Product Description: Noah, the adopted Native son of a white ranching family is caught in the middle of his parents' war. Educated in Victoria he returns to manage the family's ranch. Charged with the murder of his father he is tried by a white Jury and later by a Native circle of elders who are also defending their land against the incursions of strangers...read more

Product Description: Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language...read more

Product Description: The Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in for Adobe Photoshop has changed the way photographers work with images. Shooting in the raw format gives digital photographers complete control over every aspect of image quality. Camera Raw makes the process of using raw files easier by providing a standardized way of accessing and working with these uncompressed digital negatives...read more

Product Description: Anyone who relies on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges knows that when a new version arrives, especially one as chockfull of enhancements as Photoshop CS3, there's no time to fool around. You need to get up to speed on it, and you need to do so now...read more

Product Description: The raw revolution that began in 2003 with the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in for Adobe Photoshop has changed the way photographers work with images. Shooting in the raw format gives digital photographers complete control over every aspect of image quality...read more

Explains digital techniques for sharpening images using Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Demonstrates prepress, color, and production techniques while showcasing Photoshop CS2's updated features.

Describes the features of the Adobe Photoshop CS2 plug-in, Camera Raw, covering such topics as the use of digital negatives, setting the balance, optimizing contrast and saturation, using the File Browser, automating raw conversions, and embedding copyright notices in images. Original. (Intermediate)

Discusses concepts of color science and digital color and explores topics such as how to analyze a color-management system, how to evaluate ICC profiles, and how to use color-management services.

Describes the features of the Adobe Photoshop CS plug-in, Camera Raw, covering such topics as setting the balance, using the File Browser, automating raw conversions, and embedding copyright notices in images.

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Product Description: Noodling around with Photoshop to create interesting composite artwork is all well and good. But if you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, noodling won't cut it! You need results, and you need them now: This book delivers! In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer scads of hands-on production techniques--as well as clear explanations of the concepts that drive them--so that you can get the best results possible on your own Photoshop CS projects...read more

Demonstrates prepress, color, and production techniques while showcasing Photoshop 7's updated features. (view table of contents)

Demonstrates prepress, color, and production techniques while showcasing Photoshop 6's updated features. (view table of contents)

Product Description: For many desktop publishers, photographers, illustrators, designers, prepress houses, and service bureaus, Adobe Photoshop is the tool of choice when preparing images for print or the Web. Version 5.0 promises more power, a multiple undo feature, enhanced color management, new workflow tools, increased precision and control abilities, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "This book is worth its weight in RAM." - Adobe magazine Real World Photoshop 4 is the only book that explicitly covers the production issues Photoshop users deal with daily. It explains in simple language the essential concepts and techniques for producing great-looking images quickly and efficiently...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explaining in simple language essential concepts and techniques for producing great-looking images quickly and efficiently, a resource for everyday Photoshop users covers enhancements to version 3.0, includes dozens of photographs, and offers users hands-on experience. Original. (All Users).

Thoroughly revised to encompass the new features of the latest version of Adobe Illustrator, this comprehensive, advice-intensive handbook covers the pen tool, the layers palette, editing modes, plug-in filters, and other capabilities. Original. (All Users).

Offers a visual guide to desktop publishing tools and procedures, without becoming bogged down in how to design newsletters or use specific software. Original. (Beginner).

Product Description: The high-powered upgrade to the classic PageMaker guide, packed with hundreds of advanced techniques. Covers new features including enhanced color palette, multiple color libraries and Photo CD.