Serious digital photographers amateur or pro who seek the fastest easiest most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 choose Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 11 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop Lightroom 4. Photoshop Lightroom 4 delivers a complete workflow solution for the digital photographer from powerful one-click adjustments to a full range of cutting-edge advanced controls. Readers learn how to manage large volumes of digital photographs work in a non-destructive environment to allow for fearless experimentation & perform sophisticated image processing tasks to easily produce good-looking pictures & polished presentations for both web & print. This completely revised Photoshop Lightroom 4 cross-platform edition explains new tools that bring out greater detail in highlights & shadows & tools that help you make targeted adjustments to white balance noise reduction & more. Youll learn how to craft elegant photo books organize your images by location & easily share your images & videos on social media & photo sharing sites. ...

Adobe Photoshop is an application used not just by professional designers but by photographers artists & anyone wishing to take sophisticated control over their images. With step-by-step guides projects & sections on every element of image manipulation this is a comprehensive but accessible new task-based reference tool for beginners to intermediate. Covering the latest versions of the software & instructions for PC & Mac the clear accessible text is accompanied by helpful screenshots. ...

Adobe Premiere Elements 10 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough & comprehensive way for you to master all the new features in Adobes top-rated consumer-targeted video-editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step project-based guide contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. You will learn the basics of editing your videos with Premiere Elements & learn how best to use the programs many new features. In this new version of the book you will receive complete coverage of all the new features of Adobe Premiere Elements 10. Edit with speed & stability thanks to added support for 64-bit Windows (R) 7 systems. Export movies in AVCHD format & burn HD quality movies to standard DVDs. Import videos & share them directly on You Tube (R) or share finished movies on Facebook (R). Master the new Cartoon Effect filter & techniques for sweetening audio & more! ...

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Adolescence & Emerging Adulthood is an innovative & exciting European adaptation of Jeffrey Arnetts hugely successful & groundbreaking US text of the same title. The book combines the most significant approaches & ideas in developmental social & behavioural psychology to produce a comprehensive picture of what it means to experience adolescence today. Drawing upon European research data & examples the text takes a fresh approach to understanding adolescent development from a broad range of perspectives including: * a focus on the cultural basis of development * consideration of the concept of emerging adulthood * an emphasis on the historical context of adolescence * an interdisciplinary approach to theory & research Packed full of illustrations & features including a focus on youth in the media professional practice & thinking critically this is an essential resource for anyone studying or working in the field of childhood youth & adolescence. ...

Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall" is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous hilarious legendary War Memoirs. ' At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant a white feather & a picture of Hitler marked " This is your enemy". I searched every compartment but he wasn't on the train.. .' In this the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been something we said') through his attempts to avoid enlistment ('time for my appendicitus I thought') & his gunner training in Bexhill (' There was one drawback. No ammunition') to the landing at Algiers in 1943 ('I closed my eyes & faced the sun. I fell down a hatchway'). Filled with bathos pathos & gales of ribald laughter this is a barely sane helping of military goonery & superlative Milliganese. " The most irreverent hilarious book about the war that I have ever read". (" Sunday Express"). " Desperately funny vivid vulgar". (" Sunday Times"). " Milligan is the Great God to all of us". (John Cleese). " The Godfather of Alternative Comedy". (Eddie Izzard). " That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man". (Stephen Fry). Spike Milligan was one of the greatest & most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918 he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa & Italy. At the end of the war he forged a career as a jazz musician sketch-show writer & performer before joining forces with Peter Sellers & Harry Secombe to form the legendary " Goon Show". Until his death in 2002 he had success as on stage & screen & as the author of over eighty books of fiction memoir poetry plays cartoons & children's stories." ...

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Adoption is not a simple process but the books language is plain & clear with many illustrations from the authors own experience of being a mum to an adopted daughter. She steers you through the journey towards adoption highlights the mistakes she made & suggests solutions. From her memories of first meeting her adopted child through the approval process & up to the adoption ceremony & beyond theres practical emotional & legal guidance. The adoption book is for everyone & anyone involved with adoption geared mainly at parents but also to people considering or on the road to adoption adoption/fostering social workers & social work students & anyone working within the adoption arena. Its an essential guide that answers all your questions & reassures that adoption is now far easier than you may think. ...

'I was fourteen when my Mother said that she needed to speak to me... And then she told me
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A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their addition & subtraction skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS1 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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