Painter X for Photographers or Bento Book

Painter X for Photographers: Creating Painterly Images Step by Step

Author: Martin Addison

Whether you are just starting out with Painter, or are a seasoned pro who wants to take your photographs to the next level, you can't go wrong with this essential guide by your side! Covering Painter X, but also applicable to earlier versions and to both PC and Macintosh users, this reader friendly book and DVD package will show you how to get the most out of this powerful program. Uniquely written specifically for photographers, Martin Addison gives a complete overview of the program, showing how to master each exciting tool, including the brand-new RealBristle and Smart Stroke brush libraries. Two all-new portraiture chapters show you how to turn photographs of your family members or professional clients into works of art ideal for framing. You'll be able to give all of your precious photographs the painterly touch in no time!

Be sure to visit the accompanying website painterforphotographers.co.uk to view even more images and information to get you started!

Pictures by Martin and Doreen Addison can be seen on their website: martinanddoreen.co.uk.

*Transform your photographs into stunning works of art using Corel's Painter X
*Packed with beautiful color images and precise, step-by-step instructions
*Accompanying DVD contains over TWO HOURS of video tutorials plus all the images from the book for you to work on

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Bento Book: Beauty and Simplicity in Digital Organization

Author: Jesse Feiler

Find everything fast... from iCal, Address Book, Apple Mail, even MobileMe and iPhone.

• Use Bento's stunning templates and themes
• Master Smart Collections and other advanced features
• Keep a nature/garden log
• Manage projects
• Create storyboards
• And more... much more

Bento is the best way to organize your life. Your contacts, events, tasks, projects, stuff, everything. This book makes Bento even better. (And even easier.) Learn how to use everything that's built into Bento...and extend Bento to do even more. Quick. Elegant. Smart. And 100% Mac. That's Bento. And that's the Bento Book. Bento 2 adds new features. Find out what's new and how to use hot relations, export and import Bento libraries, and use new view features.

Table of Contents:

Introduction . . . 1

1 Bento: The Database for the Rest of Us . . . 7

2 Using the Bento Window . . . 21

3 Working with Bento Forms . . . 43

4 Building a Bento Library from Your Own Data . . . 53

5 Working with Phone, URL, IM, and Address Fields and Lists in Contacts . . . 65

6 Working with Bento Fields and Calculations . . . 75

7 Expanding the Inventory Library with Related Records and Collections . . . 93

8 Using Built-In Bento Libraries for Address Book . . . 113

9 Using Built-In Bento Libraries for iCal Tasks and iCal Events . . . 127

10 Working with Bento’s Projects Library to Use Related Records from iCal Tasks, iCal Events, and Address Book . . . 139

11 Designing a Projects Library with Related Notes . . . 151

12 Building a Garden/Nature Log . . . 165

13 Organizing a Group Project with Bento . . . 177

14 Creating a Storyboard with Bento . . . 189

15 Importing and Exporting Bento Data and Libraries . . . 199

16 Managing an Email List from Constant Contact or Vertical Response with Bento . . . 207

17 Bento Quickies . . . 225

Index . . . 233