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Learning to See Creatively: Design, Color & Composition in Photography (Updated Edition)
Almost everyone can "see" in the conventional sense, but developing photographic vision takes practice Learning to See Creatively helps photographers visualize their work, and the world, in a whole new light. Now totally rewritten, revised, and expanded, this best-selling guide takes a radical approach to creativity. It explains how it is not some gift only for the "chosen few" but actually a skill that can be learned and applied. Using inventive photos from his own stunning portfolio, author and veteran photographer Bryan Peterson deconstructs creativity for photographers. He details the basic techniques that went into not only taking a particular photo, but also provides insights on how to improve upon it—helping readers avoid the visual pitfalls and technical dead ends that can lead to dull, uninventive photographs. This revised edition features the latest information on digital photography and digital imaging software, as well as an all-new section on color as a design element. Learning to See Creatively is the definitive reference for any photographers looking for a fresh perspective on their work. * New edition of a best-selling title
* Updated to include digital
* All new artwork, and a totally revised and expanded text
* All-new section on color as a design element
* Written by one of Amphoto's bestselling authors.
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Type Idea Index: The Designer's Ultimate Tool for Choosing and Using Fonts Creatively
From Jim Krause, Bestselling Author of the Index Series Features a lively and engaging perspective by a respected design authority Offers an in-depth examination of the creative and practical issues involved in all of the important areas, such as font anatomy, headlines, and body texts Design expert Jim Krause, author of the best-selling Index series, returns with a look at type, one of the most fascinating design topics. With conferences and blogs devoted to type, the subject continues to capture the attention of designers. Now there is a book that does the same. Type Index eschews the ponderous style found in other books in favor of a fresh, accessible approach. This is just the type of book designers have been waiting for!.
Price: $14.99
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How to Creatively Finance Your Real Estate Investments and Build Your Personal Fortune: What Smart Investors Need to Know - Explained Simply
For years the traditional way to finance a real estate purchase was with a 5-20 percent down payment Investing in real estate in this manner was a slow go, but things have changed with the release of this new book. There are now hundreds of different methods for creatively financing your real estate investments. Smart investors know the secrets to using other peoples money to finance their investments and now for the first time you can learn how to buy houses, lots, land, and commercial properties for nothing down and in some cases even receive cash back at the closing. These truly effective techniques are closely guarded secrets that are revealed for the first time. In this new book you will learn: how to negotiate with sellers, proven effective valuation techniques, how to use other people's money, use other people's credit, sell it before you buy it or pay for it, create positive cash flow, subject-to deals, over twenty nothing down scenarios, profiting from foreclosures, dealing with over-financed properties, working with judgments and liens, quit claim deeds, discounting mortgages and liens, lease options, wraparound financing and wrap notes, using trusts, self-directed IRAs, 1031 exchanges, create assumable loans, VA loans, options, and futures. The book also includes numerous tables, reference charts, and financial tools that one can use in analyzing and financing your investments while building your personal fortune..
Price: $16.47
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The Artist Within: A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit
If you can spill paint, this book will help you turn your creative potential into reality Whether you are looking to be a writer, architect, entrepreneur, painter, or business leader, developing creative ideas is the factor that differentiates the extraordinary from the common. Based on principles that underlie the aesthetics of design, this book shows you how to strengthen your own creative ability and how to turn that ability into reality. So, if you ever felt that you have creative potential, or even if you don't, but you want to be more creative, pick up this book and start unlocking your own Artist Within..
Price: $10.85
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Training Games: Coaching & Racing Creatively, 3rd Edition
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Imagination in Chess: How to Think Creatively and Avoid Foolish Mistakes
Any chess player can become better by harnessing the power of imagination This fresh approach to problem-solving helps players make fewer mistakes and encourages independent and original thought. Even though much has been published on chess tactics, strategy, openings, and endings, few books have focused on training the brain to think and evaluate. The many examples of different moves provided here do just that, by emphasizing the benefits of logic and quick wit. Some of the new concepts, such as progressive and reciprocal thinking, aid in preventing unnecessary and foolish errors—and assure players of making winning choices. .
Price: $12.59
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Dealing Creatively With Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial
Now in its 14th edition, this classic book has sold more than 300,000 copies in earlier editions. It is a small encyclopedia on death-related problems; social, emotional, philosophica and practical It is written simply and sensitively, drawing substantially on direct experience. It is thoroughly updated from previous editions. Topics include Death Education; Living with Dying; Bereavement; The Right to Die; Simple Burial and Cremation; Funeral Consumer Organizations; Death Ceremonies; and How the Dead can Help the Living..
Price: $4.25
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Photographer's Exposure Handbook: Professional Techniques for Using Your Equipment Effectively and Creatively
Everything you always wanted to know about exposures...but didn’t know who to ask. Photographer’s Exposure Handbook has all the answers, in an accessible, appealing format. Author Jack Neubart’s philosophy is that "correct" exposure is relative, because it varies according to individual taste and the intended effect--and getting that desired effect is easy with his convenient, comprehensive guide to exposure. Five chapters explain light and exposure, tools of exposure, flash exposure, film and digital exposure, and practical applications. A handy appendix covers ISO, converting EV changes to f-stop and shutter speed values, a glossary and index, and includes a quick guide to exposing for film and digital. Easy to use and easy to understand, lavishly illustrated, and packed with professional information useful to photographers at every level, Photographer’s Exposure Handbook exposes the answers to every question about exposure. .
Price: $14.68
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Living Alone Creatively: How Twelve People Do It
Millions of Americans are living fulfilling lives without partners today. This book profiles twelve. “Singles, be prepared to be inspired, uplifted, and validated by reading this book. It shows the single lifestyle as (contrary to popular opinion) an opportunity to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.”
Jean Zartner,
Author of Upside of Being Single “Living alone does not mean being isolated as Stanley Ely illustrates in these fascinating interviews with a diverse group of people. Here we get to know how single people stay connected and remain involved with their passions and interests. Read their stories, see how they create full lives, and get ideas that you can use to enrich your own life.”—Peter M. Nardi, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and author, Pitzer College. “If anyone has a lingering regret about not sharing his life with another, Stanley Ely’s true stories will dispel that cloud. Anyone without a partner can use this book to find a way through the forest or reinforce the path already taken.”—Pauline Graivier, The Dallas Morning News columnist and personal communications consultant..
Price: $8.72
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