Readily available, inexpensive, and easily manipulated, polymer clay is an ideal beginner's medium, and Syndee Holt does an admirable job of introducing it. She sets the stage with background on materials and basic handling, then presents 27 approaches and variations as a series of questions on technique whose answers are full-fledged projects. "How do I make a pinroll cane?" for instance, explains a simple cane process and uses it to cover a candleholder. Other cane methods yield jewelry, a frame, a barrette, drawer pulls, and a covered pen, utilizing both basic canes (bull's eye, banner, checkerboard, blended) and pictorial types (flower, millefiori, star, face, shaman). The final section focuses on molds and textural effects such as metallic and rubber stamp effects to produce brooches, light switch covers, a box, and coasters. Most of the designs are fairly ordinary and there are certainly more exciting books on polymer clay, but this one does provide a thorough, easily understood introduction to this popular subject.

Разнообразные красочные творения, которые можно сделать из полимерной глины кажутся бесконечными. Эта книга поможет изучить методы и приемы работы с этим материалом, основы художественного дизайна. Проиллюстрированные работы из полимерной глины, а так же инструкции помогут в реализации своих работ и превращения их в предметы искусства. Продемонстрированы многие техники работы и представлено более пятидесяти авторских работ с пластикой фимо.

Work better and faster in Maya with the quick-hit tips and techniques in this practical book. Designed for busy Maya users, this guide offers dozens of how-tos, workarounds, and shortcuts culled from years of experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven production pipeline. You’ll discover tricks and timesavers on texturing particles, customizing Paint Effects brushes, modeling polygon faces, creating facial rigs with wire deformers, and much more-while useful, full-color illustrations reinforce the concepts. From modeling, animating, and rigging to texturing and lighting, this book will help you streamline workflow and improve your skills.

Reading through this book it is obvious that Mr. Breen knows his stuff. The concepts are clearly presented and easy to understand. Individual techniques are broken down and explained with accompanying photographs. Individual techniques are not what this book is about. Its about the big picture. Reading it has given me a lot of ideas for improving my own practice. My only serious complaint with this book was that, upon finishing it, I was left wanting more.
Один из стилей, одна составляющих которого является техника джиткундо.

Описано и проиллюстрировано изготовление 12 диснеевских персонажей из полимерной глины.

Замечательная иллюстрированная книга с пошаговыми уроками лепки забавных зверей.

В книге описаны разные техники работы с полимерной глиной.

Alternative Digital Photography will lead you through a detailed exploration of alternative techniques in digital photography. Whether you are an amateur photographer, a beginning professional, or an advanced professional looking to add more creativity to your photography, this book will help you develop the skills you need to create unusual, creative, and artistic images using digital photography. It includes hands-on lessons designed to help you quickly develop new and creative ways of viewing the world around you. It is filled with example photographs, outlining the steps taken to achieve each image. It emphasizes simple, creative, and inexpensive suggestions that anyone can use--no need for a professional studio or a large financial investment. The book does also include coverage of advanced techniques as well as expensive tools that allow you to continue using the book as your experience grows.

This book is all meat and cuts right to the point - modeling and texturing game weapons like a professional. Written by Christian Chang, weapons modeler on America’s Army and now at EA, this book delivers what the reader wants. Starting with a discussion on customizing your modeling application for ease of use, the book emphasizes the importance of employing professional techniques when setting up your project. From there, the chapters concentrate on creating specific weapons - from a samurai sword to a modern high-velocity, fully-automatic machine gun - in a step-by-step progression from simple to complex. Each weapon is modeled, UV mapped, optimized, and finally textured for realism.

The most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Audition 2.0! Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does--an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Adobe Audition 2.0 Classroom in a Book contains thirteen lessons and a bonus CD with lesson files. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Audition, and countless tips and techniques to help you quickly become an Audition expert. You'll learn how to work and edit in a multitrack mixing environment, create audio effects and original soundtracks with loops, restore poor-quality audio, export to CD and MP3, and more. You'll also learn about Audition 2.0's new features, including low-latency mixing with unlimited tracks, ASIO support, audible scrubbing, analog-modeled Multiband Compressor, recordable parameter automation with external hardware support, and more. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Книга "Professional Techniques for the Wedding Photographer" раскрывает все главные приёмы свадебной фотографии для начинающих. В книге большое количество фотографий и схем освещения.

Книги от известного мастера Айкидо Морихиро Сайто, основателя направления "Ивама-рю"
язык: японский/английский и очень много илюстраций
В пятитомник вошли следующие тома:
Vol.1 Basic techniques
Vol.2 Advanced techniques
Vol.3 Applied techniques
Vol.4 Vital techniques
Vol.5 Training works wonders

A combination of up-to-date practical tips with ancient Eastern techniques to help you and your lover focus on mutual erotic pleasure. This book includes sensual massage techniques to restore and build sexual energy levels along with provocative exercises to stimulate heightened orgasmic enjoyment. It also features a repertoire of skin-to-skin positions for closer sexual intimacy and erotic meditations to help you verbalise your physical desires.

The "Kama Sutra", the celebrated 2000-year-old piece of erotic literature, is brought up-to-date by sex therapist and author of "The Ultimate Sex Guide", Anne Hooper, who has made a study of Oriental erotica. In this book she analyzes and reinterprets its teachings, highlighting the sexual techniques that have proved satisfying in the past. Packed with provocative information, photographs demonstrate the "Kama Sutra"'s classic positions and lovemaking techniques. Spinning a Cacoon is one of the many examples which promise to heighten sensual enjoyment as you explore the delights of these original erotic texts to achieve maximum pleasure with your lover.

Digital Photography Techniques - популярный зарубежный журнал о фотографии, фототехнике и обработке изображений.

This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know more about programming robots and students in Further and Higher Education tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a unique and exciting source of projects, ideas and techniques, to be combined into a wide range of fascinating robots.

Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out is the foremost reference to Windows XP for PC "super users". The book provides the information advanced user really need with no beginner content included. Inside Out is designed to help useres build on what they already know about Windows and quickly dive into what's new. Packed with hundreds of timesaving tips, troubleshooting techniques, and workarounds, this book focuses on doing more and getting more from your PC—including how to put the rich integration of devices, applications, and Web services in Windows XP to work.

Complete Digital Photography has become a classic book for helping traditional photographers move to digital! It's also the book of choice for many new digital photographers who want to learn how to take great digital photos. Now in its 4th edition, this bestseller has been fine-tuned and updated to provide the most current information available. Covering everything from the inner workings of the camera to the subtle intricacies of image editing software, the book is divided into four sections. The first section provides the basic technical foundation needed throughout the rest of the book. It details the basics of how digital cameras work and provides a quick photography primer. The second part explores everything needed to make an informed decision about which camera, computer, and software to choose. Section three has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover the nitty gritty of shooting, including metering, choosing the right exposure, using histograms, flash photography, and much more. And the final section, teaches the latest digital editing and correction techniques, including new coverage of workflow and raw conversion.