Kamis, 03 Januari 2013

Wow! eBook: Content Everywhere - 4 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Content Everywhere - 4 new eBooks

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Content Everywhere

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:11 AM PST

Content Everywhere

Book Description

Care about content? Better copy isn’t enough. As devices and channels multiply—and as users expect to easily relate, share, and shift information—we need content that can go more places, more easily.

This book will help you stop creating fixed, single-purpose content and start making it more future-ready, flexible, and reusable by showing you how to:

  • Identify content’s micro elements
  • Structure it in meaningful ways
  • Bring it to life through metadata and markup

This gives us content that’s findable, adaptable, connectable, and transportable—allowing us to better manage it, and retain its meaning, in an unfixed .

Table of Contents
Part One: The Case for Content Everywhere
Chapter 1. Framing the New Content Challenge
Chapter 2. Building a Way Forward

Part Two: The Elements of Content
Chapter 3. Breaking Content Down
Chapter 4. Creating Content Models
Chapter 5. Content Systems
Chapter 6. Understanding Markup
Chapter 7. Making Sense of Content APIs

Part Three: Putting Structured Content to Work
Chapter 8. Findable Content
Chapter 9. Adaptable Content
Chapter 10. Reusable Content
Chapter 11. Transportable Content

Part Four: Enduring Content
Chapter 12. Content and Change
Chapter 13. Towards a New (Information)

Book Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Rosenfeld Media (December 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 193382087X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933820873
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The Book of GIMP

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:11 AM PST

The Book of GIMP

Book Description

is a free alternative to Photoshop with tons of professional-grade features. But with so many powerful tools and menu options, can be difficult to master. Whether you’re struggling to get started or trying to master some of ’s more complex features, you’ll find the answers you’re looking for in The Book of .

The tutorials in the first half of the book walk you through essential GIMP skills, like resizing and cropping images, touching up spots and scratches, and customizing your work area. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions show you how to:

  • Improve the lighting and composition of images
  • Remove distortions and noise to make old and damaged photos look like new
  • Create stunning panoramas and collages using a series of photos
  • Make, edit, and export custom textures, logos, and animated GIFs
  • Work with selections, channels, and masks to edit images like a pro
  • Create colorful art, layer by layer

The book’s second half offers a comprehensive reference to GIMP’s many features, including color balancing, masks, filters, and plug-ins. You’ll find tools described in unparalleled detail, with coverage of nearly every option and parameter.

With illustrated tutorials and detailed references, The Book of GIMP is sure to become your one-stop guide to just about everything GIMP.

Table of Contents
Part I: Learning GIMP
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Photograph Retouching
Chapter 3. Drawing and Illustration
Chapter 4. Logos and Textures
Chapter 5. Composite
Chapter 6.
Chapter 7. Image Preprocessing
Chapter 8. a Website

Part II: GIMP Reference Manual
Chapter 9. The GIMP Interface
Chapter 10. Display
Chapter 11. Layers
Chapter 12. Color
Chapter 13. Selections
Chapter 14. Masks
Chapter 15. Drawing Tools
Chapter 16. Transformation Tools
Chapter 17. Filters
Chapter 18. Tools
Chapter 19. Obtaining and Printing Images
Chapter 20. Image Formats
Chapter 21. Scripts and Plug-ins
Chapter 22. Customizing GIMP

Part III: Appendices
Appendix A. Vision and Image Representation
Appendix B. Tips and Hints for Selected Exercises
Appendix . Resources
Appendix D. Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix E. Installing GIMP
Appendix F. Batch Processing

Book Details

  • Paperback: 676 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press (December 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593273835
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593273835
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The HDRI Handbook 2.0

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:11 AM PST

The HDRI Handbook 2.0

Book Description

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) takes to a whole new level. It opens the door to unprecedented creative freedom in post-processing by capturing everything from the darkest shadows to the brightest highlights. HDRI means truly lossless image editing, full exposure control, and the ability to master any scene’s contrast without artificial lighting and preserve all light from a scene so it can be digitally revisited anytime in the future. Combined with panoramic , this captured light can even be used to render objects with a deceivingly realistic appearance.

In 2007, The HDRI Handbook was the first book to present this revolutionary new field to a larger audience. These days HDRI is a fully mature technology available to everyone. Real estate and landscape photographers have adopted it as part of their regular workflow, it has become one of the hottest trends for ambitious amateurs and creative professionals alike, and the modern movie industry would be completely dysfunctional without it.

Now The HDRI Handbook 2.0 redefines its own gold standard. It has been completely rewritten and is packed with practical hints and tips, background knowledge, reference tools, breathtaking artist portfolios, and inspiring interviews. The book includes dozens of new step-by-step tutorials, which are easy to follow with the material provided on the . Beginners will get a methodically solid introduction and advanced readers will be able to refine their technique to perfection.

Whether you are a photographer, CG artist, compositor, or cinematographer, this book is sure to enlighten you.

Topics include:

  • Understanding the foundation of HDRI
  • software comparisons and evaluations
  • Capturing images: today and tomorrow
  • Tonemapping for creating superior prints
  • HDR image processing and compositing
  • Shooting and stitching HDR panoramas
  • Image-based lighting and CG rendering

2.0 updates include:

  • New cameras, sensors, and HDR beamsplitter rigs
  • Open Controller for endless auto-bracketing
  • Correct RAW pre-processing and ghost removal
  • Dozens of practical, easy-to-follow tutorials
  • A structured approach to tonemapping, inspired by Ansel Adams
  • Set etiquette and tips for capturing HDR panos for visual effects
  • Seven artist spotlights showing unique perspectives on HDRI
  • Seven crossword puzzles: a fun way to test yourself
  • A companion loaded with goodies

Book Details

  • Paperback: 672 pages
  • Publisher: Rocky Nook (December 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1937538168
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937538163
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The Digital Zone System

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:10 AM PST

The Digital Zone System

Book Description

There is an ongoing debate among photographers whether processes will ever be able to reach the pinnacle of image quality and tonality achieved by Ansel Adams decades ago. The Zone System (DZS) is an innovative methodology for editing images that mimics the Zone System created by Adams.

With this book, author Robert Fisher presents a practical guide for editing images with a level of control previously unattainable without significant manual work. He walks the reader through the background of Adam’s original Zone System and points out similarities to current processes including Expose to the Right (ETTR) and high dynamic range imaging (HDRI).

Learn to use luminance masks to separate an image into “one-stop” zones of brightness, similar to the zones in Adams’s Zone System, that can be worked on individually or in groups. This makes the DZS a powerful tool for converting color images to black and white. You will also gain tremendous control over how color is adjusted in your images by learning to isolate and adjust color in specific targeted areas. These DZS processes are quicker and simpler than the tedious work of using global adjustments and painting in layer masks to isolate the effects of an adjustment layer.

In this book, you will learn how to use the Digital Zone System for editing color images, converting images to black and white, and tone mapping images. Also included are brief discussions of color , setting up Photoshop, printing, and exposure for digital images.

The book is richly illustrated with step-by-step screenshots and stunning example images that show the benefits of the Digital Zone System over commonly used digital editing methods. Once mastered, the DZS will allow you to produce a higher level of quality in your images, at a faster pace and with greater ease than ever before.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Rocky Nook (December 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1937538133
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937538132
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