John Sandford

Ctein

“Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up.” --Stephen King For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a stunning new thriller, a story as audacious as it is deeply satisfying. The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out. The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins—an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect—and everything you could want from one of the world’s greatest masters of suspense.

Saturn Run

This third edition of Digital Restoration from Start to Finish walks you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, GIMP and more. This best-selling guide is now updated with the latest software advancements, and new techniques including hand-tinting in lab, repairing water damaged photos, and tips for the spot healing brush and masked layers. No process detail is overlooked, from choosing the right hardware and software, getting the photographs into the computer, getting the finished photo out of the computer and preserving it for posterity. LEARN HOW TO: Scan faded and damaged prints or films Improve snapshots with Shadow/Highlight adjustment Correct uneven exposure Fix color and skin tones quickly with Curves, plug-ins, and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers Correct uneven exposure and do dodging and burning-in with adjustment layers Hand-tint your photographs easily Correct skin tones with airbrush layers Clean up dust and scratches speedily and effectively Repair small and large cracks with masks and filters Eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph in just a few steps Minimize unwanted print surface textures Erase mildew spots Eliminate dots from newspaper photographs Increase sharpness and fine detail Maximize print quality

How to Repair Old and Damaged Photographs

Digital Restoration from Start to Finish

"This new edition has been expanded and updated to provide the reader with even more insights into achieving quality prints. The book now includes: a section on the differences in producing prints with various enlarger heads; and updated "Tricks of the Trade" chapter, covering safelight fogging, adequate wash steps in reversal print processing, and using litho film masks for dodging and burning-in: and new coverage on split-filter printing and the use of Sistan, as well as over 30 additional illustrations."--BOOK JACKET.

Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer

Post Exposure

Esta obra oferece um guia passo a passo, onde cada etapa - desde a escolha do hardware e do software corretos até a preservação das fotografias para a posteridade - é explicada pelo autor através de uma variedade de ferramentas, incluindo os plug-ins do 'Photoshop' e de outros fabricantes, como o 'Photoshop Elements' e o 'Picture Window'. O livro traz ainda uma seção especial que apresenta uma lista das categorias de fotografias que os profissionais da área são solicitados a restaurar. A partir dos ensinamentos compilados neste livro, o leitor poderá aprender a digitalizar fotografias ou filmes desbotados e danificados, a corrigir exposição não uniforme, a retificar cores, a tonalizar, corrigir tons de pele, a limpar poeira e riscos, a reparar rachaduras pequenas ou grandes, a eliminar manchas de oxidação ou manchas prateadas, a minimizar texturas indesejadas da superfície de uma cópia impressa, dentre outras técnicas.

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