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Mark Stagi
Mark Stagi has been passionate about photography since catching the photo bug as a child Markgot fully hooked in the darkroom while in high school when watching the magic of a print appear. In college, Mark continued his studies of Photography and Fine Art with a degree in the Arts and an emphasis on Photography. Right after college, Mark started his own wedding photography business focusing on Fine Art Wedding photography. Mark's wedding business all started with his passion to create fresh and fun wedding images that reflect each bride's unique day.
Growing up in the Silicon Valley, Mark has always had as much of a passion for technology as he has with the arts. As the photo industry started to move over into the digital world, Mark has been at the forefront of mastering the digital tools that photographers need to create art.
Mark's passion for photography has also led him to lead photography workshops and run a photography website http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com, where he shares his passion and love for photography with Shooting Tips, Online Tutorials, and other photography news and info.
Mark has written a few other mini books that are currently available as apps for the iPad, including Portrait Photography 101 – Learn to take better portraits, Wedding Photography – A guide to better wedding photos, Baby Photography, among others.
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- Paperback: 118 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 16, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849694680
- ISBN-13: 978-1849694681
- Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 7.4 x 9.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Overall, "Learning Pixelmator" is pretty clumsily written, with lots of awkward phrases and as a result reads like a first draft. For example "There are almost 30 different blending modes." Almost 30, eh? Why not just state that there are 27 blending modes? It's often wordy and redundant: "The key is resampling, which basically means that the program is going to add new pixels to the image by guessing, based on the surrounding colors. Since the program is basically guessing (although it is a very smart guess) on what types of pixels to add, you get a loss of sharpness, so as a general guideline it's not recommended to go up in size too much." This is how the whole thing reads--it's not so much inaccurate as it is distracting from the actual content. At times it's downright confusing. Here's a description of blending modes: "The options in the Comparative and Hue section will invert the color of interacting pixels and give some pretty crazy effects. Finally, the Comparative and Hue, Saturation and Lightness modes apply specific color changes." Ok, aside from the fact that Pixelmator *doesn't* actually group blending modes into named sections like "Comparative and Hue", you're left wondering here what those "crazy effects" or "specific color changes" really are. And why is "Comparative and Hue get mentioned twice here? (Pixelmator's built-in Help boils each blending mode down to a single, clear sentence like: "Hue: Paints with a tinted effect, where tinting is darkest in areas of high saturation.") Important stuff is covered too briefly: the section on Levels and Curves--among the most useful and subtle tools for color correcting images--is glossed over in just six paragraphs.
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