Friday, July 2, 2010

11 Books for Tattooists

11 Books for Tattooists | 170 Mb

A Study in Pen Art, Huck Spaulding's A to Z of Tattooing, The Black Book of Tattooing, Customizing the Body, Encyclopedia of Body Adornment, In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification, Reinventing the Tattoo, Tattoo Secrets, Tattoo Tuning Guide, The Complete How to Tattoo Guide, and The Complete Tattoo Bible.



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Mac OS X for Photographers

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If you're a photographer using a Mac and why wouldn't you be? then you need this guide to optimizing OS X for your photography workflow.
Macs are still the hardware of choice for the cream of digital imaging experts over two million registered Mac users of Adobe Photoshop can't be wrong. Let the expert advice of Rod Wynne-Powell help you to:
* Configure your Mac for a trouble-free life from capture to output
* Speed up your photography workflow using Photoshop, Bridge and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite

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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association


The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association" is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language.

Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, the Publication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication. The sixth edition offers new and expanded instruction on publication ethics, statistics, journal article reporting standards, electronic reference formats, and the construction of tables and figures. The sixth edition has been revised and updated to include: new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, disguising of participants, validity of instrumentation, and making data available to others for verification; new journal article reporting standards to help readers report empirical research with clarity and precision; simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publication; updated guidelines for reducing bias in language to reflect current practices and preferences, including a new section on presenting historical language that is inappropriate by present standards; new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations; and, new instruction on using supplemental files containing lengthy data sets and other media. This book includes significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for communicating the results of the investigation, with new examples for a variety of data displays, including electro physiological and biological data. It offers consolidated information on all aspects of reference citations, with an expanded discussion of electronic sources emphasizing the role of the digital object identifier (DOI) as a reliable way to locate information. It features expanded discussion of the publication process, including the function and process of peer review. It contains a discussion of ethical, legal, and policy requirements in publication; and guidelines on working with the publisher while the article is in press. Key to this edition of the Publication Manual is an updated and expanded Web presence. Look up additional supplemental material keyed to this book. This book lets you test your knowledge of APA Style with a free tutorial on style basics. It lets you learn about the changes in the sixth edition with a free tutorial reviewing key revisions. Sign up for an on-line course to enrich and enhance your understanding of APA Style. Read the APA Style blog and share your comments on writing and referencing. Consult frequently asked questions to sharpen your understanding of APA Style. This title lets you examine additional resources on such topics as ethics, statistics, and writing. It lets you familiarize yourself with submission standards for APA books and journals.

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Photoshop Elements 4.0 Maximum Performance

Mark Galer, "Photoshop Elements 4.0 Maximum Performance: Professional Image Editing for Photographers" | 22.7 MB
Focal Press | ISBN: 0240520122 | 2006 | 224 pages | PDF | 22.7 MB

You will learn how to create professional quality digital images with Photoshop Elements 4.0 without the need to upgrade to Photoshop with this unique guide from best-selling author Mark Galer. This complete package of book and DVD walks you through Elements' powerful and less well-known post-production editing techniques showing you how to get maximum results from this low-price program.


A series of creative projects, packed with tips and tricks and illustrated with large, full-color screengrabs, guide you through a wide range of advanced techniques for professional quality editing.



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How to Draw and Paint: Seascapes & Landscapes by Vernon Kerr

How to Draw and Paint: Seascapes & Landscapes by Vernon Kerr | 21 MB
Walter Foster | ISBN: 0929261682 | 1998 | PDF | 35 pages

Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.


What you'll learn from this book:

• How to prepare your painting surfaces

• Why you shouldn't use white in your paintings

• How to paint backlit subjects

• How to use colors effectively

• Specific tips on painting sunsets, snow, leaves, sand, rocks, skies, and clouds

• How to paint various foam and wave patterns

• How to glaze your paintings to increase the luminosity

• Hints on composition, perspective, texture, and contrast

This is a revised edition of a book previously titled "Sea & Landscapes in Oil". In later editions the title has been changed again to "Oil: Land and Sea".



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Mastering Digital Wedding Photography


James Karney, "Mastering Digital Wedding Photography" | 23 MB
Course Technology PTR 2007 | ISBN-10: 1598633295 | 432 Pages | PDF

Mastering Digital Wedding Photography serves as a practical guide to the unique art, craft, and business of wedding photography in the digital realm. Succeeding as a wedding photographer requires more than the ability to take excellent pictures under pressure.


You must also develop a solid business and marketing plan that makes you stand out from the crowd in this highly competitive industry. This book addresses each of these fundamental skills. You will conquer hands-on techniques for the shooting of documentary events, making great portraits quickly, and maximizing the quality of your images after they have been captured. You'll also cover the essential topics of workflow and file management and important marketing techniques that will expand your services and grow your business. Whether you are a novice photographer, a seasoned professional adding weddings to your assignment list, or a film photographer transitioning to the digital realm, Mastering Digital Wedding Photography will help you develop the skills you need to capture the magic of each wedding you photograph.



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HOW TO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g

HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g | 6.45 Mb

Ron Ben-Natan | March 2009 | ISBN: 1420084127 | PDF | 472 pages | English


This guide demonstrates how to secure sensitive data and comply with internal and external audit regulations using Oracle 10g and 11g. It provides the hands-on guidance required to understand the complex options provided by Oracle and the know-how to choose the best option for a particular case. The book presents specific sequences of actions that should be taken to enable, configure, or administer security-related features. It includes best practices in securing Oracle and on Oracle security options and products. By providing specific instructions and examples this book bridges the gap between the individuals who install and configure a security feature and those who secure and audit it.



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How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 7

How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 7: Creating stunning photomontages on a budget
David Asch, Steve Caplin | ISBN: 0240521544 | PDF | 289 pages | English | 29 MB


The creative guide to montage and effects in Photoshop Elements 7
During your school days, did you ever sneak a peak at the teacher's edition of your textbook? It was just like yours, only it had all the answers filled in! Imagine if you took your teacher's book and took out all the boring background stuff, leaving just the questions and answers. That's exactly what How to Cheat in Elements is like: no boring background, just all the answers!



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AmbientLight Tiles Mosaic Montage Tile Textures

AmbientLight Tiles Mosaic Montage Tile Textures | 56 Mb

34 Mosaic Montage High Quality Jpeg Textures, all at a 2048 x 2048 Pixel resolution, each with a corresponding bump map



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Action Anatomy For Gamers, Animators and Digital Artists

Action Anatomy For Gamers, Animators and Digital Artists
PDF | 176 Pages | ISBN-10: 006073681X | 128 MB

Experience real human body structures and movements with this indispensable guide to the the digital expression of anatomical mechanisms.


Book packed with 650 full-color computer-graphic visuals, and covering more than 280 useful topics, with commentaries on every body part, bone, and muscular movement, this comprehensive body-animation graphic manual is a must have for every digital artist and designer!

About the Author : Takashi Iijima is a freelance art director working in the video game industry. His writings relating human anatomy and computer graphics have appeared in the magazine CG World. He lives and works in Japan.



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