Get tips and advice for taking better pictures with your digital camera from expert photographer Ken Milburn. Discover all the cool things you can do--like making panoramas, short movies, rapid shot sequences for Web animations, instant greeting cards (both in print and for the Web), restoring and retouching photos--and much more.Extend the capabilities of your digital camera with 99 thoroughly explained helpful pointers. Organized into easy-to-navigate chapters, this handy resource will help you fully utilize your camera's features, perform digital darkroom magic, and manage, print, and publish your images to the Web. Learn photographic techniques such as lighting problem shadows, taking extreme close-ups, capturing motion, and more. Plus--supplement your photographic expeditions with darkroom tricks and magic, including correcting the color and brightness of your images, sharpening the focus, and eliminating imperfections. Read this book and discover why digital photography is fast becoming the leading method of capturing life's most important moments.

* Capture viewer interest with good composition
* Restore old family photographs
* Photograph in rainy or dark conditions
* Compose and shoot breathtaking panoramas
* Hand-color black-and-white photographs
* Calibrate your monitor and camera screen
* Overcome common problems like parallax error
* Freeze fast action or follow motion to blur a background
* Shoot movies and sequences for Web animation
* Optimize images for a Web portfolio

For most computer users, backing up your files is a lot like going to the dentist - we tend to put it off until we really have to. By then, it's often too late and the damage may have already been done.
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Cambridge University Press is the only official publisher of past papers from Cambridge ESOL. These official papers provide candidates with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with the updated content and format of the CAE examination, to be introduced from December 2008. Attractive colour visual material for Paper 5 is included with each test, enabling students to prepare thoroughly for the paired interview. A 'with answers' edition also contains a comprehensive section of keys, transcripts of the recorded material, a guide to each paper and an insight into marking procedures and grading, with sample answers, making it ideal for self-study. An Audio CD set containing the recorded material for the aural component of the exam (Paper 4) is also available.

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This powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have if you want top grades and thorough understanding of the fundamentals of computing with C++, the computing language taught at 83% of all colleges. This student-friendly study guide leads you step-by-step through the entire computer science course, giving you 420 problems with fully worked solutions and easy-to-follow examples for every new topic. You get complete explanations of data abstraction, recursion, Standard C++ container classes, searching, sorting algorithms, and other complex concepts, simplified and illustrated so they're easy to grasp. You also get additional practice problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. This superb study guide covers the entire course, from logic to libraries. If you're taking introduction to computer science, this book will be your best friend. It's perfect for independent study, too!