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Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook: A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve
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Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook: A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow CurveDigital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook: A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve

A solid workflow practice is completely necessary and unavoidable for digital photographers. Most of the existing workflow content in existence is about specific software applications rather than a universal view of the entire image file processing ecology. This book is a coherent, concise guide to all digital imaging best practice aspects and workflow that digital photographers and digital imaging artists (or image makers) need from planning and capture to archiving and everything in between.
 
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Bionics
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BionicsBionics

Step into the future -- (or the past, if you have a touch of Dr. Frankenstein in your soul) -- with these 25 incredibly cool bionic experiments! 

Totally safe, Bionics for the Evil Genius guides you step by step through 25 complete, intriguing, yet low-cost projects developed especially for this book -- including an electric fish, a bat ear, a lie detector, an electronic nerve stimulator, a panic generator, and 20 other exciting bioelectric/mechanical projects!


 
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Alternate Names of Places: A Worldwide Dictionary
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Alternate Names of Places: A Worldwide DictionaryAlternate Names of Places: A Worldwide Dictionary

This new type of geographical dictionary lists past and present alternate names of more than 7,000 places. It focuses particularly on placenames with official or semiofficial status rather than nicknames or colloquial abbreviations. Alternate placenames are important for historical and geographical reasons, and although they predominate in countries that have undergone wars and invasions, such alternate names can equally well result from political or administrative changes.
 
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The Visual Dictionary of Photography
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The Visual Dictionary of PhotographyThe Visual Dictionary of Photography

The Visual Dictionary of Photography provides clear definitions of key terms and concepts, backed up by hundreds of illustrative examples. Covering practical terms such as Lens Hood and Sheet Film as well as movements and styles such as Pictorialism and the Photosecession, it deals with the terminology of both digital and traditional photography.
 
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The Visual Dictionary of Illustration
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The Visual Dictionary of IllustrationThe Visual Dictionary of Illustration

"The Visual Dictionary of Illustration" is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms associated with, and used within, the field of illustration. The book has been designed for art students, as well as aspiring and professional illustrators and all those interested in this constantly evolving discipline. Over 250 terms are explained in detail, pring the reader with compact definitions, supplemented by compelling and exciting illustrations that offer a clear guide to the many and various illustrative styles and techniques in use today.
 
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