Photoshop Effects for Portrait Photographers

Focal Press | 2006-10-11 | ISBN: 0240808940 | 152 pages | PDF | 32,8 MB
Want to offer your clients more to chose from? Here's how: award winning photographer, Christopher Grey, has developed techniques to enhance portrait photography, using the creative applications available in Photoshop. Photoshop Effects for Portrait Photographers contains detailed explanations of how to replicate many darkroom techniques with Photoshop (Dodging, Burning, Vignettes, etc.) as well as camera and earlier technology techniques (Short Focus, High Speed Film Grain, Hand Coloring, etc.). Grey has also developed almost two dozen ways to replicate traditional painterly and illustrative techniques such as Rough Charcoal Sketch, Wet Watercolor, Silkscreen, and Oil Chalk.
Key Features
* Each effect is covered in a 2-4 page full color spread for easy comprehension and step-by-step directions
* Effects built with Photoshop CS2, but almost all will work with any version of PS that supports Layers
* Takes some of Photoshop features that are not quite up to par and gives you the tips to take the effect to the next level

You Can Teach Yourself Guitar

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. | 2003-02-01 | ISBN: 0786667826 | 112 pages | PDF | 12,2 MB
This is a very popular guitar method. Its success lies in the fact that it is extremely easy to understand and very flexible. It moves at a slow, steady pace and enables you to play chord accompaniments in 7 primary guitar keys! In addition, you will learn to strum blues chords and you will also begin to play fingerstyle backgrounds

The Herbalist

Meyerbooks | 1986-05-01 | ISBN: 0916638006 | 304 pages | Djvu | 8,5 MB
This longtime best-selling book about herbs and their uses is now available in a newly revised and updated edition. It explains where different herbs grow; how to gather and prepare them; their medicinal values; and how to use them. Additional information has been added on beverage teas, spices and flavoring herbs, plant vitamins, plant dyes for fabrics, botanicals for dentifrices, gargles and cosmetics. Clear-cut illustrations of plants are found throughout the text and 291 plants are illustrated in full color.

IStormer - Make Money With Mobile Phone Apps

PDF | 59 pages | 1.72 MB

In July of 2008, Apple opened their iPhone App Store, which is where people with iPhones can download "apps" (applications) for their phones.

The best part?

They let third-party developers upload and publish their apps. Within a few months, people just like you were making a fortune selling their own iPhone apps through the App Store. Fast forward to today and you'll see the numbers are staggering. As of this writing, there are more than 15,000 apps listed in the App Store (which is part of the iTunes store). There are 100 million iTunes.com members.

The booming app business is in its infancy - and it's growing so fast that you simply can't ignore this market! It's already turning people into millionaires. and yet it's just getting started.

Which means NOW is the perfect time for YOU to create app ideas, develop them and turn them into million-dollar applications!

Inside this book you'll find all the steps you need to take to make your fortune in the apps business, including:

Step 1: How to create ideas for awesome apps. Here you'll discover how to spur your creativity to uncover apps ideas most people would
never think of.

Step 2: How to research your app idea to ensure you've got a hungry niche. (Lots of people skip this step and then wonder why they're not pulling down the big bucks with their "killer" idea.)

Step 3: How to develop your app - here you can either do it yourself if you know a bit about programming, or you can outsource it to a competent freelancer. Whatever you choose, I'll show you the best way to get the job done.