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Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Anyone still think that Adobe Photoshop Elements is a toy version of the real thing? As the most popular photo-editing program on the market, Photoshop Elements not only has Photoshop's marvelous powers, but also has capabilities the mothership lacks. Each new version includes more tools designed specifically for today's consumer digital photo enthusiasts. The latest edition, Photoshop Elements 5, solidifies the reputation of this superb and inexpensive product with new scrapbook features, a lin...

Baby Love: An Affectionate Miscellany

"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss." --Deepak ChopraAward-winning photographer Rachael Hale turns her lens on a new subject, babies.Rachael Hale's luminous four-color photography captures the essence of babies napping, laughing, and mugging for the camera. Whether the babies are splashing happily in the bath, dozing on the sofa, or gazing at the camera with wide-eyed rapture, Hale's images focus on the infants themselves, and her lens captures the inner soul, humanity, and character of e...

Tony Duquette

American artist and design legend Tony Duquette (1914–1999) was known for his over-the-top style in interiors, jewelry, costumes, and set design. His clients included Elizabeth Arden, the Duchess of Windsor, and Herb Albert. The multi-talented Duquette designed sets for MGM musicals with Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnelli, and designed Tony Award–winning costumes for the original Broadway production of “Camelot.” Duquette was the first American to exhibit a one-man show at the Louvre in ...

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: The Complete Portfolio

With "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: The Complete Portfolio", the editors of the magazine revisit the destinations of their recent travels to bring together a lavish, large-format collection in what is sure to be the first in a series of annual swimsuit yearbooks. Get an all-access pass to the beaches of Israel and the Cayman Islands with hometown girls Bar Refaeli and Selita Ebanks. Discover the lush gardens of Maui alongside Tori Praver and Jessica White. Witness the old world palatial feel of S...

Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Celebrity and Editorial Photography

Michael Grecco is one of the best-known celebrity photographers in the world. His beautiful, insightful work is all around us--on movie posters, in advertising, on magazine covers, everywhere, "I delight in inspiring people," he writes. "I want them to stop, think, and feel." Now Grecco shares the secrets of great portraits with photographers at every level, in Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait. Sections on cameras, illumination, film and digital, lighting set-ups with diagrams, creativity and ...

Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power

Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The...

Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Conde Nast Years, 1923-1937

The most extensive collection of Steichen's legendary Vogue and Vanity Fair work ever brought to the public.Edward Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer in America and abroad when, in early 1923, he was offered the most prestigious position in photography's commercial domain: that of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair.Over the next fifteen years, Steichen would produce a body of work of unequaled brilliance, dramatizing and glamorizing contemporary culture and its achi...

Best Business Practices for Photographers

A truly successful photographic career means not only financial success, but also personal satisfaction and fulfillment. The goal of Best Business Practices for Photographers is to help you achieve success in each of these areas. This book is not a guide to taking better pictures or selling your photography. Instead, it explains how photographers can meet important business objectives. It covers the focal points of best practices - best practices in interacting with clients, best practices in ne...

Terryworld (Taschen 25th Anniversary)

Porn stars, supermodels, transsexuals, hillbillies, friends, pets, and celebrities do for photographer Terry Richardson what they do for no other because in his world, taboos are null and void, and fashion finds sex a perfect fit....

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book
This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Photoshop CS3--written by the experts at Adobe Systems' is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Photoshop concepts and techniques...

Dot Dot Dash: Designer Toys, Action Figures And Character Art
Dot Dot Dash! is brought to you by the editors of Pictoplasma and Pictoplasma 2. Expanding on the widely popular subject of contemporary character design, this definitive volume showcases an up-to-date survey of the personalities and characters that have entered the third dimension...

Crumble, Crackle, Burn: 60 Stunning Textures for Design and Illustration
Crumble Crackle Burn is not only an inspiring book for incorporating texture into design, but also an affordable tool for transforming your images with textures--you'll receive 120 royalty-free textures you can use immediately!