Learn IT - ILEX

Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers

ILEX, 2005

One reason why Photoshop has become such a powerful and popular image editor is that it allows you to work on a series of layers during the editing or creation of your images. The way these layers interact with one another is governed by Photoshop’s blending modes. Blending modes first appeared when layers were introduced in Version 3, but...

Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers: 113 Easy-to-follow Recipes to Adjust and Correct Your Photos

ILEX, 2005

You’ve decided to build your own computer. Congratulations! That statement might seem a little like “You’ve decided to fly a 747” or “You’ve decided to teach yourself accounting” — but I’m here to tell you that this book was especially written to make it both easy and (believe it or not) fun to...

Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States: Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s)

ILEX, 2012

Drawing upon previously unpublished commercial ledgers and correspondence, this study offers a collective social biography of three generations of Balkan merchants. Personal accounts humanize multiethnic networks that navigated multiple social systems supporting and opposing various aspects of nationalist ideologies.

...