Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual

Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual
Publisher: Pogue Press 2011| ISBN: 1449398502
PDF | 64 Mb | 656 Pages

 Elements 10 offers much of Photoshop's power without the huge price tag. It's a great tool  for most image-editing buffswhether youre a photographer, scrapbooker, or aspiring graphic artist. But Elements still doesn't come with a useful manual. This bestselling book helps you get the most out of the program, from the basics to advanced tips for both Windows and Mac users.

The important stuff you need to know:

Quickly learn your way around. Customize Elements to suit your working style.
Get to work right away. Import, organize, and make quick image fixes with ease.
Retouch any image. Learn how to repair and restore old and damaged photos.
 Add pizzazz. Give images more zip with dozens of filters, layer styles, and special effects.
Design with words. Make text flow along a curved path or around an object or shape.
Find your creative flair. Create scrapbooks, greeting cards, photo books, and more.
Try out advanced techniques. Work with layers, blend modes, and other tools.

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Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques

Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques
for Photographers Using Photoshop (Voices That Matter)
by: Scott Kelby | 1 edition (April 3, 2011) | ISBN: 0321725549
538 pages | PDF | 84 MB

 Each year, Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine and the #1 best-selling  Photoshop author, trains literally thousands of photographers on how to retouch portraits  using Photoshop through his live seminars, online classes, DVDs, and standing-room only  workshops at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. Now you can learn the same techniques he uses in his own retouching workflow, in the only book of its kind–one written expressly for photographers who do their own retouching.

 As a pro photographer himself, Scott understands that photographers make their living  shooting, not retouching. But, delivering fully retouched images is now expected by clients. That’s why Scott put together this amazing resource for teaching photographers the quickest, easiest, and most effective ways to create professional-looking, retouched final images without spending hours grinding away at painstaking, detailed techniques.

LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT

 It’s all here–the step-by-step methods for fixing, enhancing, and finishing your portraits  in Photoshop. Using the techniques in this book, you’ll create images that will absolutely wow your clients.

You’ll learn:
 • How to soften skin and still retain detail and texture
 • The best tricks for beautifully enhancing eyes, eyebrows, and eyelashes
 • How to selectively sharpen portraits without complicated masking
 • How to create gorgeous-looking lips
 • How to remove blemishes fast and keep the most detail
 • The pros’ tricks for body sculpting
 • How to make your subject’s hair look fabulous
 • How to give your retouches that natural look that sets them apart
 • Plus, you get Scott’s complete 5-minute, 15-minute, and 30-minute start-to-finish
workflows

 If you’re ready to learn the “tricks of the trade”–the same ones that today’s leading pro  photographers use to retouch, tuck, tighten, and tone their images for that pro-retouched look–you’re holding the book that will do exactly that. It will radically change the way you retouch your portraits from here on out, and give you the best-looking, most natural retouches you’ve ever done.

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PaintShop Photo Pro X3 For Photographers

PaintShop Photo Pro X3 For Photographers
 Aug 31 2010 |ISBN:024052165X
 PDF | 18.5 Mb |  223 pages 

If you are a digital photographer who's new to PaintShop Photo Pro or digital imaging in  general, or have recently upgraded to the all-new version X3, this is the book for you!

Packed with full color images to provide inspiration and easy to follow, step-by-step  projects, you'll learn the ins and outs of this fantastic program in no time so you can start correcting and editing your images to create stunning works of art.

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Focus On Adobe Photoshop

Focus On Adobe Photoshop
Focus on the Fundamentals (Focus On Series)
Publisher: Focal Press | 2011 | ISBN: 0240812204
Pages: 232 | PDF | 74,45 MB

 This no-nonsense, highly affordable, and inspiring guide walks photographers new to  Photoshop through the end to end Photoshop workflow. Starting from the moment you download  your images off your memory card, photographer Corey Hilz guides you through importing and  organizing your photos in Bridge, demonstrating how to give each photo ratings and keywords  to make searching through your photos a snap. He then details the basics of editing photos in both Camera Raw and Photoshop, including how to correct exposure, make color and tonal adjustments, retouch flaws and imperfections, and much more. He finishes the book with next steps: how to print that prized final image, upload it to social networking sites, and create a slideshow or web gallery.

 Packed with gorgeous images, helpful screenshots, and quality advice to teach the new or  beginning user the fundamentals of the software, this guide is compatible with any version  of Photoshop.

 * No-nonsense end-to-end professional Photoshop workflow for photographers who want to  spend more time behind the lens, and less in front of a screen
 * Unique approach tailored specifically for traditional 'realistic' photography in the  digital age, tells the working photographer exactly what they need to know to get the best from their photos
 * Clear format with emphasis on the visual aspect throughout, in a handy, affordable,  pocket-sized guide

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Site Planning and Design Handbook

Site Planning and Design Handbook

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional | 2009 | ISBN: 0071605584

  Pages: 528 | PDF | 17,55 MB

Essential site planning and design strategies, up-to-date with the latest sustainable development techniques

Discover how to incorporate sound environmental considerations into traditional site design processes. Written by a licensed landscape architect with more than 20 years of professional experience, this authoritative guide combines established approaches to site planning with sustainable practices and increased environmental sensitivity.

Fully revised and updated, Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition discusses the latest standards and protocols-including LEED. The book features expanded coverage of green site design topics such as water conservation, energy efficiency, green building materials, site infrastructure, and brownfield restoration. This comprehensive resource addresses the challenges associated with site planning and design and lays the groundwork for success.

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A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC

A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC
Publisher: Course Technology | 2009 | ISBN: 1435497783 

 Pages: 1344 | PDF | 68,78 MB

Written by best-selling PC repair author and educator Jean Andrews, the seventh edition of A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC maps fully to CompTIA's 2009 A+ Exam objectives. This full-color guide is the most complete, step-by-step book available for learning the fundamentals of supporting and troubleshooting computer hardware and software. At the same time, it prepares readers to successfully pass the A+ 220-701 and 220-702 exams. The new edition is formatted to support any teaching or learning style and course format, featuring an essentials-to-practical organization within each chapter and inclusion of tabs distinguishing exam content. Further content and live demonstrations with Jean Andrews are available on the accompanying CD, making this new edition a total solution for PC repair.

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Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh

Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: 

Visual QuickStart Guide
Publisher: Peachpit Press | 2010 | ISBN: 032170357X 

 Pages: 531 | PDF | 15,82 MB

With the release of Adobe Creative Suite CS5, Dreamweaver solidifies its role as the de facto tool of choice for anyone designing for the Web. Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create, design, and publish powerful, innovative Web sites with Dreamweaver. Leading technology authors Tom Negrino and Dori Smith take you step-by-step through the new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, with completely revised chapters on critical tools like styling pages with CSS and adding user interactivity with javascript dynamic elements.

You'll also learn to take advantage of Dreamweaver's new ability to build and modify sites that use popular content management systems, such as WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal. If you're new to Dreamweaer and web design, you'll learn to create your first Web site, add text, style and lay out page content, manage styles, work with links, incorporate images, media, tables, forms, and frames, design site navigation, and so much more. If you're an experienced user, you'll find this a convenient reference to the new features of Dreamweaver CS5.

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