Book Description
This guide to the Adobe Photoshop plug-ins most useful to photographers documents for both amateurs and professionals the makers of these plug-ins, where the physical files are installed, how to access files from outside Photoshop, and which of the available plug-ins are compatible with Photoshop. How to employ these plug-ins to make meaningful, natural-looking enhancements in photographs is then examined. Photographers can study techniques for color and gamma correction, grain reduction, dust and scratch removal, perspective control, and black-and-white conversion. Also investigated is how various plug-ins offer sophisticated ways to create artistic effects such as posterization and solarization, text effects, simulated photo edges and frames, and other eye-catching effects that will help to create stand-apart images clients will love.
Customer Reviews:
important book.......2007-06-27
This book covers information you can find yourself through a good research on the Net, but for what it cost I would get the book and save myself hours of research.
For the lazy type of person this book is a must ;-)
Good Book Covering the Topic Well.......2006-03-17
This is a very good book covering the subject of Adobe Photoshop plug-ins. There were numerous plug-ins that I was not familiar with that I have since acquired because of this book. The authors explain the good and bad aspects of each of the plug-ins included throughout. I couldn't expect anything more from a book on this topic.
OK book on the subject of Photoshop plug-ins.......2006-02-10
This is a very light and readable book on Photoshop plug-ins. The authors investigated over 5000 plug-ins to Adobe Photoshop using several different computers since apparently Photoshop crashes if you install more than 1000 plug-ins into it on a single computer. This is a limit I guess few of us will ever be able to verify.
The authors will show you how to find the right plug-ins for your system and install them as well as explain what they are and how they work. They will also show you how to manage your plug-ins or even make some of your own. This book is a good resource written especially for the digital photographer, and has plenty of color images demonstrating what various plug-ins can do to a photograph. In the back of the book there are listings of web resources for finding the various plugins. Several of the links are now broken, but there is still a lot of good information there.
Besides going over the set of plug-ins that deal with image correction such as lens distortion and correcting for JPEG compression effects, there are sections on adding "the elements" to your images and also for surface effects. The element plug-ins include lightening, trees, fog, smoke, and fire. The surface effect plug-ins include fur, jigsaw puzzle, tape, and wood. The section on creating your own plug-ins mainly refers you to on-line resources, which is good since there are many good tutorials already out there on making your own Photoshop plug-in. There is even a chapter on plug-ins for hardware devices such as digital cameras, graphics tablets, and scanners.
The release of Photoshop CS2 has made some of this book obsolete, but it is still a good resource of creative ways to use Photoshop in digital photography that is a cut above most books on the subject out there since it deals with more than mere image correction. Also, the web resources and listing of plug-ins are still useful. For under $20 it is still a good value, especially since it is hard to find books on the subject of Photoshop plug-ins.
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- Excellent choice for young artist. Boys love the monsters
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How to Draw Ghosts, Vampires, & Haunted Houses (How to Draw)
Emma Fischel , and
Victor Ambrus
Manufacturer: Edc Pub
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Excellent choice for young artist. Boys love the monsters.......1999-05-13
My 8 year old son choose this book at a school book fair. He has been drawing ever since. As an artist myself I was impressed to see the book demonstrate different technical aspects of drawing such as texturing, tracing, shadowing and attention to detail. The comic book like illustrations make it a fun read for the school age child. Very simple instructions help the reader see how the drawing comes together. Many secret tricks on how to acheive various effects such as transparent people make it a especially interesting! A big hit with elementary school boys. My son is enjoying it so much I'm ordering one for my Nephew.
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How to Draw Ghost Rider (Marvel Super Heroes Series)
Manufacturer: Walter Foster Publishing
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ASIN: 1560102047 |
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How to Draw Dinosaurs: Ghosts, Lettering & Spacecraft (How to Draw Series)
Judy Tatchell , and
C. Evans
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How to Draw Ghosts (Usborne Pocket Art)
E. Fischer
Manufacturer: Usborne Publishing Ltd
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How To Draw Ghosts Goblins & Witches-Pbk
Soloff-Levy
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Product Description
This book shows children ways to draw all kinds of things from the world of the supernatural, from see-through ghosts and haunted rooms to sinister vampires. It is a practical introduction to how to draw pictures that look professional. Along with simple, step-by-step examples to follow, there are lots of experts' tips and hints to explain different techniques and materials used.
Book Description
Pearls Before Swine is the hilarious new comic strip tale of two friends: an arrogant, egotistical Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better. Together with Zebra, the activist, and Goat, the reluctant brain, Pearls Before Swine offers caustic commentary on humanity's quest for the unattainable. Smart, witty, and sometimes painfully honest, Pearls Before Swine mocks the flaws and shortcomings of human nature with cynical humor.Pearls Before Swine has been syndicated by United Feature Syndicate since January 2002 and now appears in more than 100 newspapers worldwide. In panel after panel, Pearls Before Swine causes readers to lose themselves in laughter.
Customer Reviews:
Late comer.......2007-07-14
I've only recently become a fan of this strip. I decided to start from the beginning. Darn, this guy's funny!
Pearls before swine are great........2007-06-02
These books are addictive.Great comics!The only thing wrong with these books is that there is too much duplication of comics between the various books.
Stephan reings supreme.......2006-03-19
Stephan Pastis is the greatest cartoonist working today. BLT's Taste So Darn Good continues his run of high quality, insightful, funny, cutting edge cartoon humour. Highly recommended.
Nothing Better!!!.......2006-02-16
Simply said....I believe there's no comic out there today that can beat Pearls Before Swine. This is what humor is about and Pastis does it day in day out. From the egocentric and nefarious Rat, to the pitiful yet sympathetic Pig, his characters embody that sort of everyday day humor that lurks within us, bright or dark, hitting home every time.
Like Pizza and Sex.......2006-02-01
I once heard a comedian say that Pizza was like Sex - Even when it's bad, it's pretty good.
Pearls before Swine is the same way. It's one of the most consistently funny comic strips available today. In our current landscape of daily comics, most strips will tread water with mediocre humor, punctuated by truly funny moments. Pearls, on the other hand, is almost always truly funny, punctuated by inspired, laugh-out-loud, laughing until it hurts moments.
Pearls is full of painfully bad puns, dark comedy, and a brilliant perspective on the silly nature of man.
Book Description
Welcome back, graduates of the 1964 class of C. Estes Kefauver High School in Dacron, Ohio! They're all back in glorious black and white with color Magic Marker-Chuck U. Farley, Maria Teresa Spermatozoa, Purdy "Psycho" Lee Spackle, Faun Laurel Rosenberg, and, of course, Dacron's most famous son, Larry Kroger. Learn everything there is to know about Kroger's past before he became the pop-culture legend Pinto (Tom Hulce), the virgin fraternity pledge in National Lampoon's Animal House. With a hilarious "Where are they now?" addendum and a brilliantly funny new introduction by P. J. O'Rourke, the 39th Reunion Edition is sure to be the talk of the baby boomers who grew up with National Lampoon and of the new generation of comedy fans spawned by the success of The Onion.
Customer Reviews:
Still Really Funny.......2006-08-12
The planets lined up when the editors of the National Lampoon Magazine decided to create this brilliant parody of a mid-1960s high school yearbook. The names they made up are still classic, the grainy b/w pix a masterpiece, and the banal but funny text lives on.
This edition may not be an exact duplicate of the beloved softcover edition we all knew, but it's really great anyway. Enjoy!
One of the funniest things in the English language.......2004-08-27
Let's state it simply -- this is perhaps the funniest book ever published, even though the year 1964 is getting more distant all the time. Ingenious in its construction (a multi-level reconstruction of a typical high school yearbook), it is a hilarious, scathing, understanding, and even sort of poignant look at the kids of one year, one generation, in America long ago. Absolutely brilliant! (If you can find it, NatLamp also did an amazingly detailed town newspaper parody in the late 1970's that is also great.)
A parody that still delivers!.......2004-08-07
First things first: I am an admitted P.J. O'Rourke buff (the dude inspired me to start writing, which is either a good thing or bad), so I was interested to check this out. Plus, after reading Tony Hendra's book about the Lampoon and the creation of the Yearbook by Doug Kenney and O'Rourke, I decided to quit putting off my hesitancy to buying it and purchased it about two months ago. I haven't laughed as hard at anything in print since.
The context of the Yearbook is essential to understanding it; rather than just a "hey, look how crazy we were!" sort of Porky's approach, there's an underlying theme of "Animal House"-style anger at the authority structures that made social conformity and Vietnam possible. The writers had lived through the Vietnam era of the late Sixties, and they looked back in anger at the controls high school placed on them. There's real venom in these pages, if you know where to look.
But what struck me, and what made me appreciate this on the terms of being a simply good artwork, was the similarities to high school yearbooks even today. Sure, the layouts and hair/fashion styles change, but the general idea is the same: there are the popular kids, and then there's everyone else (including the "hero" of the piece, future Delta member Larry Kroeger). They all exist in the mythical Dacron, Ohio, and their school is really everybody's school. I can say, coming from a similarly awful school here in the great state of South Carolina, that nothing made me chuckle more than the laugh of recognition. I graduated in '97, yet I could identify and pick up on things that would've been true of any year (the snarky tribute to a fallen classmate, the peppy rememberence of a fallen President, the losing sports teams buoyed by a sense of "better luck next year").
The yearbook is so spot on, when I went back to my senior year yearbook I could immediately see such parallels. Our football team was(still is) a walking disaster, and little good could be said for the other sports. Our school play was just as clumsy as Dacron's "Julius Caesar", and our talent shows didn't improve much on the 'entertainment' provided by the 1964 class. It was these hilarious occurances that made me appreciate the book as simply more than a rant against the complacency of the Fifties; it was at long last a genuinely funny ghost of what it mocked.
I can't vouch for whether the "new" material takes away from the old (as this was indeed my first run-in with the parody in total), but I will say it seems a bit tame compared to what's part of the original. Plus, the "literary magazine" struck a chord, as I can remember my own sophmoric contribution to a similar publication in my high school (which sold about one copy, I believe). The "where will they be in ten years" list seemed like it could've been written by the idiots in my class, and the crude names assigned to the underclassmen (shown with the same exact photo every time) would not have been out of place in my school's tome either.
Overall, I enjoyed this far more than I imagined I would. There are obvious sight gags (the basketball team's hapless conduct had me in stiches), but the real meat is in the writing (whether or not O'Rourke can really claim a majority of the material, it seems a bit arrogant to take top billing over the late Kenney), which is dead-on. No matter when you graduated, you will recognize the figures in this book. And you will laugh your ass off, even as you cry tears of recognition.
Timeless genius.......2004-07-28
I am at a loss trying to recall another book that has ever been published that comes close to this towering achievement of humor. This thing is timeless in its genius. I first got a hold of this gem while in high school in '77-'78. I, too, had to resort to buying a used original copy on Ebay for about $120 a few years back. And now, here it is, in all its glory.
It is as funny today as it was back then. The new material is amusing, but the original stuff is the prime mover. There's just so much here, that it's difficult, if not impossible, to adequately describe this thing. Every single page has something (if not many, many things) that will make you laugh out loud, and hard. I gave my younger brother a copy a couple of weeks ago. He is still struggling to get through it (he laughs so hard he can't breathe).
I must agree that the pictures, which are impossibly funny on their own, look as though they were an afterthought in this reprint. They are, in a word, horrible. Dark at times, washed out in others. They look as though they were Xeroxed. Some pics (like the classic Spaz Leaking proudly holding his MEN sign for the Woodburning Club) are almost useless. Such a tremendous shame. I hope this problem is rectified in subsequent printings.
These shortcomings aside, the 1964 Yearbook Parody remains the book by which all other parodies or anything claiming to be humorous should be judged.
Just 'cause P.J.'s in it!.......2004-06-16
I don't care who you are, that reviewer Edward G. Nilges is funny! So, based on his recommendation, I would have had to get this book, even if P.J. O'Rourke wasn't in it. Keep up the good work Edward!
Book Description
National Lampoons High School Yearbook:
First released in 1974 and a two-million-plus bestseller, National
Lampoon’s 1964 High School Yearbook is the premier property of the
most recognized brand in comedy and the perfect introduction to
Rugged Land’s new National Lampoon Books imprint.
Brief Description:
Welcome back, graduates of the 1964 class of C. Estes Kefauver High
School in Dacron, Ohio!
They’re all back in glorious black and white with color Magic Marker–
Chuck U. Farley, Maria Teresa Spermatozoa, Purdy “Psycho” Lee
Spackle, Faun Laurel Rosenberg, and, of course, Dacron’s most
famous son, Larry Kroger. Learn everything there is to know about
Kroger’s past before he became the pop-culture legend Pinto
(Tom Hulce), the virgin fraternity pledge in National Lampoon’s
Animal House.
With a hilarious “Where are they now?” addendum and a brilliantly
funny new introduction by P. J. O’Rourke, the 39th Reunion Edition is
sure to be the talk of the baby boomers who grew up with National
Lampoon and of the new generation of comedy fans spawned by the
success of The Onion.
Customer Reviews:
Classic Lampoon but a bit cheap on the reproduction.........2007-09-30
I don't know why they changed the cover page by dropping in the yellow banner across the cheerleaders bare butt. The original was full on. Not that thats the big deal here, but that IS the first thing I noticed when this was released. The original was superior in quality. This repo takes a bit of eye squinting in places to see the details. And if you're anyone who was and is a Lampoon reader, you know thats what its all about. Its not a comic book. Crap, it took a month just to read (and often reread) and get through just the monthly magazines. The book releases were like making your way through a full length novel. Thats just they way you attacked a Lampoon. Almost like it was homework, but fun homework. If anymore of these reproductions come out, I hope the publishers will opt out of using a cheap copy machine and enter the digital age to re-create the final product. Lampoons were labors of love by its creators and writers. The 21st century versions should be given the same treatment.
Brilliant Concept.......2006-11-25
When this first came out, it was an amazing success.
First great conceit: printing the whole thing upside down. The "front cover" is the only page that faces the way it does; all the rest of the piece relates the back cover as the front, which is a beautifully done leatherette high school yearbook cover.
And then there's the content. It's all here - the clubs, the class clowns, the juvenile delinquents, the jocks, the cheerleaders. No one has ever topped the orginiality and satirical edge that the editors lovingly contributed to the piece.
I do agree that this reproduction is not as good as the original. I actually have an original and yes, it looks a lot better than this. But look past the print quality and enjoy the content. It's no less brilliant now than it was when it first came out in 1974.
They stole my 1961 Yearbook.......2006-10-24
I had the original and lost it. It is a work of pure genius!
I love it.It looks so much like my yearbook. And the characters are fabulous.
Almost as good as the old version.......2006-08-22
It is almost as good as the old one that I lost. I think I have grown up a bit (I hope) since then so some of the humor has lost a little of its edge. The printing quality on the new one was not as good as the original. On some pages it almost appeared that they had photocopied the original to make the new one. I still think maybe the best part is the list of names of all the underclassmen. To come up with those dozens of puns the writers must have stayed up late smoking lots of good stuff.
Classic Stuff!.......2006-07-11
I remember my roommate having the National Lampoon yearbook parody back when I was in college in the 70's, and laughing so hard I couldn't stand up. I always had it in the back of my mind over the years to back-order a copy, if one still existed, but never could find it. Ecstatic to find a re-issue. The humor in magazines like this can often seem dated years later, but not in this case. Completely side-splitting from cover to cover. Especially ground-breaking considering when it was originally published.
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