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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 | |