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An inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, this book provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the 'digital darkroom.' Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills offers a progressive curriculum to guide you through Photoshop with a series of clear, step-by-step projects designed to place knowledge into a practical context. You will build a useful and essential set of skills for creative and professional image editing and, whether you simply want to retouch an image, create a glamour makeover or create a highly sophisticated montage - this book will give you the essential skills to complete the work to a professional standard.

The accompanying CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials which form a library of indispensable supporting resources including: All of the images used in the text * Over four hours of QuickTime movie tutorials to support the practical projects * A range of presets (including layer styles, curves, shapes and gradients) * Camera RAW files * Free extra chapters in e-book form.

* Packed with beautiful color images and covering Photoshop 7.0 up to CS2
* Includes practical projects to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context
* CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials

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the date of the book arrival.......2007-08-31

the date of arrival should be make it more clearly coz last time I thought the book will arrive on 21st Aug but it actually comes on 8th Aug it make me feel nervous coz last time I need to use the book quite urgent.

Review CS2 essential Skills.......2007-05-13

As an amateur that has spent countless hours slaving over graphics hobbying, I can say this book has extreme value for me. In spite of instances wherein I'll nod my head and babble "yeah, yeah, I know, I know,..." it does present items which I did not know and that have had a direct and positive impact on what I do. Thorough industry gurus may not see any use for it, but the rest of the planet should have a copy and actually read then use the thing. What I appreciate most of all is the attitude. I detest those "Whatever for dummies" books. The methodical and sequential layout utilized by Messrs. Galer & Andrews, however, is the better way to go. If you get no other volume on the subject, at least get this one.

spotty instructional quality.......2007-04-23

From a designers perspective, what a great book-looks fabulous. From an instructors point of view, well it can be frustrating to use. The editor didn't catch many ambigous sentences and the editor needs to hire an instructor with strong teaching skills to review and revamp the instructions in this book. For example, if a task requires 5 steps, the book will often only mention 1,2,5. An example of a ambigous sentence: "Duplicate the layer you are working before starting the extraction process as the extraction process removes rather than hides the pixels surplus to requirements". What in the world does "..surplus to requirements" mean?

Essential Skills A Good Read.......2007-01-10

If you are new to Photoshop you might want to start off simpler than this book but it is a good book for basic skills. Flip through it at Borders or B & N and see what you think. Clearly written and spell-out tutorials. A Great read and a good buy.

Good Info, Not Entirely User Friendly.......2007-01-08

This was the book we used in a Photoshop class for Fall 2006. We did selected projects out of it but did not ever use it for class lecture or reading assignments. The projects were often really cool, but tended not to describe the what and why of each step, only the how. Also, some of the steps in the projects were tricky to follow, and I noticed many people in my class having a hard time. The results of many of the projects were very nice, and they have a really nice website and CD so that you can get the pictures for each project, to make sure you have the same outcome as the book. I have never used another Photoshop book, but I imagine some of the projects could be done better than this book.

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Excellent Intro To Beavis & Butthead

I was a little disappointed with this book.

This Sucks Change It MTV Beavis Butthead 3: This Sucks Change It MTV Beavis Butthead 3
Doyle
Manufacturer: MTV
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Excellent Intro To Beavis & Butthead.......2005-04-10

I've griped before about what happened, 1/1/96, but for Christmas, '95, my stepson-to-be maybe knew me better than...well, any the rest of his family. He gave me Junior Brown's "Junior High," and this book. It was the beginning of my renewed interest in MTV, having totally written it off after the likes of "videos" by Bob Giraldo. But the reviewer below misses the point entirely: you are NOT going to find anything remotely "intellectual" when reading about Beavis & Butthead - and that's the attraction: sheer escapism. This book has a sort of "TV remote" thing attached to it, and when you press the buttons thereon, you hear, for instance, "THIS SUCKS, CHANGE IT!" I have gleefully "replaced" my/our "current" remote thing with this, when my wife has company over. No explanation is necessary: if for nothing else, buy this book just for the remote. And, as I said, the rest of the, um, "skits" therein will make you, indeed laugh loudly and healthily. Like the late, great H.S. Thompson said, "buy the ticket, take the ride."

I was a little disappointed with this book........1996-09-06

Except for the TV remote, the rest of the book really sucks

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I HAD NO IDEA THAT A RABBI COULD BE THIS FUNNY!

A Rabbi Confesses
Bob Alper
Manufacturer: Finkstrom Productions
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I HAD NO IDEA THAT A RABBI COULD BE THIS FUNNY!.......1996-11-13

I must admit I was a little weary as I was about to open "A RABBI CONFESSES"...after all, the author is a rabbi! I thought to myself..."I know most rabbis THINK they're funny...I'll be the judge of what is, or is not, funny". Rabbi Bob Alper IS Funny! Yes, that's funny with a capital "F"! The cartoons that fill this very colorful and entertaining book are nothing short of terrific. I highly reccommend this book to humor lovers of all faiths. It's a winner!

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The dawn of the 20th century heralded an age of continuing progress. In terms of technology, many of the advances were for machines of war; scarcely anyone would have foreseen the grim future of conflict that was to run until near the end of the century. The first decade of the new century also saw the emergence of child prodigy Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose advanced tonal technique seemed destined to win him a place as a major composer. But just as prosperity and peace were absent during much of this troubled time period, Korngold's music went into eclipse in the 1930s and only recently emerged from the tomb to which it was consigned by the main current of 20th-century musical thought.

Brendan Carroll's excellent biography of this composer who was so shabbily ignored by postwar intellectuals is long overdue. From the outset, Carroll focuses on the phenomenal musical ability shown by Korngold. Not only did he produce complex musical compositions from an early age, but these early compositions are adult in style and show the distinct idiom of the composer. Like Mozart, Korngold's distinguishing talent was an inexhaustible supply of melodic inspiration that he skillfully assembled.

The major success in the 1920s of his opera Die Tote Stadt marked Korngold as a peer to Richard Strauss. But by the '30s the dissonant tide was running against him. Unable to renounce melody and harmony, he was branded a reactionary by the haute monde, and scorned as a Jew by the Nazis. Fortunately, his flair for romanticism earned him Hollywood commissions for a series of memorable films--and, incidentally, saved his life by getting him out of Europe during a critical period. But when the smoke of World War II cleared, one of the casualties was interest in his serious musical oeuvre.

Carroll pinpoints three factors that contributed to Korngold's fall into obscurity: controversies generated by his father, the critic Julius Korngold; suppression of performances by the Nazis; and the hostility of the serious musical establishment. However, he seems to weight them equally, and perhaps in this he errs. Korngold's father's influence on the Viennese music world waned by the end of the '20s, and the Third Reich lasted just 12 devastating years. Clearly the dominant factor in the suppression of Korngold's music was the disdain of the art crowd for a composer who wrote movie (gawd!) music, and who wouldn't kiss the book and declare serialism as his personal savior. Luckily for Korngold and his fans, as the century nears its end, composition has finally broken the dogmatic bonds of the "music of the future." No better sign exists of this than the renaissance in Korngold recordings in the 1990s, and the respectful if belated rehabilitation of his reputation betokened by a book like Carroll's. This is a balanced volume well worth reading for anyone who is interested in this seriously underrated composer. --Sarah Bryan Miller

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Highly Recommended.......2000-01-03

Brendan G. Carroll spent over 25 years working on this definitive biography of the Viennese-American composer (1897-1957). This unabashed encomium for the music of Korngold is supported by carefully crafted arguments responding to critics, real and imagined. Carroll is especially exercised about those critics whose prejudicial assessments of the Korngold oeuvre are based solely on a superficial knowledge of Korngold's scores for the motion pictures. Korngold himself was super-sensitive about his reputation when it was based upon his Hollywood fame, though he never disavowed the work he did there for the films, such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Anthony Adverse, The Sea Hawk, Kings Row, Of Human Bondage, and much more. He mainly feared, and rightly so, that the film scores would over-shadow his earlier career in Europe when his serious music might become lost. He worried, too, that even his film scores would be lost along with the films as they faded from public view. Korngold's complete oeuvre are Carroll's strongest defense. From the age of 10 (Yes, 10!), Korngold's works began to receive private notice. By 11 and 12, his prodigious first compositions dumbfounded and awed musicians such as Gustav Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky (his composition teacher), Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter, Puccini, and a host of other admirers and performers. In 1910, he completed (age 13) his Piano Trio in D Major, Opus 1. In 1911, he met Max Reinhardt (his future collaborator), who brought him to Hollywood, saving Korngold and his family from the concentration camps in 1938. Carroll is convincing that Korngold's greatest achievements are his five operas, especially his Das Wunder der Heliane and Die tote Stadt, for which he is best known in Europe. In 1999, his separate CDs are approaching one hundred, making his music available as never before. Following my own prolonged and extensive study, I predict that Korngold's next career, based upon his recordings, will elevate him into the empyrean of twentieth century composers. Two commemorative postage stamps have been issued about Korngold: In Austria, a stamp recalls his operas (properly); in America, he is included among 5 other Hollywood composers, as he anticipated. Carroll's work is a great deal more than a festschrift: It is a searching, well-written, objective account of the life of his subject: Korngold. (Reviewed by Allan Shields in Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol 15 No 2, Winter 1999-2000. Copyright © by Allan Shields.)

Meet the man who invented film scores (among other things)........1999-07-04

If you are fascinated by film music (or just plain enjoy it), meet the man who is responsible for much (possibly all) of this art form as we know and enjoy it today--Erich Wolfgang Korngold (EWK)! Though some wags have suggested that operatic composer Richard Wagner "wrote" the first film score, it was EWK (himself a renown operatic composer while still a teenager!) who took opera's use of distinct themes and musical IDs for characters and environments, and composed film symphonies around them--"opera without singing," as he is quoted as often saying. This was a radical departure for music on the sound tracks of films (that only five years previously had had none). Such a revolutionary technique was immediately adopted by all other composers of "classic film scores," and this process is prevalent today, especially in the work of our most accomplished composers of film music (you've probably heard several already this Summer). Mr. Carroll's book ("twenty-five years in the making") is not only the definitive biography of EWK to date, but also loaded with fascinating historical information and antidotes from the author's personal encounters and correspondences (it's one of the few books I've read where I immensely enjoyed even the footnotes!). Reading the Introduction was down right eerie, since I discovered EWK the same way as Mr. Carroll--from watching late-night movies on TV! I've read many hundreds of books about films, but Mr. Carroll's took the longest to get through. I read it very slowly, since I just didn't want it to end. The book also includes the most extensive discography of EWK music I have ever come across. Many of the CDs (but, alas, not all) are still available today--and new ones (thankfully) keep being released. A final note about footnotes. They really belong at the bottom of the page--as engrossing extensions of the text--rather than being squirreled away at the back of the book. My sole complaint.

Melody back in fashion.......1998-11-17

Brendan Carroll's "The Last Prodigy" is an overdue tribute to Erich Wolfgang Korngold and to the musical culture from which he sprang. Just as it took modern listeners, orchestras, and performers many years to recognize Gustav Mahler's genius, so too has Korngold awaited the same kind of rediscovery.

Korngold, like his much-admired mentor Mahler and his friend Giacomo Puccini, felt no shame in crafting melodies that any listener could recognize, hum, and ultimately grow to love. Like his older contemporaries, Korngold never forgot that the cerebral element in music could never take the place of the emotional. For example, his friendly but deadly serious battles over atonality and serial compositions with Arnold Schoenberg are key to understanding Korngold's philosophy of composition and are well treated in Carroll's book. I came away from the text with renewed interest in music that can be grasped by non-musicians and musicians alike.

Even though Korngold's scores are endlessly fascinating for musicians and scholars, the real sign of the composer's greatness is in how many "general" listeners can surrender to the beauties of the "Lautenlied" from "Die tote Stadt." "The Last Prodigy" is therefore a welcome exploration of the problems experienced by the classical music establishment, which, through its unfortunate abandonment of melody and tonal consonance, has failed to reach, or to try even to cultivate, an enthusiastic, self-renewing audience. A better understanding of Korngold's career and of his mistreatment by his contemporaries would help reassert a missing link in 20th century musical culture. Carroll's book helps enormously to restablish the centrality of this musical genius to our own confused times.

Type-casting also works against composers as well as actors.......1997-11-07

Mention the name of Korngold to most people, even musicians, and the response will usually mention his film scores, especially his Errol Flynn scores. "The Last Prodigy" is a well-written, smoothly flowing (and long overdue) biography of a very fine composer whose operas, sonatas, symphonies, and so forth are finally gaining a concert stage foothold after years of neglect. Not only does this book give us an excellent biography of an almost forgotten composer but shows how the two world wars changed the social structure that previously nutured prodigies. Korngold was one of the fortunate few who were able to leave Europe, find both employment and artistic nuturing in the US during the war, and return to pick up the threads of his artistic life. Highly recommended.

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Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1st Edition Inscribed
Brendan G. Carroll
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The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Notes

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The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.(Review) (book reviews): An article from: Notes
Caroline Cepin Benser
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Title: The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Caroline Cepin Benser
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Date: December 1, 1998
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Royal S. Brown
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Date: June 22, 1998
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Great book but the title is misleading

Tactics: Calculation and Evaluation for the Intermediate Player

How to Calculate Chess Tactics
Valeri Beim
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Thinking methods are at the heart of the chess struggle, yet most players devote little conscious effort to improving their calculating ability. Much of the previous literature on the subject has presented idealized models that have limited relevance to the hurly-burly of practical chess, or else provide little more than ad hoc suggestions. Here, experienced trainer Valeri Beim strikes a balance by explaining how to use intuition and logic together to solve tactical problems in a methodical way. He also offers advice on when it is best to calculate `like a machine', and when it is better to rely on intuitive assessment.

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Great book but the title is misleading.......2007-02-21

This book should be called "Appreciation of Chess Tactics"
rather than "How to Calculate..." because this is not a chess tactics
workbook at all. The game examples are beautiful and the author's
commentaries about each game and essays about tactical themes
really convey chess beauty and excitement but you will not find
cookbook exercises or checklists of how to set up tactical themes here.

I gave it four stars because it did heighten my appreciation of the game
but it lost that last star because I feel that in a book whose title
is "How To Do Something" should actually teach you step by step
how to do that thing.

Tactics: Calculation and Evaluation for the Intermediate Player.......2006-09-17

A wonderful and different kind of tactics book for the Intermediate or even somewhat Advanced chess player. This is not a tactics workbook (that has lots of problems to solve - useful in its own way) nor a book on chess traps (useful for learning chess tactics during the opening stage - also useful in its way) but a book that:
1. Offers tactical situations and shows the thinking process to calculate to SEE AHEAD.
2. Helps you learn intuition and to evaluate the end result (this is a difficult subject).
Mr. Beim covers in this book what most other tactics or traps books do not! Very worthwhile to get if you are at least an Intermediate Player.

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Six Sigma has become a widely recognized strategic tool to improve business performance and profitability. Many books cover basic Six Sigma concepts, but none detail the most critical element of its improvement methodology: performance measurements.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its quality improvement. The
* Provides numerical methods for evaluating a corporation's Six Sigma success (or lack thereof)
* Written by an author with twelve years teaching experience at Motorola University
* Builds on the recognized Business Scorecard approach

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The Best Six Sigma Book I've Read.......2006-02-01

I am writing to congratulate you for your outstanding work on the book you have written about the Six Sigma Business Scorecard. I have spent the past week reading it, and I've realized what a fantastic tool it is.

I am a Six Sigma Intern, and I work at Recofarma, a Concentrate Plant of the Coca Cola Company, located in Manaus, Amazonas - Brazil. I was trying to create a Massive Communication Plan for Six Sigma within the company and one of my ideas was to create a Scorecard for Six Sigma, then I looked for related material at Amazon.com and your book appeared on the top of the list. It surely was a great investment.

CEO'S DREAM BOOK FOR MANAGING BUSINESS PROCESSES.......2005-03-19

I have read a few hundred "non-fictional" books over the years for my MBA, for quality, etc, but I have to tell you that this book about the use of balanced scorecards is the best business related book that I have ever read, and I feel that every CEO should completely absorb it to utilize its "pertinent" applications that are applicable to their business processes, thus institutionalizing the process metrics' continual improvement concepts of ISO/TS 16949:2002 and ISO 9001 in all types of firms, including those that are not automotive suppliers!- Bill Cooper, Global Quality Systems Senior Manager, Lear Corporation

A Fresh Look at Contructing the Business Scorecard.......2004-01-06

Finally, a pragmatic approach to developing a Business Scorecard that captures the profitability proposition through periodic measurement of critical performance. The critical thinking used to construct and evaluate each element of the hierachical measurement structure provides a keen insight into the contribution value of each functional area of the business. The concise step-by-step approach in building the overal Business Performance Index provides the guidance necessary for immediate implementation by small or large enterprizes.

Best business book since "The Goal".......2003-12-05

Praveen, I just have to buy you a cup of coffee or a drink one day. I am just finishing your book, "Six Sigma Business Scorecard " and have to say that I haven't been this riveted to a business book since "The Goal". Books like this for me have been far and few between.

Connects the six sigma dots with your own business sense.......2003-12-02

This book connected the dots between my undergrad, mba, six sigma training and 25 years of business sense. Your first reaction might be; why haven't I been tracking and measuring the critical links to growth/profitability more closely? Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down; it was like therapy for the business mind. It breaks through all the mystery and jargon of TQM, ISO 9000 and six sigma, in simple business terms.

Six Sigma Business Scorecard : Creating a Comprehensive Corporate Performance Measurement System

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Six Sigma Business Scorecard : Creating a Comprehensive Corporate Performance Measurement System
Praveen Gupta; A. William Wiggenhorn
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