Showing posts with label Image Processing. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Mark Fitzgerald, “Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot”


Mark Fitzgerald, "Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot"
Wiley | 2009-02-09 | ISBN: 0470389869 | 368 pages | PDF | 15 MB


If you re a photographer on the go and want the ability to edit your photos wherever the shoot takes you, then this book is for you. Whether you re on location, in a coffee shop, on vacation, or on a business trip, you ll find everything you need in this 6" x 9" guide that fits easily into your camera bag or laptop case.

But, don t be fooled by the book s size. Within it are over 300 full-color pages walks you through the workflow, editing, and organizing tasks found in this after-capture software programs Photoshop CS4. Additionally, numerous practice files are available online, so you can download them from wherever you happen to be.

Topics include:

# Getting organized in Adobe Bridge
# Working with raw files
# Understanding Photoshop CS4 s updated, more intuitive user interface
# Using different techniques for tonal and color adjustments
# Creating black & whites, and sepia tones
# Working with selection and retouching tools
# Using the new Masking and Adjustments panels to add creative effects
# Demystifying resolution and sizing
# Creating elegant panoramas from multiple photos
# Printing at home or at the lab
# Building slideshows and uploading Web galleries easily using the new Adobe Output Module

This easy-to-read book breaks this powerful program down into bite-sized pieces so you can quickly develop a consistent workflow that gives you quality results with every photo. It s exactly what every photographer needs After the Shoot.


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Les Pardew, “Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art”


Les Pardew, "Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art"
Course Technology PTR | 2004 | ISBN: 1592005616 | 344 pages | PDF | 26 MB


Digital art opens the door to new techniques and methods of painting that would be impossible to achieve in traditional art. It eliminates the worry of ruined surfaces, toxic chemicals, and expensive materials and introduces powerful tools that are able to realistically simulate water color, oil paint, and air brush techniques. What used to take artists hours to accomplish can now be completed in a few short steps. "Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art" is designed to help the traditional artist make the move to digital media. It includes step-by-step projects that show how to create both 2D and 3D art and offers helpful hints regarding the digital art programs that will most effectively help you meet your objectives.




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Ben Willmore, Dan Ablan, “Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques”


Ben Willmore, Dan Ablan, "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques"
Adobe Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0321613104 | 480 pages | PDF | 24 MB

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. They'll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations.

Streamlined for this new edition, the book will distill Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know for a full understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for the photographer. Beginning with a quick "refresher course" on the working foundations of Photoshop, you'll move on to real-world production techniques. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you'll feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.



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The Essential Guide to Image Processing


The Essential Guide to Image Processing
Academic Press | ISBN: 0123744571 | 2009-06-11 | PDF | 672 pages | 33.6 MB


This comprehensive and state-of-the art approach to image processing gives engineers and students a comprehensive introduction, and includes full coverage of key applications: image watermarking, fingerprint recognition, face recognition and iris recognition and medical imaging. To help learn the concepts and techniques, the book contains a CD-ROM of 70 highly interactive visual demonstrations. Key algorithms and their implementation details are included, as are the latest developments in the standards.


* A complete and modern introduction to the basic and intermediate concepts of image processing - edited and written by the leading people in the field
* An essential reference for all types of engineers working on image processing applications
* A CD-ROM contains 70 highly interactive demonstration programs with user friendly interfaces to provide a visual presentation of the concepts
* Up-to-date content, including statistical modelling of natural, anisotropic diffusion, image quality and the latest developments in JPEG 2000




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Scott Kelby, “Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks”


Scott Kelby, "Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks"
New Riders Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0321563174 | 360 pages | PDF | 67 MB


Scott Kelby, co-host of Photoshop User TV and the world s #1 bestselling Photoshop author, is back to unlock the secrets of an amazing new collection of the latest eye-popping, jaw-dropping, Photoshop special effects the same kind that made Scott s previous editions of this book one of the top selling Photoshop books in history.

You ll learn some of the most closely guarded Photoshop CS4 special effects the same ones you see on TV, in magazines, and on the Web. Using Scott s simple step-by-step method, with hundreds of full-color images, you ll see exactly how it s all done. The book is written so clearly, and it is so easy to follow, you ll immediately be able to create all of these effects yourself.

You ll learn:

The latest photographic special effects
How to fake studio shots (you ll be amazed at how it s done)
The latest cutting-edge type effects
The most popular effects used by big movie studios
The most-requested advertising effects
Commercial effects that clients go crazy over!
The most asked-for current Web effects
Amazing 3D effects using Photoshop Extended
Plus loads of effects that look hard, but are easy once you know the secrets

And not only that, but the whole book is packed with creative ideas, layouts, and design techniques that will help you unleash your own creativity. It s all here, in the only Photoshop book of its kind. You're gonna love it!




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Richard Harrington, “Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4: The Essential Techniques for Imaging Profess


Richard Harrington, "Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4: The Essential Techniques for Imaging Professionals"
Peachpit Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0321563662 | 360 pages | PDF | 20 MB


Photoshop is the foundation of every digital career. It is the most pervasive technology on the market. Many users think they know it, but in truth they have gaping holes. This book covers what a professional truly needs to know about Photoshop to be employable. For students (whether in formal programs, certified training centers, or self-paced) this book offers a chance to explore the many aspects of the program interactively. The book cuts though the clutter and is unique in that it focuses not just on digital photography, but Internet, graphic design, multimedia, and video uses.



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After Effects Apprentice: Real-world Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist, Second Edition


Chris and Trish Meyer, "After Effects Apprentice: Real-world Skills for the Aspiring Motion Graphics Artist, Second Edition"
Focal Press | ISBN: 0240811364 | 2009-01-20 | 336 pages | PDF | 30.4 MB


New to the 2nd edition:
* All instructions, screen shots, Guided Tour video training movies, and project files updated for After Effects CS4. CS3 and CS4 features have been integrated throughout, including the pervasive use of Shape layers, Layer Styles, and Brainstorm
* More integration with other Adobe applications, including using After Effects with Illustrator, Photoshop (including new Vanishing Point and 3d Layer exercises) and Flash CS4
* Redesigned first and last lessons, including an all-new final project that walks through the creation of a widescreen broadcast TV promo
* Free bonus chapters on the DVD from other books on Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Flash, and broadcast design


If you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons plus a hip final project that pulls it all together, you'll learn how to tap this program's vast potential -whether you want to create motion graphics for network television, corporate communications, or your own work.

Fully updated to cover After Effects CS4, this book presents a professional perspective on the most important features a motion graphics artist needs to learn in order to use this program effectively. You'll learn to creatively combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, manipulate 3D space, key and stabilize a shot to place it in a new environment, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene.



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Photoshop CS2 In Pictures


Photoshop CS2 In Pictures
Publisher: Visibooks, LLC | ISBN: 159706114X | edition 2006 | PDF | 141 pages | 5 Mb

Learn to create Web graphics using Adobe Photoshop.









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Richard Lynch, The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book: Harnessing Photoshop’s most powerful tool


Richard Lynch, The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book: Harnessing Photoshop's most powerful tool
Focal Press | 2009 | ISBN 0240521552 | 320 Pages | PDF | 16 MB

MasterPhotoshop CS4 with this visual, hands-on guide to using layers, under the expert guidance of digital imaging specialist Richard Lynch. Layers, Photoshop's most powerful feature, is the core of a nondestructive image-editing workflow.

Step-by-step instructions and practical examples illustrate how to.



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Advanced Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers


Philip Andrews, Advanced Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers
Focal Press 2004 | ISBN-10: 024051940X | 288 Pages | PDF | 32 MB

The book has an upbeat, friendly feel and is easy to read...The sections are well though out and well described...Advanced Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers is a good book and very adequately demonstrates how powerful and effective Adobe Elements can be.



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