Tabla de Contenidos: “…Myth 2.8: Superior Managers or Investment Ideas Do Not Exist Myth 2.9: Stock and Bond Investment Means Investors Have No Derivatives Exposure; Myth 2.10: Mutual Fund Investment Removes Investor Concerns as to Leverage; Chapter 3 Hedge Funds: An Absolute Return Answer?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…One Step Photo FixSmart Photo Fix; Using the Histogram; Color Balance; Other Tools for Correcting Color Problems; Other Tools for Correcting Exposure Problems; Using Fill Flash and Backlighting; Making Photos Appear Sharper; Adding Soft Focus Effects; Step-by-Step Projects; Technique: Improving Your Photos Using Smart Photo Fix; Technique: Sharpening Photos Using the High Pass Sharpen Filter; Chapter 4: Image Manipulation - Beyond the Basics; What's Covered in this Chapter; Removing Scratches and Blemishes from Scans; Controlling Digital Noise; Retouching Using the Clone Brush…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indirect Lighting: Global IlluminationIndirect Illumination: Final Gathering; Image-Based Lighting; Physical Sun and Sky; mental ray Area Lights; Light Shaders; The Bottom Line; Chapter 10: mental ray Shading Techniques; Shading Concepts; Creating Blurred Reflections and Refractions Using Standard Maya Shaders; Basic mental ray Shaders; Car Paint Materials; The MIA Material; Controlling Exposure with Tone Mapping; Rendering Contours; The Bottom Line; Chapter 11: Texture Mapping; UV Texture Layout; Bump and Normal Mapping; Displacement Mapping; Subsurface Scattering; The Bottom Line…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter Eight: The Paradox: The Absolute Truth and the Exquisite Lie-Creating a Panorama in Photoshop®Concept and Preparation; Exposure Controls, Proper Overlap, Tripod or Not?; Relying on Layer Transparency and Layer Masking: Step-By-Step Panorama Instructions Using Collaging Techniques; ""Grab Shot"" Panoramas; Faux Panoramas; Themed Panorama-Style Linear Collages; Mirror Images in Panoramic Format; Hurry-Up Panoramas-Using Photoshop's Photomerge; Auto-Align and Auto-Blend; Printing Panoramas; Fractured Panoramas; Precision-Oriented Panoramics; Part III Artistic Considerations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Income-Producing Real Estate, High-Volatility Commercial Real Estate Exposures, and Real Estate Projects Under Construction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Color Balance of Your CameraNatural and Artificial Light; Correcting or Mixing Colors on Set; Quantity of Light: Sensitivity; Quantity of Light: Exposure; Quality of Light: Hard Versus Soft; Hard Light; Soft Light; Contrast; Low-key Lighting; High-key Lighting; Color; Basic Character Lighting: Three-Point Method; Contrast Ratio or Lighting Ratio; Motivated Lighting - Angle of Incidence; Front Lighting; Side Lighting; Lights from Behind; Lights from Other Places; Set and Location Lighting; Controlling Light - Basic Tools and Techniques; Light ... and the Light Years of Learning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Editing in iPhotoChoosing an Editing Setup; Using the Thumbnail Browser; Notes on Zooming and Scrolling; Using the Navigator; Zooming Numerically; Scrolling Tricks; The "Before and After" Keystroke; Backing Out; The Quick Fixes; The Rotate Button; The Enhance Button; Fixing Red Eye; Straightening; Cropping; Retouching Blemishes, Scratches, and Hairs; The Effects Panel; The Adjust Panel; Introduction to the Histogram; Three Channels; Adjusting the Levels; Exposure; Contrast; Saturation; Definition; Highlights and Shadows; Sharpness; De-noise; Color Balance; Manual Color Adjustment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lighting the Set; Use at Least Three Lights; Use Soft Lights; Use Flat Rather than Three-Point Lighting; Checking Exposure on the Set; Lighting for Chroma Key; Conclusion; Chapter 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Drilling Down: Subsector Relative StrengthRelative Strength Applied to Asset Classes; Using Relative Strength to Determine International Exposure; Got Global? Measuring Overseas versus United States; Where in the World to Be?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Silver Dye-Bleach/Dye-Destruction ProcessInternal Dye Diffusion-Transfer Process; The Polaroid Process: Diffusion-Transfer; Color Gains Acceptance; Amateur Systems Propel the Use of Color; The Rise of Digital Imaging; Early Digital Imaging: The Facsimile; The Birth of Computing; The 1960s: Art in the Research Lab; Computers Get Personal; Digital Imaging Goes Mainstream; Digital Truth; CHAPTER THREE EXPOSING THE LIGHT; An Exposure Starting Place; How a Camera Light Meter Works; Reflective and Incident Light; How a Histogram Works; Using a Gray Card; Camera Metering Methods and Programs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A Practical Example Incorporating all the IdeasConclusion; Chapter 3: Principal Component Analysis; Introduction: Goal and Method; An Intuitive Approach toward PCA; Factor Models: General Structure and Definitions; PCA: Mathematics; PCA as Factor Model; Insight into Market Mechanisms through Interpretation of the Eigenvectors; Applying Eigenvector Interpretation in Different Markets; Decomposing Markets into Uncorrelated Factors; Embedding PCA in Trade Ideas; Appropriate Hedging; Analyzing the Exposure of Trading Positions and Investment Portfolios; Market Reconstruction and Forecasting…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…NAVY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CENTER'S HEALTH-HAZARD ASSESSMENT PROCESS -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S APPROACH TO ITS CHARGE -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Documentation and Development of Standard Operating Procedures -- Staffing -- Data Acquisition and Management -- Quality Assurance and Quality Control -- Communication Within the Navy and With Other Organizations -- Medical Surveillance and Centralization of Medical Data -- OVERALL SUMMARY -- 1 Introduction -- BACKGROUND -- SUBCOMMITTEE'S APPROACH TO THE CHARGE -- STRUCTURE OF THIS REPORT -- 2 The Navy's Current Health-Hazard Assessment Process -- NAVY POLICIES AND DIRECTIVES RELATED TO HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES -- THE NAVY'S CURRENT HEALTH-HAZARD ASSESSMENT PROCESS -- Examples of Health-Hazard Assessments Conducted by NEHC -- NEHC'S PROCESS FOR PREPARING HHA REPORTS -- SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR RISK ASSESSMENTS: POPULATIONS AT RISK -- EXPOSURE INFORMATION FOR HEALTH-HAZARD ASSESSMENTS -- HUMAN RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO CONDUCT HEALTH-HAZARD ASSESSMENTS -- INFORMATION SYSTEMS USED FOR HAZARD ASSESSMENTS -- PEER REVIEW OF REPORTS -- 3 Other Related Health-Hazard Assessment Processes -- CONSUMER PRODUCT AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES -- U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…More CloningCombining the Power of Painter and Photoshop in a Collage; 8 The Paradox: The Absolute Truth and the Exquisite Lie-Creating a Panorama in Photoshop; Concept and Preparation; Exposure Controls, Proper Overlap, Tripod or Not?; Relying on Layer Transparency and Layer Masking; Step-By-Step Panorama Instructions Using Collaging Techniques; "Grab Shot" Panoramas; Faux Panoramas; Themed Panorama-Style Linear Collages; Hurry-Up Panoramas-Using Photoshop's Photomerge; Printing Panoramas; Fractured Panoramas; III Artistic Considerations; 9 Filters…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dear Reader -- Contents -- A Kind of Foreword -- Credits -- How to Use This Book -- Studio Photography Basics -- Light in a Studio Setting -- Light Shapers -- Light Shaper Effects -- Reflectors, Diffusers, and Flags -- In a Rental Studio -- Studio Light Metering -- Calculating Exposure Settings -- Classic Studio Portraits -- Classic Studio Portraits -- Two Flashes for Most Situations -- Extreme Soft Light -- Lighter Shadows on the Fly -- Focus on the Face -- Use A Fill Light to Produce Accents -- Colored Hair Light -- Overhead Light…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Technical requirements -- Creating and managing brush tip presets -- Creating a custom bird brush -- Modifying brush properties -- Applying brushes for creative effect -- Using brushes for retouching -- Creating a snowflake brush -- Creating a stubble brush -- Summary -- Part 4: World Building -- 11 -- Blending and Collaging Images -- Technical requirements -- Creating seamless panoramas -- Building collages with texture and paint -- Posterizing the source photo -- Selecting and masking posterized regions -- Adding texture and paint to the posterized sections -- Creating double-exposure compositions -- Blending unrelated images -- Blending two exposures of the same image -- Working with HDR images -- Advice for shooting HDR source images -- Installing Adobe Bridge -- Creating an HDR image with HDR Pro -- Summary -- 12 -- Creating Surrealist Artwork -- Technical requirements -- How to approach a surrealist art project -- Creating simple yet effective surrealist art -- Transferring the moon artwork -- Scaling and distorting the moon -- Turning the pink balloon into grayscale -- Replacing chair shadows -- Creating moonlight effects -- Creating and editing project-specific assets -- Isolating the hands from the shot -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- _heading=h.gjdgxs -- bookmark=id.30j0zll -- bookmark=id.1fob9te -- OLE_LINK1…”