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Digital Capture: The Future Is Now | |
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Look, Ma, No Film: Why Digital Photography? | |
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Painting with Light: A Brief History of Photography | |
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Fast Forward: Digital Cameras | |
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First, the Good News: The Advantages of Digital Photography | |
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Now for the Bad News ... | |
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Go for It! | |
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Pixel, Pixel, Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are! | |
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It's a Three-Color World (RGB) | |
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Eye to Eye: How the Camera Mimics Your Eye | |
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In the Beginning ... There Was Film | |
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Pixel Schtick: How Digital Cameras Work | |
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Cameras, Computer Hardware, and Software for Digital Capture | |
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So Many Choices: Camera Models That Show Off Their Style | |
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Research, Research, Research | |
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Narrowing It Down: Camera Types | |
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Types of Digital Cameras | |
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Attention to Details: Features You Need to Know to Get the Camera You Want | |
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Camera Design | |
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Battery Life | |
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Lenses | |
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Flash | |
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Viewfinders | |
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Onboard Storage | |
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Downloading Options: Kodak DOCK | |
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Burst Exposures | |
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Metering | |
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Resolution | |
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Speed and Sensitivity | |
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Extras | |
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Bundled Software | |
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A Final Word ... | |
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Mac Versus Windows: System Requirements for Digital Capture | |
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Windows or Mac? | |
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General Requirements | |
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Peripherals | |
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Software: What You Want to See Is What You Get | |
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Improving Composition and Image Quality | |
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Proprietary and Third-Party Software | |
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Managing Your Images | |
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Let's Take Pictures | |
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Exposure Made Simple | |
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The Lens | |
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The Shutter | |
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F/Stops | |
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Shutter Speed | |
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Putting It All Together: The Relationship Between f/Stops and Shutter Speed | |
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ISO/ASA | |
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Creative Control | |
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Depth of Field | |
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Manual or Automatic Exposure | |
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I Can See Clearly Now: Lenses | |
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Types of Lenses | |
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Focal Length | |
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Composition: No Snapshots Here! | |
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Not in the Center, If You Please! | |
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Balance | |
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Horizon | |
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Cropping: Be Frugal! | |
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Color | |
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Contrast | |
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Negative and Positive Space: The Final Frontier | |
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Movement | |
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Viewpoint: Low, Different, or Political | |
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Perspective | |
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Foreground/Background | |
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Line and Imaginary Line | |
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Watch Your Background | |
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Texture | |
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Scale | |
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Lighting: It Makes or Breaks a Shot! | |
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Using Available Light | |
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Flash | |
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Adding Lights | |
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Resolution: Is Bigger Better? | |
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Image Resolution/Monitor Resolution | |
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Printer Resolution | |
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How Big a File Do You Need? | |
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Learning Compression Helps Avoid Image Depression! | |
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Getting Quality Images | |
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Lossy Versus Lossless Compression | |
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Archiving Programs | |
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File Formats: Acrimonious Acronyms | |
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Let's See It: Imaging Techniques | |
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Go Get It: Downloading Your Images | |
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Hooking Up the Camera | |
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Downloading Via the Camera Manufacturer's Software | |
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Downloading Via Image-Editing Software | |
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The Fastest Way: Downloading Directly from Disk | |
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Improving Your Images | |
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Getting Started | |
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Shaping Your Image | |
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Orientation | |
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Crop | |
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Correction of Photos | |
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From Darkness to Light | |
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The Wonderful World of Color | |
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Viva Color! | |
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Other Color Worlds | |
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What Is Bit Depth? | |
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A Sharper Image | |
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It's All a Blur | |
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Despeckle | |
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Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo: Selections | |
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Getting Started | |
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Why Use Selections? | |
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Selection Tools | |
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A Selection Saved Is a Selection Earned: Saving Selections | |
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Addition and Subtraction, All Without a Calculator! | |
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Color Me Beautiful: Adding Fills and Color | |
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Fills | |
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Paint Tools | |
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The Pencil Tool | |
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The Airbrush Tool | |
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The Clone Tool, Pattern Stamp Tool, and Dust and Scratch Filter: The Ultimate Retouching Tools | |
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Getting Started | |
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Demo: Removing Distracting Portions of an Image Using the Clone Tool | |
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Cloning Between Two Photos | |
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Cloning Patterns with the Pattern Clone Tool | |
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Fixing Minor Blemishes with the Dust and Scratches Filter | |
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Yadda Yadda Yadda: The Text Tool | |
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Adding Text | |
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Demo: Applying a Drop Shadow | |
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Changing the Opacity of Your Type in Photoshop Elements | |
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Demo: Making Your Type Glow | |
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Vectors to the Rescue | |
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Layer Cake: Adding Elements | |
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What's a Layer? | |
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Lemme See One | |
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Using Layers: The Basics | |
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Understanding Layer Hierarchy | |
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Working with Layers | |
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Soft Edges Make Pleasing Pictures | |
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Filters and Effects: Funky and Fun | |
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Daddy, What's a Filter? | |
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Whoa, There! | |
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Obtaining Filters | |
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Let's Go | |
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Demo: Applying Multiple Filters | |
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Effects Make Quick Work of Photo Transformations | |
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What You See Is What You Get: Calibration | |
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How the Pros Do It | |
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Calibrating Monitors and Printers | |
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Output | |
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Print It Out | |
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Get Connected | |
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Resolution: One More Time | |
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Let's Print! | |
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Photo-Quality Papers: Suitable for Framing | |
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Third-Party Inks | |
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Showing Your Pictures to Mom and Other Cool Tricks | |
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Preparing Your Images | |
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Sending Digital Photos via E-Mail: Attaching and Embedding | |
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What's Your URL? | |
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Hi, Mom! I'm on TV! | |
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Sprucing Up Your Screen with Wallpaper | |
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Using AOL's You've Got Pictures | |
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Sending iPhotos to Get Booked | |
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Other Cool Things You Can Do with a Digital Camera | |
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Some Helpful Websites | |
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Appendixes | |
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Speak Like a Geek: Digital Photography Words | |
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Putting It All Together: Panoramas | |
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Index | |