CorelDRAW Home and Student Suite X6 – 3 Users
- Complete graphic design suite, with user-friendly applications, anyone can be a designer! Offering robust content, graphic design, illustration, page layout, web graphics and photo editing, it’s easy to create reports, drawings, flyers, logos and more.
- Corel PHOTO-PAINT Home & Student X6 offers professional photo-editing tools and effects that can improve any photograph. Retouching and enhancement, bitmap creation, digital painting, and streamlined web exporting are just a click away.
- Versatile page layout and drawing tools for all levels – CorelDRAW Home & Student X6 offers a complete set of drawing, tracing, illustration, page layout and web graphics tools to help you create any type of design project for print or web.
- Helpful learning resources – Find all the learning tools you need to start smoothly and design with confidence, including valuable video tutorials, helpful tips and tricks, insights from the experts and an inspiring electronic guidebook.
Whether you dabble in design or want to create eye-catching projects, CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X6 has everything you need in one complete graphic design suite. With its robust content, graphic design, illustration, page layout, web graphics, and photo-editing features, you can express your unique style and creativity with ease. Whatever your level of design experience, you’ll have all the learning tools to create with confidence: built-in help, training videos and professionally-designed t
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HDR Efex Pro After the Shoot (After the Shoot (Wiley))
A concise, on-the-go guide to the new HDR Efex Pro imaging toolkit for photographersNow that you’ve gone mobile and HDR, you want to be able to download and enhance your favorite photos on the run, without having to return to the mother ship (i.e., your desktop computer). This book shows you just how to do that using the amazing HDR Efex Pro, the image editing toolset from Nik Software. In brilliant color and using plenty of show-stopping examples, this practical guide explains all tools and fea
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Worth fifty bucks,
I’ll give just one example that really irritates me. With the full version, you can enlarge the tool icons and the menu fonts but, Corel killed that feature on the Home version. That’s just seems petty to me, especially since the tiny defaults (and they are tiny) are probably more of a problem for retired hobbyists like me than for young working professionals.
It doesn’t stop there, though. Lots of features are removed or crippled on the Home version. You keep discovering more and more as you learn the program. There’s the same note at the end of each section of Help that points out that some features are missing in the Home version but, it doesn’t tell you which ones. In many cases, you have to experiment to find out. How much trouble would it have been to tell you which features had been crippled?
Still, x6 has some cool new shape modifying tools that are a lot fun to play around with. If you buy the Home version, though, be prepared to be annoyed often as you get familiar with it.
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|DO NOT BUY THE HOME AND STUDENT VERSION!,
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|Almost but not quite,
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|Pedantic Can Be Good,
“After the Shoot” is quite simply the best explanation around for how to use HDR Efex Pro. After a brief discussion of the nature of HDR photography, the author eschews the usual review of the capture methods for HDR photographs, referring the reader to the vast literature on the subject. Instead he jumps right into the discussion of the software. He explains each of the options in great detail so that there can be little doubt in the mind of the reader just what each control does. For example he includes a detailed discussion of HDR modes, a function that may not be immediately obvious. Each of these modes creates a specific combination of the positions of sliders like exposure, contrast and structure that result in images ranging from realistic to various varieties of surrealistic. The author suggests that these modes form a starting point for further processing for the photographer to capture his or her vision. The author makes a general classification of the mode into one of three categories: naturalistic, artistic and extreme. Next he explains what the effect looks like and for what it is useful. Finally he shows four different images, processed with the mode, at increasing settings of the method strength (a critical settings slider of HDR Efex Pro). This same level of detail is explored for each of the global and local adjustments possible.
The explanations are well supported by the graphics. Instead of merely providing an impossible to read screen shot, the book shows large-scale reproductions of just the important parts of the screen, making it extremely easy to see. Where an explanation requires a screen shot, it goes from one margin to the other.
The level of detail is almost pedantic, but that’s just fine for software that’s almost as difficult to use as Photoshop itself. Because the book provides this level of detail and is so useful as a reference, it makes me think that HDR Efex Pro should be my default software for HDR processing, even though it may not provide some of the features of Photomatix Pro, like batch processing.
The book can serve as a model for technical software explanations. Indeed, my hope is that now the publisher will produce books for NIK’s other software, like Color Efex Pro, where there is a similar need for detailed explanations of the facilities.
If you intend to capture HDR images, you must read this book. I don’t mean that it will be of general help for HDR photography. For example, it will not be useful if you are using Photomatix Pro. But it will give you more confidence in using HDR Efex Pro than you will get with any other book to date about any HDR software and that confidence may well lead you to making HDR Efex Pro your default HDR software,
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|Simplified a Complex Program,
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|HDR Efex Pro®After the Shoot,
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