How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera

Name: How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera
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ISBN: 9780072225556

ISBN-10: 0072225556

ISBN-13: 9780072225556

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Dave Johnson

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Produce high-quality photos with your digital cameraCompletely revised to cover the latest digital cameras and image editing technologies, this book offers a simple solution for discovering how to get the most out of a digital camera. You will learn how to take better photos and how to edit, organize, share, store, and print digital images.

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List price: $24.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Publication date: 7/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.30" wide x 9.10" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Your Camera
Welcome to the Future	p. 3
A History Lesson	p. 4
A Slow Evolution	p. 5
The Future of Digital Cameras	p. 6
Features, Gadgets, and Goodies	p. 8
The Optical System	p. 9
Power Systems	p. 10
Memory Storage	p. 12
Camera Controls	p. 13
Choosing Your Own Digital Camera	p. 15
Resolution	p. 15
Optics	p. 16
Memory	p. 17
Flash	p. 18
Special Effects	p. 18
Transfer Mechanism	p. 18
Gear You Need	p. 19
Understanding Exposure	p. 21
How Cameras Take Pictures	p. 22
Inside a 35mm Camera	p. 23
The Moment of Exposure	p. 23
How Digicams Are Different	p. 28
Use ISO for Exposure Control	p. 29
Change the ISO Setting	p. 29
Perfecting Shots with Aperture and Shutter	p. 30
How Cameras Choose Aperture and Shutter Speed	p. 30
Adjusting Exposure Manually	p. 32
Use Shutter or Aperture Priority Adjustments	p. 34
Tricky Lighting Situations	p. 35
Using Exposure Compensation	p. 35
Switching Metering Modes	p. 37
Using Exposure Lock	p. 39
When to Take Control	p. 41
Composition Essentials	p. 43
Why Composition Is Important	p. 44
What We See	p. 45
Rules of Composition	p. 45
Isolate the Focal Point	p. 46
Use the Rule of Thirds	p. 47
Fill the Frame	p. 48
Move the Horizon	p. 51
Use Lines, Symmetry, and Patterns	p. 52
Use Foreground to Balance the Background	p. 53
Know When to Break the Rules	p. 54
Using Depth of Field	p. 56
Applying Depth of Field to Your Pictures	p. 59
Getting the Most Out of Your Zoom Lens	p. 60
Using Your Camera's Exposure Modes	p. 64
Choosing Exposure Modes and Lenses in Special Situations	p. 65
Nature and Landscapes	p. 68
Flash and Lighting	p. 71
Basics of Flash Photography	p. 72
Stay Within the Range of Your Flash	p. 73
Master Your Flash Modes	p. 76
Improve Your Outdoor Photographs	p. 77
Beware of the Sun	p. 77
Add Fill Flash	p. 78
Reflect Some Light	p. 80
Improve Your Indoor Photographs	p. 82
Use Window Light	p. 82
Avoid Red Eye	p. 82
Correct the Color Balance	p. 83
Correcting Images with White Balance	p. 83
Adjusting White Balance Presets	p. 84
Trying Your Hand at Night Photography	p. 86
CCDs and Noise	p. 89
Taking Close-Ups	p. 91
Capturing the Microscopic World	p. 92
Coaxing a Digital Camera to Take Close-Ups	p. 93
Close-Up Enemy No. 1: Parallax	p. 95
Using Add-On Lenses	p. 98
Close-Up Techniques	p. 101
A Steady Base	p. 102
Keep the Subject Sharp	p. 104
Mind the Background	p. 105
Beware of the Flash	p. 106
Shooting Through Glass	p. 108
Your Own Macro Studio	p. 109
Pushing Your Camera to Its Limits	p. 113
Get Creative	p. 114
The Old-Fashioned Look	p. 115
Make a Panorama	p. 115
Get the Right Overlap	p. 118
Adding Lenses for Different Perspectives	p. 119
Choosing Lenses	p. 121
Add-on Lens Precautions	p. 122
Infrared Photography	p. 125
Connecting Your Camera to a Telescope	p. 126
Taking Time-Lapse Photos	p. 127
Making Movies	p. 130
Taking Care of Batteries	p. 130
Rechargeable Versus Alkaline	p. 131
Get the Most out of Your Batteries	p. 131
Using Batteries in the Cold	p. 132
Transferring Images
Conquering File Formats	p. 137
What Are File Formats and Why Do I Care?	p. 138
The Most Common File Formats	p. 139
Using File Formats	p. 143
On the Camera	p. 143
On the PC	p. 145
Working with Digital Film	p. 151
Storing Your Images	p. 152
Internal Memory	p. 152
SmartMedia	p. 153
CompactFlash	p. 154
Memory Stick	p. 154
Secure Digital (SD)	p. 155
Floppy Disk	p. 155
Choosing a Memory Card Format	p. 156
Transferring Images to the PC	p. 158
Transferring Images with a Serial Cable	p. 159
Transferring Images with a USB Port	p. 162
Transfer Shortcuts: Using Memory Adapters	p. 164
Caring for Your Memory Cards	p. 166
Keeping Images on the PC	p. 169
Managing Your Digital Pictures	p. 170
Organizing Your Images	p. 171
Renaming Images	p. 174
Locating and Cataloging Images	p. 177
Using Asset Management Software	p. 180
Estimating File Size	p. 181
Calculating TIFs	p. 182
Calculating JPGs	p. 182
Archiving Images	p. 183
Adding Extra Hard Drives	p. 183
Turning Prints into Digital Images	p. 187
Understanding Scanners	p. 188
Shopping for a Scanner	p. 190
Resolution	p. 190
Color Depth	p. 191
Dynamic Range	p. 191
Other Features	p. 193
Scanning and Correcting Your Images	p. 194
Determining the Right Resolution	p. 194
Tweaking Your Images	p. 197
Slides, Negatives, or Prints?	p. 200
Editing Images
Quick Changes for Your Images	p. 203
How Much PC You Need	p. 204
Choose an Image Editor	p. 205
Change the File Format	p. 209
Shrink Your Images	p. 209
Change the Color Depth of an Image	p. 212
Save Images in Different File Formats	p. 214
Improve Your Composition	p. 216
Crop Your Image	p. 216
Rotate Your Perspective	p. 226
Level a Crooked Picture	p. 227
Improve the Color and Brightness in Your Image	p. 228
Brighten Gloomy Shots	p. 228
Add Snap to Your Colors	p. 233
Correct the Color Balance	p. 235
Cleaning Up Your Images	p. 237
Sharpening Blurry Pictures	p. 238
Using the Sharpen Filter to Enhance Your Picture	p. 239
Blur to Sharpen	p. 240
Painting on Your Pictures	p. 242
Choosing Colors	p. 242
Applying the Paint	p. 245
Painting More Accurately	p. 248
Repairing the Evil Eye	p. 251
Using Automatic Red Eye Removal	p. 252
Removing Red Eye the Old-Fashioned Way	p. 254
Airbrushing Away Distractions	p. 255
Clean Up Old and Damaged Pictures	p. 257
Remove Picture Scratches	p. 258
Remove Dust, Dirt, and Digital Noise	p. 258
Make a Panoramic Photo	p. 258
The Resolution Advantage	p. 260
Stitching Photos Together by Hand	p. 261
Improving Your Sky	p. 265
Multiply Your Sky	p. 266
Replace the Sky	p. 268
Let Someone Else Do the Work	p. 269
Creating Special Effects	p. 271
Using a Hollywood-Style Blue Screen	p. 272
Make a Weather Map	p. 273
Blue Screen Without a Screen	p. 274
Shake Hands with Elvis	p. 281
Shoot a Sci-Fi Firefight	p. 284
The Disintegrating Subject	p. 285
The Laser Blast	p. 289
Put Your Kid in a Jar	p. 290
Make a Double Exposure	p. 293
Paint Like Van Gogh	p. 295
Decolorizing Your Pictures	p. 296
Colorizing an Image	p. 300
Another Kind of Colorizing	p. 302
Working with Text and Creating Projects	p. 303
Adding Text to Pictures	p. 304
Special Effects with Text	p. 307
Create Gradient-Filled Text	p. 308
Create Picture-Filled Text	p. 310
Add a Drop Shadow	p. 312
Combine Image and Drop Shadow	p. 314
Projects for Your Digital Images	p. 316
Using Digital Images as Wallpaper	p. 316
Adding an Image to Letterhead	p. 318
Create Your Own Greeting Cards	p. 320
Create a Newsletter	p. 324
Using Your Images
Printing Your Pictures	p. 329
Using the Right Printer	p. 330
Choosing a Printer	p. 331
What to Look For	p. 334
Printing Your Images	p. 337
The Right Resolution	p. 337
Working with Paper	p. 340
Other Specialty Papers	p. 343
Making Your Prints	p. 344
Which Side Is the Right Side?	p. 348
Caring for Your Prints	p. 348
Working with Printing Services	p. 349
Sharing Your Pictures	p. 351
Sending Images via Email	p. 352
Shrinking Images for Email	p. 354
Attaching Pictures in Email	p. 356
Distributing Images on Floppy Disks	p. 356
Strategies for Sharing Lots of Images	p. 360
Creating Your Own Web Pages	p. 361
Choosing an Image Size and File Format for the Web	p. 362
Sharing Images on the Web Without Designing a Web Site	p. 364
Which Is Best?	p. 364
Showing Off Images on a Palm	p. 366
Showing Off Images in a Digital Picture Frame	p. 369
Showing Pictures on TV	p. 370
Creating a Slide Show on Videotape	p. 370
If Your Camera Has No Video Output	p. 373
Index	p. 375
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