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The second edition of this bestselling text incorporates a new section showing students how to locate and choose lettering for different kinds of projects. Coverage includes lettering styles commonly used on a wide range of presentations.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Resource.......2006-03-21
This book was excellent for an interior design or architectural student. I highly recommed it!
If you are interested in architectural lettering..........1998-12-18
If you have ever wondered how architects and designers form such uniform letters, this is an essential reference. It is one of few books that focus on the beauty of written forms presented on blueprints.
Outside, the book has a simple cover. Inside, every page is filled with the author's handwriting; the letters are incredibly consistent from page to page.
Although the author presents a limited variety of alphabets, she offers many pointers on how to perfect them. This is clearly a case where quality received a greater emphasis than quantity.
Book Description
The art of painting watercolors with spontaneity, so hard for beginners to achieve, is just a few brushstrokes away under the guidance of this great best-selling primer that shows how to achieve freely flowing images.
In step-by-step exercises, readers learn how to use watercolor's unique characteristics to interpret flowers, fruits, and vegetables with two brushes-one to lay in color, the other to manipulate form, resulting in loose, soft contours and beautifully blended colors.
Customer Reviews:
Definitely a good book.......2006-10-06
I do understand on how the book's description could be somewhat misleading. Not a book for the beginner, it does try nevertheless to simplify the process of painting fruits, leaves, flowers. It assumes you know about basic techniques. This is precisely why I liked the book so much. A book I will keep close-by. In regards to material: Economic 140 lb NOT watercolor paper and relatively inexpensive good synthetic brushes should definitely allow for the techniques to be performed with success. But, as with all things, persistent practice will be required.
the worst book on wc.......2006-04-27
This book shows absolutely nothing of painting techniques. After insisting that you absolutely must buy the most expensive brushes there is in order to succeed at wc, otherwise don't even bother trying, she randomly shows off some of her achievments (which are not bad), then gives you no more than 1 or 2 pages per project. It's another of those books that shows step 1, 2 and then pooff painting finished, what happened in between, go figure, or as they want you to, go buy another book that maybe, perhaps might give some better tips.
In short, her book is wishy washy, vague, short on technique, certainly won't help you learn to paint, serves only to awe you and put some bucks into her pocket and paintsuppliers' as well.
Don't waste you previous money.
I find this book fresh and inspiring........1999-01-24
This book has good demonstrations for the painting of flowers and vegetables. In it Mrs. Walsh tells a little about her own personal preferences for painting, her studio, etc., making it fun to read. I found this information very useful. There are many examples on how to paint the various types of fruits and vegetables, and a variety of flowers as well. The instruction makes one not afraid to try it! I am a visual learner, and this book met that need.
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Digital Photography has truly reached the masses, and with this friendly, full-color guide new users can immediately start having fun with their digital cameras. It provides dozens of tips for taking better pictures and getting creative with digital photography at a remarkably affordable price. Topics covered include composing good shots, playing with light, close-ups, self-portraits, action shots, and event photography.
Customer Reviews:
The best book for starters!.......2007-07-09
This book is great for starters in digital (or even film) photography. If you don't quite understand what all the settings in your digital camera are or used for, this book will open your eyes and will have you using all different settings really soon.
The book is very easy to read and explains a lot with pictures to show you the results.
Also, this books talks about lightining, how to take better photos of people, how to adjust the settings to take inside and outside photos. It gives plenty of neat tricks for you to try out with your camera without having to buy extra equipment.
Although if you really want to spend some money, this book also talks about good equipment, like lenses, light bouncers, and more.
Great starter book.......2007-05-17
This book is written in simple lucid language, with good clear pictures makes it perfect for beginners and 'getting semi serious' photographers,
my pictures have become much better as result of the knowledge out of this book plus i have a better eye on photography on the whole, in the past had never put a thought on clicking a button on the camera..no complains
An excellent overview for beginning digital photographers.......2007-03-12
As a semi-professional photographer I am often asked for camera and photography advice which I gladly provide. What I am more at a loss for is what you get is the best resource for someone trying to learn a little bit more of their own. This book is a great solution, for which I am keeping a copy around simply to loan out to those in this situation.
40 Digital Photography Technique is designed for the beginner and maturing intermediate photographer and does an excellent job covering everything from the basics of how to use your camera, to composition, how to shoot in various lighting situations, macro photography and much more. Though it does not go into great depth in any one of these subject areas, it is a great overview and touches on a lot of areas that new photographers may not think of. It attempts to be a beginner's guide and provide ideas and how to use on a wide variety of areas pertaining to photography, and it does a great job.
I highly recommend this title to anyone who has picked up a new digital camera or may have one laying around that they have not gotten as much use of as they thought they might have won about it. Your camera along with this book may become a new hobby and passion that you never knew you had within you.
Great book for those with consumer point-and-shoot cameras.......2006-01-04
This book teaches the principles of digital photography--the quirks, the problems, the peculiarities, and how to work with these to get the most out of your camera. Most of the other books on the market spend one chapter on these fundamentals and then spend the next 400 pages discussing the functions of expensive, prosumer DSLR's like the Canon Rebel or Nikon D50/70, and post-processing on the computer. This is great if you have a DSLR and are looking to do a lot of post-processing.
However, if you have a consumer level point-and-shoot camera like the Canon Elph, Nikon Coolpix, Kodak Easyshare or Sony Cybershot, this extra material won't apply to your camera because it doesn't have these advanced manual controls. What this book does for the P&S user is teach you why some of your photos are coming out blurry, overexposed or dark. How to frame an exciting picture. How to use the flash to improve some pictures, and when the flash isn't appropriate. How to use the manual controls that are included on these cameras and how these controls can help you succeed in taking better pictures.
Pretty basic.......2005-09-23
If you have a camera with manual controls and know how to use them, this probably isn't the book for you. If the extent of your photography experience is 110 Instamatic, this book is worth a look. If you're looking to buy a new digital camera the information is a little dated (the largest CF card is 512MB?), but the information on desirable features is still valid. Most of the images are OK, but it's occasionally difficult to discern the point being made. For example, you're not going to be able to tell the difference between Normal, Fine, and Super Fine JPEG compression levels on a 2" image of mediocre quality to begin with. Occasionally it's just wrong, like the discussion of pixels overlapping in the CCD causing noise--first, they can't possibly overlap, second noise is caused by the higher amplification needed due to the smaller pixel sizes.
The included CD isn't worth much, nothing at all if you're a Mac user.
A very quick read unless you're a beginner, but not a bad book if that's what you need.
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"This dazzling, full-color book provides a fun, practical introduction to photo-editing with Photoshop Elements for both home and business users and anyone who wants to jump right in and enhance their images."
--Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher of DT&G Magazine
Are you new to digital photography and image editing software? This dazzling, full-color book provides a fun, practical introduction to photo-editing with Photoshop Elements for both home and business users--and anyone who wants to jump right in and enhance their images. Discover forty valuable techniques and hundreds of creativity-inspiring images, plus a CD filled with images for practice and a tryout version of Photoshop Elements 2--all at an exceptional price. You'll learn to use the File Browser, change image size, enhance faces, fix blurry images, correct under- and overexposed images, turn photos from color to black-and-white, remove people and objects from photos, add special effects, and much more.
Brought to you by Sybex and YoungJin.com, a leading South Korean book publisher founded in 1987. Youngjin.com is known for brilliant graphics and digital photography books, featuring exceptionally stylish designs and high-quality images.
40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniqueswill show you how to:
* Use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
* Correct lighting and contrast
* Turn color photos into sepia-toned or black-and-white images
* Color black-and-white photos
* Remove red eye, eliminate blemishes, and enhance facial features
* Create studio backgrounds and professional picture packages
* Clean-up, combine, and resize images
* Create reflections and text effects
* Whip up photographic and other special effects
* Make a web banner
* Create a photo gallery for the web
* And more!
Customer Reviews:
Only for beginners.......2005-07-07
I can't say that this book helped me that much. The only reason I would give it a 3 is because the price, but part of the book was binded incorrectly. I mean honestly...who binds a book with an entire section upside down and backwards. I say save your money for a better book if you understand the difference between high and low resolution images. If you don't look it up...it will save you the money.
Useful digital photographers handbook.......2003-10-04
40 DIGITAL PHOTO RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES.
YoungJin.com
Sybex Books http://www.sybex.com)
ISBN 89-314-3502-9
The fact that this book is not a large manual is a bit of a change from the norm, but then it doesn't have to be to do the job that it sets out to achieve. That is to give the reader exactly the information required to do the most common tasks that are required by the new user of digital cameras.
It does not go into lots of detail that is unnecessary for the audience that this book is aimed at, which is the new user of a digital camera who wants the best images they can achieve without a lot of learning.
It is not a dummies book, it just sets out the most common things that you may need to fix up after taking your photos with your new digital camera or scanned images.
Unfortunately the makers of the cameras do not tell you that there are generally certain steps which must be taken to improve the quality of your images once you have them in your computer. You can of course, take them to a photo shop to have the enhancements done for you, but this book helps you to do all those changes yourself. In effect it is a "User's Help Manual" in disguise.
Sensibly the book bypasses the complex learning curves and esoteric information that puts most learner users off even doing the most basic touch-ups that can turn an ordinary snapshot into a worthwhile image with much more of the detail enhanced, which is why the shot was taken in the first place.
Included with the book is a trial version of Adobe's Elements 2 which can be used to follow all the lessons in a simple, easy to follow fashion. This is a sensible way to market the program, and it certainly looks easy.
I would assume that unless you are studying photography and using a photographic manipulation program, all you want to do is have the best image you can get in the fastest time. After all, the learning curve is way to big for most users to bother with.
The book starts out introducing the user to the Elements 2 interface and explains what you are going to see, and what it means. This leads into opening files (images/photos for newbies) and is the only book that I have seen that lists double clicking the desktop to open the explorer panel as a shortcut.
Once you are familiar with that and can find your images you are given instructions on particular methods of saving your images once you have made your alterations, and why you use different methods for your final result, be it for print, slideshow or the web.
Web users need to be aware of file size constraints which are not considerations for other types of image storing, and this is something that gets overlooked very easily, especially when email is involved.
After that the reader is taken directly to the correction techniques for the most common problems to be encountered, and how to remedy them. This is the main body of the book and is where it shines.
The reader is shown, by means of simple instructions using screen captures, what it is that they need to do to get much more from a quick snap that didn't quite come out as planned. No need to understand what is behind the fix, just follow the instructions and if you can do what is explained, then you can apply the same fix to your own images, it is that simple.
Utilise this 200 page, glossy paper, almost pocket sized book to add makeup, take away blemishes, add and remove colour, change colour and antique images. You can also add special effects to enhance and alter images sensibly to achieve a totally different effect.
BOTTOM LINE.
This is a great book for the newcomer to digital photography, and the techniques will apply to almost every photo editing software, not just the Elements 2 program packaged as a trial.
The book is almost an ad for the program but that isn't a bad thing, just good marketing, and if it helps to get the most from your new images then it achieves what it set out to do.
This book is definitely a must for beginners to check out and keep beside the computer.
Tim Skyrme (2003)
http://www.artzend.com
Book Description
* Digital SLR camera sales are estimated at 2.7 million units in 2005 and 4.5 million units in 2006; digital SLR cameras costing less than $500 are expected by the end of 2005
* This bargain-priced, full-color guide is the ideal resource for new digital SLR photographers
* Offers well-organized coverage of camera facts and features as well as specific techniques for photographing people, sports, nature, and other genres
* Covers image-editing techniques using Photoshop CS2, including levels, curves, Unsharp Mask, and color calibration
Customer Reviews:
Too Comprehensive.......2006-08-28
There's a wide range of new digital single lens reflex users from those who just want to put the camera to their eye, press a button and see a photograph appear from somewhere to those who anticipate making photography a serious hobby and want to control every step of the process from the first idea for a picture until the last click of a printer. This makes it almost impossible for any one book for beginners to satisfy every one of them.
"40 Digital SLR Techniques" is a book that tries to satisfy all of them and may ultimately satisfy none. The title itself is a misnomer, perhaps designed to fit in with a series of books called "40...Techniques". Rather than providing tips on digital SLRs, this book tries to take the new digital SLR user every step of the way from describing the characteristics of digital SLRs to sharpening images in Photoshop. It not only describes digital camera features but also accessories like lenses and tripods. Chapters are devoted to photographing people and sports and shooting still lifes, nature and landscapes. There are also chapters on storing and sharing images, using raw files and Photoshop editing.
I liked the fact that the author tried to include everything he thought a new digital SLR photographer might want to know. He did explain briefly that histograms created by the camera could be used to control exposure, but like so much else, he skipped over this matter so quickly that one might have to reread the material several times in conjunction with a camera's instruction manual to understand how to use histograms. Moreover whole areas of interest to even the most basic of beginners, like composition, are not even covered. I thought that the author failed to assign priorities for what he should cover. Certainly some mention of composition, like describing the rule of thirds, would be more useful to a beginner than knowing what a softbox is.
When it comes to post-processing, it would be impossible for anyone to learn anything about Photoshop in less than 40 small pages with plenty of white space. It's almost unfair to suggest to beginners that Photoshop is easy to learn. Better to refer to some basic image processing software that only has a few functions and tell readers that far more powerful and complex software exists for those who are prepared to make the commitment of resources.
Finally, many of the illustrations were just too small to be of much use to a reader.
This book might prove useful to an inexperienced individual who wants to get some inkling of what is involved in digital photography, but few will be able to rely on this book as their sole reference.
Book Description
With digital camera usage now established, the demand for easy, affordable photo editing tools has increased. Adobe's Photoshop Elements leads the way as an affordable image editing tool. This easy-to-follow, full-color guide shows all digital photographers how to make their photos look their best with dozens of well-organized, hands-on techniques. Readers learn how to change or replace a color, enhance faces, fix burred images, correct poor exposures, create a slide show, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent introduction to photo retouching.......2007-07-24
I had received a review copy of 40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques with Photoshop Elements (published by Young Jin) from the US distributor, O'Reilly Media. It's thin as such guides go - 208 pages - but if you haven't yet gone beyond taking a digital picture into actually manipulating images, this a good introduction.
It's based around Photoshop Elements - a "lite" version of Photoshop that I've mentioned before - and even comes with a trial version on an accompanying CD. This isn't a comprehensive title on the subject of digital retouching; you can literally read a number of books on the subject and still not know everything about it. But as a way of getting your feet wet, it's solid.
Instead of learning one general technique after another, the book guides you through, as the title says, 40 different things you might want to do, incorporating what you need to know for each one. It's actually not all retouching in the classic sense of fixing a visual problem, though there is plenty of that. You start with learning how to correct contrast, move into gaining control over the colors in a photo, then get to a chapter called Enhancing Portraits, with some tricks I haven't seen before, like adding eye shadow to the image of a woman who wasn't wearing makeup. The book finally moves into general editing, adding special effects, and even such topics as adding motion blur and making greeting cards and web banners.
Of course, you can't expect to have all the information you would get in a larger volume. For example, they show one technique for creating high contrast black and white images from color ones, but there are at least three ways I can think of to also create black and white results, but with even more control. However, for someone new to photo manipulation - or someone, like me, who knows a fair amount but is always looking for new things to learn - this is a good book.
Quick intro to Photoshop Elements 5.......2007-06-06
Adobe's Photoshop Elements 5.0 (PE5) is an advanced photo editor that combines most of the special tools of the standard bearer, Photoshop, with affordable cost and a manageable learning curve. The current version 5 also includes an organizer that lets the user assemble his pictures in albums, combine them in slide shows on DVDs, and more.
For those who want to get a quick overview of many of the powerful tools available in PE the book by Zack Lee is an excellent guide. (Note: the author of the first edition is listed on the O'Reilly Web site as John Kim). In short chapters it leads the reader step-by-step through various editing procedures, using photos provided on a CD included with the book. Many basic editing steps can be achieved in different ways using the large selection of available tools, and the author purposely varies common procedures from example to example to optimize the learning experience. Of course, a complete discussion of all the tools available in PE5 requires a heftier text, such as O'Reilly's Photoshop Elements 5 - The Missing Manual.
After a brief introductory overview of the Editor window the following 6 chapters cover Correcting Contrast, Manipulating Colors, Enhancing Portraits, Editing Skills and Special Effects, Very Special Effects, and Using and Sharing Images. Going beyond the standard editing tools provided in basic photo editors, the reader also gets exposed to the many powerful special tools such as layers, levels, and the many brushes and erasers that do a lot more than the names would imply. With special tools portraits are made more flattering by adjusting skin color and retouching skin imperfections, resizing eyes, and streamlining jowly cheeks. A nice snapshot can be changed into an attractive portrait by blurring the background and removing background objects altogether. The possibilities are seemingly endless.
The book is attractively bound and presents step-by-step colorful screen shots of the photos at the different stages of editing, as well as of the corresponding editor windows. Sometimes the tool marks, such as the "crawling ants" outlines of selected objects, are hard to distinguish in the illustrations, but this is usually not a great obstacle in following the examples.
After completing the examples in the book the reader has been exposed to many of the powerful editing tools in Photoshop Elements 5.0. A useful index makes it easy to go back to specific examples for a refresher on how to perform certain adjustments or how to use certain tools. Highly recommended.
Book Description
"This dazzling, full-color book provides a fun, practical introduction to photo-editing with Photoshop Elements."
--Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher of DT&G Magazine
This second edition of our wildly popular, full-color introduction to photo-editing with Photoshop Elements offers dozens of hands-on techniques that reflect the product's latest features. Dive right in and make your photos look their absolute best with this fun, practical guide. Learn how to use the file browser, change image size, enhance faces, manage file size, correct white balance, enhance your subject, use raw format, and much more. The companion CD contains a tryout version of Photoshop Elements, utilities, and hundreds of images. Nowhere else will you find such valuable advice, creativity-inspiring images, with a CD, at such an affordable price.
40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques will show you how to:
* Use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 effectively
* Correct color and light
* Add color to black-and-white photos
* Remove red eye, eliminate blemishes, and enhance facial features
* Develop studio backgrounds and professional-style picture packages
* Clean up, combine, and resize images
* Split up scanned images
* Open and process RAW image files
* Create reflections and text effects
* Correct flaws with the Healing Brush
* Straighten distorted images
* Create a web banner
* Build a photo gallery for the web
* And more!
How is this book different?
* Written for digital image enthusiasts in a language that's easy to understand
* Presents inspiring, full-color images on every page
* Combines technical details with artistic inspiration
* Lets you dive right in and get creative with your digital camera
* Groups topics thematically for quick reference
* Provides a thorough introduction to Photoshop Elements 3.0 and digital imaging
* Uses practical step-by-step instructions, explanations, short-cuts, and tips
* Leads you to rapid mastery of retouching techniques
Customer Reviews:
it's ok...........2006-08-24
The Book is simple, alone it is not enough to learn Elements but as an addition to other books, you will find in it useful hints. You do have to apply them to your own photos by adjusting their instructions since they teach by using their photos and giving exact settings for that photo. Don't buy if it's the only book you will own, good as another source!
How to edit JUST 40 photos.......2006-06-12
This book has a CD with 40 photos, and includes specific instructions on how to edit those photos. Want to edit your own photos? Then this book is of little use to you, except in the unlikely event you want to make the EXACT same edits. When it comes to the edits, it does not instruct you WHAT you are doing or WHY you are doing it - it is just "click this button, enter values 10, 19, and 245" with nothing to help you understand why you are clicking that or using those specific buttons. I have read 6 books on photshop elements, and this is the only one I found that was completely unhelpful. The CD does not add value - it has only the sample photos and a "trial" version of elements 3 that is easily downloaded from adobe's website (if you want a trial version).
very easy to learn.......2005-04-25
A nice attraction of the book is the accompanying CD. It has a bunch of example images that you can try out the book's techniques on. But just as importantly, it has a trial version of Photoshop Elements. To some of you, just getting the latter might be well worth the entire book.
In any event, the book guides you through the most common usages of Elements. Much simpler than the full Photoshop. Which is really for professionals. Elements is more attuned towards the amateur market, where you have a need for easy to learn methods of touching up your digital images, and these are often photos.
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Take a torrid trip to the final erotic frontier in this canny, cummy and often funny book by cult fave Matt Howarth!
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