Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

12/03/2009

Review of Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens (Paperback)

This might be O.K. if you already know what you are doing but for the two of us who have tried to learn from this book it has been frustrating.Beatutifully illustrated, however, in the step by step instructions it leaves out critical steps.I wish the author had spent more time trying out his own instructions.I am looking for a better book.

Product Description
You see them in magazines, pass them around in emails, and run across them everywhere on the web - incredibly cool, crazy, and sometimes strange images that you know have been doctored using Photoshop. Have you ever looked at them and wondered, "How did they do that?" Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements for Teens is filled with the tips and techniques that you need to know to use these powerful programs to create your own amazing images or retouch your digital photographs. Begin with the fundamentals of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements as you conquer the essential features and functions of each program. Master the interface and learn how to create and manage layers. Next, get ready to edit your images as you develop the skills you need to paint with the Brush, draw shapes and text, and apply special effects to your images. Put your new skills to the test as you complete a variety of hands-on projects, including making prints, dressing up your computer desktop, creating animation, laying out websites, and creating logos.

About the Author
Marc Campbell is a technology author, graphic designer, and instructor. His popular guides to computer graphics have appeared around the world in four languages. When he isn-t trying to beat a deadline, you can find him out and about in Center City Philadelphia or at home with the lights down and the phone ringer off, his nose in a story about Robin Hood. This is his eleventh book.

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11/20/2009

Review of Practical Guide to ICP-MS (Practical Spectroscopy) (Hardcover)

The book is an absolute rip off! the content is not even close to be considered basic. It fails to provide any help whatsoever for running an instrument and/or to familiarize undergrad students with the technique. The images, drawings and graphs are of extremely poor quality and rarely helpful. If you are trying to learn about the technique, this book will leave you more confused and with more questions than answers.

Product Description
The easy-to-read guide the trace element community has been waiting for, this reference acquaints novices with the fundamental principles, analytical advantages, practical capabilities, and overall benefits of ICP-MS-presenting the most common application areas of ICP-MS such as the environmental, semiconductor, geochemical, clinical, nuclear, food, metallurgical, and petrochemical industries.

Presents key concepts and guidelines in a practical, reader-friendly format that is superb for researchers and senior management with limited knowledge of the technique.

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