So you’ve made the jump to digital photography and you’re having a ball with your new camera, right? Now, you’re wondering just what it would take to make your photos a little more than just snapshots. Well, Digital Art Photography For Dummies is a great place to find out!

You’ll not only discover great new ideas, you’ll see the effects in full color. This book will help you

• Get fabulous, well-exposed photos, no matter what your shooting conditions may be
• Tweak, edit, and enhance your images to create something a lot better than what you started with, or maybe something entirely new
• Produce gallery-worthy art prints that people are willing to pay for
• Find out if it’s time to upgrade your computer to handle graphics work

Sound like fun? This plain-English guide makes it easy, too! You’ll find out just what makes a picture artistic, how to plan and set up a good photo shoot, what kinds of tools are available in Photoshop to help you enhance or even completely revamp an image, and how to be sure that what comes out of your printer meets all your expectations. Best of all, this book is jam-packed with full-color images that show you just what you can produce. You’ll find out how to

• Select the right digital equipment
• Shoot in color, black-and-white, and at night
• Choose subject matter that fits your style
• Understand and use your camera’s settings to get the best shots
• Photograph landscapes, people, action, and just about anything else
• Create special effects in Photoshop
• Improve the quality of your photos or turn them into true works of art
• Mat and frame your work for maximum effect

If you’re comfortable with your digital camera but want to find out more about creating cool effects in Photoshop, you can jump directly to Part III and discover tips and techniques that turn ordinary pictures into extraordinary art. Or maybe you’ve been trying to get better nighttime photos. Part II is all about setting up your equipment and getting the perfect shot. Like all For Dummies books, Digital Art Photography For Dummies is designed so you can go directly to the part that most interests you.

Whether you’ve been thinking of selling your work or you just want to create a knock-their-socks-off family gallery that your relatives can view online, this book shows you how to take your photography hobby to the next level. Even if you just want to look at the pictures for inspiration, you can’t go wrong!

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Digital Art Photography For Dummies

By Matthew Bamberg

Edition: illustrated

Published by For Dummies, 2005

ISBN 0764598015, 9780764598012

370 pages

Crafting a perfect rendering in 3D software means nailing the details.Your success in creating realistic-looking illumination depends on your professional rendering techniques. This work shows how to: master Hollywood lighting techniques to produce professional results in 3D application; composite 3D models into real-world environments; and more.

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Digital Lighting And Rendering

By Jeremy Birn

Edition: 2, illustrated

Published by New Riders, 2006

ISBN 0321316312, 9780321316318

416 pages

Whether you're a new photographer or an experienced pro, this book will guide you through the labyrinth of options and choices you face from the moment you see a photo opportunity to the time you share your final results. And it will help you minimize the time needed to fix your mistakes along the way.

Through step-by-step procedures based on years of experience, professional photographer Ken Milburn describes a complete workflow sequence that begins with essential equipment and preparation, takes you through detailed editing techniques, and ends with your finished images looking the way you want, ready to be shown to the world.

This completely revised edition of Milburn's original bestseller teaches you everything you need to do before, during, and after the editing process.

• Be prepared with the right equipment
• Get the basic shots right
• Organize your photos and find the gems
• Make reversible adjustments
• Refine your images with care
• Use special effects cautiously and tastefully
• Publish and share your images effectively

You'll also learn advanced techniques with Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements, though this isn' t a typical Photoshop how-to book. Milburn's workflow strategy ensures that high-production jobs are done professionally with a minimum of frustration. With Digital Photography: Expert Techniques, you'll become a better (and more profitable) photographer.

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Digital photography: expert techniques

By Ken Milburn

Edition: 2, illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2006

ISBN 0596526903, 9780596526900

387 pages

8 books in 1 - your key to terrific digital photos!Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow"From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here's what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more.Discover how to Choose the right camera and software Compose and shoot great pictures Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Scan old prints and repair them Print your photos or share them online

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Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies: All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies

By David D. Busch

Contributor David D. Busch

Edition: 3, illustrated, revised

Published by For Dummies, 2006

ISBN 0470037431, 9780470037430

726 pages

Digital photography is sweeping the country, and it’s easy to see why. You can take pictures of anything, do it quickly, see instantly what you got (or didn’t get), save only the stuff you like, and share your pictures as prints, on the Web, as a slideshow, or even on things like mugs and mousepads. A digital camera and the appropriate software let you

• Take wide-angle or closeup shots, indoors or out
• Know immediately whether you got what you wanted
• Delete shots you don’t like and retake them
• Improve your images on your computer
• Combine images into a montage
• Customize your pictures by adding special visual effects

Digital photography is fun, but whether you’re an old hand at taking digital pictures or still picking out your first camera, there are plenty of times when you know what you want to do and just want to figure out how to do it, right now. That’s exactly what Digital Photography Just the Steps For Dummies helps you do. It’s designed so you can quickly find the task you want to perform and follow step-by-step instructions to get the job done, right now. Loaded with full-color photos to show you what you can do, Digital Photography Just the Steps For Dummies helps you

• Choose the camera, lenses, and flash equipment that are best for the type of photography you want to do
• Compose good pictures regardless of your subject
• Scan and digitize existing photos so you can enhance or repair them
• Change the size or format of an image
• Adjust color, brightness, contrast, sharpness, and other attributes of a digital image
• Repair tears, creases, or scratches in a scanned photo, remove red-eye, and restore a faded image
• Use layers to alter an image, add text, or change the background
• Photograph items you want to sell online to show them at their best
• Sort and organize photos on your computer
• Print picture albums, make photo T-shirts, create a slideshow, or burn a video CD

When you’re looking for a clear set of instructions so you can get results right away, you want a Just the Steps For Dummies book. With Digital Photography Just the Steps For Dummies, you’ll find everything quickly comes into focus!

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Digital Photography Just The Steps For Dummies

By Frederic H. Jones

Edition: illustrated

Published by For Dummies, 2005

ISBN 0764574779, 9780764574771

240 pages

Finally, a Photoshop book that is written expressly for professional photographers and hi-end serious amateurs that doesn't talk about F-stops, exposures, and how to frame a shot (you know all that stuff already--if you don'tAI hate to say it, but this isn't for you).

This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client's socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard. This book is absolutely ideal for traditional photographers who are making the jump to digital photography, and Scott's casual, step-by-step, plain-English style makes even the most complex Photoshop techniques seem so easy and accessible. It's the type of book that makes you smile and think "Ahhhh, so that's how they do it" and then immediately you realize "Hey, I can do this!"

The entire book is graphically rich, in full color cover-to-cover, and best of all it's packed with real-world project-based tutorials that will take you through the process of sizing your images with the proper resolution (and the secret to doing so without losing image quality), how to deal with High ISO noise, blue channel noise, and other common plagues introduced by digital cameras; you'll learn how the pros color correct their photos for output on everything from inkjet printers to printing presses, and the secrets to getting perfect fleshtones no matter where itAs output. You'll learn the sharpening techniques today's top digital photographers use, and how the leading retoucher's perform"digital plastic surgery" in Photoshop, plus professional facial retouching techniques using Photoshop 7.0's amazing new tools.

Plus, you'll also learn how to manage your photos, "digital dodging and burning" tricks, dealing with common problems, making client presentations within Photoshop and on the Web, and the inside tips on how to work faster and more efficiently than you ever thought possible. If you're serious about digital photography and Photoshop, this is book you've been waiting for.

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The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers

By Scott Kelby

Edition: illustrated

Published by New Riders, 2003

Item notes: pbk.

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Nov 29, 2007

ISBN 0735712360, 9780735712362

358 pages

This is the professional microwave engineer's one-stop reference on microstrip technology. This comprehensive book presents all the practical details on microstrip circuit design and simulation that engineers need for their work in the field. It also offers practitioners a sound understanding of essential microwave network theory. Engineers learn how to build microwave circuits and, for the first time, find a clear explanation of how to build these circuits into a network. The book comprehensively catalogs and explains such simulation techniques as model extraction, network synthesis, and computer-based performance simulation. CD-ROM Included! Contains MathCAD scripts that practitioners can use to run all the essential formulas used in microstrip circuit design.

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Modern microwave circuits

By Noyan Kinayman, M. I. Aksun

Contributor M. I. Aksun

Edition: illustrated

Published by Artech House, 2005

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Dec 10, 2007

ISBN 1580537251, 9781580537254

604 pages

This special volume provides a broad overview and insight in the way numerical methods are being used to solve the wide variety of problems in the electronics industry. Furthermore its aim is to give researchers from other fields of application the opportunity to benefit from the results wich have been obtained in the electronics industry. * Complete survey of numerical methods used in the electronic industry * Each chapter is selfcontained * Presents state-of-the-art applications and methods * Internationally recognised authors

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Numerical Methods in Electromagnetics: Special Volume

By W H A Schilders, Philippe G. Ciarlet, Jacques-Louis Lions, E. J. W. ter Maten

Edition: illustrated

Published by Elsevier, 2005

ISBN 0444513752, 9780444513755

912 pages

This text emphasizes the intricate relationship between adaptive filtering and signal analysis - highlighting stochastic processes, signal representations and properties, analytical tools, and implementation methods. This second edition includes new chapters on adaptive techniques in communications and rotation-based algorithms. It provides practical applications in information, estimation, and circuit theories.

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Adaptive Digital Filters Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

By Maurice G. Bellanger

Edition: 2, revised

Published by Marcel Dekker Incorporated, 2001

ISBN 0203903846, 9780203903841

Adaptive image processing is one of the most important techniques in visual information processing, especially in image restoration, filtering, enhancement, and segmentation. While other books present some aspects of this important issue, none treat it from a purely computational intelligence (CI) point of view. The first to do so and using the synergies of neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation, Adaptive Image Processing covers both the fundamentals of CI and human perception and the CI methods and algorithms for adaptive image processing in regularization, edge detection, enhancement, and early vision.

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Adaptive Image Processing: A Computational Intelligence Perspective

By Stuart William Perry, Ling Guan

Edition: illustrated

Published by CRC Press, 2002

ISBN 0849302838, 9780849302831

272 pages

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n recent years, the remarkable advances in medical imaging instruments have increased their use considerably for diagnostics as well as planning and follow-up of treatment. Emerging from the fields of radiology, medical physics and engineering, medical imaging no longer simply deals with the technology and interpretation of radiographic images. The limitless possibilities presented by computer science and technology, coupled with engineering advances in signal processing, optics and nuclear medicine have created the vastly expanded field of medical imaging. The Handbook of Medical Imaging is the first comprehensive compilation of the concepts and techniques used to analyze and manipulate medical images after they have been generated or digitized. The Handbook is organized in six sections that relate to the main functions needed for processing: enhancement, segmentation, quantification, registration, visualization as well as compression storage and telemedicine.

* Internationally renowned authors(Johns Hopkins, Harvard, UCLA, Yale, Columbia, UCSF)
* Includes imaging and visualization
* Contains over 60 pages of stunning, four-color images

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Handbook of Medical Imaging: Processing and Analysis

By Isaac N. Bankman

Contributor Isaac N. Bankman

Edition: illustrated

Published by Academic Press, 2000

ISBN 0120777908, 9780120777907

901 pages

55% new material in the latest edition of this "must-have" for students and practitioners of image & video processing!
This Handbook is intended to serve as the basic reference point on image and video processing, in the field, in the research laboratory, and in the classroom. Each chapter has been written by carefully selected, distinguished experts specializing in that topic and carefully reviewed by the Editor, Al Bovik, ensuring that the greatest depth of understanding be communicated to the reader. Coverage includes introductory, intermediate and advanced topics and as such, this book serves equally well as classroom textbook as reference resource.
- Provides practicing engineers and students with a highly accessible resource for learning and using image/video processing theory and algorithms
- Includes a new chapter on image processing education, which should prove invaluable for those developing or modifying their curricula
- Covers the various image and video processing standards that exist and are emerging, driving today's explosive industry
- Offers an understanding of what images are, how they are modeled, and gives an introduction to how they are perceived
- Introduces the necessary, practical background to allow engineering students to acquire and process their own digital image or video data
- Culminates with a diverse set of applications chapters, covered in sufficient depth to serve as extensible models to the reader's own potential applications
About the Editor...
Al Bovik is the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Director of the Laboratory for Image and VideoEngineering (LIVE). He has published over 400 technical articles in the general area of image and video processing and holds two U.S. patents. Dr. Bovik was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2000), received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), and twice was a two-time Honorable Mention winner of the international Pattern Recognition Society Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, was Editor-in-Chief, of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996-2002), has served on and continues to serve on many other professional boards and panels, and was the Founding General Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing which was held in Austin, Texas in 1994.
* No other resource for image and video processing contains the same breadth of up-to-date coverage
* Each chapter written by one or several of the top experts working in that area
* Includes all essential mathematics, techniques, and algorithms for every type of image and video processing used by electrical engineers, computer scientists, internet developers, bioengineers, and scientists in various,
image-intensive disciplines

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Handbook of Image and Video Processing

By Alan Conrad Bovik

Contributor Alan Conrad Bovik

Edition: 2, illustrated

Published by Academic Press, 2005

ISBN 0121197921, 9780121197926

1372 pages

Introduces the basics of computer imaging, explaining the principles of characterization, modeling, grayscale, spatial manipulation, color, filtering, and image measurement

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Computer imaging recipes in C

By Harley R. Myler, Arthur R. Weeks

Contributor Arthur R. Weeks

Published by P T R Prentice Hall, 1993

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Dec 3, 2007

ISBN 0131898795, 9780131898790

284 pages

For Image and Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Computer Vision courses. This is the first text that provides a balanced treatment of image processing fundamentals and an introduction to software principles used in the practical application of image processing. A seamless integration of material from the leading text, Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez and Woods and the Image Processing Toolbox from Mathworks, Inc. This text works in the MATLAB computing environment; the Toolbox provides a stable, well-supported set of software tools capable of addressing a broad spectrum of applications in digital image processing. The major areas covered include intensity transformations, linear and nonlinear spatial filtering, filtering in the frequency domain, image restoration and registration, color image processing, wavelets, image data compression, morphological image processing, image segmentation, regions and boundary representation and description, and object recognition.

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Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB: using Matlab

By Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard Eugene Woods, Steven L. Eddins

Contributor Richard Eugene Woods, Steven L. Eddins

Edition: illustrated

Published by Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004

ISBN 0130085197, 9780130085191

609 pages

Learning OpenCV puts you right in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of OpenCV, the widely used free open-source library, this book introduces you to computer vision and demonstrates how you can quickly build applications that enable computers to see and make decisions based on the data. Computer vision is everywhere - in security systems, manufacturing inspection systems, medical image analysis, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and more. It helps robot cars drive by themselves, stitches Google maps and Google Earth together, checks the pixels on your laptop's LCD screen, and makes sure the stitches in your shirt are OK. OpenCV provides an easy-to-use computer vision infrastructure along with a comprehensive library containing more than 500 functions that can run vision code in real time. With Learning OpenCV, any developer or hobbyist can get up and running with the framework quickly, whether it's to build simple or sophisticated vision applications.

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Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

By Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

Edition: revised

Published by O'Reilly, 2008

ISBN 0596516134, 9780596516130

525 pages

Results from several applications of particle image velocimetry (PIV) to unsteady flows at a laboratory scale have been published, and commercial products are now available for more general laboratory use, but for certain industrially important applications, reliable equipment is often available only from in-house research and development teams. This PIV handbookis intended to transfer know-how from PIV development laboratories to end-users in industry and universities. The book discusses the scientific and technical aspects required to set up a PIV system, allows users to assess the problems involved in the application of PIV, and enables them to design, optimize, and use PIV systems to meet their special needs.

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Particle Image Velocimetry: A Practical Guide

By Markus Raffel, Christian E. Willert, Jürgen Kompenhans

Contributor Christian E. Willert, Jürgen Kompenhans

Edition: illustrated

Published by Springer Science & Business, 1998

ISBN 3540636838, 9783540636830

253 pages

The Algorithms such as SVD, Eigen decomposition, Gaussian Mixture Model, HMM etc. are scattered in different fields. There is the need to collect all such algorithms for quick reference. Also there is the need to view such algorithms in application point of view. Algorithm Collections for Digital Signal Processing Applications using MATLAB attempts to satisfy the above requirement. Also the algorithms are made clear using MATLAB programs.

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Algorithm Collections for Digital Signal Processing Applications Using Matlab

By E. S. Gopi

Published by Springer, 2007

ISBN 1402064098, 9781402064098

190 pages