Would you like to consistently make photos that stand out from the regular, tired snapshots? You’ve come to the right place. In this book, Jim Miotke shares with you the most time-tested, helpful tips that will give your photos that extra something special. Learn these simple techniques and you will immediately be able to create unique, uncommon, and amazing nature shots—consistently!

Pixelmator is an inspiring, easy-to-use, beautifully designed image editor built to help you create stunning new images and edit your existing photos. Pixelmator takes full advantage of the latest Mac technologies, giving you speedy, powerful tools that let you touch up and enhance images, draw or paint, apply gorgeous effects, and just have fun with your pictures. Once your images are ready, access them anywhere with iCloud, send them to iPhoto or Aperture, email, print, or save them to popular image formats, or share them through Facebook, Flickr, and more—all right from Pixelmator.

Hack & Slash is a Unity3d tutorial series with focus on creating a basic, but playable RPG style game. We will start with a few basic scripts to get use to C# scripting, but then gradually go deeper into the language as we learn such topics as Object Oriented Programming (OOP). At the end of this basic set of tutorials, we will have a decent solo playable rpg style of game that can be played on the web with Unity3D's web player, or as a stand alone version. During the advanced set of tutorials, we will be looking at ways to add a multi-player element to our game. This phase should include a lobby system, and a way to instantiate small worlds to hold a small group of three to five players.

IK Multimedia announces the release of T-RackS Custom Shop, the updated version 4.0 of its mixing and mastering suite. The new T-RackS CS offers five new analogue-modelled and digital processors, and it integrates the Custom Shop, IK's online gear shop, which allows users to purchase gear models à la carte from within the T-RackS software itself, and more.

Play as a successful learning and teaching experience remains key to early education. The new edition of this popular book continues to clearly illustrate key play theories in practice. It has been comprehensively revised to include the latest research and practice in the field.

Within this Sound Library you will find a collection of drum loops, all played with brushes. The 21 drumset construction kits span a large variety of genres and tempos. Within each folder, you will find plenty of loops, fills and variations that can be chained together to create a realistic drum track for your musical work. Each genre and tempo folder also contains a unique "Snare Only" track, which is just the snare drum being played with brushes. You can add your own drumset samples around the snare-only loop to create an endless quantity of unique sounding drum tracks.

It has long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? In Listening to Popular Music, award-winning popular music scholar Theodore Gracyk argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with “serious” music. And we don’t have to treat popular music as art in order to recognize its worth. Aesthetic values are realized differently in different musical styles, and each requires listening skills that people must learn.

4Videosoft DVD Audio Extractor is the best DVD Audio Extractor and DVD Audio Ripper software. It can extract audio files from DVD and save them as AAC, AC3, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, MKA, MP2, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA audio formats with lossless sound quality. What’s more, the extracted audio can be played on all popular MP3 players with great compatibility and performance.

A discussion of NoSQL's general characteristics, an investigation of the four major NoSQL subcategories, a review of when NoSQL and relational technology work best, a review of NoSQL technologies in the Microsoft stack and recommendations on NoSQL adoption.

Miranda Zero, the mysterious leader/benefactor/recruiter of Global Frequency is a woman with a mission. She saves people. She and 1,000 others make up the most diverse team of specialists the planet has ever seen. Their job? To save the world, usually before anyone else notices there's a problem.