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In Digital Alchemy, acclaimed printmaker Bonny Pierce Lhotka shows how to turn your standard inkjet printer into a seemingly magical instrument capable of transforming your printed images into true works of art. Using plenty of visuals and straightforward terms, Lhotka walks you step-by-step through over a dozen projects. Forget printing on boring old paper, in Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to transfer and print images to a variety of surfaces including metal, wood, fabric, stone, and plastic using the techniques Lhotka’s spent years developing.

If you’re a photographer looking for new ways to personalize your work or a digital artist who’s ready to take your work to the next level, you’ll find all of the tools, techniques, and inspiration you need in this book. Lhotka’s enthusiasm for experimenting with unusual printing materials and processes has led her to create new and amazing transfer techniques, including one that resembles a Polaroid™ transfer on steroids. She also shows you how to make prints using unexpected, everyday materials such as hand sanitizer and gelatin. You’ll even learn direct printing, the technique for sending your custom substrate through your printer almost as if it were paper.

In Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to:

• Transfer images to metal, wood, plastic, and other materials that will not feed through an inkjet printer
• Print directly on metal for a fraction of the cost of using a print service Download Now »

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Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6 is a concise, current, and affordable
full-color guide to the key techniques for working with digital images. Choose the How-Tos guide when you want to learn the features and functions that provide immediate results. This book covers core features without getting bogged down in obscure details; it provides a single reference for effective Lightroom-to-Photoshop and ACR-to-Photoshop workflows.

You’ll learn to use the most exciting new features in all three apps: streamlined import; dramatic noise-reduction improvements; robust lens correction for raw images; HDR Pro workflows; selection and mask refinement; Content-Aware Fill; Puppet Warp; Bristle Tips and the powerful Mixer Brush. You’ll also learn tips to work more efficiently, with Scrubby Zoom, the new HUD color pickers, and more.

Dan Moughamian has nearly two decades of experience working with Adobe applications, including more than 16 years with Photoshop. As a fine art photographer, professional instructor, and a veteran of the Adobe alpha and beta testing programs, Dan brings a unique and fresh perspective to digital imaging workflows. His recent training titles include several video tutorials for CS5 and Lightroom 3: Retouching & Image Adjustment with Photoshop CS5, Core Lightroom 3, and Mastering Camera Raw 6. He has also authored feature articles for PhotoTechnique Magazine. You can follow Dan on Twitter @Colortrails. Download Now »

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Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Classroom in a Book is the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn  Adobe’s consumer-targeted video editing software. Each of the 13 chapters in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson.

This new cross-platform (Mac and Windows) version of the book teaches the basics of video editing, along with complete coverage of all-new features in Premiere Elements 9 now with an enhanced workspace for increased efficiency and better user experience. In this new version you’ll learn how to import media from a variety of devices including mobile phones, embed your movie clips within web pages, use the new Cartoon effect to create cartoon-like movies from your live-motion movie clips, add a variety of new audio effects, fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems with SmartFix, automatically remove unwanted footage with Smart Trim, add graphics that follow the action of your footage, and much more.

About the Authors
The Adobe Creative Team of designers, writers, and editors has extensive, real world knowledge of Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe’s Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products. Download Now »

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Whether you’re a serious photographer or a hobbyist, the advice and instruction found in this comprehensive, best-selling guide to digital photography will help you advance your skills to produce consistent professional results.

Real World Digital Photography addresses the wide range of topics surrounding digital photography, including up-to-date descriptions of the latest camera technologies, expert advice for taking better photographs, and tips and techniques for optimizing images to look their best in print and on the Web. Adventurous photographers can explore new sections explaining high dynamic range as well as panoramic and night photography. You’ll also learn how to establish an effective, efficient workflow using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop — the two must-have tools for any serious photographer.

In Real World Digital Photography, Third Edition you’ll learn about:

• The essential technical considerations and professional skills to improve your photography
• How digital cameras work and the resulting impact on how and what you photograph
• Fundamentals of digital photography, including how to use lighting, composition, and lens choice to create compelling images
• How to establish a digital editing workflow that produces successful, repeatable, reliable results
• Practical image-editing techniques to improve tone and contrast, correct colors, enhance sharpness, and more Download Now »

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Since the advent of digital photography, we have been able to post-process our pictures. However, to do it properly, we have to become digital art apprentices. Sebastian Montabone is a computer vision expert who wants us to use our cameras and image processing software to come up with works of art. In this book, he teaches image processing techniques of ascending difficulty based on freely available tools. The book teaches you to use the best tools for the job, and it focuses on the techniques, not the environments or toolchains in which they run. Also in this book, you’ll learn about the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), which expands the features of some cameras.

What you’ll learn

• Learn how to process your photos by example.
• Save money by using free tools instead of expensive commercial software.
• Create unbelievable high-dynamic range (HDR) pictures.
• Generate stunning panoramas from ordinary pictures.
• Use the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK) to expand your camera features.
• Make videos and edit them easily using free software.

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If you’re ready to jump into digital photography or would like to increase the skills you already have, David Pogue’s Digital Photography: The Missing Manual is just what you need. Bestselling author David Pogue provides a no-nonsense guide to the entire process, including how to: buy and use a digital camera; get the same photographic effects as the pros; manage the results on your Mac or PC; edit photos; and, finally, share the results with your adoring fans — on paper, online, or on mugs, jigsaw puzzles, and blankets.

After reviewing hundreds of digital cameras and photo services in his weekly New York Times column, David Pogue knows digital photography. With this new Missing Manual you will:

• Get expert advice on how to choose a digital camera, including information on the only specs that matter. (Hint: it’s not about megapixels).
• Learn the basics of lighting, composition, and shooting lots of photos
• Understand how to choose the best camera settings for 20 different scenarios
• Unravel the problems of correcting images and storing them
• Learn David’s tips and tricks for sharing and printing images
• Get a special troubleshooting section you can turn to when things go wrong Download Now »