As digital cameras drop in price and the images they produce grow in quality, more and more people are finding the lure too strong to resist. If you're in the market for a camera, or already own one and want to know how to get the most out of it, Start with a Digital Camera will provide you with both hands-on knowledge and creative examples.
 This book combines simple instructions with beautiful full-color photographs to teach you how to create high-quality digital photos and incorporate them into graphic designs. Whether you're an amateur searching for buying advice and digital basics or a design pro looking for new inspiration and the latest technological advances, you'll find Start with a Digital Camera an invaluable resource.

Start With a Digital Camera: A Guide to Using Digital Photography to Create High-Quality Graphics

Arts & Photography

Odam, John

Photography & Video

Peachpit Pr

Introduces 2D artists to 3D computer graphics. Starts with principles of 3D perception, then proceeds to practical matters of modeling objects, applying textures, and lighting and rendering scenes. Provides tips for working in any 3D program, and advice on setting up a 3D studio. Includes a wealth of color illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Getting Started with 3D: A Designer's Guide to 3D & Illustration

Computers & Technology

Ashford, Janet

Gavenda, Victor

Programming

Describes techniques for transforming raw scans into good-looking electronic illustrations. The second edition adds two chapters on using scans in arts and crafts, and scanning for the web. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Start With a Scan: A Guide to Transforming Scanned Images and Objects into High-Quality Art

With film purchase and development costs as high as ever, and quality digital cameras selling for only a couple of hundred bucks, if you haven't bought a digital camera yet, you will. And when you do, you'll want John Odam's practical and lovely Start with a Digital Camera, 2nd Edition to help you overcome the limitations of digital photography and make the most of its unique advantages. In this newly revised edition, updated to cover advanced camera resolutions, new storage options, and Adobe Elements, you'll learn how to pick out and use your digital camera, work with models and props, optimize images for printing as well as for onscreen presentation, manage memory and storage, and much more. You'll also walk away with a ton of valuable tips on using digital photos in publications, on the Web, and in limited-edition prints. Start with a Digital Camera, 2nd Edition uses hundreds of full-color photos, graphic design case studies, and step-by-step examples to give you both the knowledge and inspiration to generate excellent digital photos and incorporate them in graphic design.

Start With a Digital Camera, Second Edition

Peachpit Press

Explains how to take professional digital photographs and offers advice on maximizing the impact of digital photographs in advertising, art, and graphic design.

Start With a Digital Camera: The Indispensable Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Camera

The Candidate Conspiracy

Houston attorney Jennifer Spencer, eager to prove herself in the legal profession, tirelessly investigates the suspicious campaign financing of a United States Senate race. She has no idea that she has thrust herself into an international covert operation to illegally fund not only the senate race but also the United States presidential election. Once the campaign manager for a senate candidate accidentally leaks word of the attorney's investigation, Spencer is locked into the game until the end.Sergei Yazkov has been given orders to eliminate Spencer before the conspiracy can be uncovered. A master of disguise, Yazkov kills two men upon his arrival in the United States and diligently adheres to the plans of the Tejano Project, a plan to put more guns into the hands of citizens worldwide. Yazkov easily gets into the proper arenas leading him toward the completion of his assignment.Shortly after Yazkov commits his first two murders in the United States, Texas Ranger Juan Falcone is on the trail of the Russian mafia agent. Falcone carefully works his case as Spencer continues her search. As they progress, an intricate web of deception is woven, bringing the idealistic Spencer face-to-face with death and real-world politics.

The Candidate Conspiracy: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

iUniverse

Seaford (Bygone Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Phillimore

The Gray Book: Designing in Black and White on Your Computer

Gosney, Michael

Schmal, Jim

Graphic Design

Ventana Communications Group

"The More...the Merrier" offers 54 original fiddle tunes (jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, waltzes, and airs) to folk musicians seeking to expand their Old-Timey repertoire. The format: 8" wide by 6" tall, spiral bound, is designed to allow the book to fit easily into a fiddle case, and to lie flat when open. Most tunes occupy just one page. If two pages are needed, the pages are always opposite. Commentaries and descriptive personal notes are provided with each tune. Photographs of folk musicians are also included.

The More...the Merrier: A Collection of 54 Original Old-Timey Style Fiddle Tunes and Contra Dance Melodies

Cormier, Edmond P.

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