Michael Freeman has a well-deserved reputation for effectively explaining the concepts behind digital picture-taking to a variety of audiences. Here, he turns his attention to the professionals and advanced hobbyists who are making the move from traditional to digital and want help mastering the technology and meeting their clients' new requirements. Freeman thoroughly answers the most frequently asked questions about the basics of digital capture, from cameras and computers to storage options, printers, and scanners. Photographers will learn the different file formats and how to save images for print or publishing on the web. They'll explore valuable software tools and basic image processing programs that fix common problems, and see how to improve pictures using an assortment of cropping and filtering techniques. The smart, detailed advice will give photographers confidence as they enter this new digital world.
E-Futures: Designing for a Digital World by Neil Leach, ISBN 0470844191
Digital technologies are changing the way that we live and work today. But what impact are they having on the discipline of architecture?
This volume brings together some of the world's leading voices from digital theory, technology and design to address this question. With a discussion ranging from broad cultural concerns to new techniques of construction, "Designing for a Digital World offers a snapshot of informed opinion at a crucial juncture in the history of the discipline.
E-Futures: Designing for a Digital World by Neil Leach, ISBN 0470844191
My New Digital Camera: A Very Basic Guide to Understanding, Editing and Saving Digital Photographs by Pamela R. Lessing, ISBN 1931868174
Put away your old-fashioned camera, file those worn-out photo albums and get ready to send your photos to friends and family over the internet. Taking a digital photograph is not a problem for those who know how to use a camera. The question, what do you do once you've taken the digital photograph? This brand new title in Capital's popular "First Week" series, will take you into the Digital Age! Now with this easy-to-read and use book, by the master of non-patronizing instruction, you'll understand what is going on inside the camera when you take a digital photo, how to download them into your computer or web site, edit, send, and store them. Pamela Lessing makes clear all the wonders of digital cameras and the software programs that allow you to keep all those precious photos safe. The book concludes with the hallmark of The First Week series, a clear and concise step-by-step guide for performing each of the basic tasks of the four most popular digital camera software programs.
My New Digital Camera: A Very Basic Guide to Understanding, Editing and Saving Digital Photographs by Pamela R. Lessing, ISBN 1931868174
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Complete Digital Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Electronics and Computer System Architecture by Mark Balch, ISBN 0071409270
YOUR ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN!
The explosion in communications and embedded computing technologies has brought with it a host of new skill requirements for electrical and electronics engineers, students, and hobbyists. With engineers expected to have such diverse expertise, they need comprehensive, easy-to-understand guidance on the fundamentals of digital design.
Enter McGraw-Hill's "Complete Digital Design. Written by an experienced electrical engineer and networking hardware designer, this book helps you understand and navigate the interlocking components, architectures, and practices necessary to design and implement digital systems. It includes:
* Real world implementation of microprocessor-based digital systems
* Broad presentation of supporting analog circuit principles
* Building complete systems with basic design elements and the latest technologies
"Complete Digital Design will teach you how to develop a customized set of requirements for any...
Complete Digital Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Electronics and Computer System Architecture by Mark Balch, ISBN 0071409270
Digital Imaging for Photographers with CD (Audio) by Adrian Davies, ISBN 0240515900
This authoritative, best-selling guide provides both professional and amateur photographers worldwide with a comprehensive introduction to the technologies and techniques of digital imaging.
Features:
* An in-depth overview of image capture with digital cameras and scanners
* Hardware and software considerations
* The digital darkroom - image processing with examples from Adobe Photoshop, showing how to achieve the highest quality images
* Printing digital images
* Colour management issues
This completely revised and updated fourth edition, with the latest information on cameras, printers and image processing techniques, is also illustrated throughout with full colour images for the first time. The free CD-ROM contains many of these images so that you can practice the techniques in the book, as well as new examples of some the other issues discussed. Specially produced animations show the operation of charge coupled devices (CCDs) and software provided includes NIH...
Digital Imaging for Photographers with CD (Audio) by Adrian Davies, ISBN 0240515900
Flashlight Monsters Invade Hollywood
The movie director says, "Find me a star! Make it hairy and scary!" He gets more than he'd bargained for when a parade of monsters come trouping into the studio. Among them are Tail Smasher who breaks cameras, Dragon Breath who belches flames, and Near-Monster Ned, who likes to chew heads. These and other monsters can be projected on a wall as kids create scary stories of their own. . "Flashlight Books are funny and a little scary, but their most unusual features are the illustrations, with die-cut...
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