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Nine photography books to enhance your skills – Review

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This review will look at some photography books that were released in 2015. This article presents nine books covering different photography related topics. The first five books are about how to take great pictures for different types of photography. The remaining books are related to post processing using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. In this list you’ll find some interesting reading to improve your photography skills.

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Take Control of Your Paperless Office, second Edition – Book Review

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I remember in the late 70’s and early 80’s there were predictions about our society becoming more and more paperless in the future with the revolution of the personal computer. But at the same time, huge companies were investing more and more into faster printers and fax machines that were in total contradiction of the predictions.

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Take Control of Dropbox – Book Review

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Dropbox is the ubiquitous application that allows users to sync and share their files, and access them from computers, smart phones, and tablets. If you’re reading this review you probably are already a Dropbox user. Are you using Dropbox to its fullest potential? Do you have a hard time trying to explain the Dropbox concept to potential new users? Are you still a little confused about how Dropbox works? Answers to all those questions, and more, can be found in Joe Kissell’s new Ebook, Take Control of Dropbox.

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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition – Review

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As an iPhone user I long ago got used to not having a manual with the iPhone. But I’m not your average user, and have had iPhones since the 3GS. But some people really need help with learning about their iPhones, and how to use them. So I was interested to see how the iPhone: The Missing Manual, 6th edition would succeed.

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OS X Mountain Lion Bible – Review

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It’s encouraging for the Apple community that new books on new Mac operating systems appear regularly, and in quantity, each time a new OS release appears. During Apple’s less successful periods you struggled to find more than a handful of decent explorations in print of arguably the most elegant and robust OS for any desktop computer. Now there are several dozen. Galen Gruman’s “OS X Mountain Lion Bible” is one of the best for 10.8′

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Visual QuickStart Guide: iCloud – Book Review

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When Lion and iOS 5 were released, I timidly stepped into the Apple iCloud experience and began using some of its offerings. Although I still do not use all of the iCloud features, what I have chosen to enable has been through my own trial and error approach. For those of you that have not yet ventured into the iCloud, the iCloud: Visual QuickStart Guide will definitely allow this to happen with ease.

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Five Photo Books Review

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This book is all about photographing people. The author, who loves the subject, wrote a helpful book on how to take portraits and naturalistic photos of people. She describes many aspects of such types of pictures, from the equipment to use, to the composition of the frame, to how to make your subjects comfortable and connect with them.

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Logic Notation Guide – Book Review

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The LNG is a comb-bound softcover book with over 200 pages of closely-packed (yet never unreadable) guidance on making the most of Logic’s Score Editor. Strictly-speaking, its substance, examples and concepts apply to the last major version of the software, Logic 8.

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Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 – Book Review

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If you check out Stephen Laskevitch online you will find that he has been teaching his subject for many years and cofounded Luminous Works, a training and consulting company in Seattle, WA. It would be a surprise if such background did not directly influence the structure of his book

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Review-Social Media Marketing All-In-One For Dummies

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Almost everyone is now active in the social media arena. Who doesn’t have a Facebook page to keep in touch with family and friends? How often are you making your thoughts known 140 characters at a time on Twitter? Do you listen to podcasts on your favorite topics during your daily commute? Facebook, Twitter and podcasts are all forms of social media, but can they also be used for social media marketing?

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Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard

Book Review – Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard ebook

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Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard is 133 pages, and covers every conceivable aspect of Apple’s Mail application. The book walks you through setting up accounts, reading and searching messages, address and contact handling, sending email, encryption and signed email options, managing mailboxes, synchronizing mail across multiple devices, and many more Mail related topics.

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