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The Photographer's Guide to Luminar 4

Jeff Carlson

Skylum’s Luminar 4 is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar’s advanced AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you’re applying automatic tone and color adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to dig into editing, powerful tools give you full control over your RAW and JPEG images, including advanced features such as layers, masks, blend modes, and lens correction. Luminar also works as a plug-in for other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, allowing round-trip editing and seamless integration with workflows you may already have in place.<p/>
Luminar 4 is deceptively deep, and in <i>The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar 4</i>, photographer Jeff Carlson helps you discover Luminar 4’s best features to take full advantage of the program for all your photography needs. From importing your images to editing, managing, and exporting your files, Jeff showcases the power, precision, and control of Luminar while teaching you to work quickly and efficiently. In this book, he walks you through real-world landscape and portrait edits, and covers every tool and feature with the goal of helping you understand how to make Luminar improve your images. <p/>
In this book you’ll learn all about:<p/>
<ul>• <b>AI editing:</b> Luminar 4’s many AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks. Improve overall tone and color using just one slider, and enhance a sky using another without building masks or layers. Realistically replace the entire sky in one step, even when objects like buildings or trees intrude. Luminar identifies faces in photos, allowing you to smooth skin, sharpen eyes, brighten faces, and perform other portrait retouching tasks in minutes.</ul>
<ul>• <b>Expert editing:</b> Take advantage of Luminar’s many professional tools to bring out the best versions of your photos. Enhance the look using tone controls and curves, dodging and burning, and tools built for specific types of images, such as Landscape Enhancer, Adjustable Gradient, and B & W Conversion. The Erase and Clone & Stamp tools make it easy to remove unexpected objects and glitches such as lens dust spots. Luminar’s RAW editing engine includes real-time noise reduction and advanced color processing and sharpening tools, all completely non-destructive and with the ability to step back through the history of edits.</ul>
<ul>• <b>Advanced editing:</b> Use layers, masks, blend modes, and lens corrections to combine edits and effects.</ul>
<ul>• <b>Creativity: </b>Open your imagination with Luminar’s creative tools, which range from adding glow, texture, and dramatic looks to incorporating sunrays and objects into augmented skies.</ul>
<ul>• <b>Presets and LUTs (Lookup Tables):</b> Learn how to use Luminar Looks presets and LUTs to bring the look of simulated film stocks and creative color grades to your work.</ul>
<ul>• <b>Luminar Library:</b> Organize and manage your photos in a central library where your source images can reside where you want them, whether that’s on your hard disk, a network volume, or in local cloud services folders such as Dropbox or Google Drive for remote backup.</ul>
<ul>• <b>Luminar plug-ins:</b> If you already use other applications to organize your library or for photo editing, such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, Luminar 4 also works as a plug-in that allows round-trip editing and seamless integration with the workflows you may already have in place.</ul>
<ul>• <b>Sharing images:</b> Whether you’re printing your images or sharing them online, learn how to make your photos look their best no matter what output solution you need.</ul>
Bonus Content: Includes an exclusive offer and free download from Skylum for creative add-ons.

Три товарища и другие романы

Эрих Мария Ремарк

Эрих Мария Ремарк – писатель, чье имя говорит само за себя, чья проза не подлежит старению. Для многих поколений читателей, выросших на его произведениях, для критиков, единодушно признавших его работы, он стал своеобразным символом времени. Представленные в данном сборнике известнейшие романы Ремарка «Три товарища», «На Западном фронте без перемен» и «Триумфальная арка» доказывают, что верная дружба, истинное милосердие и любовь способны не только противостоять трагедиям Первой и Второй мировых войн, жестокому продажному миру, но и притупить боль представителей «потерянного поколения», наполнив их жизнь смыслом.

The Transpacific Experiment

Matt Sheehan

An Amazon Best History Book of the MonthA timely, vital account of California’s unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politicians driving transformations with international implications Tensions between the world’s superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. Yet, the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, making California and China a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the twenty-first century. In The Transpacific Experiment , journalist and China analyst Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections. Sheehan tells the story of a Southern Californian mayor who believes a Chinese electric bus factory will save his town from meth labs and skinheads. He follows a Chinese AI researcher who leaves Google to compete with his former employer from behind the Great Firewall. Sheehan joins a tour bus of wealthy Chinese families shopping for homes in the Bay Area, revealing disgruntled neighbors and raising important questions about California’s own narratives around immigration and the American Dream. Sheehan’s on-the-ground reporting reveals movie sets in the “Hollywood of China,” Chinese-funded housing projects in San Francisco, Chinese immigrants who support Donald Trump, and more. Each of these stories lays bare the new reality of twenty-first-century superpowers: the closer they get to one another, the more personal their frictions become. “Cuts right to the heart of the relationship between Silicon Valley and China: the tangled history, the current tensions, and the uncertain future . . . a must-read.”—Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China and founder of Sinovation Ventures

Мемуары миллиардера. Как я нажил 500 000 000 долларов

Джон Дэвисон Рокфеллер

Американский предприниматель Джон Дэвисон Рокфеллер – первый в истории человечества «долларовый» миллиардер. Основав в 1870 году нефтяную компанию «Стандарт Ойл», Рокфеллер заложил фундамент системы управления империей. Предпринимательская жилка проявилась у Рокфеллера еще в раннем детстве. Джон покупал фунт конфет, делил его на маленькие кучки и с наценкой распродавал собственным сестрам. Филантроп по образу мыслей, Джон Дэвисон основал также «Фонд Рокфеллера» и жертвовал немалые суммы на медицинские и образовательные нужды. «Мемуары миллиардера» – это руководство по достижению целей от человека, для которого занятие бизнесом было вопросом воспитания, порядка и силы характера.