Using Your Digital Camera: A Basic Guide to Taking, Manipulating, Printing, and Storing Your Photographs

Using Your Digital Camera: A Basic Guide to Taking, Manipulating, Printing, and Storing Your Photographs
George Schaub (Author)
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In the tradition of the author's classic book "Using Your Camera", "Using Your Digital Camera" is packed with all the basic concepts, no-fail techniques, and practical information that aspiring and veteran photographers need know to become experts in every area of digital photography. Readers will find hundreds of stunning full-color examples and comprehensive, up-to-date information on such topics and macros; digital zoom; "digital" camera controls; image resolution and compression; the best settings for email and prints; and even how to get images from the camera to the computer. Plus, this comprehensive and authoritative guide combines clear, engaging text with simple illustrations that make it all easy. The bible for anyone who wants to master the art of digital photography!

• Rank: #279480 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

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Kids are crazy for digital photography: it''s hip and it offers instant gratification. With this appealing, irreverent companion to "The Kids'' Guide to Digital Photography," children 10 years and up can go wild with the new technology. It explains everything a kid needs to know about digital photography, from using the camera to coordinating it with the computer, printer, and scanner to manipulating the images. Budding photographers can explore such fun topics as "Cool Shots" "Simple Photo Manipulations" "Color Your World" "Combining Photos" "Majorly Manipulated" and "Funky Photos." Then, armed with this knowledge, they can dive right into 50 cool, inventive activities and turn their friends into aliens, make a Warhol-esque pop art masterpiece, and create a "trapped-in-the-computer" screen saver!

Description #2 by Bookmantraa:

Once the domain of professional photographers and designers digital photography is making inroads into businesses everywhere as prices drop and image quality rises Whether you plan to use digital imagery for fine art illustration or documentation in print or on the Web Real World Digital Photography is your industrial strength reference guide to this exciting and evolving technology Written by two nationally recognized experts in digital imaging the book is chock full of hands on production techniques designed specifically for working professionals It also includes advice on how to choose a camera that fits your needs and your budget a full color portfolio that beautifully illustrates the creative potential of digital photography and the accumulated wisdom of artists and others who use the technology in their daily work The title of Real World Digital Photography doesn t adequately indicate the scope and sheer practical usefulness of the information within The book not only gives a clear breakdown of how to choose and use a digital camera it also covers everything from sound photographic advice lighting framing and cropping to manipulation of digital images primarily in Photoshop This latter section is especially well written covering everything necessary for color correction levels histograms the unsharp mask filter all explained clearly but without an overwhelming amount of detail This book is aimed at neither the casual consumer nor the professional digital photographer with 50 000 to spend Rather it is perfect for several types of professionals graphic designers design students real estate and insurance agents and many others It shows how digital cameras work what makes both the inner workings and the output differ from that in traditional film cameras which camera to buy for your needs and budget and how to take edit archive and store pictures Many basic terms get clarified for example how JPEG compression works and there are lots of sidebar tips such as how to progressively downsample an image in a way that preserves the most detail The book also explains how to print the images on inkjet or dye sub printers Did you know not to convert an RGB image to CMYK before sending it to the printer Let the printer do the conversion A lot of the information and explanations in Real World Digital Photography will still be useful long after the featured cameras are considered yesterday s technology Angelynn Grant Topics covered Types of cameras and which to buy how they work the mechanics of digital imagery setting up a digital darkroom and desktop studio the basics of good photography Quicktime VR digital correction of images preparing images for print or Web and archiving digital images

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