Erotic Home Photography or Excel Sales Forecasting for Dummies

Erotic Home Photography: How to Take Your Own Nude Portraits

Author: Tom Ang

Complete erotic portraiture how-to for couples.

This book is for couples who want to share their joy through photography. Digital photography has removed the barriers that inhibited amateurs from creating their own nude photography. The erotic can now be expressed in many ways, all of which portray a person's varied sides.

Erotic Home Photography is a complete how-to guide for couples who wish to produce private images they can share between themselves. The book takes an honest and open approach with tastefully photographed women and couples. Practical advice is given for overcoming inhibitions, perceptions of idealized beauty, and becoming comfortable with being photographed nude.

Valuable advice explains posing, simple cosmetic enhancements, using light and shadow and tips for shooting in a variety of exterior and interior locations. Creative tips are offered for producing beautiful images in a variety of locations, costumes and props. Particular attention is given to digital tricks to manipulate and enhance the image.

On the practical side, the latest digital equipment is identified and explained in non-technical terms including:

• Computer technology


• Cameras: vital features and purchasing advice


• Printers, ink colors and cartridges


• Scanners


• Memory cards.

Erotic Home Photography is the ideal handbook for couples who wish to improve their home photography skills.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	6
1	Background	8
2	Setting the scene	18
3	Solo pictures	38
4	Just the two of us	74
5	Digital tricks	84
6	Equipping yourself	114
	Index	126
	Resources and Acknowledgments	128

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Excel Sales Forecasting for Dummies

Author: Conrad Carlberg

When they first told you that forecasting sales would be part of your job, did you feel just the tiniest bit of panic? Did you momentarily consider consulting the Yellow Pages for listings of “Psychics” or “Tea Leaf Readers”? Well, fear not. Excel Sales Forecasting For Dummies can help you predict the future without incense or a crystal ball.

Excel Sales Forecasting For Dummies shows you how to use the number one workbook program, Microsoft Excel, to predict trends and future sales based on something not quite so ethereal—numbers. You use data about the past to forecast the future. Excel provides all sorts of tools to help you do that, and this book shows you how to use them.

From recognizing why forecasting is a good idea to making sense of exponential smoothing, Excel Sales Forecasting For Dummies has you covered. If you have a basic grasp of how to use Excel, you’ll be ready to discover how to

• Select and use the right forecasting method for your business

• Choose and arrange data in lists, then manage that data with pivot tables

• Filter lists and turn them into charts that illustrate what’s going on

• Find relationships in your data

• Use Excel’s Analysis Toolpak feature to create forecasts automatically, or venture into advanced forecasts using worksheet functions

• Gain more control over your forecasting and target specific types of predictions

• Use moving averages and predict seasonal sales

Written by Conrad Carlberg, a nationally recognized expert on Excel who also hasexperience in sales and marketing, this friendly guide gets you up and running quickly and easily. You’ll soon be setting up a baseline you can chart and label, summarizing data with pivot tables, making forecasts based on regression, understanding correlation, and discovering how smoothing lets us profit from our mistakes. You’ll find your confidence in your ability to make sales predictions has soared right off the chart.