This updated edition provides all the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding for students following GCSE in Design and Technology: Graphic Products. It includes a useful chapter on basic technology to enhance students' understanding systems and control.

Design and Communication (Collins CDT)

Computers & Technology

K. Crampton

M. Finney

Graphics & Design

Collins Educational

Minicomputers and microcomputers in engineering and manufacture

Collins

HOW TO DRAW AND PAINT WITH YOUR COMPUTER

Arts & Photography

Glen Wilkins

History & Criticism

This title links students' work to real-life industrial practices. It incorporates CAD/CAM into designing and making graphic products and provides an overview of modern manufacturing technologies in the graphics industry. In-depth case studies of the design and development of real-life graphic products are provided. Updated for the new GCSEs, "Collins Real-World Technology" provides invaluable insight into industrial practices. With knowledge, skills and processes juxtaposed with their application in the working lives of designers and manufacturers, the books successfully bring together workshop and classroom activity with real-world practice in product design.

Graphic Products

Mike Finney

Teen & Young Adult

Artist Jon Stuart shows how he produces computer-generated images. The process starts with a simple block of cubes, which are added to, given texture, before being bent, stretched, twisted into the correct shape and size. He then adds background, lighting and colour to bring the whole scene to life.
• Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.
• Text type - An information book.
• A flow chart on pages 22 and 23 summarises the process, and there is a contents page on page 1, as well as a glossary and index on pages 20 and 21.
• Curriculum links - Art and Design: Investigating different kinds of art, craft and design. ICT: An introduction to modelling; Creating pictures.
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

What Is CGI? (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

Sage, Alison

Education & Reference

This handy little guide is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand digital video and make great home movies. Packed with tips and ideas, but small enough to fit in your pocket, it provides all the information you need to get the best results from your digital camcorder. Whether you're buying your first camcorder or updating to the latest digital technology, this compact guide is the one-stop guide to making and improving your home videos. Covers everything from understanding the features on the camcorder to composition, editing, and post-production techniques; with insights and tips from an industry insider. Contents include: understanding digital; choosing the equipment you need; exploring your camcorder's features and functions; the basics of good film-making; tips for shooting many occasions from weddings to holidays to sporting events; editing your footage and creating title sequences; adding music and sound effects—including how to digitize music from discs and audio cassettes; screening your movies—making copies, uploading, and streaming on the internet; podcasting; and DVD camcorders and the high definition future Plus, jargon-busting glossary, directory of websites, and information to take you further.

Collins Gem Digital Video: Tips and Techniques for Great Home Movies

Barrett, Colin

Photography & Video

HarperCollins, UK

In a music and publishing industry first, acclaimed musician Kristin Hersh releases her new studio album, Crooked, as a book.
Kristin Hersh, lead singer of Throwing Muses and successful solo artist, will be releasing her new studio album, Crooked, as a book. This is the first time any major recording artist has taken such a step which makes this a groundbreaking publication and one that we will be supporting with a massive publicity push.
Crooked, the book, will contain full colour artwork, lyrics and an exclusive essay by Kristin on each song.
Each copy will come with a digital code which unlocks a treasure trove of online content including:
• The full Crooked album. • Full recording stems for every track allowing fan remixes. • Track by track audio commentary by Kristin. • Exclusive video content. • Out-takes. • A forum enabling fans to interract with Kristin, ask questions, live web chats etc. • Sample chapters from her forthcoming memoir, Paradoxical Undressing.
This full content will only be available to fans who purchase Crooked the book.

Crooked

Hersh, Kristin

Individual Artists

The Friday Project

The book all amateur digital photographers need – learn how to take the perfect photograph every time, from the authors of the bestselling Collins Complete Photography Course.
In this book, John and Graeme apply their years of experience as professional photographers and instructors to teaching you the techniques and tips for capturing your friends and family, children and pets, holidays, sports days, celebrations, parties, festivals, weddings, births and birthdays. This book will show you the best way to photograph them all – every important person, place and memory you’ll want to treasure.
Using the same practical, project based course structure that helped so many amateur photographers get to grips with their cameras in their bestselling Collins Complete Photography Course, John and Graeme will give you the confidence to get out your camera and start taking photos. Includes tips and advice on how to get the best out of your iphone and other mobile and point-and-shoots cameras as well as your digital SLR.
John and Graeme’s warm and encouraging style will build your confidence, inspire your creativity and get you experimenting with your photos. With specially shot case studies and projects, step-by-steps, troubleshooting and project reviews you’ll be learning as you shoot right from the get go.
Collins Complete Photography Projects is the natural follow-up to the Collins Complete Photography Course, benefiting those who have worked their way through the first one, but it will stand alone with a concise technical section that will bring new readers up to speed. A must have photography book for anyone with a digital camera and a little imagination.

Collins Complete Photography Projects

Garrett, John

Harris, Graeme

Harpercollins

Shows how to use AutoCAD Release 12 for engineering and technical graphics. Chapters describe how to use AutoCAD for multiview drawings, geometric construction, section views, dimensioning, descriptive geometry, 3D wire frame and solid modelling. Examples and problems are included.

Autocad for Engineering Graphics

Bertoline, Gary R.

Software

Macmillan Coll Div

From the Publisher A workbook/textbook that covers the essential elements of AutoCAD Release 12--enabling students to produce engineering and technical drawings in the least possible amount of time.

The Essential Autocad

Frampton, J. D.

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