Photography : Digital Photography

Digital cameras are all the rage - getting smaller as the price gets lower. No matter how small or how inexpensive, the reader still needs to retrieve the pictures from the camera, organize them on their PC, and correct the red eye on at least one of the photos! This is where Digital Photography with Photoshop Album in a Snap comes in. Using Adobe's Photoshop Album v2, readers can learn the basic task of retrieving photos, understanding how to access entire collections of photos - even video and audio clips, and figure out how to quickly locate any photo by the date it was taken. This book will walk the reader through the task of automatically fixing basic photo problems. Once the reader has mastered the hardware and software they can sit back and have fun creating custom slide shows, cards, calendars, and photo albums. This book is organized into quickly accomplished tasks rather than long chapters on features of Photoshop Album v2. Ultimately, readers want to share photos with friends and family and Digital Photography with Photoshop Album in a Snap allows them to do just that! more...

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There are very few books published on digital printing, but this is a topic that photographers of all levels have difficulty with. In this concise and accessible guide from digital printing expert Tim Daly, the reader is presented with a collection of easy-to-follow step-by-step spreads that outline a variety of inspiring printing styles including color, mono, chemical, print edge, vintage, expressive and more. While many digital printing books are technical manuals that emphasize process, The Digital Print Styles Recipe Book will show the reader, by using beautiful full color images, the end results of the printing styles discussed. Cutting through the jargon, these simple recipe-style tips will help photographers develop their own unique and creative printing styles . Providing a one-stop shop for digital photographers, from creating effects in Photoshop through to preparing files for output, this book is an indispensable guide for photographers of all levels. more...

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If you’re like most people, you’re awash in digital pictures--some you’ve taken, some sent to you—stuffed here and there in random folders and albums across your hard drive. How do you find the ones you want to share? How will you find them 20 years from now? In The Digital Shoebox, Sarah Bay Williams, the woman who created the image archiving system used by the Academy Awards, shares her foolproof method for effectively organizing, finding, and sharing your photos so you’ll never lose track of your most precious memories. Unlike many books on digital photography today that are driven by software, The Digital Shoebox teaches readers an easy-to-remember and easy-to-repeat system for organizing digital photos that doesn’t require learning lots of new software or feels like homework. Part I of the book guides readers through the seven most important steps for organizing photos and Part II is packed with tips on ways to enjoy and share those photos. Each chapter ends with a short section on slightly more advanced information, should readers want to get “technical.”. Based on the author’s experience managing hundreds of thousands of digital photos as the communications photography coordinator for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and as someone who simply loves taking photos, The Digital Shoebox is the first concise and user-centered guide solely dedicated to organizing a personal digital photography collection. more...

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Not long ago the Raw format was limited to high-end digital SLR cameras--meaning fine-art and professional photographers were just about the only people taking advantage of it. Not so today. Now that Raw capability is included on low-end dSLR's and some point-and-shoot cameras, shutterbugs of all stripes are eager to start taking advantage of RAW's greater editing flexibility to produce better images. This guide is the place to start. In these pages, veteran author Ben Long begins at the beginning, explaining exactly what Raw is and why photographers should use it. He then describes the theory, shooting, and image editing practices needed to work with Raw files. Ben also provides an overview of software used to convert raw files and a thorough explanation of how to use the latest versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements to edit Raw images. Some cool Camera Raw tricks, tips for shooting for Raw format, and a glossary of important terms round out the offering. more...

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iPhoto ’09 is packed with cool photo-editing features, and iPhoto ’09 For Dummies is your fast track to using every one. You’ll learn to clean up and enhance your photos, print them or upload them to a sharing site online, create cool projects, protect and secure your pictures, and make photography more fun than ever. This full-color guide shows you how, and even helps you shoot future photos with an eye to iPhoto’s capabilities. There’s an easy exercise to get you started and plenty of beautiful full-color photos to show you the results you can achieve. You’ll learn your way around the interface, what’s new, and how to set preferences.: Discover how to create a well-organized, maintainable archive so you can find photos; Import and export photos from various sources, including card readers; Manage any import problems; Organize your collection using facial recognition and GPS technology; Crop, rotate, and enhance your images; Use a histogram and improve exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, and more; Set up a MobileMe gallery, send photos to Facebook or Flickr, make prints, and burn CDs; Get tips for successfully e-mailing your pictures and for printing your photos at home; Create photo greeting cards, calendars, or a travel book with maps that show where you took your pictures. iPhoto ’09 For Dummies even tells about cool add-ons and ideas for iPhoto. Learn to make all your photos the best they can be. more...

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