Billy, Bone and the Tree Keeper

Billy, Bone and the Tree Keeper

Author: Keith Trayling

Publisher: Silverwood Books

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781800421202

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Join Billy and his four-legged best friend Bone, as they find an intriguing hole in an old tree and decide to look inside. What, and more importantly who, will they find...? This easy-to-read poetry story has an environmental message that children of all ages will love.


The Secret Keeper

The Secret Keeper

Author: Kate Morton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-16

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1439152810

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The Photoshop Layers and Selections Workshop

The Photoshop Layers and Selections Workshop

Author: Glyn Dewis

Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1681987333

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Learn to harness the full power of layers and selections in Photoshop—and let your creativity soar!

Learning the basics of Photoshop is an admirable feat. Unfortunately, that’s exactly where most people end their Photoshop journey: with a fundamental appreciation of the program and the ability to execute a few helpful techniques. But without a full understanding of and capability with layers and selections—arguably Photoshop’s most powerful tools—you’re leaving the vast majority of Photoshop’s power and potential untapped.

The Photoshop Layers and Selections Workshop is here to change all that. In this book, photographer and bestselling author Glyn Dewis focuses on these two key features of Photoshop, knowing that if you can learn and master them, you’ll have everything you need to maximize Photoshop’s potential, bring out the best in your work, and harness your full creativity.

In this book, you will:

    • Start off with a detailed breakdown of the Photoshop Home screen and Workspace, including how to best set it up for your way of working.
    • Grow your understanding of layers and learn how to maximize their potential in your selections workflow.
    • Conquer selections and cutouts by mastering the use of tools including Select and Mask, the Pen Tool, Channel Pulls, Vector Masks, Color Range, and more.
    • Learn how to make and fake the best possible hair and fur selections.
    • Work your way through three selections workflows, combining tools and techniques to get the very best possible results.
    • Learn some of Glyn's favorite Photoshop techniques in a bonus chapter.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Photoshop Workspace
Chapter 2: Layers
Chapter 3: Selections and 101
Chapter 4: Selection Tools
Chapter 5: The Pen Tool and Vector Masks
Chapter 6: Select and Mask
Chapter 7: Sky Replacement
Chapter 8: Cleaning Up Selections
Chapter 9: Selection Workflows
Chapter 10: Bonus Content


Dragon Mountain

Dragon Mountain

Author: Katie Tsang

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Published: 2021-07-27

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1454935979

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From the authors behind the critically acclaimed Sam Wu books, a thrilling new fantasy series about friendship, courage, adventure, and dragon magic. When 12-year-old Billy Chan finds out his parents are sending him to a language and culture camp in the middle-of-nowhere China, he can’t imagine anything worse. He’s not expecting to become friends with fellow campers Dylan O’Donnell, Charlotte Bell, and Liu Ling-Fei. And he’s definitely not planning to meet any dragons. But when the four kids accidentally open a crack in an ancient mountain, they become involved in an ages-old struggle of good versus evil. Now it’s up to them to save the Dragon Realm—if they don’t, the world as they know it might disappear forever.


Bone by Bone

Bone by Bone

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2000-07-18

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0375701818

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"Watson's voice is an artistic triumph. . .[Bone by Bone] may well come to be regarded as a classic." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review In Bone by Bone, Peter Matthiessen speaks in the extraordinary voice of the enigmatic and dangerous E. J. Watson, whom we first saw, obliquely, through the eyes of his early twentieth-century Everglades community in Killing Mister Watson. This astonishing new novel, calling to account the violence, virulent racism, and destruction of the land that fueled the so-called American Dream, points an accusing finger straight into the burning eyes of Uncle Sam. Here is the bloodied child of the Civil War and Reconstruction who dreams of recovering the family plantation. He becomes the gifted cane planter nearing success on a wilderness river when he gives in fatally to his accumulating demons. Powerfully imagined, prodigiously detailed, Bone by Bone is a literary tour de force as bold and ambitious as Watson himself. "Like a true tragic figure, [Watson] knows and understands; he does not wriggle to save his own skin," said The New York Times. "This is a work of genuine dignity."


Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

Author: Michael Wallis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008-03-17

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780393075434

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"This might be the best Billy the Kid book to date." —Fritz Thompson, Albuquerque Journal In this revisionist biography, award-winning historian Michael Wallis re-creates the rich anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859–1881), a young man who became a legend in his time and remains an enigma to this day. In an extraordinary evocation of the legendary Old West, Wallis demonstrates why the Kid has remained one of our most popular folk heroes. Filled with dozens of rare images and period photographs, Billy the Kid separates myth from reality and presents an unforgettable portrait of this brief and violent life.


Albion's Seed

Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991-03-14

Total Pages: 981

ISBN-13: 019974369X

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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.