It is important for those studying and practicing in real estate and property management to learn to manage property assets effectively, to be able to provide their companies with effective property and facilities solutions. This book raises the awareness of how real estate management can support business, transform the workplace and impact upon people and productivity, ensuring that costs are minimized and profit maximized. Written for advanced undergraduate students on property related courses, it provides them with a rounded understanding by aligning the subject with estates management, facilities management and business strategy. Case studies and action plans provide real insight and make this book an essential reference for those at the start of their careers in real estate and facilities management.
The second edition of Corporate Real Estate Asset Management is fully up to date with the latest thought and practice on successful and efficient use of corporate office space. Written from an occupier’s perspective, the book presents a ten-point CREAM model that offers advice on issues such as sustainability, workplace productivity, real estate performance measurement, change management and customer focus. In addition, new case studies provide real-life examples of how corporations in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi actively manage their corporate real estate. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students on corporate real estate, facilities management and real estate courses and international MBA programmes.
The first book to address the needs of a rapidly expanding segment of the Photoshop 3.0 market--high-end users such as photographers, artists, and imaging professionals--Photoshop Artistry is a self-paced, hands-on course that teaches the process of creating digital art. The CD contains original and final images, as well as masks, layers, and channels used to complete the exercises.
Photoshop 7 Artistry" is one of the most successful advanced-level Photoshop books available. Its initial appeal for photographers has been transcended; the basic principles the authors teach apply to all Photoshop users--particularly more-advanced users--and the advent of digital photography has further boosted the book's popularity.
By covering advanced topics in depth rather than simply touching on them, "Photoshop X Artistry" contains numbered steps and an abundance of color images that walk readers through several complete user tasks. The CD-ROM contains images and other information needed to complete hands-on exercises, as well as masks, levels, and curve settings that will help readers compare their results to the author's.
Artistry is the key word here: competent doesn't cut it. When you want to create museum-quality art prints, professional advertising effects, and dazzling digitally manipulated images, Photoshop CS2 Artistry is the place to start. Providing a focused approach to the advanced features of Photoshop CS2, this beautiful full-color guide tackles complex yet essential topics like color calibration and correction. Along the way, you'll learn how Photoshop's newest features-32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) color creation and editing (ideal for advanced compositing and professional photography), Vanishing Point, Image Warp, Spot Healing Brush, Smart Sharpen, and more-can aid in your quest for the perfect image. Throughout, the authors emphasize the relationship between Photoshop CS2 tools and traditional photographic techniques to provide essential context for complex tasks. Detailed, step-by-step exercises and a companion CD with before-and-after images, masks and tool settings extend the book's tutorials and enhance the learning process.
Photoshop 5.5 Artistry is for serious photographers who gravitate to using digital technology and the Web as their processing and distribution tools of choice. New Riders is here with the updated version of Photoshop 5 Artistry, including material that covers all of Photoshop 5.5's new critical features. This book is an in-depth course on digital imaging for intermediate and advanced users who want to create the best possible photographic images. Over fifty small sections show you a focused approach to doing specific tasks. As you work through chapters and step-by-step, hands-on excercises, you will gain in-depth understanding of the complex topics, such as calibration and ICC color management, and master the relationship between Photoshop tools.
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and encouragement. And for those who are pausing—looking positively but cautiously at what needs to change—at the prospects and challenges that may be encountered, Harward and the collection of authors offer an invaluable and innovative resource. Given the intensity of interest regarding the “problems in higher education,” Harward notes how the systemic sources of those problems are infrequently addressed and even rarer is the offering of solutions or suggestions for positive actions. Harward and his colleagues see the achievement of this book as doing both—understanding the problems and offering solutions. The book assembles the voices of leaders, scholars, practitioners, critics and others committed to higher education; collectively they combine theoretical considerations with analyses of fundamental issues related to learning and liberal education. The resulting arguments, theories, and evidence are sufficient to encourage significant—transformative—changes in higher education. Contributors offer examples of campus initiatives that document such changes, from directional nudges to major shifts of emphases and resources—from theoretical arguments to case studies and practices that suggest and guide constructive steps in efforts at change.
Photoshop 4 Artistry is an in-depth course in digital imaging for intermediate and advanced users who want to make the best photographic images. Read the reference chapters and follow the step-by-step, hands-on exercises to understand the intricacies of Photoshop. Learn the relationship between Photoshop tools like Adjustment Layers, Levels, and Curves and traditional photography's Zone System. See how to calibrate your system. Create beautiful images for print and fine art as well as GIFs and JPEGs for the World Wide Web." "The CD-Rom supports the Photoshop 4 Artistry master class with before and after images, masks, and tool settings for the 30 tutorials contained in this book."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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