called flash extensions, that extends Flash functionality
to enable fast integration, skinning and deployment for beginner
to advanced level users. Most of all our flash components are made
especially for Flash 8 and Flash CS3, some of them work only
for AS2.0 flash projects, others only for AS3.0.

However, the V3 flash components are available both AS2.0
and AS3.0 in the same bundle, so you can use them for each
type of projects. The V3 flash components AS2.0 were
released in June.15.2007 and the prospect time for AS3.0
versions is the end of Q3.2007.

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