Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book (Adobe)) - Adobe Creative Team

Advantages: Superb nugget sized tips, fits the camera bag nicely
Disadvantages: None

...rarely more than a paragraph or two yet manages to get important and useful stuff covered concisely and clearly. Taking for instance, a chapter on tips for getting sharp pictures. You get a page for tripods, ballheads, cable releases, self-timers, mirror lockup (for really sharp pictures), Image stabalization, aperature, lens quality, ISO, sharpening, pro-sharpening and steadier hand held shots. All in a few pages and without leaving you feeling short changed. The rest of the book continues with coverage of flower photography, weddings, landscapes, portraits and so on. Unlike many digital photography books, the bulk of the information presented is aimed at getting the original photos right, not in fixing things in Photoshop. Best of all, as the cover notes, much of it applies to point-and-click cameras as well as Digital SLRs. I... Read review

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Advantages: Collection of the sickest jokes submitted by the public
Disadvantages: Definitely not for the easily offended.

...Founded by Rob Manuel, Cal Henderson and Denise Wilton the online community b3ta.com (pronounced beta to rhyme with Peter) is home to 10,000+ members who regularly post pictures they have made using tools such as Photoshop or Flash, funny stories or links to the funniest or wierdest sites on the internet. Indeed b3ta states in it's FAQ that it is dedicated to celebrating the best stuff on the internet. The site is relatively uncensored humour driven by the members. In fact the only real censorship is anything that may be seen as pornographic which could get you fired from work, anything else is pretty much fair game. Think of an email you may have received with a funny photoshopped picture (footballers holding handbags in a penalty line up, for instance) and nine times out of ten it originated on b3ta. Each week Rob himself... Read review

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Advantages: awsome expansion on an already great world
Disadvantages: Another can't put down book

...This exciting return to the world indeed worlds of Fforde is a fantastic return to the world and life of Thursday Next and also of course more of Jurisfiction Yay. So what's happening to Thursday Next next (excuse the pun) well some one is trying to kill her , the evil Goliath corporation teamed up with the chronoguard kill off her husband ,,,back when he was a little boy! An uncanny and improbable amount of possibly fatal accidents keep on occurring oh err. What's more the prospect of the world turning to pink goo doesn't appeal much either We see even further into the workings of jurisfiction which is a real treat and as witty as ever this particular sub world he has created is and insane world of books and words that never ceases to amaze. When Thursday seeks sanction in the world of jurisfiction she is put to work under... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful