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| Title |
Photoshop Collage Techniques |
| Author |
Gregory Cosmo Haun |
| Review |
Digital collages and montages are two of the most popular digital art
techniques being used today. Photoshop Collage Techniques is the first
book of its kind to reveal the techniques behind the creation of a series
of montages and collages. The visually appealing 4-color format will offer
inspiration to the graphic artist. |
| TOC |
Ch. 1. Collage and Montage
Ch. 2. Existing Image Sources and Copyrights
Ch. 3. Scanning and Image Acquisition
Ch. 4. Strategies for Optimum Web Performance
Ch. 5. Strategies for Matching Screen to Print
Ch. 6. Selection Techniques
Ch. 7. Combining Images
Ch. 8. Manipulating an Object
Ch. 9. Feathering the Edge of a Layer
Ch. 10. Transparent Effects with Layers
Ch. 11. Simple Layer Masks
Ch. 12. Blended Layer Masks
Ch. 13. Adjustment Layers and Masks
Ch. 14. Filtered Layers and Masks
Ch. 15. Fading from One Image to Another
Ch. 16. Vignetting a Layer
Ch. 17. Using Guides and the Grid
Ch. 18. Converting Low-Res Comps to High-Res Finals
Ch. 19. Creating a Layer Drop Shadow
Ch. 20. Hand-Drawn Shadows
Ch. 21. Converting from Fill to Adjustment Shadows and Back
Ch. 22. Layer Cutout Shadow
Ch. 23. Using Curves to Fine-Tune Shadows
Ch. 24. Creating a Fractured Surface
Ch. 25. Complex Glow Effects
Ch. 26. Creating a Projection Effect
Ch. 27. Using a Clipping Group to Shade a Layer
Ch. 28. Applying Color
Ch. 29. Halftone Effects
Ch. 30. Using the Lighting Effects Filter to Create Textures
Ch. 31. Outlining an Object
Ch. 32. Fog/Fluid/Soft-Focus Look
Ch. 33. Creating a Linocut Effect
Ch. 34. Using Selections to Center a Filter
Ch. 35. Preserving the Pixel Look
Ch. 36. Vignetting an Image
Ch. 37. Using an Image as a Mask to Combine Images
Ch. 38. Intertwining Images
Ch. 39. Filling a 3-D Object with a Photo
Ch. 40. Using an Adjustment Channel Template
Ch. 41. Wrapping One Image Onto the Surface of Another
Ch. 42. Edge Treatments
Ch. 43. The Visual Cues of Photomontage
Ch. 44. Using the Rubber Stamp Tool
Ch. 45. Simulating Film Grain
Ch. 46. Creating Atmo |
Recommended
by |
Sharyn Lee |
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| Title |
The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust
of World War II |
| Author |
Iris
Chang |
| Synopsis |
Published on the 60th anniversary of the atrocity, this is a chilling,
true account of the 1937 massacre of 250,000 Chinese civilians by the invading
Japanese military, an action for which the Japanese government has never
apologized and never admitted responsibility. With Japan facing mounting
criticism over its use of Korean women as forced sexual servants
in WWII, this book will reinforce these issues via the media. 16
pp. photos. 288 pp. |
| Review |
World History Editor's Recommended Book, 01/16/98, China has endured much
hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The
Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that
eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking,
she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers
were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would
later do throughout Asia.
Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders
orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure
just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang
turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member
of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the
slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of
Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations
and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. |
Recommended
by |
me |
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| Title |
Advanced Oracle PL/SQL : Programming With
Packages |
| Author |
Steven
Feuerstein |
| Synopsis |
This book expands on the techniques provided in Oracle PL/SQL Programming,
taking readers deep into the world of PL/SQL packages.The book provides
much more than advice and examples. It comes with a disk containing
a full-use shareware version of PL/Vision, a library of dozens of packages
written by the author. These packages greatly accelerate the development
of PL/SQL-based applications. |
Recommended
by |
Aaron Urbain |
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| Title |
Oracle PL/SQL Programming |
| Author |
Steven
Feuerstein, Bill
Pribyl |
| Synopsis |
An update to the popular bible for PL/SQL developers, this second edition
updates the Oracle8 material and includes chapters on Oracle8 object
types, object views, collections, external procedures, and large
object types and functions. It also covers new strategies for tuning,
tracing, and debugging PL/SQL programs and offers many new programs
on the accompanying disk. |
Recommended
by |
Aaron Urbain |
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| Title |
Programming Perl (2nd Edition) |
| Author |
Larry
Wall, Tom
Christiansen, |
| Synopsis |
Contains a full explanation of the features in version 5.0, covering
syntax, functions, debugging, efficiency, and the Perl library, and
provides an accompanying "Perl cookbook" and quick-reference card. Original.
(Advanced). |
Recommended
by |
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| Title |
Learning Perl (2nd Edition) |
| Author |
Randal
L. Schwartz, Tom
Christiansen, |
| Synopsis |
"Learning Perl" is ideal for system administrators, programmers, and
anyone else wanting a down-to-earth introduction to this useful language.
Written by a Perl trainer, its aim is to make a competent, hands-on Perl
programmer out of the reader as quickly as possible. The book takes a tutorial
approach and includes hundreds of short code examples, along with some
lengthy one Pub: 7/97. |
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